Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
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Our lad bought ten 8 to 12 months suckler bred heifers for £640 average. Felt really sorry for the vendors as I would be spewing letting them go for that. He was chuffed tho!Should bring them down to Sedgmoor
Top price steer ( do not think any were higher ) made £1780, another at £1700, one vendor averaged £1670 head for his trailer load of store cattle.
Ewes and lambs one HELL HELL of a trade, new buyer in attendance looking for every couple he could get his hands on, did not care what breeds/age etc they were, top was over £300 per couple for a large pen full of mixed flock ages i think they were.
And not to be left out of the action, the trade in the stirk ring was the dearest for some time, heifers were an exceptional trade, price of note were a pen of R grade Lim heifers, they smashed the £900 head mark and these cattle 2/3 weeks ago would have been £200 head less, top heifer was a lim at about £1225 head for a 10/12 month old animal.
Talk around the ringside was that there will be a 10/20ppk drop in the beef price the next few weeks but that did not deter cattle buyers today, onwards and upwards the store/stirk cattle go.
To be honest the days of selling 18-20 month store cattle for £7-800 need to be over dairy bred or not, especially in this day and age of inflation. Can't see how people can survive?
- Location
- North of Perth
He can fair turn them out! Who bought it?
livestock 1
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Paterson Cairndaie Croft if I’ve spelt it right
- Location
- North of Perth
Think I'll have to start selling cows an calves.livestock 1
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He brings them down to Carlisle think he has some for Friday you can expect 6/7k for the first one really good cattle I keep real still
livestock 1
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He has 8 for Friday just looked
Scared to blink or twitch
livestock 1
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Yes no eye contactScared to blink or twitch
livestock 1
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Had a 7k incalf heifer knocked down to me last year luckily I think it was a mistake
Yeah feck that, when they sell the prize winners I look at the floor till the hammer drops
cattleman123
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- Location
- devon
One swallow does not make a summerShould bring them down to Sedgmoor
Top price steer ( do not think any were higher ) made £1780, another at £1700, one vendor averaged £1670 head for his trailer load of store cattle.
Ewes and lambs one HELL HELL of a trade, new buyer in attendance looking for every couple he could get his hands on, did not care what breeds/age etc they were, top was over £300 per couple for a large pen full of mixed flock ages i think they were.
And not to be left out of the action, the trade in the stirk ring was the dearest for some time, heifers were an exceptional trade, price of note were a pen of R grade Lim heifers, they smashed the £900 head mark and these cattle 2/3 weeks ago would have been £200 head less, top heifer was a lim at about £1225 head for a 10/12 month old animal.
Talk around the ringside was that there will be a 10/20ppk drop in the beef price the next few weeks but that did not deter cattle buyers today, onwards and upwards the store/stirk cattle go.
Like all farming subsidies they’ll probably work it off bps payment or something and pay it too land owners not the people actually farming
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Good job you voted out then or you wouldn't know how to spend it.
- Location
- Devon
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
He's quite close to us, Barry Patterson.
Not sure if he's a farmer. Does a fair bit of showing cattle. Imagine its for that.
livestock 1
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A nice hobby but a dear one at that