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[som farmer]

I get bb, Angus and a few lim. Blue x dairy aren’t what they were. Easy calving for dairy means they’re just small and will not make big cattle plus eat that much feed to get a finish on them. I can’t understand the premium for blue calves. Lim are good but not many about. Angus are fantastic, grow big and fatten off little inputs. They cost less than continentals to buy as well and get the sire premium now the other end if I was keeping sucklers breeding calves/stores to sell it would be lim all the way the lim beast will sell anywhere. If I was keeping the the suckler calves my self to take through to fat I would be on an Angus bull.

glad to read this post, by the end of the week, we will have over 200 aax calves/stirks here, and more to come.
plus bb's lims hfrds etc

would welcome comments on this, AAx steers, out at grass, with wheat gluten, £200/ton, ad lib in a creep feeder. Eating a lot less than in the shed. Feed rep has suggested this, so trying.

 

[som farmer]

Lim calves out of the dairy are too bloody changeable unless you know exactly where they’re coming from…

this is a pet hate.

l know why, and have done so here, the use of cheap stock bulls, to sweep dairy herds, its a very hard life, so the inclination, is to use cheap bulls.

the same logic applies to beef semen, we have friends who compete to see who can find the cheapest semen, £2.75 bb cheapest l have heard, £6/7 straw, will buy you a far superior sire.

the worst, are the strict spring grazing herds, poorly bred ped bulls, small 400/450 kg cows, and moan the calves make feck all.

In my opinion, they are just chucking money away, it wouldn't take a lot of time/money, to use better beef AI bulls, cows are seriously fertile, they wouldn't lose time, but would produce something worth buying.

we have bought such calves very cheaply, £1-10, waste of time, just put a 2 yr old AAx hfr, in the freezer, just over 400kg live weight, and been done well, tastes fantastic, commercial ? no.

pushing up the beef side, we are trying to deal with dairies, that have middle of the road sized cows, not as easy as one would think, there again, block calving, you only need 2 or 3 farms.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

this is a pet hate.

l know why, and have done so here, the use of cheap stock bulls, to sweep dairy herds, its a very hard life, so the inclination, is to use cheap bulls.

the same logic applies to beef semen, we have friends who compete to see who can find the cheapest semen, £2.75 bb cheapest l have heard, £6/7 straw, will buy you a far superior sire.

the worst, are the strict spring grazing herds, poorly bred ped bulls, small 400/450 kg cows, and moan the calves make feck all.

In my opinion, they are just chucking money away, it wouldn't take a lot of time/money, to use better beef AI bulls, cows are seriously fertile, they wouldn't lose time, but would produce something worth buying.

we have bought such calves very cheaply, £1-10, waste of time, just put a 2 yr old AAx hfr, in the freezer, just over 400kg live weight, and been done well, tastes fantastic, commercial ? no.

pushing up the beef side, we are trying to deal with dairies, that have middle of the road sized cows, not as easy as one would think, there again, block calving, you only need 2 or 3 farms.

I recall talking to an auctioneer in northern England a couple of years back. He’d just come off the phone and was looking very flustered. So I asked if everything was alright. He was telling me that it was a calf rearer on the phone. Complaining about some Angus calves he’s sold him. It turned out they’d come from a grass rat herd, but the farmer had decided that rather than buy a pure Angus bull, he’d keep one of his own kiwi x Angus bull calves back and use that instead. He’d registered all the calves as Angus and sold them at 2 weeks old. So the unsuspecting calf rearer had in essence bought a ruck of 3/4 kiwi bred bull calves at Angus bull price. The man who buys for him had passed the book onto the auctioneer to deal with. At the time you could buy an average angus sweeper bull for £2500

 

[som farmer]

I recall talking to an auctioneer in northern England a couple of years back. He’d just come off the phone and was looking very flustered. So I asked if everything was alright. He was telling me that it was a calf rearer on the phone. Complaining about some Angus calves he’s sold him. It turned out they’d come from a grass rat herd, but the farmer had decided that rather than buy a pure Angus bull, he’d keep one of his own kiwi x Angus bull calves back and use that instead. He’d registered all the calves as Angus and sold them at 2 weeks old. So the unsuspecting calf rearer had in essence bought a ruck of 3/4 kiwi bred bull calves at Angus bull price. The man who buys for him had passed the book onto the auctioneer to deal with. At the time you could buy an average angus sweeper bull for £2500

any doubt about a sire here, l write on the p/port, no sire, and still get asked for sire details.

kept a 3/4 hereford bull, situation arose, where we had to use him, his calves were seriously good, looked like hfrds, and topped the mkt. Auctioneer stated no sire, written on the p/p, and still got asked.

 

[Raider112]

Ronnie cork? Was that Ronnick hawks Irish cousin?

Think we all called him that must have been some calves from him, loads of us used him back then.

 

[Macsky]

Sheep prices stable for a while yet?

 

[Northern territory]

Any Hogg news today. Be some markets on is there ?

 

[Hawthorn]

Any Hogg news today. Be some markets on is there ?

