Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[JSmith]

DA brings them south as rabbits, JW takes them back north as slightly bigger rabbits

I love the initials game when I know who the feck the northern gang are on about

 

[JSmith]

Dianne Abbot

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Dianne Abbot

 

[neilo]

At Malton they still sell down the lines of pens which to me seems a quicker less labour intensive way. Do many markets still do this ?

Everywhere that isn’t up North? I’ve never in my life been to a market that did anything but sell in the pens, so that’s ‘normal’ as far as I’m concerned.

Perhaps I should have a road trip, just to see the odd ways things are done up North? Not sure I could cope with 1am cull ewe sales though!

 

[neilo]

Did she cheer up after she got rid of it?

Not much.

 

[livestock 1]

Not much.

I shouldn’t ask but I will anyway when you said ‘used to’
Was it the sticker you got rid of or the wife??

 

[neilo]

I shouldn’t ask but I will anyway when you said’used to’
Was it the sticker you got rid of or the wife??

She’s (the wife, that is) very much a keeper. The business certainly couldn’t run without her supporting the main power unit, but don’t tell her I said that.

NT membership was to allow access for dog walking on occasion, and because they used to have noble aims.

 

[livestock 1]

She’s (the wife, that is) very much a keeper. The business certainly couldn’t run without her supporting the main power unit, but don’t tell her I said that.

NT membership was to allow access for dog walking on occasion, and because they used to have noble aims.

Haha. Not sure how to word this correctly, mine is useful too and not easy to be done without but as you said that doesn’t need to get back to her

 

[yellowbelly]

Dianne Abbot

Feck, you wouldn't want her hauling your sheep - she wouldn't be able to count how many she'd put on.

You'd be forever running back to fetch the ones she'd left behind

 

[livestock 1]

Feck, you wouldn't want her hauling your sheep - she wouldn't be able to count how many she'd put on.

You'd be forever running back to fetch the ones she'd left behind

Corbyn used to ‘help her out’ I believe

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Everywhere that isn’t up North? I’ve never in my life been to a market that did anything but sell in the pens, so that’s ‘normal’ as far as I’m concerned.

Perhaps I should have a road trip, just to see the odd ways things are done up North? Not sure I could cope with 1am cull ewe sales though!

It was certainly different when we started using Bentham as well as Chelford too sell fat stock. Personally I prefer the sale ring, having sold lots of sheep both ways I think it shows the sheep off better.
Now that view might be different if we’d had a good keen sheep auctioneer at Chelford for the last 7/8 years but we were stuck with Williams. Agreeing the days price with the main buyer doesn’t seem a particularly good arrangement for the farmer. But that’s all in the past now.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Haha. Not sure how to word this correctly, mine is useful too and not easy to be done without but as you said that doesn’t need to get back to her

I have too tell mine that… usually when I’m trying too break it too her that I’m going buying sheep in an hour and I won’t be back till Friday night…

 

[yellowbelly]

Corbyn used to ‘help her out’ I believe

Abbott and Corbyn

Get more sense out of Abbott and Costello.

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[livestock 1]

I have too tell mine that… usually when I’m trying too break it too her that I’m going buying sheep in an hour and I won’t be back till Friday night…

Haha a bit excitement does them no harm

 

[livestock 1]

Abbott and Corbyn

Get more sense out of Abbott and Costello.

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If there was three in a bed there can’t be many women he would have climbed over to get to Diane Abbot!!

 

[hendrebc]

Dianne Abbot

That made me laugh way more than it should have because I was just thinking this

Feck, you wouldn't want her hauling your sheep - she wouldn't be able to count how many she'd put on.

You'd be forever running back to fetch the ones she'd left behind

 

[Mc115reed]

DA brings them south as rabbits, JW takes them back north as slightly bigger rabbits

FB fetched some ewes here over winter and took them back home up the m6 as really fat ewes and they were pretty decent hauliers too seemed quite organised and tidy clean wagons

 

[yellowbelly]

Personally I prefer the sale ring, having sold lots of sheep both ways I think it shows the sheep off better.

Have always used markets that sold them in pens, but since we've been using Thirsk, Skipton and Bentham I must say I like the ring system best.

The buyers see and handle (if they want to) every pen and they can't walk off round the corner to the next aisle before the auctioneer has got to your pens at the end of a row.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Have always used markets that sold them in pens, but since we've been using Thirsk, Skipton and Bentham I must say I like the ring system best.

The buyers see and handle (if they want to) every pen and they can't walk off round the corner to the next aisle before the auctioneer has got to your pens at the end of a row.

That was always the trouble at Chelford. If your run was both sides of a corner the first pen if not 2 on the corner would be undersold as the buyers were still jostling around and hadn’t looked properly at what’s going on.

 

[Anymulewilldo]