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Live weight or deadweight though???Here we go, another my sheep are spread further than yours piddling contest… Mine don’t get further than 40 miles from base. (Unless they are out unattended!)
Live weight or deadweight though???Here we go, another my sheep are spread further than yours piddling contest… Mine don’t get further than 40 miles from base. (Unless they are out unattended!)
Yes I can imagine 2 in the play pen bidding in about a pound or two near fat valueNearly all those quoted prices would be going straight to kill.Thats what you get at Hexham.
Probably is 70 if you include the 30 mile from my house too my first field then the 20 in the other direction I go too workTry 70
GoodSedge today.
A thousand store lambs topped out at £126 head, trade was on fire and easily up £6/7 head on the week! Lambs that would have been £80 last week were £86/7 head today and this on the back of only a 10ppk deadweight price rise for next week!
Stirks, about 350 ish head penned sold to a stand on trade to 2 weeks ago which was very surprising seeing the store cattle trade in the adjacent ring!!
Store cattle, About 519 sold, And i would say to the dearest trade ever seen for commercial store cattle in the SW, trade topped out at £1500 head for a 16 month old home bred heifer ( picture of the heifer on the market's facebook page ) and other good sorts around the 16 month mark from the same good farm sold to £1350 head which both prices far exceeded the vendors expectations! pen after pen of forward steers £1350/1400+ and grazing steers an unreal trade with 15 month old narrow dairy bred/ 400 kilo angus steers well over the 1k mark and Char x steers of the same comments to £1155 head! if you take out the handfull of 24+ month old steers that were the size of a pet poodle then i would be very surprised if the steer average ( incl FRi steers ) will not be very close or maybe even over £1200 head.
Trade in the store cattle section really had to be seen to be believed, words cannot do justice to just how red hot the trade actually was today!
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leek the same feckin stupid! went home empty , and i dont care, offered to take some back for a mate he said dont worry i dont know how many ive got ive got but got to have a lorry!Sedge today.
A thousand store lambs topped out at £126 head, trade was on fire and easily up £6/7 head on the week! Lambs that would have been £80 last week were £86/7 head today and this on the back of only a 10ppk deadweight price rise for next week!
Stirks, about 350 ish head penned sold to a stand on trade to 2 weeks ago which was very surprising seeing the store cattle trade in the adjacent ring!!
Store cattle, About 519 sold, And i would say to the dearest trade ever seen for commercial store cattle in the SW, trade topped out at £1500 head for a 16 month old home bred heifer ( picture of the heifer on the market's facebook page ) and other good sorts around the 16 month mark from the same good farm sold to £1350 head which both prices far exceeded the vendors expectations! pen after pen of forward steers £1350/1400+ and grazing steers an unreal trade with 15 month old narrow dairy bred/ 400 kilo angus steers well over the 1k mark and Char x steers of the same comments to £1155 head! if you take out the handfull of 24+ month old steers that were the size of a pet poodle then i would be very surprised if the steer average ( incl FRi steers ) will not be very close or maybe even over £1200 head.
Trade in the store cattle section really had to be seen to be believed, words cannot do justice to just how red hot the trade actually was today!
I made a prediction in the spring that Fat Cattle would be 4.20/25 by Sept..i still stand by that statement...a revaluation of Agricultural Produce is underwayleek the same feckin stupid! went home empty , and i dont care, offered to take some back for a mate he said dont worry i dont know how many ive got ive got but got to have a lorry!
leek the same feckin stupid! went home empty , and i dont care, offered to take some back for a mate he said dont worry i dont know how many ive got ive got but got to have a lorry!
An article on face ache today about how lamb exports are massively down year on year, and have seen similar about beef, with a negative tone to them. Is it a bad thing looking at the record prices for both? Seems to me all this import and export (free trade that is so championed) only serves to make the middle men fat. It is used almost exclusively to lever domestic prices down rather than provide marketing opportunities. The lever has gone and they are having to pay, long may it continue. Shopping tonight, shelves increasingly bare, two supermarkets in Thirsk totally sold out of whole milk, incidentally loads of semi and skimmed, the public suddenly won’t care about price when they can’t get it.I made a prediction in the spring that Fat Cattle would be 4.20/25 by Sept..i still stand by that statement...a revaluation of Agricultural Produce is underway
An article on face ache today about how lamb exports are massively down year on year, and have seen similar about beef, with a negative tone to them. Is it a bad thing looking at the record prices for both? Seems to me all this import and export (free trade that is so championed) only serves to make the middle men fat. It is used almost exclusively to lever domestic prices down rather than provide marketing opportunities. The lever has gone and they are having to pay, long may it continue. Shopping tonight, shelves increasingly bare, two supermarkets in Thirsk totally sold out of whole milk, incidentally loads of semi and skimmed, the public suddenly won’t care about price when they can’t get it.
if they think they can replace UK meat supply's with imported meat they are in a for a very big shock because UK meat prices are just about the lowest in the world currently!
Probably doesn’t help that when I am contacted for a survey I don’t tell the truth, the whole truth & nothing but the truth…I would not believe any figures/ graphs the AHDB post on anything!
They are so out of touch they live in the stone age!!
It was only 4/5 years ago that they claimed that the top 25% of suckler cow farmers only spent £6 head on silage/ hay costs per cow for an 180 day winter!! that figure was a complete work of fiction that any fool could see it was complete Bull sh!t yet the AHDB staff/ bigwigs were adamant that it was correct!
I managed 1 BBx weaned bull! Wasn’t really expecting it but it looked a damn sight cheaper than some Angus bred cattle I saw. (Sorry @livestock 1 no offence meant)leek the same feckin stupid! went home empty , and i dont care, offered to take some back for a mate he said dont worry i dont know how many ive got ive got but got to have a lorry!
People have been busy but I think later lambing flocks had a lot of lambs too which will have reduced big singles about atmThere was a serious short entry of sheep in Cirencester this week, they usually get over 1000 lambs and 400 ewes but only managed 300 lambs and 30 ewes! Are ewes running out fast or just to hot for people to bother to wean and pull the cull ewes out?
I got a load of Beltex cross lambs on a hopper and I'm willing the buggers to eat like mad so I can catch the trade.
You know what they say…leek the same feckin stupid! went home empty , and i dont care,