Store lambs realistic price profit?

[Al R]

The tail end of good farmers sheep tend to go on and do well it's the monkey bred stuff that's hard work

You can usually tell the crap ones when buying in the mart mind.. price often reflects this too..

 

[sherg]

You can usually tell the crap ones when buying in the mart mind.. price often reflects this too..

It normally does you do wonder what some people are looking at when they're bidding though

 

[Kip]

You won't double your money on all of them some lambs with a bit of farming will grow like weeds the biggest problem when you buy lower end stores is that there's always a good few that won't ever doo there's a lot of poorly bred sheep out there

Very true that some of the bad doo'ers will never be lambs but this year l feel l have had a good turn with them all. I had a full decker load into local slaughterhouse before easter at £4.00 kg and my load average was 24kg and paying to 22kg a so l was putting nearly £85 in bank. And today l had the last and probably the dregs at local market and sold to a top of £90 to average £86. I just try and keep things simple and let them get on with it themselves but definitely the cheaper you buy the bigger the margin [emoji846]

 

[Al R]

It normally does you do wonder what some people are looking at when they're bidding though

It was understandable when it was all IACS headage (headache) payments, we quickly adjusted breeds after that went!

 

[sherg]

Smaller lambs bought early have been alright this year as long as they were well bred but it has been a kind winter on them last year the smaller lambs were hard work

 

[Northeastfarmer]

You have to be good at it to make any money.Same as most things.Golf.Growing barley.Making jewellery.

Being good at your job is only 50% of it...the other 50% is the lap of the gods