Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[unlacedgecko]

Bernard Matthews tried for years and never got it going. Don’t know why, we love Turkey!

Horrible dry tasteless shite. Much rather have beef or lamb or pork, or even chicken.

 

[Al R]

They put in a SALAD bar and did away with bags of curly fries for £0.80! When you’d forgotten your lunch money they were a godsend if your mates would lend you 20p each!

Those budget beef and chicken burgers in red and blue yellow packing for 70p were the boy! Pot noodles for £1 from the shop opposite we all turned to after Jamie Oliver messed the job up

 

[Beef farmer]

2 mates then have a root in the grids usually…

and I say mates, does 50% interest per day sound like mates??

Sounds like my mates!,

 

[gone up the hill]

The supermarkets price for early new season contract lambs is out for early next year............................................

Only £6.40 a kilo....

I think the supermarkets are in for one big shock next year!

 

[Skintagain]

Horrible dry tasteless shite. Much rather have beef or lamb or pork, or even chicken.

I’m with you. My OH likes it or I’d have beef. Wrap it in bacon to give it a bit of taste and then have beef on Boxing Day

 

[Al R]

The supermarkets price for early new season contract lambs is out for early next year............................................

Only £6.40 a kilo....

I think the supermarkets are in for one big shock next year!

Someone I know who’s very high up with supermarket buying that I spoke with October last year and I said that £6 won’t be far away in the spring and he said no way! It was £7.60 when I spoke to him in the spring and he said that proved how much they knew
A lot of people didn’t sign up to renew their Tesco contracts I’m led to believe? And those that did renew the contracts sent their lambs overweight/overfat so they would be paid on spot price and not the forward price.

 

[gone up the hill]

Someone I know who’s very high up with supermarket buying that I spoke with October last year and I said that £6 won’t be far away in the spring and he said no way! It was £7.60 when I spoke to him in the spring and he said that proved how much they knew
A lot of people didn’t sign up to renew their Tesco contracts I’m led to believe? And those that did renew the contracts sent their lambs overweight/overfat so they would be paid on spot price and not the forward price.

Livestock buyer is telling people to sign the contract but if the livestock market price is greater then they should send them to market instead.

If lambs are £6.40 come early spring then what with the very high input inflation we currently have then in real terms that contract price is a massive cut in price!

They need to get real and plan for a lamb/hogg price early next spring of £8+ kilo. The sheep just are not there!

 

[Shebb90]

Livestock buyer is telling people to sign the contract but if the livestock market price is greater then they should send them to market instead.

If lambs are £6.40 come early spring then what with the very high input inflation we currently have then in real terms that contract price is a massive cut in price!

They need to get real and plan for a lamb/hogg price early next spring of £8+ kilo. The sheep just are not there!

Go Exeter today?

 

[gone up the hill]

Go Exeter today?

Yep, did not see many store lambs sold but from what i did then i would say trade was similar to last week.

Couple's were a stupid price, FM Dorset ewes with twin lambs to £295 outfit!

 

[Al R]

Yep, did not see many store lambs sold but from what i did then i would say trade was similar to last week.

Couple's were a stupid price, FM Dorset ewes with twin lambs to £295 outfit!

Any idea what a ped registered FM Dorset and single ewe lamb very nice would fetch?

 

[gone up the hill]

Any idea what a ped registered FM Dorset and single ewe lamb very nice would fetch?

Single FM couples today about £190, 4t either £212 or £220.

I would say for the above if pedigree then £250. ( esp if the ewe has at least another year in her )

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Horrible dry tasteless shite. Much rather have beef or lamb or pork, or even chicken.

That’s the cook… not the product. Doesn’t take much too ruin a nice piece of red meat either…

the amount of people who get up super early too put the Turkey in the oven too eat it early afternoon… of course it will be dry!! Cooked breast down in the pan, bloody hot oven 2 1/2 hours for a 15lb Turkey. Eats as juicy as you could possibly want!

