Welshpool, not wanting export lmbs.

[Humble Village Farmer]

This thread is about buyers not wanting lamb.

Which is simple Common sense even without buisness sense coming into it.....if they cant sell it,what are they going to do with it.?

Yes it is about demand for lamb. But it also looks a bit like an import ban/ trade embargo. Which in turn could be construed as punishment or retaliation for Brexit and denial of access to fisheries. All of which feed into the supply and demand complex surely?

 

[Still Farming]

What's cattle prices like?

 

[kps]

Yes, rebooked for tomorrow so lets hope they go!

Mine are in the lairage from last night not had any weights so I guess there still there

 

[hendrebc]

Has anyone been to welshpool this morning?

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Anyone at lanark or St Boswells.

 

[Werzle]

The people who receive our export lambs must be just as angry, in the next few days with nothing to cut up/sell and eat . Wages will have been paid to these people with no work to do or product to sell .

 

[steveR]

Shrewsbury sent out their text alert, still wanting Lambs...

 

[steveR]

The people who receive our export lambs must be just as angry, in the next few days with nothing to cut up/sell and eat . Wages will have been paid to these people with no work to do or product to sell .

As will our French customers who are wanting lamb for their Christmas dinners.

 

[neilo]

No, I see it as a punishment/ retaliation for Brexit and not giving them all the fishing grounds

Half the countries around the globe have shut borders to uk travellers, quite rightly, whether they are in the EU or not.

The biggest issue is obviously with lorries going to and from the Continent of course, seeing as they are our biggest trading partners. Our customers, and suppliers, over the water will be every bit as concerned as we are.

 

[Still Farming]

Foreign stuff still coming in apparently???

 

[neilo]

Foreign stuff still coming in apparently???

I doubt it at the moment. No continental haulier is going to send a lorry over for it to get stuck here.

 

[Still Farming]

I doubt it at the moment. No continental haulier is going to send a lorry over for it to get stuck here.

Too late if on ships?

 

[Collie dog Sid]

What's cattle prices like?

Strong, cattle clean cattle still in demand, don't think barren cows are though

 

[Farmer Keith]

Strong, cattle clean cattle still in demand, don't think barren cows are though

That makes me feel better had two barrens to go this morning but kept them here, may as well milk them Xmas day, it’s not as if I’ll be doing anything else this time.

 

[Yale]

£87 for 42kg lambs in Mold today......don’t know what the fuss is about as that’s the best price we’ve had for a few weeks.

Neighbour took his best stores to Ruthin last week,they made £94......doesn‘t make sense.

 

[Yale]

Surely if we crash out on WTO beef in the UK will sky rocket.

 

[Top Tip.]

I doubt it at the moment. No continental haulier is going to send a lorry over for it to get stuck here.

Fellow I know had 4 lorries stuck at Dover last night but managed to get the trailers on and organised tractor units to meet them in Calais.

 

[windymiller]

£87 for 42kg lambs in Mold today......don’t know what the fuss is about as that’s the best price we’ve had for a few weeks.

Neighbour took his best stores to Ruthin last week,they made £94......doesn‘t make sense.

Took a load of rubish.... I mean stores to welshpool today, averaged over £50, I'll take that cos one or two were no bigger than rats, and all lambs gone before Christmas. Look forward to the next crop now.

 

[Katarina]

We took a trailer load to Welshpool today. We were on two minds what to do after the border closures last night.
As it was a drop and go system there today we decided to put a reserve of £2 a kg on the lambs .
The trade was a lot better than we had anticipated.
Our trailer load averaged 223.02 ppkg for white faced welsh and texel lambs. We had the top ppkg for a bunch of texels in the standards weights and they sold for 245ppkg . Second top ppkg of the day out of 3500 lambs. Well chuffed with that as we were expecting to have to be bringing the lambs back home if the price had collapsed.
Hope the trade holds out now for the coming weeks during a transition period.

 

[shearerlad]

Anyone at lanark or St Boswells.

Lanark averaged 218ppk, Ayr was 210ppk but St Bos doesn’t give an average