Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Skintagain]

Nope as the EA have banned that as well in the winter months !

No end of farms have got a stop notice for spreading slurry with a barrel spreader in the winter months around here 2when inspected the last 12 months !

You in Nvz?

 

[som farmer]

Nope as the EA have banned that as well in the winter months !

No end of farms have got a stop notice for spreading slurry with a barrel spreader in the winter months around here 2when inspected the last 12 months !

always look for the positives, back to straw yards, and plenty of FYM, to use, instead of bought fert.

and straw yards don't produce oceans of slurry, and doesn't need to be shifted, till it suits you.

might have a dose of cubicles to sell ...................

the whole job is ill thought out, and going to cause a heap of problems.

 

[sheepwise]

Hoggs would be dearer in Ayr today. One buyer had 150 very fit wedder hoggs at 50kg sheared bare after the sale to go to grass for a month. He must know something.

 

[gone up the hill]

You in Nvz?

No just a river catchment area!

The EA are going to visit every livestock farm in the country within the next 5 years ( that is their target ) to enforce the new rules they have introduced.

And whilst they are doing this the water company's are being allowed with no comeback to dump raw sewage into the rivers/sea every time we get some heavy rain!

And in Exmouth for example they have dumped so much raw sewage in the sea this winter that for several weeks if you walked along the beach the water line was covered in human sh!t/ tampons/ condoms etc

 

[Skintagain]

No just a river catchment area!

The EA are going to visit every livestock farm in the country within the next 5 years ( that is their target ) to enforce the new rules they have introduced.

And whilst they are doing this the water company's are being allowed with no comeback to dump raw sewage into the rivers/sea every time we get some heavy rain!

And in Exmouth for example they have dumped so much raw sewage in the sea this winter that for several weeks if you walked along the beach the water line was covered in human sh!t/ tampons/ condoms etc

We know how to do things in this country

 

[livestock 1]

Hoggs would be dearer in Ayr today. One buyer had 150 very fit wedder hoggs at 50kg sheared bare after the sale to go to grass for a month. He must know something.

Hope he’s right

 

[livestock 1]

Hoggs would be dearer in Ayr today. One buyer had 150 very fit wedder hoggs at 50kg sheared bare after the sale to go to grass for a month. He must know something.

It wasn’t the fat one off the telly I hope

 

[sheepwise]

It wasn’t the fat one off the telly I hope

JS

 

[livestock 1]

JS

Is he always right? Or just thinks he’s right?

 

[livestock 1]

Not much in life can be more annoying than coming in the house for a cup of tea put the telly on and it’s bloody Cuntrifile

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

That is very true about supermarkets!

But being on some NZ/AUS farming FB pages the sheep industry in many parts of each country is in dire straights, NZ doing welfare culls of both ewes and lambs and Aus farmers just digging large pits and shooting all the sheep they have due to the droughts/lack of forage etc and that is before you take into account all the productive NZ beef and sheep farms being snapped up by groups to plant the lot into trees to get the large payments for this net zero hoax!

So i cannot see either country having much lamb to export in 5 years time the way things are going for the poor farmers in each country !

I am not sure where you get your information about welfare culls in Australia and NZ but it is true that prices are now very low.
Interesting information from yesterdays sale in Bendigo.
The mutton price is very low at a max of £1.50 per kg. Compared to our price at the moment of nearer £4.50.
The very best lambs were around £3.65 compared to ours at £8.50!!


Report Date: 29th April 2024

Total Yarding: 17,035​

Commentary

Lamb supply lifted to 11,385 head as a full trading week resumed after Anzac Day. The make up of the yarding was fed weights showing plenty of weight, very few good trade lambs, and then plainer and light lambs. It influenced results with some much dearer sales of any neat trade lambs which went well over 700c/kg cwt at times, but there wasn’t enough of these higher sales to really boost the overall trend as plainer and woolly lambs were no dearer. The overall quote for good processing lambs was $2 to$8 stronger at 660c to 695c/kg cost averages to processors. Underneath this was the plainer trade types at less than 650c/kg cwt. Lighter weight lambs suiting MK ‘bag lamb’ orders were dearer amid reports air freight to key Middle East destinations has opened up again. Any well finished Merino lambs with shape were dearer, but plainer types were unchanged.