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Livestock buyer is telling people to sign the contract but if the livestock market price is greater then they should send them to market instead.

If lambs are £6.40 come early spring then what with the very high input inflation we currently have then in real terms that contract price is a massive cut in price!

They need to get real and plan for a lamb/hogg price early next spring of £8+ kilo. The sheep just are not there!

They need too get back into the live rings and stop trying too tie us up in knots… can you imagine if the big 6 each had a buyer in?? magic!!

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Sounds like my mates!,

Can’t complain really, I did the same too them…

 

[Al R]

Single FM couples today about £190, 4t either £212 or £220.

I would say for the above if pedigree then £250. ( esp if the ewe has at least another year in her )

Yeah few more years left in the ewe, the ewe lamb is september born and something else

 

[gone up the hill]

Yeah few more years left in the ewe, the ewe lamb is september born and something else

Easily £250 then, i did see a couple last spring, FM, top drawer ram lamb with her and that outfit made £370.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

• Leek Tuesday
  November 23, 2021

A good entry of lambs again this Tuesday and another excellent trade with a top price of 309p/kg and £163.20 per head. Cull sheep just as dear with ewes to £171 to average £108!
Barrens up in price this week, with the best to 150p/kg, and overage steers to 179p/kg or £1156. Good to see a few more clean cattle about with a top price of 295p/kg for a 530kg Limousin heifer.
Dairies continue to sell well with a top or £2110 and £2100 for heifers.
A full shed of pigs this Tuesday and trade similar to last week, with bacon pigs selling the best up to 133p/kg and 131p/kg.
Strong trade for calves and the best always selling at a premium with Blue bulls to £430 and Limousins to £415 and heifers to £240.
BARREN COWS (55);
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
A much improved trade this week with a good entry forward topping the day at 150p/kg for a 740kg Holstein from WSW Mills, Ratcliffe on Wreake with a 615kg Cross Bred cow at 147p/kg for A E Ward, Foxt.
Limousins topped at 149p/kg for a 595kg cow from MJD Farms, Alstonefield, with Herefords at 145p/kg for a 700kg cow from G W Mycock & Son, Alstonefield who sold another 805kg Hereford at 140p/kg and a 735kg Hereford at 138p/kg.
Other top prices include;
138p 760kg Holstein – A Povey & Sons, Doveridge
138p 695kg Holstein – H J Whitfield, Doveridge
137p 785kg Brown Swiss – DR & A Shuker, Bosley
136p 850kg Hereford-GW Mycock & Sons, Alstonefield
134p 630kg Limousin – MJD Farms, Alstonefield
133p 695kg Friesian – DR & A Shuker, Bosley
133p 730kg Swedish Red – GR & D Hawkins, Cheadle
133p 510kg Friesian – DR & A Shuker, Bosley
132p 735kg Holstein – J & R Maydew, Consall
Overall average up 17p this week at 115.75p/kg or £770.18 per head.
Top headage prices of £1156 for a 850kg Hereford from G W Mycock & Son, with other Herefords at £1141.65, £1127 and £1015 with Holsteins to £1110 and £1048.80.
One overage 620kg Hereford steer realised 179p/kg for G W Mycock & Son, Alstonefield.
CLEAN CATTLE(9);
Selling time – 10:45am approx.
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
A small entry sold on an excellent trade with a top price of 295p/kg for a 530kg Limousin heifer from C H Barnsley, Morridge with a 520kg Simmental heifer realising 250p/kg for D & J Williams, Basford.
A 525kg Aberdeen Angus heifer sold for 210p/kg from Reg Critchlow, Grindon who sold another 495kg Angus for 192p/kg. A 610kg Angus heifer made 198p/kg from Richard Green, Whiston.
Steers sold to 193p/kg for a 645kg Angus from G A Wise, Newcastle who also sold a 635kg Blonde steer for 180p/kg.
Top headage prices of £1563.50 for the Limousin heifer with other heifers at £1300 and £1288.85 with steers up to £1244.85.
DAIRIES;
Selling time – 11:30am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
A lovely trade for the quality forward saw the Phillips family of Winkhill top the market for a 26kg heifer at £2110. They also had a second at £2100.
Richard Lomas of Calow saw his heifer reach £2020 with another from Messrs Callwood of Knutsford at £2000.
A Montbeliarde x third calver giving 37kg from A Barber of Gnosall reached £1900.
