Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[JockCroft]

Any word from the Marts this morning??

Just home from Quoybrae. Sold pretty middling shite 36kgs, £128. A few stores 30ish kg £108.
There was quite a few heavies over £200. A good sale.
It was noticeable that quite few sizable lots of good ewe lambs were sold for more than last years gimmer price.
Real trade was for heavy fleshy sheep. Hoggs, Ewes and Tups.

 

[gone up the hill]

.......................Exeter livestock centre today...........

..... 1067 prime New season lambs penned and sold....

..... Top price per head £230 ......

..... Top price per kilo 4.95ppk ......

...... Overall average for spring lambs £190.32 head.....

 

[JockCroft]

QUOYBRAE, Aberdeen and Northern Marts (18th March 2024) sold 1,661 sheep and 70 Bales of Fodder. Old Season Prime lambs (612) averaged 348.6p or £162.68 per head which sold to 398.7p per for a 40kg Texel from Lhaid Croft, Occumster and £224 gross for a pen of 63kg Texel Lambs from South Keiss, Keiss. Old Season Store Lambs (649) averaged £100.57 sold to £175.50 twice for firstly Suffolks from Hoy & Braal, Halkirk and secondly for Texels from Gerston, Halkirk. Feeding Ewes and Rams (400) averaged £112.85 sold to £270 Texel Ewe from Durran Mains, Castletown. Silage Bales (50) sold to £20 per bale. Hay (20) sold to £20 per bale. “New levels were witnessed today with all classes selling exceptionally well. A new centre record was broken in the prime lamb ring today with the whole sale averaging 348.6p.


I have to add that there were quite a lot of ewe lambs sold Prime, that looked like they had been intended for breeding as double tagged.
There were a lot of over 50kg/60kgs, way more than usual.

 

[muleman]

See bit of a livestream on Carlisle fat

 

[livestock 1]

See bit of a livestream on Carlisle fat

He’s brave letting him have his phone

 

[Stw88]

He’s brave letting him have his phone

Have you got JL on snapchat? Its quite amusing. Especially the comment on the 1 black sheep in a pen of white ones

 

[Stw88]

See bit of a livestream on Carlisle fat

Had some away dead this morning. Think they would have to be £9 kg to match carlisle!

 

[livestock 1]

Have you got JL on snapchat? Its quite amusing. Especially the comment on the 1 black sheep in a pen of white ones

And his mate

 

[hill shepherd]

10 day old Suffolk £105

 

[Skintagain]

10 day old Suffolk £105

They will need every penny of that

 

[Devil's advocate]

10 day old Suffolk £105

estimated rearing cost, bit higher than I thought.

 

[jackstor]

Had worse days

 

[livestock 1]

View attachment 1170645Had worse days

When’s the next shed going up?

 

[Attam]

View attachment 1170645Had worse days

Real do
What breed were the 42 and 45kg hoggs?

 

[hendrebc]

Welshpool 18/3/24 LAMBS STAN 568.5p MED 521.5p HVY 490p SQQ 562.6p o/a 553.2p or £214.50 a head HOGS. SL301.25p LT 337.75p STAN 372.4p MED 389.4p HVY 391.75p O/w 381.6p SQQ 380.7p o/a 383.4p 4584 HOGS and 1406 ewes in the computer

Text from Ruthin market about Welshpool today.

 

[jackstor]

When’s the next shed going up?

Just on with one at the moment
Think it could be an idea to put a bit aside for a rainy day, had plenty of them and there’ll be plenty more to come ( financially and meteorologically)

 

[jackstor]

Real do
What breed were the 42 and 45kg hoggs?

Texel and Charolais, nothing fancy though.
The 45kg at £216 was my girl’s pet lamb

 

[Skintagain]

Texel and Charolais, nothing fancy though.
The 45kg at £216 was my girl’s pet lamb

Was she happy what it made?

 

[jackstor]

There was a lot of seriously good, heavy lambs going through, pen after pen over £200. A lot from Ireland.

 

[Attam]

Texel and Charolais, nothing fancy though.
The 45kg at £216 was my girl’s pet lamb

Thanks for that think I might try some tomorrow, haven’t weighed any but at a glance they look in that weight range.