There was a reasonable run of lambs weighing above 30kg cwt and these sold from $200 to a top of $254, with most sales from $210 to $235/head at an estimated cost of 680c/kg cwt. The heavy 26-30kg cwt lamb sold from $170 to $218 and these category had some price spikes when domestic processors clashed on the best pens in the 26-28kg range for a ballpark average of 695c/kg cwt. General run of trade lambs including plainer types in untidy skins mostly $125 to $155/head. Light processing lambs in the 12-20kg cwt range from $90 to $119/head.

Similar number of sheep at 5650 head, but demand was weaker particularly across heavy mutton categories. Most sheep $8 to $12 cheaper, although some of the best lines of trade Merino ewes held firm. Extra large crossbred ewes to $117 but most sales were pegged under $100/head. Majority of sheep from $50 to $80 regardless of weight. The estimated mutton cost was 230c to 280c/kg cwt.

 

[Ceri]

It’s no wonder the price of lamb & mutton is so low in NZ & Aus, I wouldn’t fancy eating a kebab with wool in amongst the chilli sauce with those bloody Romney things - haven’t they worked it out yet, i thought they were meant to be world leading…..

 

[Top Tip.]

I am not sure where you get your information about welfare culls in Australia and NZ but it is true that prices are now very low.
Interesting information from yesterdays sale in Bendigo.
The mutton price is very low at a max of £1.50 per kg. Compared to our price at the moment of nearer £4.50.
The very best lambs were around £3.65 compared to ours at £8.50!!


Report Date: 29th April 2024

Total Yarding: 17,035​

Commentary

Lamb supply lifted to 11,385 head as a full trading week resumed after Anzac Day. The make up of the yarding was fed weights showing plenty of weight, very few good trade lambs, and then plainer and light lambs. It influenced results with some much dearer sales of any neat trade lambs which went well over 700c/kg cwt at times, but there wasn’t enough of these higher sales to really boost the overall trend as plainer and woolly lambs were no dearer. The overall quote for good processing lambs was $2 to$8 stronger at 660c to 695c/kg cost averages to processors. Underneath this was the plainer trade types at less than 650c/kg cwt. Lighter weight lambs suiting MK ‘bag lamb’ orders were dearer amid reports air freight to key Middle East destinations has opened up again. Any well finished Merino lambs with shape were dearer, but plainer types were unchanged.

There was a reasonable run of lambs weighing above 30kg cwt and these sold from $200 to a top of $254, with most sales from $210 to $235/head at an estimated cost of 680c/kg cwt. The heavy 26-30kg cwt lamb sold from $170 to $218 and these category had some price spikes when domestic processors clashed on the best pens in the 26-28kg range for a ballpark average of 695c/kg cwt. General run of trade lambs including plainer types in untidy skins mostly $125 to $155/head. Light processing lambs in the 12-20kg cwt range from $90 to $119/head.

Similar number of sheep at 5650 head, but demand was weaker particularly across heavy mutton categories. Most sheep $8 to $12 cheaper, although some of the best lines of trade Merino ewes held firm. Extra large crossbred ewes to $117 but most sales were pegged under $100/head. Majority of sheep from $50 to $80 regardless of weight. The estimated mutton cost was 230c to 280c/kg cwt.

I think the welfare culls have been fairly well publicised on social media, with one producer shown digging a hole for 3500 sheep.

 

[Jimdog1]

Hope he’s right

If you don't sell some soon you are going to wear those hoppers out!

