Interesting Irish suckler figures

[topground]

Good to hear that you had a much better year in 2013 than the last few years

What you say is very intresting and relevant as much to you as down here tbh as a lot of the cattle in the south west end up in Yorkshire ( one buyer alone at sedge will quite often buy 100+ big steers to haul to Yorkshire week in/out ) so how come Yorkshire farmers can ( it seems ) pay more for cattle than the rest of the UK ???

Would that be the feeders who have access to all sorts of food processing waste? Was quoted some figures some time ago on how much their ration costs per live weight Kg gained were. Made sense for them to buy as many cattle as they could feed!

 

[gone up the hill]

The reason they do not return south is they could not find the difference in cost to move south again.
Lets face it if sucklers were that profitable everyone would be doing it and that would really muck it up.
As for loads of stores moving north every week thats probably due to lack of cows in Scotland at present.

Nothing to do with lack of cow's... suckler cow's are short on numbers across the UK...

Simple fact is that the beef price Up North is much better than down here... how else do you explain the 30 ppk difference???

 

[Hilly]

Most of mine went to Yorkshire this time.

 

[topground]

Mentioned before on here 11 month suckled steers sold last April averaged £950 at Sedgemoor. Checked on CTS, they went to Yorkshire, then through a market then to Cleveland so £50 transport and another £30 commission plus dealers margin to someone who then hoped to make a profit.
On that basis would it be worth shipping a lorry load of my Somerset reared suckled calves to a Yorkshire market and cutting out the middle men?

 

[Hilly]

Mentioned before on here 11 month suckled steers sold last April averaged £950 at Sedgemoor. Checked on CTS, they went to Yorkshire, then through a market then to Cleveland so £50 transport and another £30 commission plus dealers margin to someone who then hoped to make a profit.
On that basis would it be worth shipping a lorry load of my Somerset reared suckled calves to a Yorkshire market and cutting out the middle men?

send them to Carlisle.

 

[sheepwise]

MMm, I don't really know as I have never rented land like that, £30 an acre? How much would it cost to buy?

Based on lets say 5 ewes to the cow that farm would be running a cow to every 6.66 acres so at £30 an acre would be nearly £200 a cow on land rent alone.

£30/acre!! Think you are having a laugh, £5 - £10/acre would be nearer the mark.