Spring lamb prices

orm0nd · 23-10-2014 8:47am

paddysdream wrote: »

Lambs are surely scarce.Last week was the biggest kill ever.Agents ringing around pretty much every day.Talking to a neighbour tonight and he has lambs to kill tomorrow at 4.75 to 23 kgs( inc.QA I assume)

Blockade is (from ifa text) next Monday which is a bank holiday which is hardly of much use only to get a few minutes on the telly on a slow news day.Bit late at this stage methinks.Seems one farm union seems to have been caught with their pants down and are rushing to make a bit of noise.Sounds like closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.

Lamb prices are on the up but will they hold after Christmas?
Have about 120 or so left here but nothing fit for a week or two so no real panic yet.SFP has hit most bank accounts so the pressure to sell will have lessened in many cases.

I .ve lambs going in to night for to morrow @ 4.85
blockade is from 3 mon to 3 on tues if manpower is availabe

as i said a few soft sellers will always fcuk it up & the factories/agents know to play them

paddysdream · 23-10-2014 8:48am

orm0nd wrote: »

I .ve lambs going in to night for to morrow @ 4.85
blockade is from 3 mon to 3 on tues if manpower is availabe

as i said a few soft sellers will always fcuk it up & the factories/agents know to play them

Where you getting the 4.85?

Willfarman · 23-10-2014 8:52am

I'm at a loss to understand blockade of sheep factories at the minute?!

sea12 · 23-10-2014 10:09pm

Willfarman wrote: »

I'm at a loss to understand blockade of sheep factories at the minute?!

Good few trailers dropping off lambs at the factory this evening. They must be anxious for them before the blockage for next week. Wasn't dropping off any myself just passing by. I'd say they got a nice few at 4.85

rangler1 · 24-10-2014 12:36am

Willfarman wrote: »

I'm at a loss to understand blockade of sheep factories at the minute?!

no protest at ICM, in navan and Camolin

Sami23 · 24-10-2014 9:48am

Sold lambs yesterday, 48kg's - 100 euro, mix or wew and wethers !

spuddey · 24-10-2014 2:36pm

Sold ram lambs Tue
50 kg 94 euro.
45 kg. 84
They weren't factory fit we to have gone back last few weeks

Willfarman · 24-10-2014 8:35pm

spuddey wrote: »

Sold ram lambs Tue
50 kg 94 euro.
45 kg. 84
They weren't factory fit we to have gone back last few weeks

What breed and type were they? The 50 kg lads can't of been that far off?

rangler1 · 24-10-2014 9:09pm

Sami23 wrote: »

Sold lambs yesterday, 48kg's - 100 euro, mix or wew and wethers !

I had the job of looking after the groups lambs on thurs, it was nice seeing so many crossing the hundred euros
Still have eighty left here:D

sea12 · 24-10-2014 9:26pm

rangler1 wrote: »

I had the job of looking after the groups lambs on thurs, it was nice seeing so many crossing the hundred euros
Still have eighty left here:D

How did u know they crossed the 100. Do u wait for them to be killed. Do you have a central collection facility

rangler1 · 24-10-2014 9:46pm

sea12 wrote: »

How did u know they crossed the 100. Do u wait for them to be killed. Do you have a central collection facility

Had to go to the factory with them, coordinator was on holiday, so I had to sort the different owners lambs, we check the nos on the dockets and prices in the office after, we really have a good coordinator, I wouldn't like to do it every week,
We have collection facility in edenderry, tullamore , gurteen ag college, moate, mountrath, birr, so cover a huge area.
I thought lambs were killing very well and a lot getting €103+, a good few lambs were fed and you'd see it, I didn't have any there myself,

spuddey · 25-10-2014 12:10am

Willfarman wrote: »

What breed and type were they? The 50 kg lads can't of been that far off?

They were TexilX .the 50kg had the frame Bu weren't factory fit

spuddey · 25-10-2014 12:11am

Willfarman wrote: »

What breed and type were they? The 50 kg lads can't of been that far off?

They were TexilX .the 50kg had the frame Bu weren't factory fit

sea12 · 25-10-2014 10:25am

rangler1 wrote: »

Had to go to the factory with them, coordinator was on holiday, so I had to sort the different owners lambs, we check the nos on the dockets and prices in the office after, we really have a good coordinator, I wouldn't like to do it every week,
We have collection facility in edenderry, tullamore , gurteen ag college, moate, mountrath, birr, so cover a huge area.
I thought lambs were killing very well and a lot getting €103+, a good few lambs were fed and you'd see it, I didn't have any there myself,

That's a big area. Good bit of work involved in that. Presume the co ordinator get a price per head for looking after that.

gazahayes · 25-10-2014 1:39pm

rangler1 wrote: »

Had to go to the factory with them, coordinator was on holiday, so I had to sort the different owners lambs, we check the nos on the dockets and prices in the office after, we really have a good coordinator, I wouldn't like to do it every week,
We have collection facility in edenderry, tullamore , gurteen ag college, moate, mountrath, birr, so cover a huge area.
I thought lambs were killing very well and a lot getting €103+, a good few lambs were fed and you'd see it, I didn't have any there myself,

How do you get into the producer group?

rangler1 · 25-10-2014 2:26pm

gazahayes wrote: »

How do you get into the producer group?

