Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Mc115reed]

You wish . Breeders will be through the roof! All driven by the cast ewe price.

So why is it then that I can sell a half dead mule for £100-120 a head… and I can buy a mule ewe hogg for £120 ?

 

[jendan]

May last longer than we think.
While there will be slightly less demand after 1st week of July it is also likely that supply will have been exhausted and so the numbers available will take until early August to balance out again. There is huge demand for manufacturing meat (look at the price of cows) which ewes fit into.
You only have to look at the statistics to see how many extra ewes have been killed recently.

Then who knows what will happen.
If finished lambs stay above £100 (no reason why they won't) then there will be demand for breeding ewes from August which will put a bottom in the ewe trade.

What price Shearlings though?

Good shearlings £180-£250.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

I would guess they have another couple of weeks of a good trade, but depends on how many are left.
My feeling is that the numbers now are getting tighter.
The butchers are reluctant to change over until they are sure there is a good supply of new seasons at a sensible price.

Of course if they stay a good trade then there will be some ewe hoggs that may not be kept until the Autumn!

Don’t think the trade will lift enough too take that many ewe hoggs our of the equation?

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Good shearlings £180-£250.

Maybe for the few pens of stunners.
more likely £150-£190

 

[Estate fencing.]

No way. Breeders will be driven by the fat lamb price over the summer. If stores are strong breeders will be good, stores were brilliant last autumn and I still bought 300 replacements.

If you had to buy breeders now then they would be cheap, good summer and early autumn grass growth and good lamb price they will be as dear as ever.

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

No way. Breeders will be driven by the fat lamb price over the summer. If stores are strong breeders will be good, stores were brilliant last autumn and I still bought 300 replacements.

I would completely agree.
Cull price has little difference on breeders. Finished lamb is a better indicator.

One farmer said to me having sold all of his old ewes that it was pointless putting any in the breeding sales in the Autumn as it was better to just keep killing them!

 

[jendan]

So why is it then that I can sell a half dead mule for £100-120 a head… and I can buy a mule ewe hogg for £120 ?

Availability of grass and money. If you have both,then fill yer boots up!

 

[Estate fencing.]

Maybe for the few pens of stunners.
more likely £150-£190

£130-£160 I think.

 

[lloyd]

Maybe for the few pens of stunners.
more likely £150-£190

If the rain doesn't come £130-£150.

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

Don’t think the trade will lift enough too take that many ewe hoggs our of the equation?

You are probably right but some that are kept until the breeding sales would be better sold now at £140 to £150.

 

[Mc115reed]

Availability of grass and money. If you have both,then fill yer boots up!

Iv got the grass but not the money sadly Would love too go out and buy 100 ewe lambs while the price is still suppressed but I’m skint

 

[Anymulewilldo]

You are probably right but some that are kept until the breeding sales would be better sold now at £140 to £150.

Definitely. I look at those types every year and think they’d do the industry more good if everyone killed the bottom 20% in the spring.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

If the rain doesn't come £130-£150.

That’s true. We’re a very wet farm and even we are getting too the stage that a good night of steady rain would be a good thing

 

[Anymulewilldo]

If you had to buy breeders now then they would be cheap, good summer and early autumn grass growth and good lamb price they will be as dear as ever.

If I were into dry shearlings then dry ewe hoggs now do look good value. But I detest lambing dry shearlings so I won’t be partaking!

 

[jendan]

If the rain doesn't come £130-£150.

You are all wishful thinkers.Who is going to sell good breeding gimmers/shearlings for £130 this Autumn?..................no one! And besides ,its going to be a p!ss wet Summer. Rainfall averages have been well below normal for several months all over the Country.............................It always makes up and balances out.

 

[lloyd]

If I were into dry shearlings then dry ewe hoggs now do look good value. But I detest lambing dry shearlings so I won’t be partaking!

Four toothers let someone else have the pain.

 

[lloyd]

You are all wishful thinkers.Who is going to sell good breeding gimmers/shearlings for £130 this Autumn?..................no one! And besides ,its going to be a p!ss wet Summer. Rainfall averages have been well below normal for several months all over the Country.............................It always makes up and balances out.

All the people who run dry ewe lambs because it's easy.

 

[jendan]

Maybe for the few pens of stunners.
more likely £150-£190

I will remind you when you are squeezed around the ringside at Longtown end of August. Folks will be paying that and more for ewe lambs.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

You are all wishful thinkers.Who is going to sell good breeding gimmers/shearlings for £130 this Autumn?..................no one! And besides ,its going to be a p!ss wet Summer. Rainfall averages have been well below normal for several months all over the Country.............................It always makes up and balances out.

Those that buy ewe lambs too run too shearlings then sell them! They do that because they don’t want too/ can’t lamb them. I can’t remember what year it was but not long ago we had a good summer but the Devon/Cornwall boys were burnt too a crisp and couldn’t shift shearlings until it rained at the end of September. That led too very suppressed demand at all the early sales.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

You are all wishful thinkers.Who is going to sell good breeding gimmers/shearlings for £130 this Autumn?..................no one! And besides ,its going to be a p!ss wet Summer. Rainfall averages have been well below normal for several months all over the Country.............................It always makes up and balances out.

A lot can happen between now and autumn. If the trade is only at £150 then people will have to sell them, you can’t do anything else with them…. Who wants to lamb sheep these days