Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Ladybird]

We tested Thame and Cirencester last week.
Thame trade strongest by some way
Thame
Suffolk heavys 50.5 kg £93.5
Texels 44kg £90

Cirencester
Continental 46 kg £76
44kg £80

Absolute pee take.

 

[kfpben]

We tested Thame and Cirencester last week.
Thame trade strongest by some way
Thame
Suffolk heavys 50.5 kg £93.5
Texels 44kg £90

Cirencester
Continental 46 kg £76
44kg £80

Absolute pee take.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that has found Cirencester to be a pee take recently! I had some very well fleshed 58kgs just before Christmas go for £80. At Ashford a few days later I reckon they would have gone for £110+

 

[Estate fencing.]

Cirencester must be one of the worst markets for lambs. Plus they take off 4kg. I had some lambs in a couple of years ago that couldn’t get to £70, so I took them home and put them dead weight and they made £78. I live a couple of miles away and haven’t sold lambs in Cirencester for two years.

 

[Ladybird]

I'm glad I'm not the only one that has found Cirencester to be a pee take recently! I had some very well fleshed 58kgs just before Christmas go for £80. At Ashford a few days later I reckon they would have gone for £110+

Have you been to ashford?

 

[kfpben]

Have you been to ashford?

Yes, between Christmas and New Year. Very impressed. Shame it's so far away. I will sell my mob of lambs currently on roots there.
I usually sell my home bred lambs at Salisbury which is just about ok but not the best- at least the auctioneer always asks if you are happy to sell them and if not you can take them home. There's usually 4-6 buyers for finished lambs there. A few more for stores.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Cirencester must be one of the worst markets for lambs. Plus they take off 4kg. I had some lambs in a couple of years ago that couldn’t get to £70, so I took them home and put them dead weight and they made £78. I live a couple of miles away and haven’t sold lambs in Cirencester for two years.

Spoke to a local sheep farmer last week who called it Terry’s collection centre

It’s certainly a buyers market...

 

[Estate fencing.]

The problem is if terry doesn’t go for a month the market will shut because he is the only one that really buys there, he knows it and so does voyce.

 

[cattleman123]

The problem is if terry doesn’t go for a month the market will shut because he is the only one that really buys there, he knows it and so does voyce.

Wants a new buyer to turn up.....why don't they if they are so cheap...I will come up but I expect the credit terms are tight...makes a big difference as to how many buyers a market gets

 

[yellowbelly]

Prices ?

Our best pen (Texel x) 46kg.... £95
Averaged £93

Culls...... £74 (Mules), £98 (Texel), £60 (Scotch Halfbred)

 

[jendan]

Our best pen (Texel x) 46kg.... £95
Averaged £93

Culls...... £74 (Mules), £98 (Texel), £60 (Scotch Halfbred)

Where do you get your Half Breds from?

 

[yellowbelly]

Where do you get your Half Breds from?

I think they came from St Boswells originally. I bought them as shearlings off a local chap who goes up there for running lambs every year.
That's the last of them gone now - they've lasted well 'cos dad was with me when I bought them, well before he died, and he's been dead eight years now.

 

[jendan]

I think they came from St Boswells originally. I bought them as shearlings off a local chap who goes up there for running lambs every year.
That's the last of them gone now - they've lasted well 'cos dad was with me when I bought them, well before he died, and he's been dead eight years now.

I used to go with my father to St Boswells to buy some,but hes been gone 11 years now.Half Breds are getting less and less,but i still think they are great sheep.Just cant afford them anymore,even running lambs were still £100+ last September.So just had to make do with some mule runners at £60,and gimmers at £88.Nice sizey sheep.

 

[MJT]

Any suggestions on best place to send swale and blackie lambs deadweight ? And what % they kill out at ?

 

[pine_guy]

Any suggestions on best place to send swale and blackie lambs deadweight ? And what % they kill out at ?

Where are you based, is there still a premium scheme for them at Dunbia if they are from the borders/ northern England?

 

[MJT]

Where are you based, is there still a premium scheme for them at Dunbia if they are from the borders/ northern England?

South Wales , they’d have northern ear tags in though.

 

[pine_guy]

South Wales , they’d have northern ear tags in though.

http://www.scottish-blackface.co.uk/blackface-sheep-news.cfm?NewsID=278&CurrentYear=2013

Have to speak to an agent. Google putting nothing recent up

 

[joshp217]

Any suggestions on best place to send swale and blackie lambs deadweight ? And what % they kill out at ?

RPF

 

[Sheep135]

Any suggestions on best place to send swale and blackie lambs deadweight ? And what % they kill out at ?

What's weights are they?
Try Euro Quality lambs, they 're flat rate and also have jobs for small lambs.

 

[joshp217]

What's weights are they?
Try Euro Quality lambs, they 're flat rate and also have jobs for small lambs.

Are they flat rate just to 15 ?

 

[Stewartry hill]

Macintosh donald £3.61 In spec -5 and a good bit more of not