More numbers needed to satisfy demand. If you have stock to sell contact Meg Elliott on 07967 007049.
PIGS (185);
Selling time – 9:15am
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
A very similar trade to last week with another super entry forward.
Cutters topped the day at 133p/kg for 79kg pigs from D J Pope, Thame, with J & B Fentem & Sons selling a run of cutters at 116p/kg twice, 114p/kg, 111p/kg and 110p/kg. A 81kg pig made 100p/kg for David Goldstraw.
Bacon pigs sold well, up to 131p/kg for 90kg pigs from D J Pope, who also sold 91kg and 99kg pigs at 128p/kg, and 89.5kg pigs at 126p/kg. a pair of 95kg pigs realised 127p/kg from PF & PD Parsons, with a pair of 99kg pigs at 124p/kg from Bernard Minshull, and 124p/kg for 88kg pigs from Massie Farms.
Heavy pigs sold up to 118p/kg for 110kg pigs from David Goldstraw, Meerbrook, who also sold a 108kg pigs at 101p/kg. 106kg pigs realised 87p/kg for W Rigby & Son, Chinley and 80p/kg for 111kg pigs from P & N Allen.
Culls sows sold well today topping at 59p/kg for a 332kg sow from A J Green, Dronfield, who also sold 334kg and 320kg sows for 58p/kg and a 182kg sow at 58p/kg for GR & M Garth and 306kg and 305kg sows at 58p/kg from W Rigby & son, Chinley.
A pen of 14 weaners weighing 35kg sold for £30/head.
Averages;
Pork Pigs (4); av 101.23p/kg or £73.14/head
Cutting Pigs (34); av 105.97p/kg or £85.93/head
Bacon Pigs (94); av 106.42p/kg or £98.18/head
Heavy Pigs (22); av 83.97p/kg or £95.35/head
Cull Sows (16); av 53.3p/kg or £135.72/head
SHEEP SECTION;
Selling time 11:00am
Auctioneer – Robert Watkins (07929 946652)
BUTCHERS LAMBS (845);
A similar entry selling on a solid trade, albeit not quite at the dizzy heights we are becoming accustomed to.
Best lambs still top side of 300p for all pens but generally 280 – 295p on the day. Best sold on the day was the little lambs at 30-39kg which saw a blistering trade from wholesalers and store purchasers.
Best big lambs selling well again to top at 288p/kg for heavy and 270p for overweight’s to £163.20.
Overall average 266p/kg SWW or 261p/kg overall.
Sample prices;
271p 30.7kg L & DA Lightfoot, Dilhorne
309p 38kg A Shaw, Sturston
304p 38.5kg A Shaw, Sturston
298p 38kg J L Morris, Cresswell
292p 38.8kg J Gilman & Partners, Bosley
287p 37kg R A Critchley, Denstone
305p 39.5kg G & A Peach, Clifton
301p 43kg M Lancaster, Congleton
298p 39.1kg M Lancaster, Congleton
291p 40.8kg M Lancaster, Congleton
288p 47.5kg M Lancaster, Congleton
270p 56kg J J Watson, Marple
269p 57kg FG & JR Critchlow, Sheen
240p 68kg H G Nutter, Grindon
CULL SHEEP (275);
A few less about saw a blistering trade for all types. The sale peaked at £171 for an excellent Texel ewe from David Goldstraw, Meerbrook who saw his run of ewes average an excellent £154/head. Other best Texel’s sold to £161 from R & L Vernon and £161 from Alan Wilshaw.
Mules saw a fierce trade today topping at £128 for the very best with Suffolks to £138.
Overall average at £108.13.
CALVES (134);
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Oliver Hiles (07801 530899)
A good number of calves again this week with a good line up of buyers led to another strong trade at Leek.
42 Continental Bulls av £242
A very strong trade again but a lot of 2nd and particularly 3rd quality calves on offer. Best 8 calves topped £360 including 4 over £400 and a top of £430 for Messrs Shuker, Bosley. Mediums generally £240 – £280 with a dozen smaller and plainer calves under £200.
31 Blues av £254 to £430 – DR & A Shuker
4 Sims av £226 to £295 – JJ & PN Holdcroft
5 Lims av £228 to £415 – R J Salt & Partners
33 Continental Heifers av £166.39
Plenty of bidders but only at levels equal to the calves value. Only a handful of better sorts on offer and selling over £240 with a high of £255 for a Limousin from Messrs Whittaker, Bosley. Mediums £150 – £200 with smaller heifers under £150.
17 Blues av £176 to £240 – R G Emmott
9 Sims av £157 to £250 – TD & DA Higginson
6 Lims av £163 to £255 – F E Whittaker & Sons
30 Natives
Maintained recent good levels.
8 AA Bulls av £169 to £252 – C Heath & Sons
4 Hereford Heifers av £149 to £205 – F J Gould & Son
13 AA Heifers av £113 to £195 – R G Emmott
29 Black & White Bulls av £88.17
Strong Friesians sold to £185; Shorthorns to £140 and Swedish Red to £130. Mediums rearer’s £50 – £80 with smaller sorts generally £30 – £50.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

