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<blockquote data-quote="Woolless" data-source="post: 7555394" data-attributes="member: 3403"><p>I think the biggest plus for deadweight to me is that you get paid for what goes on the hook, weight and grade, NOT for what some buyer thinks they will be or what he thinks he can get away with. I tend to market my bigger lots of fat lambs deadweight through a farmers' co-operative through the peak season and remove the risk of getting shafted/catching a bad trade at the mart. Smaller lots either end of the season go to St Boswells. I would have to say that I've been disappointed more often there than with a deadweight line.</p><p></p><p>Buyers: Their wage/fancy car has to come from somewhere. A buyer at Boswells said to me that on that day hoggs without 'protection' i.e. someone standing with them and presumably about to pay luck money, were averaging £20 less!</p><p></p><p>Swings and roundabouts, I wouldn't want to be without the live mart and like to support it but I'm not about to short change myself!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Woolless, post: 7555394, member: 3403"] I think the biggest plus for deadweight to me is that you get paid for what goes on the hook, weight and grade, NOT for what some buyer thinks they will be or what he thinks he can get away with. I tend to market my bigger lots of fat lambs deadweight through a farmers' co-operative through the peak season and remove the risk of getting shafted/catching a bad trade at the mart. Smaller lots either end of the season go to St Boswells. I would have to say that I've been disappointed more often there than with a deadweight line. Buyers: Their wage/fancy car has to come from somewhere. A buyer at Boswells said to me that on that day hoggs without 'protection' i.e. someone standing with them and presumably about to pay luck money, were averaging £20 less! Swings and roundabouts, I wouldn't want to be without the live mart and like to support it but I'm not about to short change myself! [/QUOTE]
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