Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Plain steer]

well we’ve already worked out he isn’t an actual farmer he just goes too a different market every day of the week too fill time in before he goes down the post office too draw his pension out so nothing else would surprise me

Maybe a failed farmer they usually have all the answers

 

[Mc115reed]

I was thinking the same last night

I try too leave my sheep alone when it’s like this but had a ride round them this morning and there’s not much space under the hedges Glad there’s not much behind electric atm

 

[Estate fencing.]

I try too leave my sheep alone when it’s like this but had a ride round them this morning and there’s not much space under the hedges Glad there’s not much behind electric atm

Next door to me are laming out at 900 feet in exposed 40 acre arable fields with six meter margins, poor buggers.

 

[livestock 1]

I try too leave my sheep alone when it’s like this but had a ride round them this morning and there’s not much space under the hedges Glad there’s not much behind electric atm

I have a fair few outside got a few in though luckily
Turned some cows and calves out was a bit of a concern last night but ok this morning
You are right to leave them in shelter

 

[Mc115reed]

Next door to me are laming out at 900 feet in exposed 40 acre arable fields with six meter margins, poor buggers.

Think I’d be out there with as many square bales of straw as I could find making Gale breaks for them to get behind !

I have a fair few outside got a few in though luckily
Turned some cows and calves out was a bit of a concern last night but ok this morning
You are right to leave them in shelter

Thankfully I finished lambing a month ago but nothing does in this weather they won’t grow or milk laying under the hedge bottom… tends to be when they prun all the hedges back too and find any gaps

 

[Estate fencing.]

Think I’d be out there with as many square bales of straw as I could find making Gale breaks for them to get behind !

But that not the system and the system over rules everything.

 

[Mc115reed]

But that not the system and the system over rules everything.

I bet they look miserable as sin poor f**kers

 

[Estate fencing.]

I bet they look miserable as sin poor f**kers

My ewes are in a valley called “happy valley” the wind can’t get through. There’s are on a hill called “starve all”. Name says it all.

 

[serf]

Next door to me are laming out at 900 feet in exposed 40 acre arable fields with six meter margins, poor buggers.

There's always a chance of rough changeable weather will be likely in march/April, and the topography taken into account when sowing the ground to lamb on ....

 

[Just because]

Hearing today that one deadweight company are paying near £4.60 a kilo base for clean cattle if pushed a shade, said company is also expecting clean to be £5 a kilo within a matter of weeks.

Even at £5 it will not now be enough to keep farmers producing clean beef with the way feed/ input prices are going!

Are you going to hold all your cattle back until they get to over £6 a kilo or more or are you just not restocking????

 

[Mc115reed]

Are you going to hold all your cattle back until they get to over £6 a kilo or more or are you just not restocking????

He’d have too have some cattle too hold back first

 

[Jimdog1]

I have a fair few outside got a few in though luckily
Turned some cows and calves out was a bit of a concern last night but ok this morning
You are right to leave them in shelter

Sounds like you Northern guys are having a rough time of it. Wet and windy overnight here in North Devon but dry this morning albeit still windy. Ewes nearly done and Ewe hoggs about to start. April can be a cruel month sometimes.

 

[Hilly]

Didnt turn out so bad , went out at 6 and three cows calved outside on my coral all standing sucking , heifer needed a hand to get one out the trap but all good so far , if todays the worst we will be ok .

 

[DB67]

Horrible coorse morning up here. Sleet and wind from the north east.

 

[Stw88]

Another 16mm last night. Fields standing in water. Lambs Lying in water when there lambed. It’s a bit grim and hard work.

 

[Optimus]

Why's do sheep always choose the most exposed part of the field to lamb in??
1 dead 1 live, an not supposed to be due till the 11th.

 

[whitefox]

back to prices for cattle £4.40 clean,was also offered a large amount of rearing calves this week ,AAX,HERFDX,BBX £60 head!??

 

[MDL POWERUP]

Dearest I've ever seen ewes at Longtown, worse ewes than last week and made 10 a head more!

 

[Mc115reed]

Dearest I've ever seen ewes at Longtown, worse ewes than last week and made 10 a head more!

Now is always a dear time too sell cull ewes… early lambing men haven’t weaned yet and everything’s walking round with a lamb next too it… late lambing men have scanned and culled so all they’re left with is stuff that’s due too lamb… only people
Really selling cull ewes now are odds and sods that have aborted, not taken lambs and people who make a business out of buying cull ewes at the lows too sell at the highs

 

[Greythundercloudys]

The guy selling those mule ewe lmbs at 116 or around that can't be happy, he should have ran them on himself, he would have had the wool to sell or give away aswell