Store lamb prices

[Greythundercloudys]

I saw the first big lots of blackie lmbs sold on Monday, really nice strong ones 50£, next spring ones 40/45, those wee lmb won't be ready till fed march time, so long keep but l think they are cheap enough at that price, l know l guy who feeds maybe 1600 lmbs a year, on rape&pellets and he changed from buying good medium lmbs to more third draw and says he makes more off them than the 10£ahead dearer ones, in 2018 he had 1200 lmbs to sell in April.

 

[Nithsdale]

I saw the first big lots of blackie lmbs sold on Monday, really nice strong ones 50£, next spring ones 40/45, those wee lmb won't be ready till fed march time, so long keep but l think they are cheap enough at that price, l know l guy who feeds maybe 1600 lmbs a year, on rape&pellets and he changed from buying good medium lmbs to more third draw and says he makes more off them than the 10£ahead dearer ones, in 2018 he had 1200 lmbs to sell in April.

Buys 3rd draw lambs.
Feeds 1600, sold 1200



Did the other 400 die

 

[Greythundercloudys]

I take it he sold 400 before then, just saying what he said, there was more money in the smaller ones. He will have dead ones the same as everyone.

 

[Nithsdale]

I take it he sold 400 before then, just saying what he said, there was more money in the smaller ones. He will have dead ones the same as everyone.

Aye I know, just having a light hearted moment with the 400 not accounted for

 

[S J H]

Agree with that,
Sent a load of what I would call genuine stores yesterday, as in will finish in a few weeks of better grass than mine, nothing going to drop dead, no runts or poor doers and they made £50
That's the money I expected despite the market reports stating a fantastic trade of stores in the high 60s and low 70s
While I was unloading a bloke in front of me was filling store pens with lambs that should have been going as fats but clearly he needed the ego boost selling higher priced stores rather than lower priced fat and destorting prices along the way!

If they're not finished, then they're stores imo. I bet if he'd taken them in the fat then they would have complained they weren't quite there.

 

[Greythundercloudys]

That correct, the lmbs in the reports are fat lmbs sold in the store ring, makes the report look good.

 

[neilo]

That correct, the lmbs in the reports are fat lmbs sold in the store ring, makes the report look good.

It makes vendors feel better when they don’t get a deduction for the AHDB levy on their sales docket. Levy is still paid on them at point of slaughter though, so already written into the price per head instead.

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Very dear store sale at skipton on Wednesday.

 

[Skintagain]

Very dear store sale at skipton on Wednesday.

Lad I know took 150 30kg stores white faced nice sorts averaged just over £60.00

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Sheep are either going to be very expensive in the spring. Or folks going to get there fingers burned. Again. I think they will be very skarce buy Feb.

 

[neilo]

Sheep are either going to be very expensive in the spring. Or folks going to get there fingers burned. Again. I think they will be very skarce buy Feb.

IF the sh1t hits the fan at the end of October, things should still have picked up again (hopefully) by March/April, once the egos on both sides have come to their senses. Most people scanned with lower numbers last year because of the drought, and a lot of people had reduced ewe numbers after the previous winter, so there have to be fewer lambs about already. Could be fortunes made in hoggets next year, if the big B gets sorted out (or kicked into touch, of course).

 

[som farmer]

with half the politicians, desperately trying to stop a hard Brexit, eu saying they will not negotiate on the May deal, which parliament voted against 3 times, it's a bloody good mess. the eu will not alter their position until they think boris can achieve leaving, why should they? the deal that is on the table, was designed by them, for themselves. With the present load of idiots in parliament, running round like headless chicken, clucking how they can stop a no deal, why should the eu offer anything ? at the stage when the eu decides, that boris could attain a no deal Brexit, that will be when the serious talking starts.
as a little movement has been seen this week. What it does show, is how out of touch modern politicans are. how many of us would enter into negotiations, to by a new machine, and say' well I want a good discount, but I am going to have the machine regardless' sheer f'ing lunacy, and would love to see it rectified at a gen election, but it wont be.
the one thing I am sure of, is we now have to leave,, simply because Europe will never trust us as a member again, and who could blame them ? I am also sure that it was the eu's unwillingness to give Cameron a few minor changes, that has caused the whole problem in the first place!!

 

[livestock 1]

with half the politicians, desperately trying to stop a hard Brexit, eu saying they will not negotiate on the May deal, which parliament voted against 3 times, it's a bloody good mess. the eu will not alter their position until they think boris can achieve leaving, why should they? the deal that is on the table, was designed by them, for themselves. With the present load of idiots in parliament, running round like headless chicken, clucking how they can stop a no deal, why should the eu offer anything ? at the stage when the eu decides, that boris could attain a no deal Brexit, that will be when the serious talking starts.
as a little movement has been seen this week. What it does show, is how out of touch modern politicans are. how many of us would enter into negotiations, to by a new machine, and say' well I want a good discount, but I am going to have the machine regardless' sheer f'ing lunacy, and would love to see it rectified at a gen election, but it wont be.
the one thing I am sure of, is we now have to leave,, simply because Europe will never trust us as a member again, and who could blame them ? I am also sure that it was the eu's unwillingness to give Cameron a few minor changes, that has caused the whole problem in the first place!!

Maybe after we’ve seen their true colours it’s actually us that doesn’t want to be part of the Eu?

 

[AftonShepherd]

We voted to leave, just a pity so many politicians don't understand what democracy means!

 

[andybk]

We voted to leave, just a pity so many politicians don't understand what democracy means!

some might at the next election !

 

[Bones]

Give the people of Northern Ireland a vote on a Northern Ireland only back stop, and we will grab it with both hands, job done , move on.

 

[CopperBeech]

If we have a no deal Brexit. In the short term the sheep trade is going to be very grim. Predicted to be about. 99% drop in exports and a 24% drop in price for lamb. Not good at all!

Those who can ride it out will probably do ok in the end, but it’s very very worrying!

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Have you been to any sheep sales lately copper beech?, no brexit fear in the store ring. Why is medium /long keep lmbs making 60£.

 

[livestock 1]

Have you been to any sheep sales lately copper beech?, no brexit fear in the store ring. Why is medium /long keep lmbs making 60£.

They have been £60 for a lot of years now

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Yes, but this is supposed to be a different year, or so we're lead to believe.