 

[Hilly]

Well the weather is slighlty better , bad start to the day ,

 

[Gedd]

Well the weather is slighlty better , bad start to the day , View attachment 1179128

Same here only lamb last 2 in the adopter lamb laid dead this morning

 

[gone up the hill]

I am not sure where you get your information about welfare culls in Australia and NZ but it is true that prices are now very low.
Interesting information from yesterdays sale in Bendigo.
The mutton price is very low at a max of £1.50 per kg. Compared to our price at the moment of nearer £4.50.
The very best lambs were around £3.65 compared to ours at £8.50!!


Report Date: 29th April 2024

Total Yarding: 17,035​

Commentary

Lamb supply lifted to 11,385 head as a full trading week resumed after Anzac Day. The make up of the yarding was fed weights showing plenty of weight, very few good trade lambs, and then plainer and light lambs. It influenced results with some much dearer sales of any neat trade lambs which went well over 700c/kg cwt at times, but there wasn’t enough of these higher sales to really boost the overall trend as plainer and woolly lambs were no dearer. The overall quote for good processing lambs was $2 to$8 stronger at 660c to 695c/kg cost averages to processors. Underneath this was the plainer trade types at less than 650c/kg cwt. Lighter weight lambs suiting MK ‘bag lamb’ orders were dearer amid reports air freight to key Middle East destinations has opened up again. Any well finished Merino lambs with shape were dearer, but plainer types were unchanged.

There was a reasonable run of lambs weighing above 30kg cwt and these sold from $200 to a top of $254, with most sales from $210 to $235/head at an estimated cost of 680c/kg cwt. The heavy 26-30kg cwt lamb sold from $170 to $218 and these category had some price spikes when domestic processors clashed on the best pens in the 26-28kg range for a ballpark average of 695c/kg cwt. General run of trade lambs including plainer types in untidy skins mostly $125 to $155/head. Light processing lambs in the 12-20kg cwt range from $90 to $119/head.

Similar number of sheep at 5650 head, but demand was weaker particularly across heavy mutton categories. Most sheep $8 to $12 cheaper, although some of the best lines of trade Merino ewes held firm. Extra large crossbred ewes to $117 but most sales were pegged under $100/head. Majority of sheep from $50 to $80 regardless of weight. The estimated mutton cost was 230c to 280c/kg cwt.

It is all over SM/ the news outlets over that side of the world about the culls/ farmers being forced to cull their stock due to drought/ lack of forage and very poor sheep prices.

 

[Doddsy]

I agree , i kept positive for what i felt was longer thsn most but im as sick of this sh!t as much as the next person .

Yup, finished lambing here nearly 4 weeks ago, was difficult getting them out the lambing shed at times, but thought I'd dodged the worst of it, but most of March and the first 3 weeks of April were relentlessly wet and cold. Now riddled with orf this year out of nowhere, lambs have it, ewes have it on teets which is leading to mastitis. It's an effort even getting on the bike in the morning to go round things, never seen so many poor looking lambs at a time of year when normally it gives you a lift looking at them flourishing. Utterly demoralising.

 

[som farmer]

Not much in life can be more annoying than coming in the house for a cup of tea put the telly on and it’s bloody Cuntrifile

refuse to watch it. Its full of crap, but presumably has a large non farming followers.

in fact the TV doesn't get a lot of use here, if its not repeats, its wokeness gone mad, with a few decent programmes in between.

the internet provides unbiased news, and an unlimited amount of subjects, that you actually want to watch.

 

[Jimdog1]

Yup, finished lambing here nearly 4 weeks ago, was difficult getting them out the lambing shed at times, but thought I'd dodged the worst of it, but most of March and the first 3 weeks of April were relentlessly wet and cold. Now riddled with orf this year out of nowhere, lambs have it, ewes have it on teets which is leading to mastitis. It's an effort even getting on the bike in the morning to go round things, never seen so many poor looking lambs at a time of year when normally it gives you a lift looking at them flourishing. Utterly demoralising.

That is grim for you. If its any consolation, I don't think anyone has had an easy time of it, be that north or south, early or late. Its been joint ill here.....