- Location
- Cheshire
We can… it goes up £10 a jump, comes down in £3/4 jumps. Once again we get our leg lifted!
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
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- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
It might be starting to effect the store lamb sales now. Longtown today didnt have the fire in it i thought. Not as many buyers around the ring. There were several hundred lambs in from one farm near Langholm,Texel out of South Country Cheviots i think. They were small but looked healthy enough,but there was no one there to sell them.Needless to say,they didnt make much.First pen in of 130 made about £68.Next pen of 100 in the £50s,and last ones £30.Think TE bought them.You would have thought that with those numbers,the seller would have been with them. Star of the sale was some Cheviot ewes made £2.Looked like they would stay alive.TE bought them.
Business as usual... so they claim
casper74
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- Location
- North Yorkshire
Store lambs in Bentham have been very dear, the smaller and thinner they are the dearer they they look!! some lambs today weighing 25kg-33kg making £75-£95 depending on quality or how lame they were!! Good white faced good skins 38kg-42kg were £105-£120
livestock 1
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Trouble is it’s turned cold and what seemed like the good grassy backend has possibly come to an end with a bad forecast for the weekend. That leaves dealers feeders and the odd desperado farmer. You have to be pretty determined as a farmer buying stores when the weather is up against you. Was JE filling his boots today and looking happy? That’s a good indication they have dropped a bit.It might be starting to effect the store lamb sales now. Longtown today didnt have the fire in it i thought. Not as many buyers around the ring. There were several hundred lambs in from one farm near Langholm,Texel out of South Country Cheviots i think. They were small but looked healthy enough,but there was no one there to sell them.Needless to say,they didnt make much.First pen in of 130 made about £68.Next pen of 100 in the £50s,and last ones £30.Think TE bought them.You would have thought that with those numbers,the seller would have been with them. Star of the sale was some Cheviot ewes made £2.Looked like they would stay alive.TE bought them.
There used to be a few doing that job years ago, TE used to put them through Carlisle but he hasn't done for a few years now as far as I know.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Think they go direct ex farm now ( or were 2/3 years ago anyway ) turn up, get a price list, pick out the ones you want and off you go.
I’m sure he adheres to that at all times! He’s not known for being a rule bender is he.6 day rule
I wonder what will happen when he packs it in? I will leave a bit of hole for those very small bad bred lambs.
livestock 1
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That’s my thoughts too. He is good for the auction
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Holes usually get filled... eventually
livestock 1
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Most sheep bought for other folks he never sees them after sale day
Joking aside though. You guys probably go to market more than I do. But I can’t think of any youngsters that would fill his shoes. I know he probably doesn’t get his hands particularly dirty looking after this stock. But it’s hell of a commitment running round these markets. As well as the money he stands on the odd bad debt. Not a job for the faint hearted.
- Location
- Cheshire
When Tony retires it will give some of you hero’s a chance too buy those £30 little lambs and £2 Cheviot ewes. Then you can show us all how easy it is too keep them living, get them growing and make massive £££‘a out of them.
Tony’s no fool. Those little lambs go on that lorry to his customers and he never sees them again. By far the best way!!!
Tony’s no fool. Those little lambs go on that lorry to his customers and he never sees them again. By far the best way!!!
Do you think he will retire? I reckon he’ll gone on for ages yet. You can tell he thoroughly enjoys it all. He told me a while back he used to run 9500 ewes in his prime. Never seen one of them lamb!
- Location
- Cheshire
Definitely not! I reckon, like most farmers, Tony will keep going until the day he drops. Or has his licence taken away. But I doubt that would stop Tony.
Not for a while but in 10 years he will be a old man, and in his job you got to be pretty bloody sharp.
livestock 1
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He had 2000 of them or slightly less about longtown area some folks looked after them for him
Stw88
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- Location
- Northumberland
And the extra the drivers are having to be paid to stop them all jumping ship.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
His name is on the market report posted above earlier today for breeding ewes ( i think it was ).
He is very hands on with his sheep, see him or his wife on the roads all the time with the box moving sheep/ checking them/ moving rams etc.
Yeah. Didn’t he used to rent 1000 acres up in your part of the world until fairly recently? Then I had in my head he a place down south that was a fair size. I think he still puts stock out for people to look after for him.