Spring lamb prices

or whats more realistic to happen in 20 years time when thousands of farm and farming families have finally given up the ghost and sold out or planted thier lands, or blocked drains and left it go wild to grow rushes and briars, nettles, thistles and the odd cow or two roaming 10 acres, the government and EU will hit the panic button when thier is a food scaricity issue over war or disease and the big push will reverese then and the government will be all about rampping up food production. it may be nearer to 10 years than 20 when this happens.

About time !!

22kg

Any quotes got for Monday?

Wasn’t quoted anything.. have a good few to go in the next two weeks so just waiting to pull the trigger.

Was told tonight they were only 6.80 to 22. I queried we’re they not closer to 7€ and agent said not yet but fleshy lambs were in very short supply and they will go up a bit between now and Xmas

6.80 last week in icm

think there back abit today . But it’s a terrible price for them compare to last year .

Must be a pick up in prices, we got €100 for 37.5kg lambs earlier. Got the same price last week for 41kg lambs.

i got 6.75 in navan last wednesdy, went with 25

6.20 ish looks like price for Monday.Thats QA inc.

Might be a bit more going but no appetite for lambs at the minute by processors.The seem to be quiet content with the amount available.

Went last Friday at 6.40 inc. as they were heading into getting heavy plus after eating enough expensive meal.Thought it was poor enough but kinda "happy" now looking at whats on offer for next week.

Came into 145.28 all paid which sounds nice until you look at meal price .They were ewe lambs on ad lib since middle of December.Remaining lambs (about 60 ) all in that group are c.43kgs back to c.35 kgs but fleshy enough.Hard to know if worth finishing or just go at this stage.Might be a blip or might be a trend.

this is a welcome first for a breeder organisation, more is required.

650 available for Monday.. up 20c from Friday

Yep

I haven’t sold anything in a few months but 150 upwards I’d be hoping for. What had you in mind yourself?

I was at a presentation of Darren Carthys last night and he sees very little to improve trade for at least six months, there's a surplus of last years lambs still around that will upset trade for the first six months of the year, there's still a lot of 25 - 30kg hill lambs that haven't been bought by feeders that won't be fit until may june. Consumption is reducing across Europe since Covid as well.

He also told us about a new Dairy farm that was offering 600/acre for ten years

I thought that myself too, It could be a good year to keep lambs thriving to be selling july - september.

We've a good scan here, 1.5 in the ewe lambs and 1.9 in the adults, grass ran out here at mid mating and we fed .5kg cobs for the last 2 -3 weeks of mating

I wouldn't have a clue

Alot of lad doing the same or getting out completely,..won't be many sheep in Ireland in the next 5-10 years.