Spring lamb prices

Anyone get a price for this week yet? Hoping to bring my last bunch tomorrow evening

Sounds low. You have small numbers I think kevin? Heard of 7.00 for larger numbers

Ask your agent is COVID not present in the beef lines...beef going up by the minute up to 4.50 for full trailers...b!"£$%^t

Don't send them lambs and see how that shortage impacts.

Just heard NZ lamb have landed in the UK ..I suspect same in France..that's the reason.

Ah I know but can be frustrating seeing a drop.

No shortage of lambs in Kildare. Artic was emptying as i was there. Lambs from donegal

At that kind of fall you be tempted to hold, let go over weight and sell in the mart. They will get scarce in 2-3 weeks time again. Problem with adlib feeding is a lot of lambs come fit at the same time. If you had them on adlib and they had a bit of time would you be better off reducing to a twice a day so they would stretch to late Feb/ early March

7 or 7.10 was to be got this week. Your right in what you say about the journal quotes.

7 euro was going rate early this week without any pressure .Dropped back to 6.80/6.90 midweek .Imagine 7 euro will be got perhaps in the coming week or two .

7.50 was going before Christmas .Sold some at that but most lambs went from here at 7.30/7.40 around that time .

Handful of ewe lambs left here with majority of them getting there.Few runts of under 30kgs as we but they are on meal a good while now so all going regardless soon .

Holding fit full weight lambs for anything more than a few days is a waste of time as a 10 or 20 cent rise will soon be gone in meal eaten .Not a good plan to restrict ad lib fed lambs .

Couple of places coming down gard on 26kg plus lambs at the moment with max price limits .Heard of 150 euro and 140 euro cut off in a couple of different plants for very overweight lambs .

140 at 23 kg equates to 6.10 and 150 is around 6.50 so even going at 6.80 is better than allowing them to go too heavy.

Navan were cutting 30c on over weights. Picked off 10 ewe lambs that I don't think would make the grade as hoggets for keeping and didn't want running them on till August time till sell. Five of them killed out over 25 with the heaviest being 31 dead weight. No meal on them but still a nice few pound to miss out on. Mart would have been the right way to go in hindsight.

Well it’s amazing they all thought of this at the one time isn’t it. Usual cartel nonsense but no one to do anything about it.

cabt see how the lambs are there. Prices should pick up in a couple of weeks. Hospitality is open now again and allot of vent up demand for meals out in restaurants.

Judging by the amount of stores in the marts since last autumn I can't see any scarcity for some time.

More northern reg artics been spotted at the plants as well.

If people start dining out more won't help either.

Keeps lambs moved as they become fit. First loss is often the best. Especially with current meal prices.

6.70 including QA in ICM for Monday, i said no.

Any quotes for next week ?

Any quotes for next week