BAKEWELL MARKET

THURSDAY LUNCHTIME SHEEP SALE REPORT

25th November 2021



1,144 Sheep including 825 Finished Lambs, 258 Culls and 61 Store Sheep



825 Lambs Average 273.86p/kg

An increased entry met with a strong trade for all types. Top prices achieved of 330p/kg and £188 per head. Overall average of just short of £117 per head.



Leading Prices:

36.2kg	330p/kg	FH Sargent & Son, Derby
38.8kg	308p/kg	AC Langridge, Fole
42.0kg	328p/kg	B Ford, Lymehandley
42.4kg	312p/kg	J & J Spillane, Fairfield
40.7kg	302p/kg	D Fotherby & Sons, Wormhill
48.3kg	289p/kg	G Ford, Tunstead
53.7kg	266p/kg	B Ford, Lymehandley
77.0kg	245p/kg	Boden & Davies, Mellor

Averages:

32.1 – 39.0kg	To: 330/kg	Ave: 276.03p/kg
39.1 – 45.5kg	To: 328p/kg	Ave: 273.12/kg
45.6 – 52kg	To: 290p/kg	Ave: 266.44/kg
52kg+	To: 266p/kg	Ave: 252.62/kg

258 Cull Sheep ave £90/head

A flying trade for all types with top priced continentals to £172 and Mules into the £120’s.



61 Store Lambs

Generally small lambs on offer and creating significant interest to a top of £80

 

[thorpe]

