Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Gedd]

I sometimes think we all live in different countries not different parts of the same country! A drover helps us sort lambs just before they go into the ring, they are weighed on the way in and I go in with them, show them and often have a quick word with the buyers. Your name and the weights are on an electric board. If you take lambs regularly and if you give them a little bit back they definitely know you and your sheep.

I can't understand people dropping off stock and leaving them and then complaining about what a bad deal they got. It takes enough time, effort and cost to produce the things that it must be worth spending a bit of time marketing them. I wouldn't be keen on using a market that didn't allow this.

Agree always like to stand with my stock when its sold and hsve a bit daft crack with the buyers think they like it to many miserable gits about always twisting

 

[Top Tip.]

I sometimes think we all live in different countries not different parts of the same country! A drover helps us sort lambs just before they go into the ring, they are weighed on the way in and I go in with them, show them and often have a quick word with the buyers. Your name and the weights are on an electric board. If you take lambs regularly and if you give them a little bit back they definitely know you and your sheep.

I can't understand people dropping off stock and leaving them and then complaining about what a bad deal they got. It takes enough time, effort and cost to produce the things that it must be worth spending a bit of time marketing them. I wouldn't be keen on using a market that didn't allow this.

Completely agree ,I’ve spent all year producing them the thought of not being there at the vital bit really doesn’t sit well with me. For me time spent in the mart is very rarely time wasted.

 

[livestock 1]

I do like to sell my stock but probably half the occasions I’m not there.
Often I drop them and leave or load a wagon and get on with some work at home
I think it’s better to sell them but work load can over rule at times

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

I do like to sell my stock but probably half the occasions I’m not there.
Often I drop them and leave or load a wagon and get on with some work at home
I think it’s better to sell them but work load can over rule at times

The same happens to me sometimes, but because I have spent time at the mart in the past there will be someone who I can ask to sell them for me. I'm sure you do the same

 

[Old Tip]

The same happens to me sometimes, but because I have spent time at the mart in the past there will be someone who I can ask to sell them for me. I'm sure you do the same

Exactly

 

[Old Tip]

Yes, in the pens, as in every other market I've ever sold lambs at in my life. I thinking running them through a ring, and not weighing them (empty) until sold is more of a Northern peculiarity, with the empty weights reflected in the higher sqq in most Northern marts.

Down here the auctioneer calls out the weights and if they are FA or not, and occasionally mentions the vendor (if he's watching). Other than that, they are bidding on the pen of lambs stood in front of them. A grader will have handled every lamb after weighing (when they arrive) and marked anything deemed to fat or too lean.

How do they sell fifty or a hundred lambs that way, no wonder all the big boys bring there lambs back up north to sell. Must be a right slow job selling ten or twenty at a time

 

[Shebb90]

How do they sell fifty or a hundred lambs that way, no wonder all the big boys bring there lambs back up north to sell. Must be a right slow job selling ten or twenty at a time

To be fair I have seen both Done not like up country size tho, but I think down here in pens are faster . No sheep to move bout just keep walking..... In terms of bigger numbers it's normally more pens has one lot if even and weighing the same or the option on the next pens. Hope that make sense.

 

[Henarar]

I sometimes think we all live in different countries not different parts of the same country! A drover helps us sort lambs just before they go into the ring, they are weighed on the way in and I go in with them, show them and often have a quick word with the buyers. Your name and the weights are on an electric board. If you take lambs regularly and if you give them a little bit back they definitely know you and your sheep.

I can't understand people dropping off stock and leaving them and then complaining about what a bad deal they got. It takes enough time, effort and cost to produce the things that it must be worth spending a bit of time marketing them. I wouldn't be keen on using a market that didn't allow this.

Don't think there is any market that don't allow it, just some folk don't bother.
some of us down this end always see their stock sold if some drop them and bugger off home thats nart to do with the market

 

[Old Tip]

To be fair I have seen both Done not like up country size tho, but I think down here in pens are faster . No sheep to move bout just keep walking..... In terms of bigger numbers it's normally more pens has one lot if even and weighing the same or the option on the next pens. Hope that make sense.

Must be harder for the buyers not seeing the lambs properly, could be fifteen or more buyers at Bentham or Kirby how the heck would they manage with penned lambs. Be easy to hide a few lame ones and the odd one with balls

 

[Optimus]

Must be harder for the buyers not seeing the lambs properly, could be fifteen or more buyers at Bentham or Kirby how the heck would they manage with penned lambs. Be easy to hide a few lame ones and the odd one with balls

That's what I was thinking.often seen buyers pulling odd ones out when there in the ring.

 

[Skintagain]

Must be harder for the buyers not seeing the lambs properly, could be fifteen or more buyers at Bentham or Kirby how the heck would they manage with penned lambs. Be easy to hide a few lame ones and the odd one with balls

It isn’t marketing them very well huddled in a pen imo. Look far better skipping around the ring especially if they have some power. Obviously not if lame!! I know a buyer who won’t go to a mart where they are sold out of pens as they can’t see how they walk. Be that store or fat wants to see they are healthy

 

[Pistonbroke]

How do they sell fifty or a hundred lambs that way, no wonder all the big boys bring there lambs back up north to sell. Must be a right slow job selling ten or twenty at a time

Good auctioneer on a good trade will sell quicker that way than through the ring,they just keep walking.If they're a big bunch the pens are sold together,not one at a time. No hold ups waiting stupid lambs that won't come into the ring

 

[BE89]

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This is welshpool in march 2020, in the pens they seem to sell them in all markets in this area, so I beleive

 

[Pistonbroke]

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This is welshpool in march 2020, in the pens they seem to sell them in all markets in this area, so I beleive

Because of COVID rules the stores in Hereford go through the ring now. It was a lesson to any auctioneer to see Greg selling them out of the pens. A tough job writing it all down quick enough

 

[serf]

It was like a marathon for the buyers to get to the next pen in time , need gas n air at the end of each run

 

[Pistonbroke]

It was like a marathon for the buyers to get to the next pen in time , need gas n air at the end of each run

Make 'em earn their money

 

[Shebb90]

Because of COVID rules the stores in Hereford go through the ring now. It was a lesson to any auctioneer to see Greg selling them out of the pens. A tough job writing it all down quick enough

That fairly fast going I would say

 

[bean]

That fairly fast going I would say

Bit faster than Holsworthy

 

[serf]

Bit faster than Holsworthy

Whats there pace then cup a tea pipe n slippers between pens !

 

[Skintagain]

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This is welshpool in march 2020, in the pens they seem to sell them in all markets in this area, so I beleive

Good for run of the mill lambs or a few lean ones in no time to feel through them