Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[harperfarmer]

Rugby's sqq was 247pence for springers. Definitely didn't want under 40kgs.

 

[Smith31]

Lower demand from the halal lads both here and abroad due to the eid festival last week.Will pick up again back end of this week or early next, numbers will be tight as a lot have cashed in early, so trade will pick up.

 

[cattleman123]

Shocking prime cattle trade at sedge today with massive falls across the board.

Sedgemoor have a good trade one week then it falls the next....its happens all the time...something does not fit right with me...its mainly dealers or farmers buying them and pitching them again...

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Sedgemoor have a good trade one week then it falls the next....its happens all the time...something does not fit right with me

Same as their store cattle trade...

 

[DB67]

Rugby's sqq was 247pence for springers. Definitely didn't want under 40kgs.

This time last year a hell of a lambs were being sold at 30-36kg as trade was good and light lambs were wanted. This year due to large number of hoggs light lambs are not wanted despite less lambs about! Scotbeef have increased bottom weight to 16kg aswell which indicates longer term demand for more weight (or should I say no light lambs). Could hinder hill boys who sell tup lambs early.

 

[gone up the hill]

They had NSL penned up outside in the cull lines though I’m surprised it was record entry. Mind you I left as soon as mine went under the hammer.

It is for several years at least according to the auctioneer.

 

[gone up the hill]

Same as their store cattle trade...

Store cattle trade is being affected by the dry weather and concerns over lack of silage/ straw price etc etc.

If we have some decent rain the store price would jump much higher ( as it did the other week when we had a fair bit of rain and grass/ crops started motoring on for a few days but then the dry weather came back, grass growth etc has fallen off a cliff and store prices have dropped back again )

 

[harperfarmer]

Store cattle trade is being affected by the dry weather and concerns over lack of silage/ straw price etc etc.

If we have some decent rain the store price would jump much higher ( as it did the other week when we had a fair bit of rain and grass/ crops started motoring on for a few days but then the dry weather came back, grass growth etc has fallen off a cliff and store prices have dropped back again )

I could understand them going up and down by £20-30/head but why would anyone choose to sell stores at a place where they could be £100/head wrong purely because of last week's rainfall!?

 

[beefandsleep]

Lack of rain or grass didn’t seem to effect store prices at Welshpool yesterday. Quite a disappointing entry and not many of the cattle had even been out.

 

[Full of bull(s)]

I could understand them going up and down by £20-30/head but why would anyone choose to sell stores at a place where they could be £100/head wrong purely because of last week's rainfall!?

There isn’t much choice is the answer. The number of store markets that have closed since foot and mouth being absorbed into a few large sales centres like Sedgemoor makes it this way. Saying that going back 30/40 years what seems like a huge market now with say 800/1000 stores, was just an average market. How times change

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Lack of rain or grass didn’t seem to effect store prices at Welshpool yesterday. Quite a disappointing entry and not many of the cattle had even been out.

Not been out yet?!

 

[beefandsleep]

Not been out yet?!

No, scarcely believable isn’t it?
Keeping cattle in feeding them silage and corn so you can make more silage....

 

[kps]

No, scarcely believable isn’t it?
Keeping cattle in feeding them silage and corn so you can make more silage....

There seemed a fair lot in bakewell that hadn't been out i was surprised

 

[pine_guy]

No, scarcely believable isn’t it?
Keeping cattle in feeding them silage and corn so you can make more silage....

Probably a dairy farmer had one telling me the other day how his zero grazing neighbour was nuts as carting that grass in was so expensive and it was far cheaper to make silage

 

[Northeastfarmer]

No, scarcely believable isn’t it?
Keeping cattle in feeding them silage and corn so you can make more silage....

Insanity....apart from large short keep finishing cattle I despise seeing cattle kept indoors in summer...paints such a bad light on farming

 

[Jerry]

It is for several years at least according to the auctioneer.

4 years by the looks of it. Mine did well going by market report.

 

[Farmer1001]

Insanity....apart from large short keep finishing cattle I despise seeing cattle kept indoors in summer...paints such a bad light on farming

Don't say that on a dairy forum.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Don't say that on a dairy forum.

I don’t give a sh!t I’ll say it to any of them

 

[crazy_bull]

How are lambs doing this week?

Thinking of drawing at 40kg or are they wanting heavier?

C B

 

[hendrebc]

How are lambs doing this week?

Thinking of drawing at 40kg or are they wanting heavier?

C B

Heavier the better from what i saw on tuesday. Anything over 40kg sold ok light lambs were pretty poor i thought