Spring lamb prices

orm0nd

talks of price cut for next week, both for hoggets and lambs, FFS

Willfarman

Time of year for this flush em out tactic...

ganmo

50c cut in lamb prices this week!

rangler1

IH784man wrote: »

But they missed the Easter trade,if they were for sale the Easter week it would have been a different story

Yea, premium price for Easter Sunday, otherwise they're just ordinary lamb price

orm0nd

any quotes for this week, have a few ready & a couple ewes

Farrell

orm0nd wrote: »

any quotes for this week, have a few ready & a couple ewes

Anybody out lately, any prices for 40+kg?

DMAXMAN

sold a couple on tuesday 48kg 123 euro. saw real nice 44kgs make the same

Farrell

Sold 3 lambs yesterday, 45Kg @ €117

Dickie10

got quoted 5;70 for lambs in icm navan thursday, i hope i get up to 21 kg

DK man

Sold 7 in cootehill mart on Wednesday - 41.5 average - they made €104.5.

Same weights today in blayney mart made €100 for a neighbour.

Is it time to stop creep feeding?

Dickie10

im stoping creep feed this week, got quoted 5.40 incl the 10 cent bonus for QA hope to get 5;50 im going with 25 and brother in law has 20 were trying to go as one load if the suply is tight might get 5;50

Western Pomise

For you lads that are killing lambs this time of year,every year....are prices back on last year?....they seem to be.

orm0nd

Western Pomise wrote: »

For you lads that are killing lambs this time of year,every year....are prices back on last year?....they seem to be.

5.90 this date last year,

ganmo

prices from the bord bia website

Time Ireland (Cent)
2014 - 05 543.98
2014 - 06 523.82
2014 - 07 450.17
2014 - 08 430.46
2014 - 09 424.22
2014 - 10 426.34
2014 - 11 458.60
2014 - 12 475.83
2015 - 01 494.97
2015 - 02 511.96
2015 - 03 552.98
2015 - 04 553.20
2015 - 05 529.62
2015 - 06 491.91
2015 - 07 447.12
2015 - 08 440.39
2015 - 09 443.87
2015 - 10 432.88
2015 - 11 445.26
2015 - 12 467.28
2016 - 01 496.33
2016 - 02 526.73
2016 - 03 533.77
2016 - 04 526.74

Mac Taylor

Sold 8 today. 45kg's - €108euro. Another 15 off this evening. Between 2:30 and 2:40 depending on quality. Lightens the load, hopefully another 10-15 in a fortnight. The last ones left after that will be triplets and few late born.

Username John

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Sold 8 today. 45kg's - €108euro. Another 15 off this evening. Between 2:30 and 2:40 depending on quality. Lightens the load, hopefully another 10-15 in a fortnight. The last ones left after that will be triplets and few late born.

Would they have gotten much meal Mac?

Mac Taylor

Username John wrote: »

Would they have gotten much meal Mac?

A bag a day between 48 of them for the last 4 weeks. ~€200.
Will feed them on for another 3 weeks and that will see the bulk of them gone.'they had the best grass available though which helped.

orm0nd

weaker sterling not helping here, 30k extra lambs imported from north,

Western Pomise

So overall Lambs would be back a bit on this time last year??

sea12

Western Pomise wrote: »

So overall Lambs would be back a bit on this time last year??

Yes about 10€ a lamb

orm0nd

2 different agents (different factories) rang in the last couple of hours looking fo r lambs for monday morning
I,ve about 60 and can arrange another 60 locally
5.60 to 21 freely available, told them it will do as a deposit.

weatherbyfoxer

Few getting close here now i reckon..what live weights are lads bringing factory lambs at?.. charlaois and suffolk cross lowland lambs

charolais0153

42.5+ but we have a middilin scales so it might be different for electric ones

Green farmer

Lamb prices expected to dip after the recent rush. I see the next Muslim festival is 3rd oct, being Islamic new year. Would this give a similiar boost to demand ?

Bleating Lamb

A friend got 83 euro for 44 kg ram lambs in Elphin,they weren't overdone,said trade was quiet.

kk.man

What price are ye getting for factory lambs atm...did any of you get the magical 5 euro the media are talking about in recent weeks?....I've a few to go..quoted 4.75 this week

Green farmer

kk.man wrote: »

What price are ye getting for factory lambs atm...did any of you get the magical 5 euro the media are talking about in recent weeks?....I've a few to go..quoted 4.75 this week

Quoted €4.80 inc Qa for lambs this week

orm0nd

Green farmer wrote: »

Quoted €4.80 inc Qa for lambs this week

paying to 22 Kgs ?

paddysdream

Green farmer wrote: »

Quoted €4.80 inc Qa for lambs this week

That seems to be about the going rate this week.More available early last week but price seems to have stagnated somewhat recently.
Hard to see where enough lambs are coming from as everyone seems to have the one complaint this year ie poor thrive and a lot of extra lambs left on farms compared to other years.

Green farmer

paddysdream wrote: »

That seems to be about the going rate this week.
Hard to see where enough lambs are coming from as everyone seems to have the one complaint this year ie poor thrive and a lot of extra lambs left on farms compared to other years.

Cannt disagree with that, loads left here. mealing seems to be the only way to shift them. Hoping price might rise abut more next week, hoping the Muslim festival early oct might help Abit.

Sorry, Didn't ask cut off point, as not confident my lambs will break near the 22kg point ormond.