Calf trade....

[had e nuff]

Looking at the leyburn report it seems the top end calves are still making decent money but the plainer stuff is through the floor. Correct me if im wrong.

Black and whites up to 275

 

[happycows]

Not that I'll be buying them but av £24 for bw bulls last week in Holsworthy.
Don't mind 2/3 week old calves aslong as they have shape and width. Won't be many grazing types calving now.

 

[kill]

Not that I'll be buying them but av £24 for bw bulls last week in Holsworthy.
Don't mind 2/3 week old calves aslong as they have shape and width. Won't be many grazing types calving now.

Is the calf price downfall possibly linked to low milk price and dairy farmers using more beef straw's rather than dairy straw's?

 

[happycows]

I think it's seasonal. I've sold my calves well all summer through Facebook but been plenty going through the ring and I thought fairly good money. Just last couple weeks few had said ass fallen out if it.
Just got time on my hands which is fatal.
50 tame lambs or is that just really stupid! Gone by Easter.

 

[Victor]

Not that I'll be buying them but av £24 for bw bulls last week in Holsworthy.
Don't mind 2/3 week old calves aslong as they have shape and width. Won't be many grazing types calving now.

Have bought a few calves out of Holsworthy recently as they are cheaper shant be there this week as just about full up so theyre bound to be cheaper. Was told milk powder going up by a fair bit so will probably forget it for a while. Should of weaned them all by the time the cows start calving and the sheep start lambing in Feb. Go for it as opportunities are few and far between and when calves shoot up in value in the new year you'll be kickin yourself if you didn't fill your shed

 

[gone up the hill]

Not that I'll be buying them but av £24 for bw bulls last week in Holsworthy.
Don't mind 2/3 week old calves aslong as they have shape and width. Won't be many grazing types calving now.

If you want shape and width you will be buying at the top end of the market and whilst the bottom has crashed for the 2nd grade calves it has actually got stronger for the top end ones the last 2/3 weeks..

Those Fri calves would be the ones to buy, if you buy the right one's and rear them right they could easily be worth £250 + come spring, either that or buy decent native heifers sub £100, for what you are thinking of doing getting the calf cheaply will be key.

If you are going to do it thou I would suggest buying as many as possible this week before xmas but imo if you have the space etc then I would get some bought.

 

[Victor]

You might confuse the auctioneer if there's another buyer for Fri though not used to having three

 

[simmy_bull]

The old man said calves were the cheapest he's seen in ages on Friday...a lot were taking them home

Was that at leyburn?

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Was that at leyburn?

Yes

 

[simmy_bull]

I Should maybe have a ride up on Friday and grab a Christmas bargain

Once bough a batch out of there for a couple of pound apiece b&w obvioulsy but I reconded they were some of the most profitable beast I ever owned.

 

[Youngun]

Would there be any profit in angus steers? I see they were selling at £148 at Exeter last week

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Would there be any profit in angus steers? I see they were selling at £148 at Exeter last week

Theyve made @gone up the hill a millionaire

 

[S J H]

I Should maybe have a ride up on Friday and grab a Christmas bargain

Once bough a batch out of there for a couple of pound apiece b&w obvioulsy but I reconded they were some of the most profitable beast I ever owned.

I remember as I kid selling them for £3 never seen them that cheap since.

 

[simmy_bull]

Would there be any profit in angus steers? I see they were selling at £148 at Exeter last week

I wouldn't of thought they were out the way at that money depending on age?

I think this thread should be a sticky. The dairy boys can tell us when trade is poor and the beef farmers can rush out and fill there boots

 

[Northeastfarmer]

I remember as I kid selling them for £3 never seen them that cheap since.

My old man bought some for 50p once!

 

[S J H]

My old man bought some for 50p once!

I'd rather sell them for 50p than shooting them they must have been shite times for people back then.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

I'd rather sell them for 50p than shooting them they must have been shite times for people back then.

I can remember about the year 2000 I think it was...we got a load of limousin x Friesian heifers off a dairy friend for the price of the tags! Still have them now as cows

 

[simmy_bull]

I remember as I kid selling them for £3 never seen them that cheap since.

I'll dig the invoice out if I remember I'm probably going back 7 or 8 years. Bought ever so many for a pound or two then a particularly white Holstein came in and he didn't have a bid I'm sure I would of had it for free but the wife didn't think that was morally correct and bid a pound

 

[S J H]

I can remember about the year 2000 I think it was...we got a load of limousin x Friesian heifers off a dairy friend for the price of the tags! Still have them now as cows

money goes to money @Northeastfarmer

 

[Northeastfarmer]

money goes to money @Northeastfarmer

Wait till I cull them for 1k