Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

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Devon
Anyone at sedge today store lamb trade? @gone up the hill

One hell of a store lamb trade today!

Small lambs would be up anything from £5 to £10 head on last week, the rest up £2 on the week, most of the small long keep lambs ( ie : Some that wont make the distance type lambs around 10/15 kilos weight ) would be anything from £59/68 head, the worse it was bred the better it was sold!

Also one hell of a store cattle trade, well up on last week and very dear for this time of year.

Stirks again a very solid trade and well up on the week, suckler cattle especially well up and looking very well sold on the week, trade for these type of Cattle V Exeter yesterday would be anything from £50/ to £100 head dearer today than at Exeter yesterday, esp for the top end suckler bred cattle.
 

Raider112

Member
I know nothing out of the farmers weekly can be taken as gospel but they seem to have deadweight averages well above what is reality. For example R4l deadweight steers 381. Is this bigger players getting higher prices, Scottish prices higher?
I've often wondered about the big fellas getting a better price but it's probably because they don't have an agent involved?
 

canam1

Member
I know nothing out of the farmers weekly can be taken as gospel but they seem to have deadweight averages well above what is reality. For example R4l deadweight steers 381. Is this bigger players getting higher prices, Scottish prices higher?
The Aberdeen Angus price is included in these as is all premium price cattle like shorthorn or Hereford schemes.
 
Aye I get that but I'm thinking that an agent will supply good numbers regularly so maybe gets the difference?
The few I know have no agents. They will supply cattle when asked. They can threaten to go elsewhere so have leverage. A lot of us myself included are insignificant as a unit as we send in as a convenience to ourselves rather than thinking about the other side and haven’t the numbers needed
 

Gedd

Member
Livestock Farmer
Some people appear to have forgotten about giving luck money in past few months, I have 4 names who I’ve bought cattle from in Kirkby, no luck since March, yet before they would come and hand it out happily and want to be your buddy!!!!!
Most still give it in hexham but there are few who dont as they me er turn up.to show there cattle
 

z.man

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Mixed Farmer
Location
central scotland
I really don’t care if you don’t believe me I’m not arguing about it. You send an artic load a week of near on what they want you will waive them. There’s two locally that have told me the deductions get added back on if they take them off. I’m not naming them on here as it’s not the thing to do.
Have heard of a man that gets paid a flat rate on his load of cattle ie weight x price but I’m told they average less than 300kg dead 🤷‍♂️ The trouble is these abattoirs handle so many cattle even the. ‘big men’ with a load a week (30) ain’t that big if the company needs 2000 a week if you see what I mean. I think big now means 5k cattle plus a year.
I know a man that will supply a full days kill of lambs at certain times of the year and he still grumbles about some things that happen he certainly doesn’t get it all his own way
Anyway lambs -5ppk next week local to me ☹️
 
Have heard of a man that gets paid a flat rate on his load of cattle ie weight x price but I’m told they average less than 300kg dead 🤷‍♂️ The trouble is these abattoirs handle so many cattle even the. ‘big men’ with a load a week (30) ain’t that big if the company needs 2000 a week if you see what I mean. I think big now means 5k cattle plus a year.
I know a man that will supply a full days kill of lambs at certain times of the year and he still grumbles about some things that happen he certainly doesn’t get it all his own way
Anyway lambs -5ppk next week local to me ☹
It doesn’t really matter. I was just relaying what I thought was useful information
 

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