Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[cattleman123]

I’ve no idea....it’s a p!ss take tbh...it’s been like that since foot and mouth

Iguess no 7 day standstill that's why...am I correct?

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Iguess no 7 day standstill that's why...am I correct?

You could well be correct....would interfere with buyers at the store sale

 

[FordFarmer]

I’ve no idea....it’s a p!ss take tbh...it’s been like that since foot and mouth

Does this mean the likes of woodheads can buy lambs out of the mart?
Believe only red markets can be used by them and sure others r the same

Mite slightly explain y northern marts are usually dearer than sw

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Does this mean the likes of woodheads can buy lambs out of the mart?
Believe only red markets can be used by them and sure others r the same

Mite slightly explain y northern marts are usually dearer than sw

Woodheads only buy lambs out of very few marts now. I don’t think it would matter to them if it was green or red as they’d kill them anyway

 

[Grassman]

Why do farmers insist on selling raw under finished hoggs in the prime Marts...it’s an absolute waste and they should be ashamed of themselves, sell them as stores and let someone make a proper job of them....they should be turned away from the fat mart if they aren’t finished properly

Our local market used to sort lambs and feel them all for condition. They would tell you if they thought they were under or over finished.
They don't touch them now rightly or wrongly.

 

[yellowbelly]

Didn't know that you had dedicated slaughter markets for sheep. What's the reason for that?

Sheep on the same day as TB restricted cattle have to be 'Red' too - here's the extract from Newark's Wednesday (Red market) conditions......

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Our local market used to sort lambs and feel them all for condition. They would tell you if they thought they were under or over finished.
They don't touch them now rightly or wrongly.

Well if you can’t handle and draw lambs then you shouldn’t be finishing them

 

[sherg]

Our local market used to sort lambs and feel them all for condition. They would tell you if they thought they were under or over finished.
They don't touch them now rightly or wrongly.

They're not graded?

 

[Grassman]

They're not graded?

Just into groups of larger or smaller looking animals.

 

[sherg]

Just into groups of larger or smaller looking animals.

I thought every market had a grader you learn something new every day

 

[sheepwise]

I thought every market had a grader you learn something new every day

No graders up here.

 

[Henarar]

Hoggs £2.30 /kg at honiton

 

[Splitpin]

Hoggs £2.30 /kg at honiton

Crafty moving to weds this week I thought

 

[sherg]

No graders up here.

Wouldn't your lambs be sold through a ring as well, so the buyers wouldn't be able to handle any lambs?

 

[Northeastfarmer]

No graders up here either

 

[Henarar]

Crafty moving to weds this week I thought

the price is better than I thought it would be though

 

[yellowbelly]

Wouldn't your lambs be sold through a ring as well, so the buyers wouldn't be able to handle any lambs?

No graders here.
Newark - draw 'em how you like or they will draw 'em/ help you to draw 'em.
Selby - have a good man who likes to draw 'em as how he thinks it will suit their buyers.

Both sold in pens so buyers can handle them if they want - always surprises me how many buyers never touch them.

 

[sherg]

No graders here.
Newark - draw 'em how you like or they will draw 'em/ help you to draw 'em.
Selby - have a good man who likes to draw 'em as how he thinks it will suit their buyers.

Both sold in pens so buyers can handle them if they want - always surprises me how many buyers never touch them.

Everything is in pens around here and graded I just presumed it was the same in every market, I always thought they were mlc graders years ago and its just carried on

 

[neilo]

I was told Welshpool hoggs averaged 235p/kg across everything, so only really back to where it was a fortnight ago, which we all thought was fantastic.

I had a couple of Springers in, which made £130 for 42kg (so similar to last week), some 59kg ram hoggs, which made £132.50 and a cull ram that made £128.

Still sat on my last 30 hoggs, but probably take them next week if I can get the trailer anywhere near their block of land to get them back.

 

[Jim75]

Slightly pessimistic this morning drawing a few more going to dingwall after last weeks bonanza prices. £110 for 42.5kg so above what I was expecting