Do you live near any of those collection points
We also facilitate organic lambs, we don't negotiate the price but they can use our lorries

gazahayes · 25-10-2014 7:25pm

rangler1 wrote: »

Do you live near any of those collection points
We also facilitate organic lambs, we don't negotiate the price but they can use our lorries

I'm about 15 mins from gurteen hope to have lambs coming fit in batches this year all going well.

rangler1 · 25-10-2014 8:59pm

gazahayes wrote: »

I'm about 15 mins from gurteen hope to have lambs coming fit in batches this year all going well.

Sent you a PM

red bull · 29-10-2014 1:26am

Sold 10 ewe lambs at Tuam mart this evening 45kg €142 very happy

Nekarsulm · 29-10-2014 1:34am

red bull wrote: »

Sold 10 ewe lambs at Tuam mart this evening 45kg €142 very happy

Excellent price! Was in Blessington today and weathers and rams making four or five euro along with two euro a kilo. Shearling rams, Scotch and Cheviot and some Charolaois making between 100 and 150. Classy looking suffolk made around 450

sea12 · 29-10-2014 11:36am

red bull wrote: »

Sold 10 ewe lambs at Tuam mart this evening 45kg €142 very happy

That was some price red bull. Must have been some lambs or was it a bidding war.

Sami23 · 29-10-2014 11:53am

red bull wrote: »

Sold 10 ewe lambs at Tuam mart this evening 45kg €142 very happy

Heard there was a lad in Tuam last night who was also getting 142 euro for lambs but didn't sell. Apparently he was selling them off farm and just bought them in to see how price compared. Did you see this goin on ?

AnFeirmeoir · 29-10-2014 12:29pm

Bet they were pure black faced lambs.

Has anyone else noticed that these good prices for ewe lambs are only for pure suffolk types? It used to be speckled faces got a good price but flavour of the month are definetely suffolk. Mine are all white

ganmo · 29-10-2014 12:34pm

its just fecking fashion!

paddysdream · 29-10-2014 2:13pm

Just having the dinner and looking through the kill sheet from last week.Lambs came into 106.31 after deductions.Thats at 4.80 a kilo.
Happy enough with them.
Was thinking of holding them for another week or two as price looks like rising but they would start to go overweight very quickly at this stage.

Green farmer · 29-10-2014 6:12pm

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.

Went to roscrea mart today .Brought the ram lambs unsold from 2weeks ago out again today. They weighted the same. Sold them for €90 a head each.

Also saw lots of ewe lambs selling. Very few made above €100. I think the most I saw was around €105 for ones that weighted 52kg.

However stores were very dear. 25kg ewe lambs made €64.

red bull · 29-10-2014 9:40pm

Sami23 wrote: »

Heard there was a lad in Tuam last night who was also getting 142 euro for lambs but didn't sell. Apparently he was selling them off farm and just bought them in to see how price compared. Did you see this goin on ?

I think he sold them later

orm0nd · 29-10-2014 10:09pm

Green farmer wrote: »

Went to roscrea mart today .Brought the ram lambs unsold from 2weeks ago out again today. They weighted the same. Sold them for €90 a head each.

Also saw lots of ewe lambs selling. Very few made above €100. I think the most I saw was around €105 for ones that weighted 52kg.

However stores were very dear. 25kg ewe lambs made €64.

good work

a bit of a cartel with buyers in roscrea , they pick their lots b4 hand ,

in fairness the auctioneer tries his utmost for the seller

Green farmer · 29-10-2014 10:28pm

His a good auctioneer alright. Even tries to squeeze the extra 1/2 a euro bid as well. In fairness you could get the messing going on at any mart unfortunately ( I've come across much worse ). Just be wise to it and know when to sell and know when to walk .

sea12 · 29-10-2014 10:37pm

AnFeirmeoir wrote: »

Bet they were pure black faced lambs.

Has anyone else noticed that these good prices for ewe lambs are only for pure suffolk types? It used to be speckled faces got a good price but flavour of the month are definetely suffolk. Mine are all white

I use to always have jet black Suffolk faces for years and sell in tullamore. All anybody wanted was the speckled faces

Spring lamb prices

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