Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
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Went to Lockerbie Hill Cheviot sale today, ewes and shearlings we’re back a bit and I would say a quarter of the shearlings would go home, lambs sold well though on the current trade. Dealers seemed to have a top price of round the eighty pound mark for everything no matter what age. Sheep looked in very good order and I can only assume a lot hadn’t sucked lambs as they were as fit as I’ve ever seen them. Tips set off well but I bought the second one in and headed for home as I am now on a train heading for London and didn’t want to miss it.
Also brought fifteen shearlings home @50/head, felt sorry for the poor bloke when they dropped to forty to get a start and ended up with them. He sold the rest for £48, not bad sheep either and obviously had a hard summer. I will let you know if they are a bargain in the spring
Also brought fifteen shearlings home @50/head, felt sorry for the poor bloke when they dropped to forty to get a start and ended up with them. He sold the rest for £48, not bad sheep either and obviously had a hard summer. I will let you know if they are a bargain in the spring
smallholder99
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the wealthiest 1% evade over £400million a day in tax for a start but we dont hear about it because they own or control our mainstream media
beltextexel
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We bought 4 tups in the first 1/5 of the sale as we wanted to get away and thought they were very dear. Thought you needed £800 for the better end of commercial tups. Is that similar to other years?
Benr
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- North Devon
Had 8 fat cattle booked in with Dunbia last week and was told they didn’t want them until this week, now just been told may be next week....
Wealthiest 1% will always find a way to evade tax
Northeastfarmer
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- Cleveland
Whats up with them...
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- leicestershire
I'd tell them your sending them elsewhere.
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- West Wales
gone up the hill
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- Devon
Really?? because when that is the case most liveweight prices drop like a stone yet cull cows/ fat cattle are selling like hot cakes on a snowy day in markets this week and if anything trade is up on last week for both classes of stock like for like.
Sheep135
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Fat lambs were a bit sharper than last week, never saw store lambs but told they were dearer than last week. Cull ewes started slow but were a pretty good trade for the numbers around and ethnics not wanting them. Breeders were a mixed trade but there was a poor show of yearlings about that should of been killed in the spring which will have dragged the average down.
pine_guy
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- North Cumbria
I’ve had similar info. Just a lot coming forward. I have a dozen booked in for next week. Couldn’t move them this week and some will have had a birthday
gone up the hill
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- Devon
You have only recently started sending cattle to them or not??
Northeastfarmer
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- Cleveland
They usually use this old chestnut when they don’t want the price going up or they want to bring it down
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- West Wales
Someone said it on here the last few days? Some people are still clearing out ready for winter as they’ve realised their still short of food?
beltextexel
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- Scorton, North Yorkshire
Nearly 3500 lambs in Kirkby last night. Plenty of lambs getting killed at the moment.
gone up the hill
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- Devon
Like lambs, these animals are store and not finished so should be placed in the store ring and not the fat ring.
I thought they were dearer than usual, guess it’s the old adage “cheap ewes, dear tips”
You would get two very good tips for the same as you paid for one at Dingwall but it’s a long treck and late in the season.
I picked out ten tips on the first fifty and bought the second one on the ring, glad o did because my next choice made two grand and the other nine hundred, I paid five for mine and loaded up and scarpered.
Loading at Lockerbie is a bit of a nightmare once the ramps get full of wagons
You would get two very good tips for the same as you paid for one at Dingwall but it’s a long treck and late in the season.
I picked out ten tips on the first fifty and bought the second one on the ring, glad o did because my next choice made two grand and the other nine hundred, I paid five for mine and loaded up and scarpered.
Loading at Lockerbie is a bit of a nightmare once the ramps get full of wagons
It’s like everything in farming, a gamble, but I always tend to buy at the beginning or the end of a sale but the main thing is to buy what you want at a price you can afford rather than just bid because someone else is