Our eldest just bought his his first trailer load.
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Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
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It certainly didn't feel like a flame emoji day. No spark from the dealers.congratulations
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- North Yorkshire
I watched ten minutes or so at lunchtime they looked steady to me for leaner sortsIt certainly didn't feel like a flame emoji day. No spark from the dealers.
livestock 1
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Yes I thought cheaper than what I’ve seen previously
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Should bring them down to SedgmoorIt certainly didn't feel like a flame emoji day. No spark from the dealers.
Top price steer ( do not think any were higher ) made £1780, another at £1700, one vendor averaged £1670 head for his trailer load of store cattle.
Ewes and lambs one HELL HELL of a trade, new buyer in attendance looking for every couple he could get his hands on, did not care what breeds/age etc they were, top was over £300 per couple for a large pen full of mixed flock ages i think they were.
And not to be left out of the action, the trade in the stirk ring was the dearest for some time, heifers were an exceptional trade, price of note were a pen of R grade Lim heifers, they smashed the £900 head mark and these cattle 2/3 weeks ago would have been £200 head less, top heifer was a lim at about £1225 head for a 10/12 month old animal.
Talk around the ringside was that there will be a 10/20ppk drop in the beef price the next few weeks but that did not deter cattle buyers today, onwards and upwards the store/stirk cattle go.
livestock 1
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There’s me saying store lambs will be cheaper!Should bring them down to Sedgmoor
Top price steer ( do not think any were higher ) made £1780, another at £1700, one vendor averaged £1670 head for his trailer load of store cattle.
Ewes and lambs one HELL HELL of a trade, new buyer in attendance looking for every couple he could get his hands on, did not care what breeds/age etc they were, top was over £300 per couple for a large pen full of mixed flock ages i think they were.
I could be eating my words by the look of things!!
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Some new season store lambs sold today and they were one Hell of a trade also, £130 odd for at least one pen, smaller sorts all £105 head +, looked much much dearer than the prime ring.
If anyone has some strong store lambs and were thinking of selling them in a months time then going by todays trade they should get them in the ring sooner rather than later.
livestock 1
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Well let’s hope that trend stays with us it needs to
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Yes i quite agree, let see a prime lamb price of £170 head and a store trade of £100/120 head.
The supermarkets wont like it but hey ho!
- Location
- Northumberland
I cant see store lambs being cheap,but hope im wrong.Could do with feeding some this year. Grass growth seems to have taken off and maybe brought some buyers out for both ewes and lambs and store cattle. At least it looked that way at Carlisle on wednesday. Grass needs eating on permanent pasture that you cant cut,otherwise it gets too coarse and ends up just belly fill.
livestock 1
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I had been thinking along the lines of anyone who was in the position to get lambs off early onto good grass and fattened would score avoiding the store ring even at lighter weights but maybe wrong
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livestock 1
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I always think store lambs are a reflection of previous hogg returns so that would mean less
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
The biggest mistake both cattle and sheep farmers are going to make over the next few months is under or not feeding their stock and it will badly backfire.
Well farmed animals will always sell much better than the poorer end even in a time of low prices.
livestock 1
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I can see a lot of store lambs appearing all at once and less folks willing to feed
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Lambing weaning rates will be very good again this year for sure.
Unless the lamb price crashes in the next few weeks i think the medium/ top feed/farmed lambs will be a much better trade than some buyers are currently hoping/expecting they will be.
livestock 1
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July is always the tester when the store sales start it pulls the fat price down when they start picking half fleshed lambs out for dw crew
I thought it looked/sounded a tidy trade seeing as there was all sorts, auctioneer who sells the stores after the cows is a good one to listen too. Cracks on fairishIt certainly didn't feel like a flame emoji day. No spark from the dealers.
Greythundercloudys
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Alot of early store buyers last year would do alright with them. Bought in August till actober time, remember they weren't all bought at 100+, plenty 75/80 around Stirling in September time.
