- Location
- North of Perth
If you think £100 for lamb is enough guess your happy with £1600 for fat cattle aye?
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
- Location
- Hereford
Just the mention of the word Jogging sends me into a state of panic ....
A vendor came into the ring in Carlisle with a head wound, not a good advert for your stock!
To be fair, a lot of those suckled calves have had a bit of upheaval on sale day and most settle down after a while. There's always the odd one that will be fine until something different happens and then spooks the lot of them.
livestock 1
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One of mine jumped over the gates into the ring I felt the draft on the back of my head as it passed must have been in a hurry quiet as a mouse at home you could rub it’s back in the shed
cattleman123
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- Location
- devon
I agree but i do agree compared with cattle sheep do have a lot less costs....and 100/120 quid for a lamb is still a very good return, yes i know other things are dearer but thats the same whether you keep sheep or not.
Seen them try that, the trouble is that no matter how wild they are you're not expecting the danger to come from there.
- Location
- Northumberland
Can anyone copy and paste from the Hexham mart page the champion Angus bull from wednesday? Would be interesting to hear what the collective forum thinks of it.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
£100/120 for a lamb in this day and age is far from a good return!
In fact its more like a complete waste of time for the work /hassle/ money involved in lambing/ rearing sheep!
Easier at the moment to make the cattle numbers stack up ( and that is with very high grain/input prices ) v the sheep numbers!
cattleman123
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- Location
- devon
Well if they all read this they will be quiting sheep...i am not paying for than 70 quid for my store lambs..so there you go
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Video of a £1700 pound Char steer sold today on Kivells FB page.
Suckler cow and calve outfits to £7000 @£5500 @£5000 and so on. ( guineas as well i think they were sold in as well ) .
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
You must want to retire soon then as if store lambs are only making £70 this year there will be few ewes around in 1 or 2 years time!
livestock 1
Member
This is what I was meaning by store lambs being cheap this time
There will be a few more folks thinking the same
Store lambs are partly valued on retrospective prices ie winter spring of 20/21 hoggs
21/22 winter/spring didn’t deliver the same did it?
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Store lambs need to be £100/120 head.
Prime lambs need to be £170/90 head
In this day and age.
Wanting store lambs at £70 and the race to the bottom will mean the sheep job will end up like the pig job within a few years and only one winner in that situation and that is the supermarkets!
I’m sure there will be plenty of lambs in the £70’s.
Creep is only a small percentage of the true costs. By the time you've vaccinated against everything you can think of, taken the fleece off that's worth nothing, cliked and whatever else to try and save them. Then deal with the pantomime they call lambing, you want at least £100 a lamb. Even a flipping ear tag is 70p. You add it up and you'll frighten yourself. Like Hfd cattle said "some still die".
livestock 1
Member
The trouble is the costs of feeding hoggs will unfortunately come back onto the store lamb
I think there will be plenty of decent sorts of lambs at decent money but the top end (unless they are best grade) will be discounted
T E will find you some cheaper.
kfpben
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- Location
- Mid Hampshire
muleman
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Copy and paste, whereve i heard that phrase
Oh yes the darlington report, a fella there has lambs so good they just copy and paste him name into each weeks report!