The Beef Tracker thread (no Sheep)

[Chae1]

I was told up 8p
still ,+15p for Angus so must be around £5.

My auntie got £5 for a Angus last week. She said the bonus was +10p

 

[Plain steer]

My auntie got £5 for a Angus last week. She said the bonus was +10p

What is there base price?

 

[Chae1]

What is there base price?

Don't know

 

[Northern territory]

If he is doing those numbers then he will have over a million ££s worth of cattle in the yards at least at any one time!

700 big stores at any one time

 

[jackrussell101]

I've always wondered what pays better, doing big stores 90 to 120 days spin round whereby 1 'place' will do 3 or 4 'places' a year or buying milk calves and taking them all the way through to finishing?

 

[livestock 1]

I've always wondered what pays better, doing big stores 90 to 120 days spin round whereby 1 'place' will do 3 or 4 'places' a year or buying milk calves and taking them all the way through to finishing?

Depends how many you are doing
Cost of money means big stores sharp turn around wins if you are doing a lot

 

[TheRanger]

I've always wondered what pays better, doing big stores 90 to 120 days spin round whereby 1 'place' will do 3 or 4 'places' a year or buying milk calves and taking them all the way through to finishing?

First couple of years will be an issue, lots of outgoings and little income. Once you’ve got consistent number coming and going per month it might work.

 

[harperfarmer]

I've always wondered what pays better, doing big stores 90 to 120 days spin round whereby 1 'place' will do 3 or 4 'places' a year or buying milk calves and taking them all the way through to finishing?

I've been doing shorter keep cattle recently and whilst they look better returns on a £/head/day basis they obviously have a smaller margin/head as around for shorter periods of time. So you need to be doing that extra 2 or 3 per place per year as it were. Not only that, if you do one animal grossing a bigger margin over a longer period of time, its a lot less work. Doing more = more to clip, more to weigh, more to vaccinate, more admin, ear tags etc, so you'll also have higher costs/place. One place for a long term animal incurs one lot of haulage in and one lot out, if you do 4 animals per place thats 4 times the amount just for haulage. I know its all relative but its a real treadmill and I think j you have to love the workload and enjoy trading cattle to get the most out of it. I really enjoy buying/selling cattle both live and dead. I know of some big outfits who fatten big numbers but get sent all the cattle and do them all direct to processor, straight onto a lorry and gone. So in my eyes having all of the work and none of the pleasure but then everyone's different and some just love the day to day looking after of cattle.

 

[Timbo]

??

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

I suppose it could be? Never had anything with schmallenberg before and just put it down to being one of those you get. Law of averages type of thing. It's mother is a 7th calver and only cost £700 as a buller so I'll not mind sending her off at £4+/kilo

You would expect her to have picked up the virus before now and be immune, so maybe not. Depends on the availability of midge vectors I suppose.

 

[Optimus]

My auntie got £5 for a Angus last week. She said the bonus was +10p

Got the £5 for some angus.7 out of the 12 were over 2k.nice to see them coming to money.better than the sheep I sold today.

 

[balerman]

Got the £5 for some angus.7 out of the 12 were over 2k.nice to see them coming to money.better than the sheep I sold today.

That’s good money for Angus cattle.

 

[Shebb90]

That’s good money for Angus cattle.

Do you know what hatherleigh is this week? I think you might send there?

 

[balerman]

Do you know what hatherleigh is this week? I think you might send there?

No idea, been going to langport for a while now.ABP were 480 last week.

 

[Fedupfarmer]

Pickstoxs 4.25 for cows next week.

 

[Timbo]

Pickstoxs 4.25 for cows next week.

Place your bets on a Clean rise also...

 

[aangus]

Place your bets on a Clean rise also...

i think it will be stand on

 

[Oh bullocks]

Stand on

 

[jackrussell101]

Email says clean price TBC

 

[jackrussell101]

My hunch would be a 5p or 10p rise, otherwise no point saying TBC if it's still the same