Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[hill shepherd]

Grandad still prefers his coloured mules for looking smart. But I reckon a good bunch of clean Cheviot mules by proper traditional BFL tups take some beating for looking at.

Listen to Grandad, he knows what he's talking about

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Well we're ready for it drying up a bit, it will let folk get on and get some crop gathered up, been a wet june, lets hope its going to take up, forecast is looking more promising!

Was down in mid Cheshire this morning, went past one big dairy farm I have in the winter, they got a bumper first cut but the farm is pretty much brown now!

 

[Anymulewilldo]

 

[Estate fencing.]

Looks a big lot of stores at Bentham next week, surly its to early for them, people are only just getting hay off now and some space for them to go onto. I would think big lambs will be a good trade but the small under 28kg would be a struggle this early on.
I got the first 100 big feeding lambs (38kg-42kg) going on 4th august and then proper store lambs (32-35kg) end of august when hopefully men with have plenty of aftermath and sold there own singles for good money, I will be looking to buy some small (-25kg) bad bred lambs august to run round until may.

 

[livestock 1]

The way the price of everything has gone up I can see stores coming forward earlier than normal
There’s plenty of folks that haven’t sold anything for months on the hill places

 

[livestock 1]

Surely far to early for stores lmbs, is skipton next week or the week after, surly if good fat are around 140, good stores should be at least 100.

Yes they should be but it’s the money that disappears in between which discounts them
If diesel feed and everything else were cheap they probably would make that

 

[Hfd Cattle]

I’ll come :-
I know a song that’ll get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves,
I know a song that will get on your nerves a song that’ll get on your nerves.
Repeat !!

.......I really wish I hadn't read that post !!!.....and there's all day to go yet

 

[Estate fencing.]

We are in strange times, how many years have fat gone up in the first week of July and poor hoggs worth more in may/June than good ones in march/April.

 

[livestock 1]

We are in strange times, how many years have fat gone up in the first week of July and poor hoggs worth more in may/June than good ones in march/April.

That’s true normal trends are out the window
You can’t predict anything really
The festival may have helped who knows

 

[Estate fencing.]

That’s true normal trends are out the window
You can’t predict anything really
The festival may have helped who knows

I think stores will a dear in a month (I hope anyway), big store men aren’t going to risk not hit a boom time, got to be in it to win it.

 

[livestock 1]

I think stores will a dear in a month (I hope anyway), big store men aren’t going to risk not hit a boom time, got to be in it to win it.

I think it might depend how many come at once and how much money is about as time goes on

 

[Stw88]

These early store sale are normally just a sale of fat lambs. Theres good demand for lightweight lambs at the moment and thats what Hexhams first sale will be mainly made up of.

 

[Chae1]

You’re sleeping in the boot of the car. I’ve already got my usual B&B booked!

Do the marts not put you up?

Pretty sure buyers of large numbers of cattle that come up from South get accommodation paid for at mart we sell stores through.

 

[Gedd]

These early store sale are normally just a sale of fat lambs. Theres good demand for lightweight lambs at the moment and thats what Hexhams first sale will be mainly made up of.

Friday will see only 1200 on the catalogue

 

[Old Tip]

They were alright if you kept the ones that weren’t worth much to start with or bought with caution but still no records broken after all that
Sold some lately £120 ish for tail end sorts best trade of all season

I sold some last week, late born out of hoggs by an unknown cross bred tup, all around the £100 mark, toothers made more than the others. Would have probably got £25 a head in the autumn so not a disaster

 

[Old Tip]

Listen to Grandad, he knows what he's talking about

But Grandad is just looking, the expert is the one having to make a living

 

[aangus]

We are in strange times, how many years have fat gone up in the first week of July and poor hoggs worth more in may/June than good ones in march/April.

Is the fat trade being driven on with the festival coming soon? The lamb trade could drop after that But what do I know

 

[ritchiekirkland]

Do the marts not put you up?

Pretty sure buyers of large numbers of cattle that come up from South get accommodation paid for at mart we sell stores through.

Sometimes they will pay a flight too !

 

[RMSLLOYD]

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No need to worry about farm assurance

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Why have the young stores (cattle) suddenly got expensive ?