Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[gone up the hill]

Got a phone call this morning from abattoir asking for extra cattle next week. Asked them to make it worth my while and they certainly obliged.Very short of Scotch cattle for next 2 weeks.

I thought last week they had a 3 week waiting list?.......................................................

 

[sheepwise]

I thought last week they had a 3 week waiting list?.......................................................

Never been any waiting list that I know of.

 

[neilo]

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You did well then.I struggled to get that for 43s at Carlisle on monday,and i thought they were quite good quality Tex lambs.

I'm certainly feeling less guilty about sending a load dw again last Monday now. They were mostly 40-41kg, a handful (Beltex X) that were 'fit enough' at 39kg I thought, and a couple of ugly, maternal crosses that I thought would be better dw (the two that came back as O's I suspect). Those weights were straight out of the field and full of grass, a mix of Charolais X, NZ Texel X, Highlander X and Beltex X, mostly out of Highlander ewes & hoggs.
They came back as an average of £72.68 (av 18.1kg @400p/kg). They wouldn't have got close to that in the market that day.

I'm ashamed to say, I'm rapidly becoming a convert.

 

[glensman]

I'm certainly feeling less guilty about sending a load dw again last Monday now. They were mostly 40-41kg, a handful (Beltex X) that were 'fit enough' at 39kg I thought, and a couple of ugly, maternal crosses that I thought would be better dw (the two that came back as O's I suspect). Those weights were straight out of the field and full of grass, a mix of Charolais X, NZ Texel X, Highlander X and Beltex X, mostly out of Highlander ewes & hoggs.
They came back as an average of £72.68 (av 18.1kg @400p/kg). They wouldn't have got close to that in the market that day.

I'm ashamed to say, I'm rapidly becoming a convert.

I must say I have been surprised to read in the past that you have been selling lambs around the 40 kilo mark in the live market, with the quality and muscling your lambs will have you will always do better dead for that weight. Heavy lambs are a different matter.

 

[Poorbuthappy]

I'm certainly feeling less guilty about sending a load dw again last Monday now. They were mostly 40-41kg, a handful (Beltex X) that were 'fit enough' at 39kg I thought, and a couple of ugly, maternal crosses that I thought would be better dw (the two that came back as O's I suspect). Those weights were straight out of the field and full of grass, a mix of Charolais X, NZ Texel X, Highlander X and Beltex X, mostly out of Highlander ewes & hoggs.
They came back as an average of £72.68 (av 18.1kg @400p/kg). They wouldn't have got close to that in the market that day.

I'm ashamed to say, I'm rapidly becoming a convert.

Where do you go dw Neil?

 

[neilo]

I must say I have been surprised to read in the past that you have been selling lambs around the 40 kilo mark in the live market, with the quality and muscling your lambs will have you will always do better dead for that weight. Heavy lambs are a different matter.

Breeding my own replacements, I have a fair ruck of maternal whethers to sell every year too, not just terminal sire crosses. Most of the ewes are minimal input Highlanders, so I was surprised at how well the grades have been coming back.

 

[neilo]

Where do you go dw Neil?

All gone to Randall Parker so far, via a local haulier.

About done for the year now though.

 

[Lovegoodstock]

Good on folk if they have a local mart that will have butcher buyers to bid on and on for a real flash butcher lamb, but I don't really, especially as I don't creep my lambs wouldn't be that stamp of lamb, yet large majority of mine are e grades then u with maybe 15% r. I don't buy dear tups, or have 3/4 bred ewes or like, just wondering where last couple of years demand for texel cross ewes is coming from

 

[MM01]

What is uk meat plants paying this week

 

[Northeastfarmer]

What is uk meat plants paying this week

£3.75

 

[Victor]

£3.75

Hope that's beef and not lamb

 

[MM01]

£3.75

Sorry for beef

 

[hendrebc]

£3.75 sounds about right for beef. Havent had any proper quotes though

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Sorry for beef

I mean beef

 

[DB67]

Hope that's beef and not lamb

Lamb has been 370 odd for a while

 

[haymaker80]

Anyone know what abp ellesmere are on this week for steers?

 

[Old Tip]

Lamb has been 370 odd for a while

£4.05 at St Merryn this week

 

[MOG]

Was 415 on Tuesday this week in Merthyr for the Welsh Finest but I believe that is finishing soon. so be back to 405.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Cattle would be down 10p today

Only housed them on Friday so not too bad

 

[pine_guy]

Cattle would be down 10p today

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Only housed them on Friday so not too bad

What are the of takes live? Go on, slide your thumb down and show us. Whatever they are, still be a nice check

P.S. The mrs says wash your finger nail