Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Anymulewilldo]

Spring lambs next week quotes between £7.40 and £7.50 a kilo.

The magical £10 kilo is not far away

Love the optimism but £2.50 will take them 5 years to achieve the speed the pillocks lift the price. Bet they could drop it £2.50 in 2 weeks though!!

 

[harperfarmer]

What firms are paying this?
2 places I spoke to this week were £6.80 &£7.20 NSL base.

ABP sent out a text today saying £7.40. They die very badly and don't grade terrifically well either from what I've been told.

 

[livestock 1]

Love the optimism but £2.50 will take them 5 years to achieve the speed the pillocks lift the price. Bet they could drop it £2.50 in 2 weeks though!!

They will go up by £2.50 when inflation has eroded £2.80 that’s about where it is

 

[gone up the hill]

What firms are paying this?
2 places I spoke to this week were £6.80 &£7.20 NSL base.

Base was £7.25 this week, liveweight has jumped quite a bit since the start of the week, all markets averages are up week on week for spring lambs and numbers seem to be well down at several markets on the year as well..

 

[Stewartie_d]

FRIDAY'S AT THAINSTONE

THAINSTONE, Aberdeen and Northern Marts (Friday 12th May 2023) Sold 1366 Store Cattle, Young Bulls and Young and Weaned Calves.

Bullocks (626) averaged 318.5p and sold to 407.6p per kg for a pen of three 422kg Limousin cross and £2490 gross for a 670kg Limousin from Newton Cottage, Acharcle.

Aberdeen-Angus Bullocks (84) averaged 303.2p and sold to 348.6p per kg for a 370kg from Millhouse, Harray and £1570 gross for a pen of three from West Davoch, Tarland.

Heifers (565) averaged 298.1p and sold to 585.4p per kg for a 316kg Limousin and £2360 gross for a 686kg Limousin from Newton Cottage.

Aberdeen-Angus Heifers (82) averaged 277.1p and sold to 304.6p per kg for a 394kg from Drumneachie, Birse and £1700 gross for a pair of 592kg from Mill of Gellen, Coull.

Bulls (11) sold to 268.7p per kg and £1005 gross for a 374kg British Blue from Lethendry, Cromdale.

“Store cattle met a very strong trade with a busy ringside witnessing a terrific show of cattle including the consignment from Mr G Cameron, Newton Cottage which topped all the categories today. A 670kg 18-month Limousin steer selling for £2490 and a pen of outstanding Limousin Crosses scaling 422kg making 407.6p per kilo. An 18-month-old Limousin heifer scaling 686kg was knocked down at £2360 and an 11-month-old Limousin cross scaling 360kg fetching 585.4p per Kilo.”

 

[Stewartie_d]

Store cattle up another gear at Thainstone today.

 

[WelshLamb21]

ABP sent out a text today saying £7.40. They die very badly and don't grade terrifically well either from what I've been told.

Ahh right. Never dealt with them before, Although NSL should kill out 50% before weaning
If one firm can pay it base it will hopfully drag the rest up with them!
It will be interesting to see what it will be when firms completely switch to NSL. I can’t see numbers being there this year early.

 

[Greythundercloudys]

To get anything decent money wise I think these ewes and lambs would need to be more than just ran about though. If they are intended for a sale they would need to be fed for that sale and prepared with a bit of feed otherwise they might look out of place

I don't think they would be feed up that much . Probably just a dose ; ewes tails clipped abit , rung and away they go. Maybe the guys with hoggs will feed abit more.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

I don't think they would be feed up that much . Probably just a dose ; ewes tails clipped abit , rung and away they go. Maybe the guys with hoggs will feed abit more.

Depends how hard you winter your ewes

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Ahh right. Never dealt with them before, Although NSL should kill out 50% before weaning
If one firm can pay it base it will hopfully drag the rest up with them!
It will be interesting to see what it will be when firms completely switch to NSL. I can’t see numbers being there this year early.

Abp need to be 30p ahead of the others to be the equivalent…

 

[livestock 1]

I don't think they would be feed up that much . Probably just a dose ; ewes tails clipped abit , rung and away they go. Maybe the guys with hoggs will feed abit more.

Ok I just sometimes think these things are overlooked. Ewes and lambs can look dear but when you look at them they have had some feed.
There’s nowt for nowt in farming

 

[Optimus]

Store cattle up another gear at Thainstone today.

Are those bullocks going straight to kill?or does someone expect kill price to go up more?

 

[Hilly]

Store cattle up another gear at Thainstone today.

Was the quality up a gear or the price ?

 

[Stewartie_d]

Are those bullocks going straight to kill?or does someone expect kill price to go up more?

Think they’re fed for a while longer, can’t get the figures to add up personally.

 

[Stewartie_d]

Was the quality up a gear or the price ?

Bit of both. There was one consignment of 80 flash cattle but the rest no different to the norm. Run of the mill cattle defo up. A lot of people up here just getting cattle turned out this week plus some abattoirs offering £5.15 be the reason.

 

[Skintagain]

Ok I just sometimes think these things are overlooked. Ewes and lambs can look dear but when you look at them they have had some feed.
There’s nowt for nowt in farming

Better sold from home if you haven’t treated them with too many sweeties imo

 

[RMSLLOYD]

I've never seen her before but I don't sell anything in stasaph. Just watch what they get up to because it's the next closest market to me. Seems silly passing Ruthin to go to stasaph even though I know plenty who do. Have bought rams there on a Saturday but not for years.

Im pretty sure she was at Ruthin last Tuesday also.

 

[RMSLLOYD]

Spring lambs next week quotes between £7.40 and £7.50 a kilo.

The magical £10 kilo is not far away

ABP were offering £9/kg for E grade lambs and Hoggs last week. Not sure if that was a one off or not. ( didn't say what happened if they didn't hit an E grade)

 

[Stw88]

ABP were offering £9/kg for E grade lambs and Hoggs last week. Not sure if that was a one off or not. ( didn't say what happened if they didn't hit an E grade)

That sort of premium should be standard on the grid now. E grades should be at least a £1 more all year. 15-20p doesn’t get them any where close to what they make live.

 

[livestock 1]

Do they grade many as E’s though that’s the problem