Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Northeastfarmer]

hoggs were at a standstill in the sorting race for fecking ages and I had work to do. For a newish Mart it really is a fecking hell hole for getting sheep through the system at any pace

That’s what put me off last time I took a trailer load down

 

[Werzle]

Main cattle buyer in darlington said his staff in the boning room were on £25 an hour and still cant keep them not a job for everyone i suppose

I dont even like being in the queue outside to unload watching bones,heads and guts being forklifted about let alone being inside!
Heard lately of lorrys needing £1000+ of fuel to fill them and drivers being poached/tempted away for £400 shifts driving supermarket lorrys.
Most sensible people think its all going to go bang one morning, it cant go on like this thats for sure.

 

[yellowbelly]

Finally got the hangers on that have had bad feet and poor doers away in to Thirsk yesterday, well fleshed 46kg made 123.50 and not so well fleshed but I wasn’t keeping them any longer 42kg 111.50 which means they all did about 265ppk whether they were fit or not. I didn’t stay to sell them and didn’t check their teeth

Got our tail enders (feckin horrors, to be honest) away there yesterday too. For what's nearly the third week of May, hoggs were a hell of a trade. One of mine was such a screw when I bought it in a bunch privately last year that the bloke gave me it.
It weighed (somehow) 33kg and made £72.50 - probably left more money than anything else I bought
They didn't mouth anything yesterday. It's surprising how it doesn't seem to matter when sheep are wanted.
Saw a text, from the powers that be, to a vendor, who like me was stuck on the dock trying to get sheep penned, that they weren't checking teeth, except for one buyer, and theirs would be checked after they were sold. No idea how that was going to work if any were up

didn’t stay long enough to get them off the dock as the hoggs were at a standstill in the sorting race for fecking ages and I had work to do. For a newish Mart it really is a fecking hell hole for getting sheep through the system at any pace

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That’s what put me off last time I took a trailer load down

It's a complete dogs dinner. Culls, hoggs and springers all trying to go different ways and all at the wrong side of the dock from where they want to be
Not enough pens to hold everything - the whole unloading process has to stop while they get stated selling to empty some pens to put more sheep in

Oh, and as this is the price tracker, had the first 20 springers away there too.

43kg.......£146.50....340.7p/kg
46kg.......£145.50....316.3p/kg
40kg.......£131.50....328.6p/kg

The 46kg, IMHO, were the best lambs but they didn't seem to want anything over 43kg - heavier lambs only seemed to be making the same money

 

[Werzle]

Recently I asked my livestock haulier who must be in his mid 60s if he was going to retire soon.

He looked at me as if I’d just kicked his dog and shat in his kettle.
He has a new lorry on order…

Think it was peter kay who quipped he looked at me like i had entered his house on christmas day and pee'd on his kids

 

[Hilly]

Heard lately of lorrys needing £1000+ of fuel to fill them and drivers being poached/tempted away for £400 shifts driving supermarket lorrys.
Most sensible people think its all going to go bang one morning, it cant go on like this thats for sure.

Bloke on facebook video filling his wagon up , £1065 quid and it had a quarter tank afore he started !!

 

[Werzle]

Bloke on facebook video filling his wagon up , £1065 quid and it had a quarter tank afore he started !!

6-10 mile to the gallon

 

[Hilly]

6-10 mile to the gallon

Was only a 18 ton , imagine these 750 hp timber artics giving it the big toe all day grossing 44 ton

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Got our tail enders (feckin horrors, to be honest) away there yesterday too. For what's nearly the third week of May, hoggs were a hell of a trade. One of mine was such a screw when I bought it in a bunch privately last year that the bloke gave me it.
It weighed (somehow) 33kg and made £72.50 - probably left more money than anything else I bought
They didn't mouth anything yesterday. It's surprising how it doesn't seem to matter when sheep are wanted.
Saw a text, from the powers that be, to a vendor, who like me was stuck on the dock trying to get sheep penned, that they weren't checking teeth, except for one buyer, and theirs would be checked after they were sold. No idea how that was going to work if any were up

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It's a complete dogs dinner. Culls, hoggs and springers all trying to go different ways and all at the wrong side of the dock from where they want to be
Not enough pens to hold everything - the whole unloading process has to stop while they get stated selling to empty some pens to put more sheep in

Oh, and as this is the price tracker, had the first 20 springers away there too.

