Re: Weather
- From: "Jim Webster" <Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:32:07 -0000
<greymaus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:30:24 -0000, Jim Webster wrote:
> >
> ><greymaus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:slrndtd4vr.5gd.greymaus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Beautiful day here, everyone I met seemed to smiling. I know that its
> >> still January, but hey!..
> >>
> >> (Bad point, lambs down 4 cents/Kg in factory, and its only working a
> >> couple of days a week)
> >>
> >
> > Weather beautiful here as well.
> >
> > While you are mentioning factories, how clean do bullocks have to be
before
> > slaughter? Has there been any fuss about tightening standards?
>
> AFAIK, fairly clean. They will clean them for you if they are bad, and
> charge. Nobody is sending in dirty cattle now, straw sheds for the
> last while.
>
>
> >
> > On the positive side Matt has had 5 ewes lamb, a high proportion of
singles,
> > probably because they had not been fed properly to tupping because they
> > weren't supposed to have been tupped
> >
>
> Good. These were ones he bought?.. Talking to the lairage man this
> evening (I culled very lame ewes and brought them rather than the ewe
> hoggots I planned to sell), there are 1,200 booked in for tomorrow.
> That would be a high average for the year. I think that the prospects
> for lamb for the coming year are good still, if I have time tomorrow I
> will head back and see whats going in. Feeding and checking takes a
> lot of time in Spring, and leaves little for gawking. I tried a small
> local mart last week to see what trade was like, there was only one
> lot, there would be 40-80 other years at this time. Cattle trade was
> very good, strong Charolois (sp?) stores, 400-500 Kgs were making
> 800-900 euros. (This is still January). Down country, lots of small
> cattle and sheep being fed on catch crops, and looking very happy..
> Might not have been so happy last week in rain, but twould seem to be
> a good idea on semi-tillage farms. AFAanyoneKnows, there will have to
> be sugar beet sown this year for to get payments later.
>
> Those singles, done well, could return money in Late May-June.
>
he hopes to get them away for Easter trade. It wasn't his intention to rear
for it, but seeing as how he now has lambs born at the correct time for it.
they'll get a bit of creep to get them there.
Just to cheer you up, Matt reckons that some of the slaughter houses that
lead the market over here are starting to put their prices up a bit for
lamb, so things might be looking up
--
Jim Webster.
Pat Gardiner, Five years raving about bent vets and still no result
.
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