Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Anymulewilldo]

Anymule is going through his recipe books as we speak

Damn right. This shape doesn’t maintain itself you know!!

 

[livestock 1]

AHDB says it’s going to be a good trade for hoggs
We know we are fooked when that happens

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

All this talk of doom is very unhelpful for the sheep job.
Look at the positives, Ewes are very dear and are short in numbers.
Export is still happening but only for the very best at a good price.
SQQ is still above £5.60 so not a disaster unless the store lambs were bought at over £100!!
Home bred lambs still a nice profit.
It is still February and Easter is 6 weeks away.
The weather over the whole country has been awful and continues to be so which has increased the number of hoggets being forced to be sold.
Patience will pay off for those who have in spec hoggets. Heavies may struggle until the Festival.

 

[livestock 1]

 

[livestock 1]

All this talk of doom is very unhelpful for the sheep job.
Look at the positives, Ewes are very dear and are short in numbers.
Export is still happening but only for the very best at a good price.
SQQ is still above £5.60 so not a disaster unless the store lambs were bought at over £100!!
Home bred lambs still a nice profit.
It is still February and Easter is 6 weeks away.
The weather over the whole country has been awful and continues to be so which has increased the number of hoggets being forced to be sold.
Patience will pay off for those who have in spec hoggets. Heavies may struggle until the Festival.

It’s not really that case. Anyone who has fed hoggs to 42/45 kilo has to sell them.
Do you understand this? You can’t really hold anything that’s ready it costs too much

 

[jendan]

Quite a lot of in lamb ewes at Longtown again this Tuesday, between this weather and the depression in Hogg prices and feeding prices etc I can’t see them being a flyer of a trade.

I bet they are.The sun will be out by Tuesday.

 

[livestock 1]

All this talk of doom is very unhelpful for the sheep job.
Look at the positives, Ewes are very dear and are short in numbers.
Export is still happening but only for the very best at a good price.
SQQ is still above £5.60 so not a disaster unless the store lambs were bought at over £100!!
Home bred lambs still a nice profit.
It is still February and Easter is 6 weeks away.
The weather over the whole country has been awful and continues to be so which has increased the number of hoggets being forced to be sold.
Patience will pay off for those who have in spec hoggets. Heavies may struggle until the Festival.

Also just because you have bred the lamb yourself doesn’t mean you should lessen the value of it potentially in the stores pre feeding. It’s worth is exactly the same as an identical bought lamb/hogg out of the stores

 

[Vorest Tat]

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[jendan]

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A garden gate or a fat lady?

 

[Optimus]

Just back from visiting family in texas cant recall seeing lamb on any menus

Never been but guessing there will not be many sheep in Texas.what's steaks like over there?

 

[Vorest Tat]

A garden gate or a fat lady?

Don't know how that got there? can I delete it please?

 

[Purli R]

I’ve got a ruck of breasts of lamb in the freezer. I’ll fire the mincer up tomorrow night and have a play me thinks. Got plenty of frozen mint from the garden from last summer

If successful, methinks we know where all those larl frozen 3 legged blackies will end up

 

[Whitepeak]

There’s an abattoir in Derbyshire known as the fanny factory because the slaughter people are all women

One of them has been texting me all week




But only to tell me barren cow price has gone up

 

[andybk]

All this talk of doom is very unhelpful for the sheep job.
Look at the positives, Ewes are very dear and are short in numbers.
Export is still happening but only for the very best at a good price.
SQQ is still above £5.60 so not a disaster unless the store lambs were bought at over £100!!
Home bred lambs still a nice profit.
It is still February and Easter is 6 weeks away.
The weather over the whole country has been awful and continues to be so which has increased the number of hoggets being forced to be sold.
Patience will pay off for those who have in spec hoggets. Heavies may struggle until the Festival.

Even my landlord who is beef and arable commented , prices will fall due to weather and keep ending (nitrogen price is scaring some cattle boys ) now looking to keep as much cover as possible ,we have eaten the long covers but not allowed on the shorter ones this year , but trade will pick up in a few weeks for sure. ,

 

[gone up the hill]

Quite a lot of in lamb ewes at Longtown again this Tuesday, between this weather and the depression in Hogg prices and feeding prices etc I can’t see them being a flyer of a trade.

Couples trade yesterday was a flyer and not affected by either the hogg trade ( Store lambs well back on the week to average only £85 ish ) or the shocking weather on Friday/ the day of the sale.

 

[bobajob]

Couples trade is often better in comparison to in lamb ewe trade. No one wants the work of lambing them..

 

[gone up the hill]

Couples trade is often better in comparison to in lamb ewe trade. No one wants the work of lambing them..

In lamb trade on Friday was still very strong and on a par with 3 weeks ago, yes a shade easier than the flyer 2 weeks ago but still well sold, Mule ewe lambs in lamb at £155 ish, mule FM/BM at £115 v £125/30 2 weeks ago.

Look well sold for all the work/risk to lamb them down!

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

It’s not really that case. Anyone who has fed hoggs to 42/45 kilo has to sell them.
Do you understand this? You can’t really hold anything that’s ready it costs too much

Only use grass and fodder crops, always aim for over 45 kg at this time of the year if possible.
An extra couple of weeks on grass is not the end of the world as there is loads of fodder around at the moment and by the look of the forecast the grass will continue to grow.

 

[Mc115reed]

If successful, methinks we know where all those larl frozen 3 legged blackies will end upView attachment 1018208

Iv a wee horned lamb like that from Yorkshire at the minute I could put in that mincer bloody thing can clear electric fence on the top setting of my electric fencing stakes like it’s an Olympic high jumper

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Iv a wee horned lamb like that from Yorkshire at the minute I could put in that mincer bloody thing can clear electric fence on the top setting of my electric fencing stakes like it’s an Olympic high jumper

Well you will provide keep too those Yorkshire reprobate sheep…