I remember seeing them in lairage at Silloth docks when I was a boy. No idea where they were destined for.
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
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Average Farmerboy
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Jarrett’s?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
You’d best get them indoors on hoppers and away. It might give us amateurs a chance later on.
livestock 1
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- Location
- Cheshire
I would! But there’s no room inside! The in lamb ewes need it! And that which isn’t filled with in lamb ewes is full of cattle.
livestock 1
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I would! But there’s no room inside! The in lamb ewes need it! And that which isn’t filled with in lamb ewes is full of cattle.
- Location
- Cheshire
livestock 1
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Yes I know what you mean. My mate sends a lot dw and put a few hundred through the stores a week ago. He always does this when he’s had the nudgeThat’s called giving in…I will find a way around it. I usually do
- Location
- Cheshire
The knowing nudge or the “Oi sod off” nudge??
livestock 1
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The knowing nudge ha. He did the same trick a couple years ago sold a lot in the stores in March (probably the whole lot) just before they collapsedThe knowing nudge or the “Oi sod off” nudge??
mghley
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- Location
- Derbyshire
To keep thread on topic I’m told DW hoggs at Dunbia for Monday 545p to 22kg
Off topic( or maybe on topic as relavent to profitability of wintering sheep) the last 4 days have been a real tester for anyone wintering hoggs. We are on fairly heavy ground and the combination of gale force winds, hail, snow, driving rain, impatient keep owners who seem to think it’s reasonable to ring on a Saturday night asking for your sheep to be moved on Sunday morning, has made for a very testing time.
Suffice to say when the next dairy farmer or store lamb seller tries to convince me that wintering sheep is a licence to print money I will need to explain the niceties of such an enterprise and suggest that they have a go !!!
Off topic( or maybe on topic as relavent to profitability of wintering sheep) the last 4 days have been a real tester for anyone wintering hoggs. We are on fairly heavy ground and the combination of gale force winds, hail, snow, driving rain, impatient keep owners who seem to think it’s reasonable to ring on a Saturday night asking for your sheep to be moved on Sunday morning, has made for a very testing time.
Suffice to say when the next dairy farmer or store lamb seller tries to convince me that wintering sheep is a licence to print money I will need to explain the niceties of such an enterprise and suggest that they have a go !!!
A lot of Irish cattle used to go through the old York market. There are still quite a lot of grass fields that haven’t been built on leading into York were full of Irish cattle according to my Dad.
- Location
- Cheshire
Yep. Once again it’s 7.15 on a Sunday evening and I’m 90 minutes from home having just done the mad dash down the M56/M6 where a tree has dropped a limb and shorted the fence out. Thankfully the farmer has pushed them back off his neighbours when I got here. Just had too put fence back right and a new battery. Bloody trees.
just having a quick brew in the car then will change a couple more batteries on the way home. I was supposed too be giving the son and heir his bath tonight.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Hoggs £5.75 for this week ( down 20ppk on last week )
Apparently the export job has come to a halt for both hoggs and spring lambs!
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
If you have stirks to sell then get them tested and sold asap.
Absolute nuts trade for them yesterday and more like a trade on grass fever in late April then a wind swept/ rain swamp dull and crap mid Feb winters day!
Trade well up across the board even for the very bottom end, you could not buy even a small suckled steer for less than £800 yesterday!
NZ dairy bred 12 month old mongrels which were said to be angus but looked like a rat of a Fri steer and no more than 220 kilos at a guess would be up around the £500 mark!
Absolute nuts trade for them yesterday and more like a trade on grass fever in late April then a wind swept/ rain swamp dull and crap mid Feb winters day!
Trade well up across the board even for the very bottom end, you could not buy even a small suckled steer for less than £800 yesterday!
NZ dairy bred 12 month old mongrels which were said to be angus but looked like a rat of a Fri steer and no more than 220 kilos at a guess would be up around the £500 mark!
Aspiring Peasants
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- Location
- North Pennines
You lads earn your cornYep. Once again it’s 7.15 on a Sunday evening and I’m 90 minutes from home having just done the mad dash down the M56/M6 where a tree has dropped a limb and shorted the fence out. Thankfully the farmer has pushed them back off his neighbours when I got here. Just had too put fence back right and a new battery. Bloody trees.
just having a quick brew in the car then will change a couple more batteries on the way home. I was supposed too be giving the son and heir his bath tonight.
livestock 1
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Now I’ve been putting a lot of thought into this.
Last year the store sellers weren’t happy they had sold out of lambs were sat with their feet up grinding their teeth at hoggs making £140/£160 and thought they were pretty badly done to. Some got pretty upset and suggested that they were going to have a go. Now as you know I’m not one for stirring any bother on here but maybe it’s time for you to settle the job and tell them what you think!!!
Why's that?
Yep. Once again it’s 7.15 on a Sunday evening and I’m 90 minutes from home having just done the mad dash down the M56/M6 where a tree has dropped a limb and shorted the fence out. Thankfully the farmer has pushed them back off his neighbours when I got here. Just had too put fence back right and a new battery. Bloody trees.
just having a quick brew in the car then will change a couple more batteries on the way home. I was supposed too be giving the son and heir his bath tonight.
For the first time in a while I entered 100 in the heady store markets in early December, and at this point it looked like a shrewd move. Only the rest of them to make something of now. It’s all a game that nobody wins every year.