Best place to buy store lambs?

[beltextexel]

36kg - 38kg strong stores have been £60 up here. Seems a good price compared to the fat I'd say.

 

[Jim75]

Dingwall,Stirling, few outlying marts through the same companies.

 

[gone up the hill]

The last couple of years I have bought store lambs from Skipton and Kendal via a dealer and trucked down here.

This year it seems store lambs are bit cheaper in the south east due to the lack of keep. Haulage shouldn’t be nearly as dear either. Where gets a good number? Ashford or Hailsham any good? I would have a look at Wilton on Thursday but I have a meeting that I can’t rearrange.

I’m based in Hampshire, looking for about 400 to go on turnips.

@Beef farmer is the man you need to talk to as before he went milking he used to go up and buy lambs by the lorry load out of Ashford.

 

[CopperBeech]

Funnily enough, highest margin in shortest time I've ever achieved also goes to a group of romney and romney x store lambs.

 

[Beef farmer]

And the kent boys shear them in september for you. Save quid and half

 

[Ysgythan]

The last couple of years I have bought store lambs from Skipton and Kendal via a dealer and trucked down here.

This year it seems store lambs are bit cheaper in the south east due to the lack of keep. Haulage shouldn’t be nearly as dear either. Where gets a good number? Ashford or Hailsham any good? I would have a look at Wilton on Thursday but I have a meeting that I can’t rearrange.

I’m based in Hampshire, looking for about 400 to go on turnips.

Rhaeader
Dolgellau
Penderyn

 

[Woolless]

Could do with you back up here buying Romney’s.

They have been robbed from us this year, which is annoying after the store lamb buyers made so much from them last year .

I've been thinking about this. I've done better with my store trade this year, away a month earlier and £5 up on last year's moderate trade. But I thought they might have been better, given the apparent reduced numbers of lambs in the country. The problem is that the big numbers of stores all come out in a pretty short space of time. The buyers are spoilt for choice and so can be picky, knocking back woolly heads etc. It will take an even bigger reduction in sheep numbers (caused by weather or folk simply chucking the towel in) to have a decent impact on the store trade simply because of this annual bottleneck.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

36kg - 38kg strong stores have been £60 up here. Seems a good price compared to the fat I'd say.

That’s cos you were buying them all on Friday

 

[Skintagain]

Do we think Stores will ramp up quickly from now? Silage is off in many places grass is growing and a lot of cattle will be going backwards outside especially calves unless it stays dry and folk eek all dry cows on as much as possible

 

[texas pete]

I've been thinking about this. I've done better with my store trade this year, away a month earlier and £5 up on last year's moderate trade. But I thought they might have been better, given the apparent reduced numbers of lambs in the country. The problem is that the big numbers of stores all come out in a pretty short space of time. The buyers are spoilt for choice and so can be picky, knocking back woolly heads etc. It will take an even bigger reduction in sheep numbers (caused by weather or folk simply chucking the towel in) to have a decent impact on the store trade simply because of this annual bottleneck.

It's all relative though. Some years stores seem f**king expensive...last Spring's finished trade was unexpected and makes the current store trade seem lower than it perhaps should be.

Much more to it than just their "value"...this year especially....lambs bought this Autumn might seem very good or bad value come next March/April, when I normally sell.

Personally I have bought stronger stores this year,to maybe give more options when it comes to selling.

 

[Skintagain]

What about buying decent ewe lambs with the price they have been as you have another market again when the time comes to decide what to do with them and a lot have had better treatment and meds than their siblings too?

 

[beltextexel]

That’s cos you were buying them all on Friday

You know anywhere where they are cheaper?!?

 

[Northeastfarmer]

You know anywhere where they are cheaper?!?

Yea....anywhere where you’re not

 

[Al R]

If i was buying lambs they are the only lambs id look at. 38kg romney 55 quid. 2.85 to get them home. Hit maximum weight at 0 or R grade with 95% of them. Like peas in a pod. Only problem was keeping 70% till march/april get a few 65kg ones.

O and R’s on the romneys is it? What sort of weights do they go to before they hit 4L’s?

 

[Beef farmer]

O and R’s on the romneys is it? What sort of weights do they go to before they hit 4L’s?

21 hung up. Never purposly kept a lamb to 4l......not really in spec

 

[Al R]

21 hung up. Never purposly kept a lamb to 4l......not really in spec

I know that but some breeds will go 4L at 16kg and others 23kg?

Surely O’s are out of spec on most grids?

 

[Beef farmer]

I know that but some breeds will go 4L at 16kg and others 23kg?

Surely O’s are out of spec on most grids?

-10p is nowt on a lamb that 10 quid cheaper than the same size r grade lamb.

Used to average 19.4 kgs plus on 4k lambs.

 

[Al R]

-10p is nowt on a lamb that 10 quid cheaper than the same size r grade lamb.

Used to average 19.4 kgs plus on 4k lambs.

No that’s very true!

@Wooly when is Ashford mart? I’m down near there for a few days in a weeks time.

 

[Beef farmer]

No that’s very true!

@Wooly when is Ashford mart? I’m down near there for a few days in a weeks time.

Fridays.

 

[Wooly]

No that’s very true!

@Wooly when is Ashford mart? I’m down near there for a few days in a weeks time.

Tuesdays are the day for fat cattle, store cattle, sheep, calves and pigs.

Friday for store and breeding sheep at this time of the year.

https://www.hobbsparker.co.uk/auctioneers/livestock-marketing/#gs.5ELR448