• Leek Tuesday
  November 23, 2021

A good entry of lambs again this Tuesday and another excellent trade with a top price of 309p/kg and £163.20 per head. Cull sheep just as dear with ewes to £171 to average £108!
Barrens up in price this week, with the best to 150p/kg, and overage steers to 179p/kg or £1156. Good to see a few more clean cattle about with a top price of 295p/kg for a 530kg Limousin heifer.
Dairies continue to sell well with a top or £2110 and £2100 for heifers.
A full shed of pigs this Tuesday and trade similar to last week, with bacon pigs selling the best up to 133p/kg and 131p/kg.
Strong trade for calves and the best always selling at a premium with Blue bulls to £430 and Limousins to £415 and heifers to £240.
BARREN COWS (55);
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
A much improved trade this week with a good entry forward topping the day at 150p/kg for a 740kg Holstein from WSW Mills, Ratcliffe on Wreake with a 615kg Cross Bred cow at 147p/kg for A E Ward, Foxt.
Limousins topped at 149p/kg for a 595kg cow from MJD Farms, Alstonefield, with Herefords at 145p/kg for a 700kg cow from G W Mycock & Son, Alstonefield who sold another 805kg Hereford at 140p/kg and a 735kg Hereford at 138p/kg.
Other top prices include;
138p 760kg Holstein – A Povey & Sons, Doveridge
138p 695kg Holstein – H J Whitfield, Doveridge
137p 785kg Brown Swiss – DR & A Shuker, Bosley
136p 850kg Hereford-GW Mycock & Sons, Alstonefield
134p 630kg Limousin – MJD Farms, Alstonefield
133p 695kg Friesian – DR & A Shuker, Bosley
133p 730kg Swedish Red – GR & D Hawkins, Cheadle
133p 510kg Friesian – DR & A Shuker, Bosley
132p 735kg Holstein – J & R Maydew, Consall
Overall average up 17p this week at 115.75p/kg or £770.18 per head.
Top headage prices of £1156 for a 850kg Hereford from G W Mycock & Son, with other Herefords at £1141.65, £1127 and £1015 with Holsteins to £1110 and £1048.80.
One overage 620kg Hereford steer realised 179p/kg for G W Mycock & Son, Alstonefield.
CLEAN CATTLE(9);
Selling time – 10:45am approx.
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
A small entry sold on an excellent trade with a top price of 295p/kg for a 530kg Limousin heifer from C H Barnsley, Morridge with a 520kg Simmental heifer realising 250p/kg for D & J Williams, Basford.
A 525kg Aberdeen Angus heifer sold for 210p/kg from Reg Critchlow, Grindon who sold another 495kg Angus for 192p/kg. A 610kg Angus heifer made 198p/kg from Richard Green, Whiston.
Steers sold to 193p/kg for a 645kg Angus from G A Wise, Newcastle who also sold a 635kg Blonde steer for 180p/kg.
Top headage prices of £1563.50 for the Limousin heifer with other heifers at £1300 and £1288.85 with steers up to £1244.85.
DAIRIES;
Selling time – 11:30am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
A lovely trade for the quality forward saw the Phillips family of Winkhill top the market for a 26kg heifer at £2110. They also had a second at £2100.
Richard Lomas of Calow saw his heifer reach £2020 with another from Messrs Callwood of Knutsford at £2000.
A Montbeliarde x third calver giving 37kg from A Barber of Gnosall reached £1900.
More numbers needed to satisfy demand. If you have stock to sell contact Meg Elliott on 07967 007049.
PIGS (185);
Selling time – 9:15am
Auctioneer – Graham Watkins (07976 370894)
A very similar trade to last week with another super entry forward.
Cutters topped the day at 133p/kg for 79kg pigs from D J Pope, Thame, with J & B Fentem & Sons selling a run of cutters at 116p/kg twice, 114p/kg, 111p/kg and 110p/kg. A 81kg pig made 100p/kg for David Goldstraw.
Bacon pigs sold well, up to 131p/kg for 90kg pigs from D J Pope, who also sold 91kg and 99kg pigs at 128p/kg, and 89.5kg pigs at 126p/kg. a pair of 95kg pigs realised 127p/kg from PF & PD Parsons, with a pair of 99kg pigs at 124p/kg from Bernard Minshull, and 124p/kg for 88kg pigs from Massie Farms.
