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Why would you be bringing them home from the mart? When you bring cattle out to either the factory or the mart, you bring them out to sell them and that's what you have to do. Same as you have to bargain hard with the factory agent, you must not sell soft when you are in the sellers box at the mart. Know what you have and their value.
It costs me less than 7euro/hd to blood test the few I sell. If I had numbers it would be less. I consider it money well spent. I wouldn't get the shade of the price I get in the mart in our local factory. The day you sell and the day you buy are two very important days in the drystock man's calendar.
I've said this before Muckit, I feel my mart has turned into a buyer's mart and if you try and play hard the auctioneer ain't helping. Your animals out of the ring and the bidding has started on the next one in about 2 seconds. Your lucky as it seems from your reports your mart is a seller's mart. I know a few of my heifers I sold recently went to local abattoirs. There's a cost to be covered between the mart and slaughter and I can't see the abattoir happily covering it.
Edit: saw your other post after posting and pretty much agrees with this. 'tis geography ted
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Off topic I know but why sell heifers at such low weights this time of the year. Plenty of cheap weight to be gained from now till October/November.
Just an old neighbour looking for a few pound. He wouldn't be the most efficient.
There 500-550 kg.
he just says to me "shur them heifers are getting over fat" maybe he's right 0 -
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Two things working together are driving this- currency and cattle shortage. you need both, and if one is completely unpredictable like currency, the whole thing becomes unpredictable, but, imo, this will feed higher stores and weanings prices soon in the BMW regions-Puds?
Northern farmers can now buy a drop calf or weaning for less in ROI than to costs them to rear one + keep his cow.
Buy a truck of calves, cull your cows and sit back for two years. even with a huge 2017 price fall, when you buy cheap in euro, you might still turn a pound (literally) !
Would not touch 2015 calves too dear and too many. These will be the lads that that will be crying in 20 months time when I go to buy them. Stores are nut at the moment those 400kg average Frx that Will say will struggle to leave a penny.
Left 6 off today that nice JEx you all saywin the early turn out killed 335kgs
wish I could buy one like him every couple weeks. I had him for short of 14 months. Killed my over 36 month AA and HEx. Again disappointed with the AA averaged only 0.6kgs while I had them I reckon, however for the 27 months prior to that I reckon they only averaged 350grams a day. The two WH were only a little better about 690 grams/day. I squeezed away a rig as well. Not too bad a day at the office. A few more like that this year and I be ok.
However it will all depend on price of stores. I will be on the look out from now on.0 -
Farmer Pudsey wrote: »Would not touch 2015 calves too dear and too many. These will be the lads that that will be crying in 20 months time when I go to buy them. Stores are nut at the moment those 400kg average Frx that Will say will struggle to leave a penny.
Left 6 off today that nice JEx you all saywin the early turn out killed 335kgs wish I could buy one like him every couple weeks. I had him for short of 14 months. Killed my over 36 month AA and HEx. Again disappointed with the AA averaged only 0.6kgs while I had them I reckon, however for the 27 months prior to that I reckon they only averaged 350grams a day. The two WH were only a little better about 690 grams/day. I squeezed away a rig as well. Not too bad a day at the office. A few more like that this year and I be ok.
However it will all depend on price of stores. I will be on the look out from now on.
The smarter I get at this farming lark the more I reckon fr and frx are the way to go. Buying them as yearlings around 350kg €550 in feb put them into a sheltered winterage and onto grass asap straw shed in nov until mid marchand fatten them the following end of july. Should kill out at worst 340kg @ €4 dw €13600 -
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