Spring lamb prices

Cran · 01-10-2014 02:51PM

rangler1 wrote: »

Factories are flagging €4/kg for next week, anyone have any quotes

Really, must have been under a stone for the past two weeks got 4.60 last week. Not much of an incentive to move lambs at that price

Must text them and see what they're quoting

Green farmer · 01-10-2014 03:28PM

The lambs can stay in the field or my freezer, if €4 is on offer

ganmo · 01-10-2014 03:43PM

here was me bursting to get home to weigh lambs

rangler1 · 01-10-2014 03:52PM

ganmo wrote: »

here was me bursting to get home to weigh lambs

They're threatening €4 base to producer groups next weeek, which is 30c down on this week,
muslim trade must be over this week

razor8 · 01-10-2014 04:33PM

rangler1 wrote: »

They're threatening €4 base to producer groups next weeek, which is 30c down on this week,
muslim trade must be over this week

Probably want lambs in a hurry so putting frighteners on. Told 4.60 available all wk. would farmers sell at that price?

Vandy West · 01-10-2014 07:06PM

Quoted 4.50 today for delivery tomorrow in ballyhaunis

rangler1 · 01-10-2014 07:18PM

Vandy West wrote: »

Quoted 4.50 today for delivery tomorrow in ballyhaunis

Someone must be bulls....ing me, hope they're wrong

paddysdream · 01-10-2014 07:43PM

rangler1 wrote: »

Someone must be bulls....ing me, hope they're wrong

4.60 still available.The kill for the muslim festival will be over this week I think.
Know factories were activally looking for sheep for this as they seem to be scarce at the moment in the UK.

Think it (festival) starts next week so demand could slacken off for a week or two.

sea12 · 13-10-2014 12:38PM

paddysdream wrote: »

4.60 still available.The kill for the muslim festival will be over this week I think.
Know factories were activally looking for sheep for this as they seem to be scarce at the moment in the UK.

Think it (festival) starts next week so demand could slacken off for a week or two.

Dropped a load last night. Allot of sheep from Donegal being delivered. Poor enough sheep I thought.
4.60 for us this week. Wondering what price they would be getting those sheep at?

AnFeirmeoir · 13-10-2014 01:00PM

sea12 wrote: »

Dropped a load last night. Allot of sheep from Donegal being delivered. Poor enough sheep I thought.
4.60 for us this week. Wondering what price they would be getting those sheep at?

I never went to the factory but was thinking of it this year. Kepak athleague are quoting €4.30. Im not QA but is there a secret handshake or something i need to get a better price when i ring ?
22KG @€;4.30 is €94 . I'd say i'd get much the same for say a 48kg lamb in the mart.

Green farmer · 13-10-2014 02:14PM

Came home from mart today with lambs unsold. Was being offered €75 for 44kg lambs . Not something I like doing but felt money was that bit too poor.

Nekarsulm · 13-10-2014 02:15PM

4.50 in Navan this morning. Up to 22 kg. Lots of lambs there. Average weight just under 24kg, had 98 euro/lamb home.

sea12 · 13-10-2014 02:52PM

Green farmer wrote: »

Came home from mart today with lambs unsold. Was being offered €75 for 44kg lambs . Not something I like doing but felt money was that bit too poor.

That was very poor. Were they rams or not good lambs or what.

sea12 · 13-10-2014 02:53PM

Nekarsulm wrote: »

4.50 in Navan this morning. Up to 22 kg. Lots of lambs there. Average weight just under 24kg, had 98 euro/lamb home.

Did u collect the cheque already?

sea12 · 13-10-2014 02:56PM

AnFeirmeoir wrote: »

I never went to the factory but was thinking of it this year. Kepak athleague are quoting €4.30. Im not QA but is there a secret handshake or something i need to get a better price when i ring ?
22KG @€;4.30 is €94 . I'd say i'd get much the same for say a 48kg lamb in the mart.

We are in a producer group.

paddysdream · 13-10-2014 03:01PM

Green farmer wrote: »

Came home from mart today with lambs unsold. Was being offered €75 for 44kg lambs . Not something I like doing but felt money was that bit too poor.

Thats a very poor price allright.Store lambs of 35 kgs to 38kgs would be making that according to what I hear.
Were they very underfleshed ?

Lairage very slack in ICM this morning.
Had a load there this morning at 4.60 inc. QA.Came into 100.28 before deductions ie killed 21.8 on average.They were weighing 45(lightest) to 48(heaviest) last Saturday.All bar 2 were Char. or Texel ram lambs.On meal(1lb a day) for the last 3 weeks or so.Getting intensive lamb meal at roughly 240 a ton.