43kg.......£146.50....340.7p/kg
46kg.......£145.50....316.3p/kg
40kg.......£131.50....328.6p/kg

The 46kg, IMHO, were the best lambs but they didn't seem to want anything over 43kg - heavier lambs only seemed to be making the same money

I can’t be remotely arsed queuing up like that and all that argy bargy going on. I took one load and put me off for life

 

[Northern territory]

Finally got the hangers on that have had bad feet and poor doers away in to Thirsk yesterday, well fleshed 46kg made 123.50 and not so well fleshed but I wasn’t keeping them any longer 42kg 111.50 which means they all did about 265ppk whether they were fit or not. I didn’t stay to sell them and didn’t check their teeth but I’d imagine they were all up by now, didn’t stay long enough to get them off the dock as the hoggs were at a standstill in the sorting race for fecking ages and I had work to do. For a newish Mart it really is a fecking hell hole for getting sheep through the system at any pace

Have to agree it’s pee poor

 

[Jimmywick]

The less wagons I run the less I blow can’t charge enough for the work tbh try be fair with people too but it’s nigh on impossible now tbh !

 

[Jimmywick]

I’m beginning to think a Labour government would have our backs more tbh torys lost the way seem to be backing multi billionaires and bankers and not bothered about our own industry’s or working class people

 

[Northern territory]

At Malton they still sell down the lines of pens which to me seems a quicker less labour intensive way. Do many markets still do this ?

 

[Chae1]

I dont even like being in the queue outside to unload watching bones,heads and guts being forklifted about let alone being inside!
Heard lately of lorrys needing £1000+ of fuel to fill them and drivers being poached/tempted away for £400 shifts driving supermarket lorrys.
Most sensible people think its all going to go bang one morning, it cant go on like this thats for sure.

That's my thoughts too.

The wheels are going to fall off at some point.

Heard some supermarkets are taking anti looting measures. So they can basically press a button and barriers come down and shops sealed.

Rather spend money on that than give farmers more.

 

[Northern territory]

That's my thoughts too.

The wheels are going to fall off at some point.

Heard some supermarkets are taking anti looting measures. So they can basically press a button and barriers come down and shops sealed.

Rather spend money on that than give farmers more.

What a brain dead thing to come out with about more lenient prosecution, it’s like saying no need to panic buy loo roll as there is not a shortage. Do these people ever think. Talk about an open invitation.

 

[Poorbuthappy]

At Malton they still sell down the lines of pens which to me seems a quicker less labour intensive way. Do many markets still do this ?

They do at Sedgemoor and Exeter

 

[Northern territory]

They do at Sedgemoor and Exeter

Seems to work better in my opinion. I guess it’s getting them all there, weighed and graded. Thirsk start selling in morning, whereas Malton is afternoon.

 

[Hfd Cattle]

At Malton they still sell down the lines of pens which to me seems a quicker less labour intensive way. Do many markets still do this ?

Did in Hfd up till Covid but all through the ring now . It's a lot better and everyone can see them and not just the ones stood by the pen. I think it goes a lot quicker but it is labour intensive .

 

[Northern territory]

Did in Hfd up till Covid but all through the ring now . It's a lot better and everyone can see them and not just the ones stood by the pen. I think it goes a lot quicker but it is labour intensive .

Yes that’s the key not enough staff at some of these markets

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Seems to work better in my opinion. I guess it’s getting them all there, weighed and graded. Thirsk start selling in morning, whereas Malton is afternoon.

It works better in a race with all the buyers staying put in one place and the sheep coming to them

 

[Northern territory]

It works better in a race with all the buyers staying put in one place and the sheep coming to them

But only if you have enough pens to hold them, you said yourself Thirsk doesn’t work that well for unloading