Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

Bill the Bass

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Cumbria
yeah but only for about 360 days of the year.

It used to be howling gales and not so much rain, feels the opposite now, were getting alot more rain and less severe gales. Mostly unsettled id say, have had ten cracking days of weather just now but wed have been lucky if it never rained 3 days in May, deffo one of the worst Mays i can remember. Theres little difference in April/May weather so everyone lambs in April
Reminds me of my grandad describing Stainmore, ‘6 months of winter and 6 months of bad weather’
 

Mc115reed

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Livestock Farmer
Thats what i said. think the highest i got was around £72 quid last year. thats for LLeyn lambs, we sell store in late August though cant take them through to finishing.
How many weaned lambs would you have for sale late august 😅 I’ll take the lot as they run £75 a head 🙊👀
 

goodevans

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Farmer in South Devon caught someone trying to nick their quad at 1 am in the morning ( farm dogs barking like mad woke him up so went outside to see what they were barking at ) pinned the bloke to the ground, his wife called the police, said they had caught the thief and were holding him on the ground untill they ( the police ) got there to arrest the thief...

Police call centre told them to let the bloke go or they would be arrested for unlawful arrest.. farmers wife said no they would not let him go, police turned up about 30 mins later, let the thief go and arrested the farmer and his wife!
Met our polaris going through the village when driving to sheep at night and turned round to follow it ,found it dumped in a cul-de-sac, spoke to a dog walker who pointed me in the right direction and followed the 2 blokes back to it ,in the mean time got hold of my brother and we managed to catch the one and must say the police couldn't be more helpful with 4 vehicles turning up along with a good few off our local crime watch group as I had mistakingly put out a group call while shouting at the bloke to stand still
 
I would think £75 won’t even buy an @Anymulewilldo spec lamb this autumn so I don’t think would be a bad buy aslong as there well bred and just under fed … store sales this autumn will have lots of flame emojis I think
I don’t think @Anymulewilldo or myself will be getting too excited if the types I’m thinking of are up that price
They will be staying where they are at
 

Anymulewilldo

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
I would think £75 won’t even buy an @Anymulewilldo spec lamb this autumn so I don’t think would be a bad buy aslong as there well bred and just under fed … store sales this autumn will have lots of flame emojis I think
And I still think I’d be able too fill an account under £32. As long as I’m not the one farming them
 

Mc115reed

Member
Livestock Farmer
I don’t think @Anymulewilldo or myself will be getting too excited if the types I’m thinking of are up that price
They will be staying where they are at
He could be getting beltexs up for that price and he’d still not get excited about it 😂

but in all seriousness I really don’t think this autumn anything that looks capable of surviving a winter will be any less than £70.. farmers brains fall out at the auction ring and store sales don’t seem too get any cheaper any year.. there will be any amount of people waving there hands about saying “the price is bound too go up this winter nobody can afford too feed them, theres gonna be a shortage if I ride the storm I’ll become a millionaire”
 

Anymulewilldo

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
He could be getting beltexs up for that price and he’d still not get excited about it 😂

but in all seriousness I really don’t think this autumn anything that looks capable of surviving a winter will be any less than £70.. farmers brains fall out at the auction ring and store sales don’t seem too get any cheaper any year.. there will be any amount of people waving there hands about saying “the price is bound too go up this winter nobody can afford too feed them, theres gonna be a shortage if I ride the storm I’ll become a millionaire”
Oh they get cheaper! Not many years ago I was struggling in Hawes too but mule wethers at £50, year after they were £45-£48 and begging me too take them!
 
He could be getting beltexs up for that price and he’d still not get excited about it 😂

but in all seriousness I really don’t think this autumn anything that looks capable of surviving a winter will be any less than £70.. farmers brains fall out at the auction ring and store sales don’t seem too get any cheaper any year.. there will be any amount of people waving there hands about saying “the price is bound too go up this winter nobody can afford too feed them, theres gonna be a shortage if I ride the storm I’ll become a millionaire”
I very much doubt they will be as dear as that!!
 

JSmith

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Livestock Farmer
I would think £75 won’t even buy an @Anymulewilldo spec lamb this autumn so I don’t think would be a bad buy aslong as there well bred and just under fed … store sales this autumn will have lots of flame emojis I think
There ought to be plenty GOOD lambs at £75 an less if there’s any brains left in the job!! All the heroes that were giving £90-100+ for store lambs won’t be so keen this time around if their calculators work
 

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