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Spring lamb prices

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    #452
    paddysdream
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    Agent rang tonight offering 4.85 for tomorrow.Haven't any fit again but looks like they should be up to or at the 5 euro this week or next.


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    #453
    Willfarman
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    paddysdream wrote: »
    Agent rang tonight offering 4.85 for tomorrow.Haven't any fit again but looks like they should be up to or at the 5 euro this week or next.

    Thank God. Nice to get the right hop of the ball now and then!


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    #454
    rangler1
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    paddysdream wrote: »
    Agent rang tonight offering 4.85 for tomorrow.Haven't any fit again but looks like they should be up to or at the 5 euro this week or next.

    Good to see that the groups aren't being short changed any way, a good finish to a good year


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    #455
    rangler1
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    paddysdream wrote: »
    Agent rang tonight offering 4.85 for tomorrow.Haven't any fit again but looks like they should be up to or at the 5 euro this week or next.

    Misjudged it this week, 4 overfat and 2 overweight, out of 27, they were getting half pound meal for the last fortnight, any way they made €106 less €3 expenses......best year in a good few for sheep.
    Fifty left will weigh again next week


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    #456
    sea12
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    rangler1 wrote: »
    Misjudged it this week, 4 overfat and 2 overweight, out of 27, they were getting half pound meal for the last fortnight, any way they made €106 less €3 expenses......best year in a good few for sheep.
    Fifty left will weigh again next week

    Got 4.95 today. Had 18 to go would love to be selling lambs over the next few weeks. Only going one way. Allot of lambs in factory. Were playing catch up with very short week. They will surely be at €5 next week. Only a few left now . Will be ready in about 3 weeks hopefully.


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    #457
    rangler1
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    sea12 wrote: »
    Got 4.95 today. Had 18 to go would love to be selling lambs over the next few weeks. Only going one way. Allot of lambs in factory. Were playing catch up with very short week. They will surely be at €5 next week. Only a few left now . Will be ready in about 3 weeks hopefully.

    Indo says lamb price going up in England, factories dropping the quotes here,
    better get a few barrels and trailers ready for ICM


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    #458
    eire23
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    rangler1 wrote: »
    Indo says lamb price going up in England, factories dropping the quotes here,
    better get a few barrels and trailers ready for ICM

    Back to 4.75 i think?


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    #459
    Username John
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    rangler1 wrote: »
    Indo says lamb price going up in England, factories dropping the quotes here,
    better get a few barrels and trailers ready for ICM

    Is there some inverse correlation between English price and price offered here?


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    #460
    westman1
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    Username John wrote: »
    Is there some inverse correlation between English price and price offered here?

    price goes up in england price drops here:)


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    #461
    Username John
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    westman1 wrote: »
    price goes up in england price drops here:)

    Not sure if I'm missing something, but why is this? I don't understand the link between the two?


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    #462
    rangler1
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    Username John wrote: »
    Not sure if I'm missing something, but why is this? I don't understand the link between the two?

    I suppose both countries are exporting into the one market...France, but England have a huge home trade


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    #463
    RightHalfBack
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    The Red tractor quality assurance scheme in the UK seems to be very successful, Big emphasis on buying british and a very distintive brand mark. Similair to our Bord Bia mark, just that our domestic market is so much smaller.

    Maybe the Bord Bia mark could be more distintive? so a product that is imported and just "produced" here cant be confused with a "product" of Ireland,


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    #464
    westman1
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    Username John wrote: »
    Not sure if I'm missing something, but why is this? I don't understand the link between the two?

    feckers here get our lamb cheaper and export at the english price


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    #465
    Willfarman
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    ICM had a big kill today. Some northern lamb in the mix.


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    #466
    sea12
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    sea12 wrote: »
    Got 4.95 today. Had 18 to go would love to be selling lambs over the next few weeks. Only going one way. Allot of lambs in factory. Were playing catch up with very short week. They will surely be at €5 next week. Only a few left now . Will be ready in about 3 weeks hopefully.

