Cattle
Prime cattle this week have been around the 640p/kg mark with Angus closer to the 650p level. The trade is finely balanced for the time of the year with tight cattle supply meeting lacklustre retail sales- which are reportedly down 17%year on year.
Cows are a fantastic trade with strong demand for both well fleshed and boning types.
Store cattle remain a flying trade, with relatively low barley prices helping finishers. Angus store cattle wanted, buyers waiting.
Lambs
Lamb numbers are slowly starting to come forward now with prices this week any where between 730-745p. Looking back to last year, lambs are running 95-100p ahead of this week last year- almost £20head!
Through puts of spring lambs marketed through Farm Stock are up 4.5% on the year! Thank you to our members old and new for the support. More lambs are currently needed every week to meet the incredible demand we are experiencing. The remarkable trade is largely driven by a strong home market and boosted by the poor English lamb kills- which AHDB are reporting back 20% nationally in July. Sheep price rises in New Zealand and Australia plus a shift to later UK lambing plus the drought in the South of the UK would be the main driver of the great prices- does this mean the surge of lambs is still to come??
New outlet for non-farm assured lambs- you must have a VIN number. Get in touch with your fieldsman to discuss.
Ewes are a flying trade with best fleshy ewes last week to £214/head.
Store lambs coming forward too at remarkable prices. We have some excellent batches of lambs coming forward, English and Scottish. Get in touch if you are needing mouths to eat off surplus silage aftermaths or cheap barley!
Organics
Good demand for organic lambs with prices up to 7.95p for this week.
Organic cattle remain keenly sort after though organic current supply is meeting sticky organic retail sales. Trade 740-745p.
For Sale
English Store Lambs available. NG
100 Texel & Suff lambs 38-39kg MG
10 Hereford bulling heifers (Scot) AN
Mule ewe lambs (Scot) LB
Organic ewes for sale HM
English Gimmers NG
Wanted
Dairy calves on and off milk JWNG
Strong forward store lambs NG
Strong young feeding bulls (Scot) NG
Strong store cattle wanted (Eng & Scot) ALL
Angus store cattle wanted asap (Eng & Scot) JWAN NG
Flock of Blackface ewes HM
Farm Stock Scotland Procurement Contacts
Jonny Williams Acting Managing Director 07817 702 988
Alex Norval Acting Procurement Manager 07787 826 355
Nikki Gilbertson Senior Livestock Procurement Officer- Northumberland 07595 313 040
Lucy Bell Livestock Procurement Officer-Borders 07879602 962
Mandy Grierson Livestock Procurement Officer- Peeblesshire, Lanarkshire 07831 741 994
David Marshall Fieldsman for Farm Stock Scotland 07808329 719
Colin Mair Fieldsman for Ayrshire Country Lamb 07976605 130
Helen Marsden Fieldsman for Dumfries and Galloway 07778799 261
Ian Douglas Fieldsman for Lothian Lamb 07885367 151
Matthew Niccolson Fieldsman for Shetland 07795144 404
