Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[gone up the hill]

RED across beef and lamb prices today...

Exeter,

SQQ for lamb was 164 - 0.7pk

Sedge,

SQQ for lamb 163.6 - 6.8pk

Steers 172-3 -13.4pk

Heifers 183.3 -2.4pk

 

[devonshire farmer]

Anyone got prices for new season lamb, some nearly ready here!

 

[onthehoof]

RED across beef and lamb prices today...

Exeter,

SQQ for lamb was 164 - 0.7pk

Sedge,

SQQ for lamb 163.6 - 6.8pk

Steers 172-3 -13.4pk

Heifers 183.3 -2.4pk

Were they a particularly poor lot of cattle guth?

 

[aled1590]

Sold 4 heifers Mold today, avr 590kg at 211p/kg. red limo at 227p

 

[cattleman123]

Some hope there lamb price is dropping by the day and the AHDB are nowhere to be seen!!................

The MAIN question should be : Were these meals stamped with the RT logo or not???

Farmers have to produce what the market requires far to many heavy hoggets about....talking to a big midlands market Auctioneer today, his view is that a lot of heavy hogs come April will be very low in price...he reckoned they could be a fiver less than inspect hogs..why? because there are millions out there waiting for a price rise and getting bigger at the same time.....a little worrying

 

[Henarar]

some say that heavy's pay better

What min price would folk need to forward sell in spec hoggets for this time next year ?
about the only way this will be solved
let them put their money where their mouth is for in spec lambs/hogs and for the farmers to step up

 

[exmoor dave]

Anyone know what tibby lambs are making at the mo?

 

[pine_guy]

'tibby lambs'?

Sounds like a character out of my kids TV programmes! Is that West Country for pet/hand reared lambs?

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Farmers have to produce what the market requires far to many heavy hoggets about....talking to a big midlands market Auctioneer today, his view is that a lot of heavy hogs come April will be very low in price...he reckoned they could be a fiver less than inspect hogs..why? because there are millions out there waiting for a price rise and getting bigger at the same time.....a little worrying

That auctioneer knows no more than me you or anyone else on here about where the trade is going to go....in fact the buyers won't even know! Anything can happen between now and April....it's no good farmers shitting themselves where the trade is going now....they weren't shitting it when they were 5 deep at the store sales with their chests puffed out bidding them to senseless prices as stores. If everyone sold them at 40 kilos the buyers would want 60 kilo ones, Hoggs will be what they are going to be

 

[gone up the hill]

Were they a particularly poor lot of cattle guth?

Looking at the market report tonight it sounds like a normal entry.

Heifers average was only so good because butchers heifers were south of 200pk.

 

[gone up the hill]

Anyone know what tibby lambs are making at the mo?

If you mean orphan lambs then sedge on sat averaged just shy of £22 head, so off farm £15 head.

 

[gone up the hill]

Anyone got prices for new season lamb, some nearly ready here!

105 suck lambs at Exeter on Monday averaged 192pk which is down 11pk on last year..

Better than hogs but the reality is the sheep job is on its knees at the moment.

 

[gone up the hill]

Farmers have to produce what the market requires far to many heavy hoggets about....talking to a big midlands market Auctioneer today, his view is that a lot of heavy hogs come April will be very low in price...he reckoned they could be a fiver less than inspect hogs..why? because there are millions out there waiting for a price rise and getting bigger at the same time.....a little worrying

NO auctioneer should be talking down the trade like this!! ( be that for fat or store animals )

All I can say is that I hope said auctioneer is close to retirement for the good of the farmers who pay his/ her wages!

 

[gone up the hill]

some say that heavy's pay better

What min price would folk need to forward sell in spec hoggets for this time next year ?
about the only way this will be solved
let them put their money where their mouth is for in spec lambs/hogs and for the farmers to step up

COP contracts like you are suggesting above would be the death knell for livestock markets as for them to work then both store and fhinshers would have to sign up and then there would be no need for markets.

Take suckler COP, if I came along and told you that your COP for keeping a suckler cow is £400 head ( excluding unpaid family labour which is how the dairy COP works ) and that I will only pay you £400 head for your suckled calves that you are currently getting £700 head would you be happy and sign that COP contract?? no quite rightly you wouldn't!

 

[exmoor dave]

Sounds like a character out of my kids TV programmes! Is that West Country for pet/hand reared lambs?

If you mean orphan lambs then sedge on sat averaged just shy of £22 head, so off farm £15 head.

Yeah orphans

 

[Henarar]

COP contracts like you are suggesting

I wasn't suggesting a cop contract I was suggesting forward selling, different thing altogether

 

[cattleman123]

NO auctioneer should be talking down the trade like this!! ( be that for fat or store animals )

All I can say is that I hope said auctioneer is close to retirement for the good of the farmers who pay his/ her wages!

All he was doing was giving me his view privately...just like you do ..the trade is what the trade is.

 

[gone up the hill]

I wasn't suggesting a cop contract I was suggesting forward selling, different thing altogether

Complete waste of time as you could not forward sell all your lambs in case 1 : you didn't get as many as you hoped for and 2 not enough might be in spec.

The plain and simple reason the fhinshers that are holding 1000s of lambs that really should have been long gone is because they paid far too much for them as stores, utter madness to be paying £65 for a store lamb when if you sent the same lamb but fat the day you paid £65 the fat one would only come back at £70.

Store lambs have been £10/15 head too expensive all season!

Reality is the supermarkets have priced lamb in at what they are paying deadweight now, if it starts to go up they use imported meat to bring it down again.

 

[Henarar]

Complete waste of time as you could not forward sell all your lambs in case 1 : you didn't get as many as you hoped for and 2 not enough might be in spec.

And there was me thinking you were a good stockman
you wouldn't sell them all forward just like most corn boys don't sell all their corn forward,
as for getting them in spec that would be up to you as a good farmer and it would be up to the buyer to come up with a price for them, if they want these in spec lambs they can put their money where their mouth is

 

[jendan]

That auctioneer knows no more than me you or anyone else on here about where the trade is going to go....in fact the buyers won't even know! Anything can happen between now and April....it's no good farmers shitting themselves where the trade is going now....they weren't shitting it when they were 5 deep at the store sales with their chests puffed out bidding them to senseless prices as stores. If everyone sold them at 40 kilos the buyers would want 60 kilo ones, Hoggs will be what they are going to be

At Longtown store yesterday,satchells,lilliesleaf sold some beautiful suffx hoggs out of halfbred/or tex/chev ewes.They were big strong hoggs with good tight skins,and made just £64 to John Errington.Later in the sale some little diddlers,suffx made £55.It just didnt make any sense to me.There would be twice as much meat on the big ones at the end of the day.