Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[gone up the hill]

Did you have any in to catch the trade?

Sadly no as spring lambs not quite heavy enough yet, will need another 3 weeks.

 

[Estate fencing.]

Sadly no as spring lambs not quite heavy enough yet, will need another 3 weeks.

No hoggs, oh I forgot they should all be gone by Christmas.

 

[Skintagain]

Kale & grass no dry feed.

Tidy

 

[livestock 1]

No hoggs, oh I forgot they should all be gone by Christmas.

Some people are still buying them

 

[gone up the hill]

No hoggs, oh I forgot they should all be gone by Christmas.

Yea but which Christmas

 

[Skintagain]

Some people are still buying them

Brave or stupid?

 

[Hill Ground]

Rugby Market today

RFM 4th March
Prime Steers to 336p/kg & £2471
Prime Heifers to 336p/kg & £2552
Prime Bulls to 285p/kg & £1613
Cows to 189p/kg & £1357
Hogg SQQ 363p/kg (2880 Avg £156)
Hoggs to 472p/kg & £219
Ewes to £250 (1384 Avg £120)
Calves to £320 (58)
Store Lambs to £130 (261) https://opt-out.me

 

[gone up the hill]

On the orphan lambs,

Last week at Exeter the top price was £86 head.

Generally at Sedge 10 day old setting on lambs are anywhere between £30 to £50 head with the odd one at £57/8 head.

A lot more people than other years looking for replacement lambs for ewes with people saying they are losing a lot of lambs/ ewes and are getting a lot of problems this year.

 

[Henarar]

Ewe trade red hot as well with a top of £338 head

Not so long ago would be glad of that for a cull cow

 

[Estate fencing.]

On the orphan lambs,

Last week at Exeter the top price was £86 head.

Generally at Sedge 10 day old setting on lambs are anywhere between £30 to £50 head with the odd one at £57/8 head.

A lot more people than other years looking for replacement lambs for ewes with people saying they are losing a lot of lambs/ ewes and are getting a lot of problems this year.

Price of cull ewes I couldn’t be arsed to go and buy lambs to put on them.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

On the orphan lambs,

Last week at Exeter the top price was £86 head.

Generally at Sedge 10 day old setting on lambs are anywhere between £30 to £50 head with the odd one at £57/8 head.

A lot more people than other years looking for replacement lambs for ewes with people saying they are losing a lot of lambs/ ewes and are getting a lot of problems this year.

People must be nuttier than squirrel sh!t paying £86 for a pet lamb. It’s potentially worth as much as the ewe culled…. You’ll probably get a good store lamb for that money in the autumn

 

[Hill Ground]

On the orphan lambs,

Last week at Exeter the top price was £86 head.

Generally at Sedge 10 day old setting on lambs are anywhere between £30 to £50 head with the odd one at £57/8 head.

A lot more people than other years looking for replacement lambs for ewes with people saying they are losing a lot of lambs/ ewes and are getting a lot of problems this year.

Is that shmallembourg distorting the market?

Seems madness to me!!

 

[Hilly]

People must be nuttier than squirrel sh!t paying £86 for a pet lamb. It’s potentially worth as much as the ewe culled…. You’ll probably get a good store lamb for that money in the autumn

Agree, i wouldnt buy a lamb or a calf to set on ever , its what can come with them thats the issue ..

 

[Hilly]

Is that shmallembourg distorting the market?

Seems madness to me!!

Hellish thjng that , set on lamb bring mv make a big problem into a massive problem …..

 

[livestock 1]

Brave or stupid?

Who knows

 

[Beef farmer]

Exeter smashed the £200 head barrier for hoggs today.
Plenty in the £180s/ 90s head.

Just under 1800 hoggs head penned with at least 50 head coming from Hertfordshire @Shebb90

310 spring lambs penned with plenty over £4 a kilo.

Ewe trade red hot as well with a top of £338 head.

Smashed?
200.50p
Cracking price, but smashed implies 230 quid.

 

[Estate fencing.]

Smashed?
200.50p
Cracking price, but smashed implies 230 quid.

When have all had smash’s that are worth only 50p. Il get me coat now.

 

[BrianV]

Saw them this morning, very smart hoggs ,well fed and they did stand out, Don't see blackies of that quality in exeter very often ,must of made you a pound me thinks

Thing is we have a bit of ground that runs down from Haytor that has clay under a foot of soil & eventually that clay seam ends up in the clay pits at Kingsteignton, on that particular ground lambs fatten so well with no need for anything else, much of our other ground adjoining the moor is above tin mines & no mater what you feed them they will not fatten & they go white in colour.
It just goes to show no mater how good a farmer you might be the ground beneath you makes one hell of a difference.

 

[hubbahubba]

Av £205 for the empty hoggs today. Will there be any breeding gimmers left by the autumn. Serious.

 

[Hilly]

Av £205 for the empty hoggs today. Will there be any breeding gimmers left by the autumn. Serious.

Hopefully not , keep the job good another while ..