Good trade at malton today. Two lim steers over £1600
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Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
Friend had 33 stores out of Welshpool today average 240ppkg , £1040 lims!! Bought for someone else, he wants 200, same cattle last year av £850!! Been killing them at 14-1500 apparently, wouldn’t like to pay for 200 cattle at that price an then the wheel come off 
d williams
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Used to supply a farmer a few cattle when he run short for his farmers market stall he wouldn’t touch a Belgian blue in it dryer then a witches tit the meat was so he said Hereford heifer was his first choiceA bit of native beef , the best beef the butcher said he has seen in over twenty years .... of butchering limmys
Yes they probably are, I don’t buy stores so those figures are second hand but it’s a lot of money to look at some cattle but if your on the wheel it has to be done I suppose!!
The men buying week in , week out would have made a tidy sum on the stores they bought before fat trade lifted so its swings and roundabouts. The people who lose the most are those that stop and start at the finishing job and are always chasing the trade.
dairydurham
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from what ive seen the further north you go the better the bull used!
that sounds like me this year kept buying a few, but wasnt strong enough in sept , oct. i admit my mistakes.
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
Friend had 33 stores out of Welshpool today average 240ppkg , £1040 lims!! Bought for someone else, he wants 200, same cattle last year av £850!! Been killing them at 14-1500 apparently, wouldn’t like to pay for 200 cattle at that price an then the wheel come off
getting close to where they need to be but inputs going up Tis no get rich quick scheme for sure .Friend had 33 stores out of Welshpool today average 240ppkg , £1040 lims!! Bought for someone else, he wants 200, same cattle last year av £850!! Been killing them at 14-1500 apparently, wouldn’t like to pay for 200 cattle at that price an then the wheel come off
livestock 1
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Timbo
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- Gods County
Leaves approx £100 per beast if all goes well.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
I think everyone will be different but perhaps on average yes which is pretty poor really and farmers actually get exited
better than loosing I suppose .Those ewe hoggs aren’t really even make fat prices the in lamb ones. I’d be a bit annoyed at that given the work involved getting them there.
Except the texels.
48kg today last week were 50kg. Can't remember what the week before were I think they were 44-45kg or thereabouts.
Good trade well done
- Location
- West Wales
Fresh off field or empty weight?
Weighed some killing ewe lambs yesterday in the field, 8 sub 45, a lot mid 50’s and some hitting high 50’s. 1 chartex which is being kept was 68kg
No these last 2 bunches are out of a shed and on the market scales in less than an hour. The £124 ones were out of a field with empty bellies I gathered them a bit too early in the morning and they didn't get a chance to fill up because it hadn't gone light very long. Find you usually lose a couple of kilos doing that so try not to do it.
livestock 1
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Could be depends what they were like. The store sale tags on the back of the breeding sheep in the same ring so all the store buyers would be there and wouldn’t be shy of buying any to kill