Those farmers are making so much money.

[M-J-G]

On a year where the livestock job is none too fancy the Blackie boys continue to work wonders for our relationship with the general public.

 

[jamesy]

??‍

 

[hilux]

Bye ,bye lleyns, hello blackies

 

[Agrivator]

I know for a fact that it's a nightmare for their accountants and business advisors when it come to doing year-end livestock valuations.

 

[livestock 1]

I was thinking the same. There’s other breeds where it’s happening too

 

[johnspeehs]

Hopefully your old enough to remember what this character did..... The blackie boys have lots of them.... = ££££££££££££££

 

[spin cycle]

do scottish blackface sheep sh!t cocaine

 

[An Gof]

Scotch Blackface breeding sales makes the Mafia look like amateur racketeers

 

[Woolless]

do scottish blackface sheep sh!t cocaine

Well, I dragged enough from pen to shearers as a youth and never got high!

 

[Woolless]

do scottish blackface sheep sh!t cocaine

Having said that, the post-gathering, pre-clipping drams (and McEwan s export) was enough to get me pretty well oiled IIRC!

 

[Moors Lad]

Hopefully your old enough to remember what this character did

Go on, enlighten us young `uns...

I sometimes wonder if the big boys scratch one another`s backs on a regular basis....

 

[muleman]

They may not be making as much as you think,the grass isnt always greener on the other side of the fence.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Sold for 10k with £9900 luck back

 

[M-J-G]

They may not be making as much as you think,the grass isnt always greener on the other side of the fence.

Of course they aren't, plenty of them are living life on an overdraft.

It's how this charade comes across that I take issue with, and how it isn't doing farmers any good with the public.

 

[M-J-G]

Sold for 10k with £9900 luck back

Maybe a bit extreme, but the theory does hold water

 

[Top Tip.]

Sold for 10k with £9900 luck back

That is what is commonly said but I don’t think that is true ,you will usually find that the the seller will insure the the tup and also give the buyer the use of some of his best tup lambs so you are usually getting two or three for the price of one. That is in the blackface breed ,I can’t comment on the swaledale sales .

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Buying tups for thousands, sell wee stores for 30£, it's the lfa sub that keeps them going, once that's cut those places will get planted in trees.

 

[Bob the beef]

Top lamb sold for £150k but seller is in the 3 way syndicate that buys it
It must be great to bid your own stock up to inflate your own self worth.
The whole circus is nothing more than a sham, and a PR disaster for upland farming

Funnily enough no one yet mentioned on here that 6 of the top texel lambs sold at Lanark have proved in fertile, including the 200k lamb

 

[spark_28]

Is any ram genuinely worth over £2000?

The more and more I think about it I don’t really think so

 

[scottish-lleyn]

Its all a bit of a joke really. I did like the last 6 lots tho from willie dunlop. 6 lots of six doses of some fancy blackie raised £7000 for cancer research in 5 mins. Lovely gesture i thought.