Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[LAMBCHOPS]

Irish Farmers Journal. No its just in Northern Ireland the minister of agriculture announced it this week

Why that is the drop affected all of UK of which Northern Ireland is part of where's out unions on this?

 

[gwi1890]

Are cull ewes selling well? Got 50 fence pushers doing my head in lleyn x welsh not the biggest but all fat due to beign escape artists! Thinking of weaning the lambs and sending the ewes off if selling well

 

[hendrebc]

Are cull ewes selling well? Got 50 fence pushers doing my head in lleyn x welsh not the biggest but all fat due to beign escape artists! Thinking of weaning the lambs and sending the ewes off if selling well

Good sale in ruthin on Tuesday got £89 for some lleyns. Qurbani at the end of the month get them gone.

 

[beefandsleep]

Any of you loose money finishing beef in the spring. I see farmers in Northern Ireland are getting compensation.

Who gets it? Store man or finisher?

 

[Hilly]

There’s a reason that ewes from all around the country and Ireland all end up at Longtown though

Because they have to drive through to get to Bentham ?

 

[livestock 1]

Are cull ewes selling well? Got 50 fence pushers doing my head in lleyn x welsh not the biggest but all fat due to beign escape artists! Thinking of weaning the lambs and sending the ewes off if selling well

They are still going up at the minute so don’t delay. Second or third week in July usually sees numbers increase and can effect price

 

[Woolless]

Why don’t they take smaller profits

Because they're greedy, horrible barstewards and will gouge their suppliers' eyes out and still keep them waiting weeks for the derisory amount they do decide to pay

Disappointed with @livestock 1 's comment about Aldi stocking Kiwi lamb. That's a first, I think.

 

[Poorbuthappy]

Because they're greedy, horrible barstewards and will gouge their suppliers' eyes out and still keep them waiting weeks for the derisory amount they do decide to pay

Disappointed with @livestock 1 's comment about Aldi stocking Kiwi lamb. That's a first, I think.

Odd time to do it too. Lamb price, though strong, not at the peak it was, and plenty of numbers coming out.

 

[livestock 1]

It was lamb chops. To be fair there was British lamb chops next to them and they were noticeably better. Often in Tesco or Asda when they stock nz lamb or Sainsbury’s there’s no British. That’s why Mrs has decided she won’t go there. Ever!

 

[Farmer1001]

Odd time to do it too. Lamb price, though strong, not at the peak it was, and plenty of numbers coming out.

Not odd at all, possibly meant for China and then Covid kicked in so I loaded to anyone at a discount. Not normal times so not likely to see it repeated unless they change their normal policy.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Because they have to drive through to get to Bentham ?

Brilliant! ???

 

[livestock 1]

Because they have to drive through to get to Bentham ?

How do they get over the river?

 

[Hilly]

How do they get over the river?

Down the 3 lane bypass ?

 

[livestock 1]

Down the 3 lane bypass ?

That’s not through Longtown then is it

 

[gone up the hill]

Well didnt realise this morning but neighbour was loading something early, presumed fat lambs, but was an arctic i think though job to see from my farm. Then saw brother and sister comment so phoned him up and i know he did send stores today though he didnt actually say where to. I asked if he planned on selling rest as stores or fattening the rest and he said he was unsure as whilst pleased with the trade he had hoped for just a pound or two more....?

They had a very good trade for those lambs, these store prices wont hold for long!

The tide has gone out for store cattle now and if you haven't already sold you have most likely missed the boat as trade/demand has seriously dropped the last few days for both grazing store cattle and stirks, only very near to walking down the long line cattle are holding their values but that is unlikely to hold for long with what I was being told yesterday!

 

[livestock 1]

They had a very good trade for those lambs, these store prices wont hold for long!

The tide has gone out for store cattle now and if you haven't already sold you have most likely missed the boat as trade/demand has seriously dropped the last few days for both grazing store cattle and stirks, only very near to walking down the long line cattle are holding their values but that is unlikely to hold for long with what I was being told yesterday!

Why do you think the store cattle will drop?

 

[gone up the hill]

Why do you think the store cattle will drop?

They already have down here this week, Stirks would have been £50/60 head cheaper on Friday and yesterday they just got cheaper and cheaper as the sale went on, ended up about £80/100 down on the last few weeks trade!

Chillers are apparently full, demand is slowing and there is a lot of concern about what Boris will do next, a lot are concerned he will at a whim just close down the pub/café/ resturants again because he can/ feels like it so only want enough meat in stock that they can shift on within a few days.

Look at the furlough scheme they are changing the rules after the event and any company that doesn't keep staff on when the scheme ends will have to repay all the money they claimed even if they have no work for their staff/still not allowed to open come Nov onwards. you just don't know what they are going to do next!

 

[Shebb90]

Think cows still going fairly quick, pretty sure dad booked some at start off week and they were lifted for kill yesterday.

I think the big supermarkets have probably put up a resistance to the price rise of clean, Tesco/Asda seem to have switched to Irish (which is probably partially polish) I can’t fathom out how even Morrison’s is selling scotch beef mince at £3.20/kg. Why they feel the need to sell something that should be £6 at least for £3.20 I don’t know. Other than it pulls folk away from the local butcher/farm shop.

The other thing I think we can all be pretty sure of now is that in general the food service sector is much more of an enemy to us than we realised. Virtually all they use is cheapest cost imported.

The lift in prices has been brought about by increased demand for uk stuff. If the food service sector had been using uk beef we wouldn’t have seen any price rise as there would have been plenty around.


We need the public to be as patriotic when it comes to eating out as they have been when buying in the supermarkets

They had a very good trade for those lambs, these store prices wont hold for long!

The tide has gone out for store cattle now and if you haven't already sold you have most likely missed the boat as trade/demand has seriously dropped the last few days for both grazing store cattle and stirks, only very near to walking down the long line cattle are holding their values but that is unlikely to hold for long with what I was being told yesterday!

Trade back yesterday was it

 

[livestock 1]

They already have down here this week, Stirks would have been £50/60 head cheaper on Friday and yesterday they just got cheaper and cheaper as the sale went on, ended up about £80/100 down on the last few weeks trade!

Chillers are apparently full, demand is slowing and there is a lot of concern about what Boris will do next, a lot are concerned he will at a whim just close down the pub/café/ resturants again because he can/ feels like it so only want enough meat in stock that they can shift on within a few days.

Look at the furlough scheme they are changing the rules after the event and any company that doesn't keep staff on when the scheme ends will have to repay all the money they claimed even if they have no work for their staff/still not allowed to open come Nov onwards. you just don't know what they are going to do next!

Seems up here that when the price goes up everyone wants them but when the price drops no one does. You would think buying them when they are cheap would be the safest bet but no

 

[aangus]

I thought on Wednesday that there was some chancey cattle in the stirk sale