muleman
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It could bust a few breeders
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
- Location
- North of Perth
3 different folk all brought up cost of keeping sucklers now.all 3 don't know each other an all within £40 of each other.about £850. I think could be higher.
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
Stores keep going up whilst finished comes down
muleman
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Be no calves to finish in a few years way jobs going.
Skintagain
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- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
Everything is just too dear apart from the end product which isn’t dear but the middle makes too much margin to pay any more for the stock
How anyone keeps suckers with paying for straw and feed is beyond me. I feed cattle for a farm who has 3000 acres of arable so plenty of straw loader and week day labour, also gets paid to take silage in may off an air base, he is saying that his calves aren't paying well enough.
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Sedgemoor report on face ache. Christ stores are dear down there that £1680 steer wouldn’t make over 1450 anywhere I’ve been in the last week or so even if it weighed 700kg? Did anyone see what it weighed if they were there? A shed full of those is the fast lane to poverty
muleman
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Basically doing a favour providing calves for the finishers!
Ewes and lambs cheap at £80 a life for the top price.
Re investing good returns on fat cattle sold and needing to keep the sheds full and wheel turning. Big units will have bought rations forward on contract too
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Farmerbuti
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That bullock looks very dear wants a lot of keep
cattleman123
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- Location
- devon
They will be less next week...never follow a trade like that...they will get some of it back
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Up about £7 head on the week if not more for the stronger ones, average was £97 head ( v £90 last week )
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Do not go on those photos, they make the cattle look a LOT smaller than they actually are in the flesh!
- Location
- North Yorkshire
That’s my thinking, to be that price up here it would have to be killable and a lot better shaped, and by the time that was fit it would be a mile overweight if it was that big. Lose lose situation
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
The buyer of that bullock will certainly not have to worry about the cash, he came to buy every bullock he could do so today thus why he went home with 150+ head and they will be all the top end price cattle so £1200+ mostly i would have thought.
Not sold with weights provided at Sedge ( like most markets in the SW )
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
What is driving some of these very high suckled/ stirk prices is the sheer number of dairy farmers quitting and going into beef, they think they can buy these cattle then farm them dog and stick style and hardly spend a £ on them on farm and then sell them for top whack 12 months later!
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
They’ll learn
cattleman123
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- Location
- devon
And to be fair with plenty of Summer grass they will fatten them quite cheaply as many dont value the grass but just want some cattle of their own on the farm...more and more down here doing just that