Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Sid]

Do you know what pickstocks are paying?

No sorry but given a certain dealer takes loads week in week out from SW it must be more than Hatherleigh?

 

[Beef farmer]

No sorry but given a certain dealer takes loads week in week out from SW it must be more than Hatherleigh?

He takes so many out because of his excellent can do, nothing it too much agro attitude

 

[Shebb90]

No sorry but given a certain dealer takes loads week in week out from SW it must be more than Hatherleigh?

Well if we are think the same person who's fairly close to me? We us to send everything to him but when abp went digital weigh that didn't work for the cattle we had at the time so started sending them Hatherleigh well has time wnt on decided to try cows that way and they was a lot better especially for the plainer sorts.......pickstocks They are normally 5-10 p better but you need that to get them up there..... But I would never go back just I got I didn't like what was going on and sticking old girls that had been good to us on a lorry for bout 5 hours. Now I take them in to Hatherleigh in 25 minutes and job is done.

 

[Optimus]

Rumours last week that the beef price was going to drop abit and firms couldnt sell the beef but im not so sure tbh, i think they are just desperate to keep a lid on price. Drought was there only hope but theres a fair drop of rain about next week and with covid pretty bad still abroad, most people will be staying in this country and spending a abit more on treats etc so it should remain strong.

Was speaking to a rep.who said there's talk of cattle at £4.50 in the summer up here.

 

[cull cows]

Waiting list to get them in

I booked cattle in today for Wednesday so not that long of a list

 

[sheepwise]

Remember the deductions only look big when the prices we are getting are good.
It would be worth getting you up here and watching you perform a deal for these sheep on farm with some of the buyers
Once you have secured a price at least as good then you would need to guarantee actually getting paid.
If you can do this and if you are as good as you say you are we don’t need to send anything to the mart and pay expensive commission and off takes
The only thing I don’t agree with is the MLC levy as I don’t know what it is I’m paying for.
Im told its marketing but as a member of the general public and a buyer of beef and lamb not seeing any advertisements for either makes me disagree with it.
I don’t have any qualms about the rest and I’m a tight arse

Not disagreeing with most of that and wasn't trying to have a go, but just noticing how much below the headline price net returns actually are at present.

 

[livestock 1]

Not disagreeing with most of that and wasn't trying to have a go, but just noticing how much below the headline price net returns actually are at present.

No offence intended towards you either.
What I’m getting at is there’s sometimes more to it than meets the eye. A mart office and be a particularly difficult place at times. Often a lot going on that folks don’t see

 

[balerman]

I booked cattle in today for Wednesday so not that long of a list

It’s just their normal tricks to bring out more cattle,there are NO waiting lists,they are just desperate to keep a lid on it now we seem to have broken through £4.

 

[J 1177]

It’s just their normal tricks to bring out more cattle,there are NO waiting lists,they are just desperate to keep a lid on it now we seem to have broken through £4.

Thought as much

 

[Sid]

Well if we are think the same person who's fairly close to me? We us to send everything to him but when abp went digital weigh that didn't work for the cattle we had at the time so started sending them Hatherleigh well has time wnt on decided to try cows that way and they was a lot better especially for the plainer sorts.......pickstocks They are normally 5-10 p better but you need that to get them up there..... But I would never go back just I got I didn't like what was going on and sticking old girls that had been good to us on a lorry for bout 5 hours. Now I take them in to Hatherleigh in 25 minutes and job is done.

It's not always about the money I agree.

 

[Werzle]

Whitland today on the live stream for those interested in the current cattle trade

 

[Surgery]

Dovecote -5p putting the blame on the food service industry which probably can be understood but if that’s the case other plants should be killing more so hence price should go up more

 

[Surgery]

Dovecote -5p putting the blame on the food service industry which probably can be understood but if that’s the case other plants should be killing more so hence price should go up more

For the cattle boys!!

bugger the sheep!!

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Whitland today on the live stream for those interested in the current cattle trade

Can't get it to work....pic but no sound

 

[Werzle]

Can't get it to work....pic but no sound

Was working fine when i watched the feeding cows and start of the stores, meated cows were a flyer but the first few stores seemed cheap. Hard to tell from a vid

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Got it now.
Stores a good trade now ! ....grass fever kicking in!

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Look to be mainly dairy bred sorts at the moment

 

[Werzle]

Look to be mainly dairy bred sorts at the moment

Yes whitland was mostly sucklerbred cattle with the dairy breds mostly going through carmarthen but now they all have to go to whitland. Alot of dairy bred bullers under £800 from what i have watched.

 

[Hilly]

Remember the deductions only look big when the prices we are getting are good.
It would be worth getting you up here and watching you perform a deal for these sheep on farm with some of the buyers
Once you have secured a price at least as good then you would need to guarantee actually getting paid.
If you can do this and if you are as good as you say you are we don’t need to send anything to the mart and pay expensive commission and off takes
The only thing I don’t agree with is the MLC levy as I don’t know what it is I’m paying for.
Im told its marketing but as a member of the general public and a buyer of beef and lamb not seeing any advertisements for either makes me disagree with it.
I don’t have any qualms about the rest and I’m a tight arse

Commission is very cheap in comparison to advertising and debt collecting, farmers have been in the large shielded from reality for generations and now they have no clue what goes on on real life .

 

[Werzle]

The price gap between dairy beef and suckler bred animals in the store ring is getting bigger imo because of the x breeding going on in the dairy herds.