Good lambs good money in Welshpool heavies trading over £190

best hoggs touching on £4

 

[JockCroft]

Quoybrae this morning.Hoggs 40kg shiteoftheshite, £138. Better than I expected. Weighed better than at home as well.
Heavies definitely very sharp. Few must have been close to £4/kg. Only lairdy and Alec buying but seemed to be very keen to get numbers.

Will put the report up whenever it gets published.

 

[Average Farmerboy]

MONDAY 06th May 2024 - ROSS ON WYE MARKET

Bank Holiday Brought Many Surprises

SHEEP (1492)

HOGGS (1224)

Hoggs sell to £225- 404ppk

Overall SQQ 364ppk

SPRING LAMBS (268)

Spring lambs sell to £206 - 488ppk
Average 4.55ppk

Cull Ewes (147)

Ewes top at £198 - Average £125

CLEAN CATTLE

Steers to 296/kg (£2,051) av 284ppk
Heifers to 306/kg (£1,691) av 270ppk

Please don’t hesitate to contact the market team with any enquiries

Market Office 01989762225
Richard Williams 07973512898
William Probert 07595315902

 

[Levelsman]

MONDAY 06th May 2024 - ROSS ON WYE MARKET

Bank Holiday Brought Many Surprises

SHEEP (1492)

HOGGS (1224)

Hoggs sell to £225- 404ppk

Overall SQQ 364ppk

SPRING LAMBS (268)

Spring lambs sell to £206 - 488ppk
Average 4.55ppk

Cull Ewes (147)

Ewes top at £198 - Average £125

CLEAN CATTLE

Steers to 296/kg (£2,051) av 284ppk
Heifers to 306/kg (£1,691) av 270ppk

Please don’t hesitate to contact the market team with any enquiries

Market Office 01989762225
Richard Williams 07973512898
William Probert 07595315902

Think there will be some s from Sedge too.
Not many best in, but would have said at least £20/hd up on last week's mediocre trade.Some runs ave well over £200 to £230s.

 

[AvonValleyFarmer]

Better trade today. Rugby

 

[Levelsman]

Think there will be some s from Sedge too.
Not many best in, but would have said at least £20/hd up on last week's mediocre trade.Some runs ave well over £200 to £230s.

Streuth, just realised I'm sounding like GUTH!

 

[JockCroft]

Quoybrae Caithness today.

New Season Lambs (4) sold to 398.8p per kg for 42kg Dutch Spotted Lambs from Westerloch, Wick and Sold to £239.50 for 63kg Suffolks from East Murkle, Murkle (Swanson).

Old Season Prime lambs (298) averaged 342.6p and sold to 379p for 50kg Texels from Newlands of Giese, Janestown and £221.50 gross for a 55kg Texel from Cruithni, Tofts.

Old Season Store Lambs (399) averaged £99.33 and sold to £191.50 for Park North Country Cheviots from Old Inn, Roadside.

Feeding Ewes and Rams (506) averaged £121.28 sold to £267.50 for a Suffolk Ewe from East Murkle, Murkle (Swanson).

“With a mix show forward, cattle were cashed at recent rates. A strong entry of 1,207 sheep, were very keenly bid for.

 

[andybk]

GTH - Agriculture & Sedgemoor Auction Centre - Greenslade Taylor Hunt​

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Monday 6th May 2024
Today at a glance......
Prime Cattle (66)
Steers sold to £1933.20 and 289.5ppk
Heifers sold to £1910.70 and 289.5ppk
AllUTM/OTM Av £1454.85
Barren Cows (34)
Blonde sold to £2166.27 and 221.5ppk
Limousin sold to £1667.05 and 216.5ppk
Fleckvieh sold to 1438.17 and 191.5ppk
All Cows av £1121
Cull Bulls (2) Sold to £1426.61 and 165.5ppk
Prime Hoggetts (679) Sold to £235 and 428ppk
SQQ Av 348.89 All av 354.97 and £174
Prime Lambs (458) Sold to £230 and 488ppk
SQQ Av 446.84 All av 444.11 and £185.01

 

[DB67]

Breeding cattle a good trade at Stirling today. Not many outfits under 3k. Numerous lots 4k+.

 

[livestock 1]

Breeding cattle a good trade at Stirling today. Not many outfits under 3k. Numerous lots 4k+.

Even 3k ones take a bit of getting out of

 

[thorpe]

GTH - Agriculture & Sedgemoor Auction Centre - Greenslade Taylor Hunt​

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Monday 6th May 2024
Today at a glance......
Prime Cattle (66)
Steers sold to £1933.20 and 289.5ppk
Heifers sold to £1910.70 and 289.5ppk
AllUTM/OTM Av £1454.85
Barren Cows (34)
Blonde sold to £2166.27 and 221.5ppk
Limousin sold to £1667.05 and 216.5ppk
Fleckvieh sold to 1438.17 and 191.5ppk
All Cows av £1121
Cull Bulls (2) Sold to £1426.61 and 165.5ppk
Prime Hoggetts (679) Sold to £235 and 428ppk
SQQ Av 348.89 All av 354.97 and £174
Prime Lambs (458) Sold to £230 and 488ppk
SQQ Av 446.84 All av 444.11 and £185.01

 

[thorpe]

if we produced average cattle i think i'd still want more than £1454!

 

[Old Tip]

Warm? I've two words to say to you, helm wind