Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Northeastfarmer]

With the store trade today you would think that beef was £4/ kilo deadweight and not around £3.20!!

I know...my dad said plain arsed grazing bullocks were £940 yesterday

 

[aangus]

With the store trade today you would think that beef was £4/ kilo deadweight and not around £3.20!!

Umm I was thinking the same thing Tuesday Wednesday what the h-ll is going on? I really don't know what folk are thinking. Sold some fat Aax steers last week for £1150 and they were bought at £860 last July So it doesn't take a genius to work out the profit on them!!

 

[gone up the hill]

selling well were they ?
you get any bargains ?

Bid on about 60, didn't get one! crazy crazy money when you consider the fat price, I did hear today that one very large fhinsher is cutting right back due to the new grids/ weight limits that have come in as the store price means that there is nothing in it!

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Bid on about 60,

You must have arms like Popeyes

 

[gone up the hill]

I know...my dad said plain arsed grazing bullocks were £940 yesterday

Sedgemoor sat, 28/5/ 16

A short entry of around 750 forward store cattle which sold to a very dear trade to a ringside packed to the gunnels, cattle look very expensive compared to the fat price, and the narrower they are the dearer they get! many many pens of fri steers well into the £800s, as for heifers, some very well farmed ones present today with pen after pen making £900/ 1000 easily, as for the very large store cattle, trade was however a shade down, very pleasing to see several new vendors to the centre who were well rewarded for the very smart cattle they presented! overall thou trade would be up £50/ head easily on the week and with last week being up by at least the same amount now is the time to sell your stores as another 300/500 cattle could easily have been sold on the trade today with many purchasers going home with half loads and thus it would no doubt pay to cash in your 18 month old cattle and replace them with calves out of the calve ring!

Stirks, a very usefull entry of around 400 head of a mixed quality entry again sold to a much improved trade on the week to a packed ringside with well bred heifers seeing the largest jump of around £60 on the week, Fri steers looked a very dear trade and some made incredible prices for what they were, price of notes are some double muscled suckler breed steers smashing the £900 barrier, also a price of note was some smart dairy bred char steers around the 260 kilo weight that made £630/ head, also a char x heifer around the 300 kilo mark made £645..

With a lacklustre prime cattle trade it clearly makes sense to sell your cattle as stores thru the ringside, with grass growing at a rate of knots and many buyers yet to start silage/ harvest now is the time to bring the cattle to the ringside as the trade in the next few weeks will surely be the dearest of 2016.

 

[gone up the hill]

You must have arms like Popeyes

Well at least my coffee and bacon buttie was worth the drive

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Well at least my coffee and bacon buttie was worth the drive

You wanna be having a beef sandwich and helping the job out

 

[Old Tip]

You wanna be having a beef sandwich and helping the job out

I don't know, pig trades on it's arse

 

[Henarar]

so you think trade was up 100 quid on the fortnight then @gone up the hill

 

[gone up the hill]

so you think trade was up 100 quid on the fortnight then @gone up the hill

Easily if not more for some cattle ( esp in the store ring )

 

[gone up the hill]

You wanna be having a beef sandwich and helping the job out

Ha ha tell that to Derek Mead...

Who accidently is @Guy Smith's very good friend

 

[Northeastfarmer]

I don't know, pig trades on it's arse

I don't have pigs so need beef sandwich sales sky rocketing

 

[kps]

Bid on about 60, didn't get one! crazy crazy money when you consider the fat price, I did hear today that one very large fhinsher is cutting right back due to the new grids/ weight limits that have come in as the store price means that there is nothing in it!

An auctioneers dream bids on everything buys nothing!!

 

[gone up the hill]

An auctioneers dream bids on everything buys nothing!!

if they paid me a tenner a head for every one that I bid on but didn't buy it would have been a very profitable day

 

[Hampton]

if they paid me a tenner a head for every one that I bid on but didn't buy it would have been a very profitable day

At our local mart store sale last Friday bulls over 420kg (they were very good quality) were all making over £2 per kg some were up to 520kg, still making over £2/kg. I couldn't believe people were buying them at that, and it was big experienced finishers buying them, not people with grass fever.
Do they know something about the bull job I don't?

 

[gone up the hill]

At our local mart store sale last Friday bulls over 420kg (they were very good quality) were all making over £2 per kg some were up to 520kg, still making over £2/kg. I couldn't believe people were buying them at that, and it was big experienced finishers buying them, not people with grass fever.
Do they know something about the bull job I don't?

Well all I know is that suckler bred bulls are killing out/ grading better than they ever have done so at Foyles under the new grid they bought in a couple or so weeks ago!

 

[Hampton]

Well all I know is that suckler bred bulls are killing out/ grading better than they ever have done so at Foyles under the new grid they bought in a couple or so weeks ago!

Your own Bulls?

 

[gone up the hill]

Your own Bulls?

Mixture of bought in ones and home bred ones!

 

[jon115r]

Sedgemoor sat, 28/5/ 16

A short entry of around 750 forward store cattle which sold to a very dear trade to a ringside packed to the gunnels, cattle look very expensive compared to the fat price, and the narrower they are the dearer they get! many many pens of fri steers well into the £800s, as for heifers, some very well farmed ones present today with pen after pen making £900/ 1000 easily, as for the very large store cattle, trade was however a shade down, very pleasing to see several new vendors to the centre who were well rewarded for the very smart cattle they presented! overall thou trade would be up £50/ head easily on the week and with last week being up by at least the same amount now is the time to sell your stores as another 300/500 cattle could easily have been sold on the trade today with many purchasers going home with half loads and thus it would no doubt pay to cash in your 18 month old cattle and replace them with calves out of the calve ring!

Stirks, a very usefull entry of around 400 head of a mixed quality entry again sold to a much improved trade on the week to a packed ringside with well bred heifers seeing the largest jump of around £60 on the week, Fri steers looked a very dear trade and some made incredible prices for what they were, price of notes are some double muscled suckler breed steers smashing the £900 barrier, also a price of note was some smart dairy bred char steers around the 260 kilo weight that made £630/ head, also a char x heifer around the 300 kilo mark made £645..

With a lacklustre prime cattle trade it clearly makes sense to sell your cattle as stores thru the ringside, with grass growing at a rate of knots and many buyers yet to start silage/ harvest now is the time to bring the cattle to the ringside as the trade in the next few weeks will surely be the dearest of 2016.

Need to come down your way for a load smart lim heifers 300kg making £800 not hard to have your avarge up at 2,30 to to 2.50 a kilo up here in the north of Scotland

 

[gone up the hill]

Need to come down your way for a load smart lim heifers 300kg making £800 not hard to have your avarge up at 2,30 to to 2.50 a kilo up here in the north of Scotland

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