Heavy pigs sold up to 118p/kg for 110kg pigs from David Goldstraw, Meerbrook, who also sold a 108kg pigs at 101p/kg. 106kg pigs realised 87p/kg for W Rigby & Son, Chinley and 80p/kg for 111kg pigs from P & N Allen.
Culls sows sold well today topping at 59p/kg for a 332kg sow from A J Green, Dronfield, who also sold 334kg and 320kg sows for 58p/kg and a 182kg sow at 58p/kg for GR & M Garth and 306kg and 305kg sows at 58p/kg from W Rigby & son, Chinley.
A pen of 14 weaners weighing 35kg sold for £30/head.
Averages;
Pork Pigs (4); av 101.23p/kg or £73.14/head
Cutting Pigs (34); av 105.97p/kg or £85.93/head
Bacon Pigs (94); av 106.42p/kg or £98.18/head
Heavy Pigs (22); av 83.97p/kg or £95.35/head
Cull Sows (16); av 53.3p/kg or £135.72/head
SHEEP SECTION;
Selling time 11:00am
Auctioneer – Robert Watkins (07929 946652)
BUTCHERS LAMBS (845);
A similar entry selling on a solid trade, albeit not quite at the dizzy heights we are becoming accustomed to.
Best lambs still top side of 300p for all pens but generally 280 – 295p on the day. Best sold on the day was the little lambs at 30-39kg which saw a blistering trade from wholesalers and store purchasers.
Best big lambs selling well again to top at 288p/kg for heavy and 270p for overweight’s to £163.20.
Overall average 266p/kg SWW or 261p/kg overall.
Sample prices;
271p 30.7kg L & DA Lightfoot, Dilhorne
309p 38kg A Shaw, Sturston
304p 38.5kg A Shaw, Sturston
298p 38kg J L Morris, Cresswell
292p 38.8kg J Gilman & Partners, Bosley
287p 37kg R A Critchley, Denstone
305p 39.5kg G & A Peach, Clifton
301p 43kg M Lancaster, Congleton
298p 39.1kg M Lancaster, Congleton
291p 40.8kg M Lancaster, Congleton
288p 47.5kg M Lancaster, Congleton
270p 56kg J J Watson, Marple
269p 57kg FG & JR Critchlow, Sheen
240p 68kg H G Nutter, Grindon
CULL SHEEP (275);
A few less about saw a blistering trade for all types. The sale peaked at £171 for an excellent Texel ewe from David Goldstraw, Meerbrook who saw his run of ewes average an excellent £154/head. Other best Texel’s sold to £161 from R & L Vernon and £161 from Alan Wilshaw.
Mules saw a fierce trade today topping at £128 for the very best with Suffolks to £138.
Overall average at £108.13.
CALVES (134);
Selling time – 10:00am
Auctioneer – Oliver Hiles (07801 530899)
A good number of calves again this week with a good line up of buyers led to another strong trade at Leek.
42 Continental Bulls av £242
A very strong trade again but a lot of 2nd and particularly 3rd quality calves on offer. Best 8 calves topped £360 including 4 over £400 and a top of £430 for Messrs Shuker, Bosley. Mediums generally £240 – £280 with a dozen smaller and plainer calves under £200.
31 Blues av £254 to £430 – DR & A Shuker
4 Sims av £226 to £295 – JJ & PN Holdcroft
5 Lims av £228 to £415 – R J Salt & Partners
33 Continental Heifers av £166.39
Plenty of bidders but only at levels equal to the calves value. Only a handful of better sorts on offer and selling over £240 with a high of £255 for a Limousin from Messrs Whittaker, Bosley. Mediums £150 – £200 with smaller heifers under £150.
17 Blues av £176 to £240 – R G Emmott
9 Sims av £157 to £250 – TD & DA Higginson
6 Lims av £163 to £255 – F E Whittaker & Sons
30 Natives
Maintained recent good levels.
8 AA Bulls av £169 to £252 – C Heath & Sons
4 Hereford Heifers av £149 to £205 – F J Gould & Son
13 AA Heifers av £113 to £195 – R G Emmott
29 Black & White Bulls av £88.17
Strong Friesians sold to £185; Shorthorns to £140 and Swedish Red to £130. Mediums rearer’s £50 – £80 with smaller sorts generally £30 – £50.

fat cattle less than stores.

 

[Whitepeak]

fat cattle less than stores.

They get very few in, 9 is a good week