Milking cow/ young stock prices.

[Cuthbert]

What’s happening in the markets? Are dairy still dear with the price of milk and is young stock dropping in price cause of forage?

 

[happycows]

Dairy youngstock don’t seem too reflect the cost and work involved in doing them.
At almost any point upto calving you’d be better off with a beef calf/bullock in terms of value.

Well reared commercial, although other than the best pedigree wouldn’t be far behind. Heifer calf £280. 4/5 month old £350. Yearling £550. Bullers £800 and served heifers £900. 7/8 month incalf £1100.
And if your dealing with that @Beef farmer he will want the shirt of your back too.

I can’t hardly rear it for the money. Sold a freemartin 14mo fleckvieh x for £750 in store ring and that was higher than she’d of made as a breeder.

Sold a extreme type Holstein heifer doing 32l for £1100 or £1008 after expenses few weeks ago. If I’d sold her and not other half she’d have come home.

Also sold few close calving coming too second from home @£1600. Poor choice of bull and Teat placement wasn’t suited too robot so not too displeased at that.

 

[Beef farmer]

@jimmer had some fresh Milker's for 740 last week

 

[jimmer]

@jimmer had some fresh Milker's for 740 last week

No mine were November calvers for 715 but there were smaller fresh X breeds making similar

 

[bigw]

I paid 1200 for autumn calving heifers last month, would have loved to have got them less but I dont think there is an abundance of cattle about at the moment. Hoping to buy some milking heifers from a regular source for 1500ish later in the year.

 

[Beef farmer]

Dairy youngstock don’t seem too reflect the cost and work involved in doing them.
At almost any point upto calving you’d be better off with a beef calf/bullock in terms of value.

Well reared commercial, although other than the best pedigree wouldn’t be far behind. Heifer calf £280. 4/5 month old £350. Yearling £550. Bullers £800 and served heifers £900. 7/8 month incalf £1100.
And if your dealing with that @Beef farmer he will want the shirt of your back too.

I can’t hardly rear it for the money. Sold a freemartin 14mo fleckvieh x for £750 in store ring and that was higher than she’d of made as a breeder.

Sold a extreme type Holstein heifer doing 32l for £1100 or £1008 after expenses few weeks ago. If I’d sold her and not other half she’d have come home.

Also sold few close calving coming too second from home @£1600. Poor choice of bull and Teat placement wasn’t suited too robot so not too displeased at that.

In reference to your young stock prices, we will see these crash between now and Christmas I believe. Dairy farmers will de stock them before they part with any cows. Time will tell, but a large Irish cattle exporting company rung up today. I've never bought from them but have spoke to them in the past, he was looking for homes for cows and admitted that its nose diving, but 2 more weeks of this weather and it will be in a different position altogether.

 

[Rossymons]

What's the cull market doing?

 

[happycows]

What's the cull market doing?

I’d of called it buoyant a few weeks ago. Took a old lean cull I’d put at £320/350. Came back £510 after expenses. I know they were short. Things have changed since then though and no doubt culls are coming out thick and fast.

 

[som farmer]

What’s happening in the markets? Are dairy still dear with the price of milk and is young stock dropping in price cause of forage?

we have been buying youngstock from the marts, young calves can vary from £40 to £250, stirks can vary from £100 to£400, bullers £450 to £7/800 we have paid from £530 to £950 for I/c hfrs, these are not illbred stock, its all about whos got any spare money on the day, if your prepared to sit and wait at a sale, there are plenty of cheap cows/ ystock. makes a mockery of rearing them. we will only ai dairy for 1/2 weeks in our autmn block,then beef-there does not appear to be any of these cheap!

 

[som farmer]

What's the cull market doing?

usually sell direct to abbatoir, normally very good, this time well behind the mart, even topped us up 15p/kilo when I complained. but we have been selling through the ring, and are shocked by what we get, last week really plain holstien expected £300/50 £662 using this trade to out the
problem cows, can buy good young cows, pd+ 4/5 months for less than that.

 

[Spudley]

Local market Tuesday (Carmarthenshire) cows AV 1150 top 1350, heifers AV 1380 top 1720, in calvers AV 990 top 1450, bullers top 750 and baby calves 140. Commercial freisian types in the main although the top priced milkers were alta sired Holsteins.

 

[coomoo]

Local market Tuesday (Carmarthenshire) cows AV 1150 top 1350, heifers AV 1380 top 1720, in calvers AV 990 top 1450, bullers top 750 and baby calves 140. Commercial freisian types in the main although the top priced milkers were alta sired Holsteins.

Seems decent value

 

[Milkcow365]

Can’t see cows going to wild in money this year if this weather continues? Hardly anyone up here with 2nd cut made and it’s not there to make

 

[Spudley]

@coomoo i thought so, there was some good stock there

 

[Sid]

44 organic cows in Exeter today...had a call yesterday asking me to attend.

Well seeing as it takes 7 days to get a movement licence that would be a no.
I have the food just not the licence!

Can't see them being big money tbh

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

 

[Rossymons]

With dry conditions holding and genuine concerns about fodder this winter - what does everyone think is going to happen to cattle prices?

I reckon bulling heifers and younger will probably be steals.

 

[jimmer]

With dry conditions holding and genuine concerns about fodder this winter - what does everyone think is going to happen to cattle prices?

I reckon bulling heifers and younger will probably be steals.

What dairy heifers , it's the perfect storm, three years ago a lot of people sloshed beef semen around like it was free
They will be decent money as a consequence

 

[Rossymons]

What dairy heifers , it's the perfect storm, three years ago a lot of people sloshed beef semen around like it was free
They will be decent money as a consequence

Youngstock took a tumble last season with fears of a long winter. That was with decent forage and bedding stocks. Last spring cleared all that out and we all know the fears heading into this winter.

Someone I know took a load of strong bulling heifers to market and barely made their rearing costs. Could be some bargains.

 

[coomoo]

Youngstock took a tumble last season with fears of a long winter. That was with decent forage and bedding stocks. Last spring cleared all that out and we all know the fears heading into this winter.

Someone I know took a load of strong bulling heifers to market and barely made their rearing costs. Could be some bargains.

Maybe youngstock but milk cows/heifers will still be a fair trade if even slackened a little. Two farmers up here both got wagons booked to bring 100 each up from the south. As always big uns will open the taps even with a shortage of fodder they’ll still go hard.