Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Mc115reed]

That's quite an accusation to make... You can watch your lambs weighed at auction. You can honestly tell me that some abattoirs won't fix their scale or alter the trim spec to suit them??

I regular draft my lambs in the morning before market and even have my scales set back 2kg and still seem too always be 2kg per lamb less than they were 2 hours ago at home when I get to market... but atleast iv seen the weights at market rather than just hoping the abattoir is honest ... could send the best of the best lambs there and they could still tell me they had too trim half of it off

 

[andybk]

Will you think about taking a double cut of old ewe’s as well, we culled hard last year but recon I could be even harder next year, then if lambs do dip in august would have the opportunity to retain a few more making the flock younger

yes been doing that for a few years now , been replacing 25% or so for last 4 years to get flock younger and get the milking ability back in my chars from the imported rams i bought specifically for that purpose (top 2% terminal index sires , top 2% index milking dams ) , Biggest cull of ewes is after their first weaning (august) when they have reared in march - april without lambs getting creep .
Zwarts have done same except all went wrong last year when both stock rams were infertile (swapped between groups no raddle as it doesnt work on black wool ) and all returned to char lambed may .Bright side is i have good group (40+ ) of heavy fat x hoggs to go and no teeth issues to worry about on a rising market . roll on easter lol

 

[Old Tip]

I regular draft my lambs in the morning before market and even have my scales set back 2kg and still seem too always be 2kg per lamb less than they were 2 hours ago at home when I get to market... but atleast iv seen the weights at market rather than just hoping the abattoir is honest ... could send the best of the best lambs there and they could still tell me they had too trim half of it off

True, but @Anymulewilldo was comparing prices which is almost impossible when as you say markets are knocking 2 to 4kg of your lambs. I sell both live and dead depending on the trade, I know which markets I get a straight weight from and which I don’t. At the moment dead weight is ahead of live except for the very best lambs, I sell to Kepak and to a local butcher. The ones to the butcher kill out at 50% or above from home weights. Kepak is less but would be better than 50% of some market weights. Sent some 36kg Cheviot tup lambs in this week straight off grass and averaged £75 a head. I can’t see them making that in the live ring at the moment but by spring I may be back in the live

 

[Kip]

Lambs £5.00 next week Scotbeef

 

[z.man]

Lambs £5.00 next week Scotbeef

£5.00 + 10ppk or £4.90 +10ppk cheers

 

[Leyland255]

Dunbia Wales lambs £4.80

 

[Poorbuthappy]

Dunbia Wales lambs £4.80

Does that Inc a Welsh bonus?

 

[LAMBCHOPS]

True, but @Anymulewilldo was comparing prices which is almost impossible when as you say markets are knocking 2 to 4kg of your lambs. I sell both live and dead depending on the trade, I know which markets I get a straight weight from and which I don’t. At the moment dead weight is ahead of live except for the very best lambs, I sell to Kepak and to a local butcher. The ones to the butcher kill out at 50% or above from home weights. Kepak is less but would be better than 50% of some market weights. Sent some 36kg Cheviot tup lambs in this week straight off grass and averaged £75 a head. I can’t see them making that in the live ring at the moment but by spring I may be back in the live

Best lambs if graded well on dead you have a job to beat although i do not have beltex/tex. Charx last 150 done E and Us mainly other end of scale botton Welsh ,Speckle, Mule Cross long tailed horned tup lambs doing a £100 -- much better than the live . Two different scenarios.

 

[muleman]

Think the live/dead comparison is becoming increasingly hard to quantify now....most of the better quality lambs go into the auctions now which creates a high sale average/sale report. The plainer lambs go deadweight....but if these same lambs went live it would pull the auction average down, thats what ive found anyways

 

[1982]

Dunbia Wales lambs £4.80

Do you know much rpf are next week?

 

[Shebb90]

St merryn Monday 4.85

 

[bluepower]

St merryn Monday 4.85

ABP £4.85 Monday as well.

 

[Shebb90]

ABP £4.85 Monday as well.

What was they this week?

 

[copse]

Do you know much rpf are next week?

£4.80

 

[cattleman123]

Anyone get to Exeter Today...just wondering what the store Hogs were like...hoping to get to Sedgemoor tomorrow to pick up a few...my Budget is around 70/75 quid... Hopeful …?

 

[Jerry]

Anyone get to Exeter Today...just wondering what the store Hogs were like...hoping to get to Sedgemoor tomorrow to pick up a few...my Budget is around 70/75 quid... Hopeful …?

I arrived late but people were saying stand on it a touch easier than last week.

couples very good trade what I saw. Top was £250 for 6th Texal doubles.

 

[casper74]

Thirsk fat cattle were a good trade yesterday, plenty of buyers looking for cattle, Hogg trade was on fire, I ave £109 for 47kg txl out of mules nothing fancy. Thirsk seems the place to sell hoggs at the moment.
Cockermouth store cattle have been a good trade, small stuff still very very dear, bigger 450-500kg maybe not as dear as they have been, but still a decent price.

 

[jendan]

At £5.10 it must of been Harrods

Are you not tempted to get some away? Darlo at 220p yesterday,and Longtown 227p. It could backfire by April if China pull the drawbridge up.There are rumours from kiwi land.

 

[george 600]

Any beef prices for next week.
Woodheads up 3p

 

[z.man]

Scotbeef stand on for beef and as kip said lambs £5 +10ppk in spec