The lamb liveweight didn't greatly go up over the 3 weeks(last lambs drafted without meal at that stage) as they were big enough before feeding but underfleshed.Always have the last 150 or so needing meal to finish as these lambs would be roughly the same age as those sold in June/July/August but for various reasons they had a lack of thrive.
Love to have all the lambs gone by mid August but feeding in a static or falling market ain't something I believe in.Prices usually(I hope) rise as we approach Christmas so no rush on the ones that remain.

Green farmer · 13-10-2014 03:01PM

sea12 wrote: »

That was very poor. Were they rams or not good lambs or what.

They were ram lambs. Lowland texel x and charlaois x , clean sheep. Some were a bit low to the ground and short (texel) but good covering of flesh. (Butty)Strong necks. busy mart normally but was a quiet day sheep numbers wise. I put them through ring twice, but made no difference. Maybe buyers had their order books filled before I got there or something. It was just too poor money, sometimes you've to take a stand and know when your not getting a fair price.

paddysdream · 13-10-2014 03:07PM

AnFeirmeoir wrote: »

I never went to the factory but was thinking of it this year. Kepak athleague are quoting €4.30. Im not QA but is there a secret handshake or something i need to get a better price when i ring ?
22KG @€;4.30 is €94 . I'd say i'd get much the same for say a 48kg lamb in the mart.

Complete waste of time ringing the factory direct.You will only be offered the lowest price going.Ring an agent and ask him what he is paying.

Green farmer · 13-10-2014 03:13PM

Paddy ,

Are you finishing them in a shed or are they still out in a field ? €240 a tonne is good value.

Nekarsulm · 13-10-2014 03:52PM

sea12 wrote: »

Did u collect the cheque already?

Of course!

rangler1 · 13-10-2014 04:20PM

AnFeirmeoir wrote: »

I never went to the factory but was thinking of it this year. Kepak athleague are quoting €4.30. Im not QA but is there a secret handshake or something i need to get a better price when i ring ?
22KG @€;4.30 is €94 . I'd say i'd get much the same for say a 48kg lamb in the mart.

When you put them into the factory yourself, you get educated to what way the sheep kill out,
Getting a bad price in the mart, You don't know whether there's something wrong with the sheep, or you're just another 'victim' of the dealers

Green farmer · 13-10-2014 04:30PM

rangler1 wrote: »

When you put them into the factory yourself, you get educated to what way the sheep kill out,
Getting a bad price in the mart, You don't know whether there's something wrong with the sheep, or you're just another 'victim' of the dealers

Something I don't like about marts is your name and address appears in the ring under the weights. Dealers can spot the lads that have driven a distance to sell their sheep, and might assume that your not going to go home with a full trailer. I could be wrong but other sheep of the same kgs made €10 a head extra then mine were making, then again could have been pure coincidence !!! Hence I took a stand and didn't sell.

paddysdream · 13-10-2014 04:34PM

Green farmer wrote: »

Paddy ,

Are you finishing them in a shed or are they still out in a field ? €240 a tonne is good value.

I'm eating inside at the moment (late dinner?early tae?) but the lambs are outside!

Have them on a middling field of grass at the moment but will be shifting them to a bare one shortly and will ad lib the last 100 or so.Feeding in troughs at the moment but will stick in a bin next week .All eating meal bar 4 or 5.

240 a ton is for 17% protein intensive lamb barley,pulp nut,maize etc mix.Thats bulk collected and paid for on collection.Well thats the price so far ,haven't seen the rep. yet to try and get it for a few bob less!
Has dropped a wee bit in the last week or so.

arctictree · 13-10-2014 07:54PM

Green farmer wrote: »

Something I don't like about marts is your name and address appears in the ring under the weights. Dealers can spot the lads that have driven a distance to sell their sheep, and might assume that your not going to go home with a full trailer. I could be wrong but other sheep of the same kgs made €10 a head extra then mine were making, then again could have been pure coincidence !!! Hence I took a stand and didn't sell.

Well hopefully next time you will be marked as a man that will not accept any price.

jd06 · 13-10-2014 07:56PM

57 kgs 110 euro in kk today

no feed, but on savage grass and reeseed

happy with that, weather lambs

sea12 · 13-10-2014 09:06PM

jd06 wrote: »

57 kgs 110 euro in kk today

no feed, but on savage grass and reeseed

happy with that, weather lambs

That's some weight. What breed of lambs

jd06 · 13-10-2014 09:51PM

sea12 wrote: »

That's some weight. What breed of lambs

They were a Suffolk cheviot cross
Big framed lambs but not that fleshy.
Their big frame make them heavy. I never go to de factory for that reason

Sami23 · 14-10-2014 08:46AM

Would paying 100 euro for 50kg ewe lambs for breeding be about right at the moment ?

Green farmer · 14-10-2014 08:54AM

Saw lowland ewe lambs selling for that money in mart yesterday.

Nekarsulm · 14-10-2014 08:57AM

Sounds fine. Some lads looking 130 on Done Steal.
I bought a batch of Llynn x recently for €95, none were 50kg.

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