Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Anymulewilldo]

It will take a bad fat year to stem these arable men from buying stores now. None of them want to lamb

That’s what’s bothering me, it’s a few years since we took a real shafting over them. Was it 2017 when prices didn’t lift until April? I know I was down too my last 500 before they started too show any kind of reasonable profit.

 

[Estate fencing.]

I see on the Skipton report there was a big run of April/May born lambs that averaged £77. There is some real profit rearing those, they have been on the home farm no time and have had very little spent on the lambs. If they are lambing at 160% that a very good profit. But someone has to lamb them and we all know that not the arable men.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Opening Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs Forward: 4,572 Head (Overall av £85.32)

A great opening fortnightly sale of Store Lambs took place at Skipton Auction Mart on Wednesday where an increased entry of lambs were quickly cleared, aided by a large ringside of travelled customers looking for sheep to graze grassland countrywide, where keep is in better supply than some previous years, producing an overall selling average of £85.32 per head, an increase of £11.78 per head on the year, probably aided by what was thought to be a better show of lambs this year.
The Prize Show for pens of 40 or more Lambs was kindly judged by Mr N Bowen.

Full report online - https://www.ccmauctions.com/Sale-Day/Sales-Reports

 

[jendan]

Opening Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs Forward: 4,572 Head (Overall av £85.32)

A great opening fortnightly sale of Store Lambs took place at Skipton Auction Mart on Wednesday where an increased entry of lambs were quickly cleared, aided by a large ringside of travelled customers looking for sheep to graze grassland countrywide, where keep is in better supply than some previous years, producing an overall selling average of £85.32 per head, an increase of £11.78 per head on the year, probably aided by what was thought to be a better show of lambs this year.
The Prize Show for pens of 40 or more Lambs was kindly judged by Mr N Bowen.

Full report online - https://www.ccmauctions.com/Sale-Day/Sales-Reports

Interesting that at least 3 marts have shown an increase almost identical,£11.78p or so.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Interesting that at least 3 marts have shown an increase almost identical,£11.78p or so.

Trade must be pretty consistent. Skipton always draws a good type of crossbred lamb.

 

[Estate fencing.]

Trade must be pretty consistent. Skipton always draws a good type of crossbred lamb.

There’s some good ground around Skipton. I’m always envious of how much grass they have in October when I go up.

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

What did mule wethers make?

£68.00

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Another extract from Skipton today
PRINCIPLE PRICES

Suffolk – Av £87.92

£96 £90 M Parker; £95.50 SA Robinson; £91 J Fortune; £90 Swinbank & Briggs; £89 NW&L Moorhouse;

Beltex – Av £92.26

£108 AJ Haggas; £108 £100 £99 ID Brown; £104 £100 WM&E Dugdale; £99.50 Mrs R Capstick; £99 JGE Heseltine;

Texel – Av £84.56

£105 £100 M Stocks; £103 Swinbank & Briggs; £99 CM Ryder; £98 A Brown; £98 AJ Ogden; £98 JME&C McKenzie;

Mule – Av £71.31

£78 £77.50 B Gillam; £75 AJ Mason; £68.50 C&M Crawshaw; £68 R&VJ brown; £68 MJ Gray;

Charolais – Av £80.05

£87 JT Croft; £79 Mac Iveson; £78 J Fortune

 

[livestock 1]

Did anyone see the breeding cattle at UA Stirling today?

 

[Mc115reed]

Another extract from Skipton today
PRINCIPLE PRICES

Suffolk – Av £87.92

£96 £90 M Parker; £95.50 SA Robinson; £91 J Fortune; £90 Swinbank & Briggs; £89 NW&L Moorhouse;

Beltex – Av £92.26

£108 AJ Haggas; £108 £100 £99 ID Brown; £104 £100 WM&E Dugdale; £99.50 Mrs R Capstick; £99 JGE Heseltine;

Texel – Av £84.56

£105 £100 M Stocks; £103 Swinbank & Briggs; £99 CM Ryder; £98 A Brown; £98 AJ Ogden; £98 JME&C McKenzie;

Mule – Av £71.31

£78 £77.50 B Gillam; £75 AJ Mason; £68.50 C&M Crawshaw; £68 R&VJ brown; £68 MJ Gray;

Charolais – Av £80.05

£87 JT Croft; £79 Mac Iveson; £78 J Fortune

What sort of weighs on average would we be talking? Always sounds tempting shifting stores this time of year when they don’t owe much and people are getting silly

 

[Old Tip]

The benches on the ring sides are about knee height. That’s the best way too gauge size on the video at Bentham

Depending on the height of your knee mind

 

[livestock 1]

What sort of weighs on average would we be talking? Always sounds tempting shifting stores this time of year when they don’t owe much and people are getting silly

Inflation figures out today fairly high looking for the year. The injection of printed money is coming through the financial system now. It’s easy to forget this when we are experiencing higher values on the year. Take a quarterly inflation of 2.8% at a guess going back the last three quarters, this quarter over 3%. These rises will eat up some of the increases we are seeing

 

[Old Tip]

Opening Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Store Lambs Forward: 4,572 Head (Overall av £85.32)

A great opening fortnightly sale of Store Lambs took place at Skipton Auction Mart on Wednesday where an increased entry of lambs were quickly cleared, aided by a large ringside of travelled customers looking for sheep to graze grassland countrywide, where keep is in better supply than some previous years, producing an overall selling average of £85.32 per head, an increase of £11.78 per head on the year, probably aided by what was thought to be a better show of lambs this year.
The Prize Show for pens of 40 or more Lambs was kindly judged by Mr N Bowen.

Full report online - https://www.ccmauctions.com/Sale-Day/Sales-Reports

Always a good trade a lot of farmers go to the first sale for strong lambs and will sort the gimmers out for tipping and sell the wethers in the fat.

 

[lloyd]

Inflation figures out today fairly high looking for the year. The injection of printed money is coming through the financial system now. It’s easy to forget this when we are experiencing higher values on the year. Take a quarterly inflation of 2.8% at a guess going back the last three quarters, this quarter over 3%. These rises will eat up some of the increases we are seeing

I agree straw and grain look too cheap.

 

[Skintagain]

Inflation figures out today fairly high looking for the year. The injection of printed money is coming through the financial system now. It’s easy to forget this when we are experiencing higher values on the year. Take a quarterly inflation of 2.8% at a guess going back the last three quarters, this quarter over 3%. These rises will eat up some of the increases we are seeing

Just been thinking lately on strategies how I can get tighter with brass

 

[lloyd]

Just been thinking lately on strategies how I can get tighter with brass

Anymulewilldo??

 

[sherg]

That’s what’s bothering me, it’s a few years since we took a real shafting over them. Was it 2017 when prices didn’t lift until April? I know I was down too my last 500 before they started too show any kind of reasonable profit.

2017 was poor early on for selling lambs it wasn't great in April and may either, the only saving grace was that it was a dry winter with a reasonably early spring

 

[lloyd]

2017 was poor early on for selling lambs it wasn't great in April and may either, the only saving grace was that it was a dry winter with a reasonably early spring

Thank God they stopped demanding everyone to
belly clip on farm .

 

[livestock 1]

Just been thinking lately on strategies how I can get tighter with brass

Economy drive !!

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Depending on the height of your knee mind

My knee. That’s all I need too know!