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Its not by accident that dw has become more popular and i agree with your sentiments but when you can make more dead than alive some days what are you to do. Had £9 a piece for 40 lambs recently brought back from live auction not sold and conversely sold lambs better on live one week than dead and overall we have to market the best we can as nobody pays my bills for me. Did sell 300 one week on live too as market had export!! which is what we want
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LAMBCHOPS

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It’s great you can bring stock back from the markets. We’ve done it ourselves. I’ve never brought them home from the abattoir. And the don’t give me back the the extra beef/ lamb that they don’t pay me for.
True neither have we or anybody but we have known what we are having b4 we leave the yard!!
 
We were warned time and again about the percentage of sheep going deadweight. Once they could source the majority of what they required then they would have control and pull down the price. I have nothing against anyone selling lambs deadweight and or for better returns at the same time. I have in the past sold many lambs deadweight mainly to ABP. My point is with the demise of auctions to some degree and lower numbers in auctions coming forward, at the same time more going deadweight and being backed up, I smell trouble. Auctions aren’t going to beat current deadweight prices at the moment when they have sourced their requirements direct. There are sheep bought to top numbers up at auction for the main few but a top up is all it amounts to. There’s a lot of complaining on here about current sheep values and rightly so, however the trend we are seeing is bad news.
The problem is, as we all know, is that the live ring is not all it's cracked up to be at times. Buyers with multiple accounts, turns being taken, faces pulled if lambs not 3/4 Texel and creep fed, small vendors shafted to help buyers, price volatility and so on.
 

muleman

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The problem is, as we all know, is that the live ring is not all it's cracked up to be at times. Buyers with multiple accounts, turns being taken, faces pulled if lambs not 3/4 Texel and creep fed, small vendors shafted to help buyers, price volatility and so on.
ive said it before...if the auction marts treated the vendors as fairly as the abattoirs do they would get the lot.
 
The problem is, as we all know, is that the live ring is not all it's cracked up to be at times. Buyers with multiple accounts, turns being taken, faces pulled if lambs not 3/4 Texel and creep fed, small vendors shafted to help buyers, price volatility and so on.
Agreed but a few pounds spent by the dw crew now will no doubt be a good investment for later if we end up with little or no auctions that’s for sure.
I’m not having a go at anyone selling deadweight, I just think I can see where we are heading.
There was a write up a couple of weeks back about livestock markets detiorating financial health not good
 
Agreed but a few pounds spent by the dw crew now will no doubt be a good investment for later if we end up with little or no auctions that’s for sure.
I’m not having a go at anyone selling deadweight, I just think I can see where we are heading.
There was a write up a couple of weeks back about livestock markets detiorating financial health not good
A major problem is ever-reducing number of meat processing companies. It's basically Dunbia and ABP dominated and then the rest.
 

LAMBCHOPS

Member
Agreed but a few pounds spent by the dw crew now will no doubt be a good investment for later if we end up with little or no auctions that’s for sure.
I’m not having a go at anyone selling deadweight, I just think I can see where we are heading.
There was a write up a couple of weeks back about livestock markets detiorating financial health not good
Auctioneers can be my finished stock agents happily and collected in markets if the price was decent. Buy a fleet of lorries to haul the fatstock , store stock has an abundance of purchasers
 

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