Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

johnspeehs

Member
Location
Co Antrim
Store cattle trade has shifted up another gear and is 15-20ppk up on last month. Its long overdue for us breeding men who have been under the cosh , if prices hold until the autumn sales we might just carry on with the sucklers after all !

Yes the usual doom and gloom merchants who told those of us with cattle to sell that we had missed the boat got it wrong again. Baby calves in local mart were the best trade i'v ever seen. Saw a run of month to six week old AA calves make £450, £460 £470, unreal.
 

Werzle

Member
Location
Midlands
Yes the usual doom and gloom merchants who told those of us with cattle to sell that we had missed the boat got it wrong again. Baby calves in local mart were the best trade i'v ever seen. Saw a run of month to six week old AA calves make £450, £460 £470, unreal.
Sucklerbred inspec steers/bulls nr 400kg are £1000+ all day long now. 330kg hfrs in hereford yesterday £900+
 

casper74

Member
Location
North Yorkshire
Thirsk Market Weekly Primestock Sale – Thursday 16th July 2020 - FULL REPORT
125 Prime Heifers to 274.5ppk (£1752.60) average 236.7ppk
51 Prime Steers to 249.5ppk (£1679.62) average 229.23ppk
127 Prime Young Bulls to 228.5ppk (£1696.23) average 190.77ppk
26 Prime Cull Cattle to 191.5ppk (£1559.46) average 144.26ppk
1706 Prime Lambs to 299 (£130.00) average 229.42ppk
392 Culls Ewes sold to £120 average £72.90
13 Rams to £128 average £89.54
14 Prime Pigs to 121ppk (£95) average 116.27ppk
39 Sows & Boars to 39ppk (£122.40) average 32.45ppk
Prime Cattle – We thought we had seen the tops last week, but hold the front page – this week was even more incredible with 125 heifers averaging 236.7 and 51 steers averaging 229.23; 79 cattle selling for 240ppk and above (64 heifers and 15 steers) what more can be said.
 

Hfd Cattle

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Hereford
Sucklerbred inspec steers/bulls nr 400kg are £1000+ all day long now. 330kg hfrs in hereford yesterday £900+
It wasn't only the sucker bred stuff . Some of the dairy stuff was big money for what they were . Trade needs to hold up into the Autumn though . Interestingly only the good cows and calves sold well ,anything not up to spec wasn't sold.
 

Werzle

Member
Location
Midlands
It wasn't only the sucker bred stuff . Some of the dairy stuff was big money for what they were . Trade needs to hold up into the Autumn though . Interestingly only the good cows and calves sold well ,anything not up to spec wasn't sold.
Unless they can be split and culled by the main men what sucklermen want to buy or been seen to buy the also rans. I always ask myself why they are being sold
 

Werzle

Member
Location
Midlands
Beef job in america and south america is in a right mess, slaughterhouses and meat packing plants are rife with the virus and spreading it to the wider population while cattle are backed up and going over-fat on ranches and feedlots. No sign of it improving either
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 77 43.0%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 62 34.6%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 16.8%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.7%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.7%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 4 2.2%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

  • 1,286
  • 1
As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
Top