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Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
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Fats in Ireland getting some money.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
No farmer buyers and the big dealers now only have orders for cattle that are either fhinshed or can be fhinshed within 100 days, no one wants the 2nd quality stuff and TBH if you have this type of animal to sell then you either hold it until Jan 18 or jst except that you wont get much more than baby calve/ very small stirk prices for them.
Feed is also going up which will hit the margins on the longer term 2nd quality cattle that naturally will take a lot longer to fhinsh.
You know its a bad trade when one very good/strong South Devon steer had to be put thru the ring three times to be sold as the bidders refused to have it on their account the first two times after the hammer had fallen.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Local collection centre down 10pk for Monday collection for lambs!
What is deadweight for next week??
What is deadweight for next week??
- Location
- Somerset
And what technical issues were these thenDidn't see any stirks sold due to technical issues....
Store lambs were a mental trade,even local large scale fhinsher @farmerclare commented on what a dear trade it was!
i don't think I've seen so many store lambs this time of year and so expensive. some of them were more than they would be fat. I was looking at maybe buying a few but not at that trade
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
£1600 odd for a THREE year old bullock....
Abp £4.65 Down 10p
That just showed bad auctioneering
cattleman123
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- Location
- devon
Did it really come in 3 times
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
If the auctioneer knocked it down then the farmer has to take it, if he let the buyers throw it up twice then that's pathetic
- Location
- Somerset
Don't know why they bother having a hammer at Sedge for cattle or sheep, doesn't seem to mean a lot
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Defo 2 times and im 99% sure it was 3 times!! no idea what it made in the end as I couldn't hear the auctioneer over the yapping from @farmerclare
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
They were really struggling to even get a bid for some cattle today!
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
How many wagon loads did you steal...
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
No TB licence
but would have been very easy to fill an artic today with cattle that were decent sorts but a low average price across the board.Even the auctioneer made the comment : Just what has happened to trade in the last two weeks?!
For example two 550/600 kilo named Hereford heifers FA and 28/29 months that need about 2 months feeding to fhinsh them only made £780!
Pot KettleDefo 2 times and im 99% sure it was 3 times!! no idea what it made in the end as I couldn't hear the auctioneer over the yapping from @farmerclare
- Location
- Somerset
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Pot Kettle
sorry I should have included you into that comment henerar I could hardly get two words in every 10 minutesand the band played "believe it if you like"