Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Shebb90]

Some hoggets bought in & taken home yesterday from shrewsbury at £128.

They really think trade will go up a gear..... What weight was that?

 

[Timbo]

Middle 40 kgs

 

[Hfd Cattle]

I've no idea, so many variables, full load? Distance? Access? Numbers?
I went for a ball park figure tbh.
How much do you estimate haulage cost to be?

I think the point is being made here by @Sid is that it's not all profit . A good point !

 

[Werzle]

Got a link ?
Cheers

McCartneys Rural FB. You dont need to be on fb to watch it either

 

[Werzle]

£20 haulage how far is he carting them

Haulage would be a £10/hd unless they were going a fair old distance

 

[dunk999]

Excess/ unwanted ewe hoggs from the scottish upland sheep support scheme can be killed after 31st March that may give a short term flush of lambs for slaughter for a week or two.

 

[d williams]

Haulage would be a £10/hd unless they were going a fair old distance

Each way

 

[Henarar]

Haulage would be a £10/hd unless they were going a fair old distance

Yep
Good weeks work
Plus getting rid of trouble

 

[Ceri]

What with the cost of inputs now we are no better off in real terms with these farm gate prices than 12 months ago!

2/3 people that had 100 + hoggs each booked in for deadweight next week told me that they were pulling them out at the prices being quoted DW for next week!

I see Honiton collection centre are quoting the same price for this Monday as last Monday yet deadweight is 20ppk less!

Excellent I love it when farmers are in the position to cancel lambs & stick 2 fingers up to the DW firms... Flipping sharks they are tryin to pull the price down.....

 

[LAMBCHOPS]

Excellent I love it when farmers are in the position to cancel lambs & stick 2 fingers up to the DW firms... Flipping sharks they are tryin to pull the price down.....

We have 550 hoggs left last year same time 1200 . Drawbridge up this week may be two rightly or wrongly but quite confident of extra weight anyway

 

[Timbo]

We have 550 hoggs left last year same time 1200 . Drawbridge up this week may be two rightly or wrongly but quite confident of extra weight anyway

Not even got 100 left, but i'm holding them til after easter.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

We’ve 1150 left and I’m having too sell this week. As said before by someone, those of us on keep farms are all getting our spring marching orders now. Too many too bring home, got lambing sheep everywhere here!

 

[Raider112]

Minus 2 lots of haulage @£20/hd each way- commission @3% on £1000/HD is £30 =£70
He had a lucky escape!

People seem to ignore the offtakes when selling, it's easy to say they were bought at £1,000 and sold fat at £1,400 so you have £400 but there's probably £50 that never reaches the bank, or goes straight back out on haulage.
Selling stores can take even more off with haulage, commission, luck etc and that's before you look at your time.

 

[Sid]

People seem to ignore the offtakes when selling, it's easy to say they were bought at £1,000 and sold fat at £1,400 so you have £400 but there's probably £50 that never reaches the bank, or goes straight back out on haulage.
Selling stores can take even more off with haulage, commission, luck etc and that's before you look at your time.

Selling a lorry load of stores, one beast goes for haulage another on commission.

Bring a handful of bulling heifers 25 miles cost me £1/mile a head. Was on the way past as well!

 

[JSmith]

An the rest I would say, if you were having 350 out of every beast you bought at a 1000 ide say everybody would be a beef finisher

 

[Shebb90]

We’ve 1150 left and I’m having too sell this week. As said before by someone, those of us on keep farms are all getting our spring marching orders now. Too many too bring home, got lambing sheep everywhere here!

Is that Less hoggs than normal for you? And when do you normally sell the last ones?

 

[Raider112]

An the rest I would say, if you were having 350 out of every beast you bought at a 1000 ide say everybody would be a beef finisher

I'm just quoting the buy and sell price, plenty happens in the months in between. My point is that that you have to keep that beast and make a profit on less than the buy and sell figures that many look at.
Making a worthwhile profit at all is a different matter, or should I say difficult!!

 

[Gedd]

I've no idea, so many variables, full load? Distance? Access? Numbers?
I went for a ball park figure tbh.
How much do you estimate haulage cost to be?

I've my own transport but if I buy more than a load my local haulier charges £12 it's about 25 miles

 

[Shebb90]

I've my own transport but if I buy more than a load my local haulier charges £12 it's about 25 miles

That seems very cheap to me. How many

 

[Anymulewilldo]

That seems very cheap to me. How many

Armstrong’s charge £20/store £25/cow Stirling too here. Doesn’t matter how many either...