    Got the kill sheet today. Averaged €107 each so happy with that. 12 u grade and 6 r grade. A few killed out over the 22.5 so giving away free meat again. Surprised price dropped so quick. Most people I know are down to the last of their lambs.

    Although allot of beef men bought in small numbers and may be selling at base price which is giving factories option to drop price .


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    #467
    rangler1
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    Willfarman wrote: »
    ICM had a big kill today. Some northern lamb in the mix.

    They always have some northern lamb, our group is not happy, We'd be brave to tell them to hold back a week


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    #468
    Green farmer
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    What are the prices like now , ifa website updated yesterday says €4.50 plus bonus, Isca website updated 2 days ago says up to €5 ?


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    #469
    ganmo
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    Green farmer wrote: »
    What are the prices like now , ifa website updated yesterday says €4.50 plus bonus, Isca website updated 2 days ago says up to €5 ?

    factories are playing silly buggers, base quote of 4.50 but 5 available


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    #470
    Willfarman
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    ganmo wrote: »
    factories are playing silly buggers, base quote of 4.50 but 5 available

    A few people got 4.90 yesterday. But that's yesterday..

    They are on 4.70 today and the mart trade reflects that. There be small producers reading your crap and holding back lambs which could easy be back more next week.


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    #471
    ganmo
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    IrelandLambmeatPricesYTD1.gif?guid=20141106121141

    and we're 42k ahead of last years kill


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    #472
    AnFeirmeoir
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    Journal says prices are still on the way up ???


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    #473
    rangler1
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    AnFeirmeoir wrote: »
    Journal says prices are still on the way up ???

    Factories trying to manipulate the market, farmers were holding out for more,
    Factories must have thought they'd flush them out by dropping the price
    Factory was waiting for our groups lorry today and didn't kill any yesterday.
    Price has to go back up , but I wouldn't like to advise anyone to hold back


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    #474
    paddysdream
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    AnFeirmeoir wrote: »
    Journal says prices are still on the way up ???

    How much are the Journal paying?:rolleyes:

    Prices are rising and hopefully this week was a bump in the road.Only fear is that any stall in prices could last for a week or two and flush out a good few lambs.
    In general lamb prices rise from now on but the rate and the speed depends on many things.
    Scarcity is always the farmers number 1 buzzword but this is only relevant if they are scarce in the market place where we are selling our lambs to.Just because there was 10% less finished lambs in your local mart this week will not mean a lot if UK farmers have lots of competitively priced ones for the home and european market

    Bottom line is that unless the factories can market these lambs at the increased prices then we won't see them.


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    #475
    ganmo
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    those bord bia prices are a nearly a month out of date though so is no real help


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    #476
    rangler1
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    ganmo wrote: »
    those bord bia prices are a nearly a month out of date though so is no real help

    See some factories didn't quote in the journal today.....they got such a kicking from the groups for what they quoted in the indo on tuesday


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    #477
    AnFeirmeoir
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    Got a good price in Mountbellew the weekend
    40.5KG clean - €91.50
    Still have a lot to sell. :(

    It was against the run, in general prices looked back a bit with at least 1 factory buyer not present. Dont know had this something to do with the the protests.


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    #478
    rangler1
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    This is a video of the grader our lamb group brought over from England

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4BTzRszQ7M


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    #479
    ganmo
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    lots of the factories not quoting in the journal


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    #480
    Green farmer
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    What weight would the ideal or first lamb be ? Compared to the over fat lamb ? Kg live weight wise.


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    #481
    Willfarman
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    Green farmer wrote: »
    What weight would the ideal or first lamb be ? Compared to the over fat lamb ? Kg live weight wise.

    Breed and lamb type comes into it in a big way, as well as what they ate on and time of year. But at the minute good well bred lowland lambs here are killing as follows. Ram lambs on good grass .5kg meal a day. We kill T 48 kgs up to maybe 53. 21.5 to 25kg carcass. Same bred ewe lambs on marginal grass..44kg up to 50ish 20kgs to 24kgs carcass.


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