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Shebb90

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Location
Devon
I’m still right though.

Half of them were dead before anyone started selling any!!!!

Only a percentage of ewes actually made it to lambing time never mind rearing a lamb
People won’t stop eating lamb because of the b word
True but if they can use it to get the price down they will even if it just for a while.
And there is them few inlamb gimmers that were killed in March and April

Throw that rubbish away probably dreamt up by reliable AHDB anyway
People won’t stop eating lamb because of the b word
 

Sheep135

Member
Sedgemoor today.

Wow what a day for sellers in all rings.

Store cattle, a very short entry of only some 700 head with a much improved entry of cattle carrying more flesh/ size of late sold to a much improved trade of some £80/100 head for most animals.

Stirks,

A wonderfull entry of some 450/500 head of stirks again of a better quality across the board with many runs of super and well bred/ farmed suckler types coming thru the ring, ALL classes from the worst to the best sold at a much improved trade on the week and again as with the strong stores would be up £80/100 head, good well farmed dairyx angus ( N/S ) around the £475/525 head mark and plenty of suckler calves over £700 head to top out at just sigh of £1000 head.

Store lambs.

Wow, what a wonderfull wonderfull entry of lambs, apparently 3500 were penned up with many many runs of quality lambs in the pens, todays entry would without a shadow of a doubt would be the best quality entry for some years at the centre and trade as a result was the dearest since the epic markets last March, plenty of lambs £64/70 head, most lambs 40 kilos + would be on a par or above their value in the prime ring,very long keep lambs around the £50/53 mark, biggest crowd of buyers for some months and as a result buyers were saying trade was up£4/5 on the week.
I agree with it all except it was a good entry of cattle, I never came last week but they looked the poorest show of cattle I've ever seen at Sedgemoor with runs and runs of cattle non farm assured and poor types of older cattle.
 
Location
Devon
I agree with it all except it was a good entry of cattle, I never came last week but they looked the poorest show of cattle I've ever seen at Sedgemoor with runs and runs of cattle non farm assured and poor types of older cattle.

Yesterdays entry was far better than the previous few weeks but yep there was still plenty of very poor/ small/ old cattle etc like you say, quite clear that many cattle have had a very tough summer and needed feeding cake/ silage months ago.

Just because they are not assured doesn't make them poor cattle, more and more store sellers seem to be quitting FA, a few reasons for that I believe and some that are quitting the scheme are big suckler/ store cattle producers as well.
 

Henarar

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Somerset
Yesterdays entry was far better than the previous few weeks but yep there was still plenty of very poor/ small/ old cattle etc like you say, quite clear that many cattle have had a very tough summer and needed feeding cake/ silage months ago.

Just because they are not assured doesn't make them poor cattle, more and more store sellers seem to be quitting FA, a few reasons for that I believe and some that are quitting the scheme are big suckler/ store cattle producers as well.
I didn't see any cattle sold but Clare said they were cheap and lots of crap there, some so shitty they shouldn't have been there at all by the sounds of it,
I watched a few pens of lambs sold and thought they were down a bit on the week,
talking to a friend about FA and it seemed they were getting fed up with it, inspector being very petty apparently
no reason for us as store producers to be FA even less now we have found another outlet for barren cows with very little deduction for non FA.(y)
be a lot better if more store sellers did quit FA as it would send them a message and you are quite right about FA not making them better cattle, we had a random trading standards inspection a couple years ago and the chap said it was one of the best looking/cared for herds he had seen in a long while and I had done nothing different from normal for the inspection
 
Hell of a trade you had by the sounds of it, Bulled everything to Lim here this year, Hopefully improve things a bit

Thanks. Pleased with the trade really. I'm a big charolais fan but this was the first year that the lims really outsold the charolais. Our big chx steers were £100 back on the year but the smart kin heifers were up by £100-130. People around that ring want a smart finer boned beast it seems. This year everything in calf to a lim so we will see what happens next year!
 
Location
Cleveland
Thanks. Pleased with the trade really. I'm a big charolais fan but this was the first year that the lims really outsold the charolais. Our big chx steers were £100 back on the year but the smart kin heifers were up by £100-130. People around that ring want a smart finer boned beast it seems. This year everything in calf to a lim so we will see what happens next year!
Charalois don’t kill out like a lim
 

Shebb90

Member
Location
Devon
I don’t think there was 1 million of them though.
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I didn't see any cattle sold but Clare said they were cheap and lots of crap there, some so shitty they shouldn't have been there at all by the sounds of it,
I watched a few pens of lambs sold and thought they were down a bit on the week,
talking to a friend about FA and it seemed they were getting fed up with it, inspector being very petty apparently
no reason for us as store producers to be FA even less now we have found another outlet for barren cows with very little deduction for non FA.(y)
be a lot better if more store sellers did quit FA as it would send them a message and you are quite right about FA not making them better cattle, we had a random trading standards inspection a couple years ago and the chap said it was one of the best looking/cared for herds he had seen in a long while and I had done nothing different from normal for the inspection
Was that store lambs
 

andybk

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Mendips Somerset
Coming in? What happens if no deal? Might not be any lambs going out either!?

did you see the simon reeve program on the med ? there is a massive area (as big as a uk county) covered in plastic growing fruit and veg in spain for the supermarkets , do you really think that will be stopped ? lamb will be a tiny export compared to all that and all the cars etc , dont worry there will be some sort of deal on goods , their farmers / industry will be far worse off in a no deal situation. .
I'm more worried by a good spring (for price) and depletion of the national flock , I sell terminal rams and need an expanding market .
 

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