The link below will give you an idea of the meat lamb market in Missouri. Prices are about as good as they are going to get in February. The rest of the year the prices are more depressed for market lambs. I just sold 76 lambs at 56# avg. weight for $1.2272/pound ($68.72 each). I get 89% of the sale price ($61.16/56# lamb) the other 11% goes towards commission, lamb checkoff and sheep promotion. These were 8 month old lambs. The question at hand is can you feed them cheap enough to make money off of them.
Selling breeding stock for profit depends if Disney will come out with a Blackbelly sheep movie (my opinion). http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplateData.do?template=TemplateN&; navID=MarketNewsAndTransportationData&leftNav=MarketNewsAndTransportationDat a&page=MOSheep Mark Wintermute My husband is wondering how easy are these sheep to sell? I believed going into this, that through the consortium, I wouldn't have a hard time selling my lamb crops? What can you folks share with us about this topic? We would love to hear from you. Jack is of a mind that we may have chosen the wrong breed of sheep to diversify our farm...mainly due to the cost of necessary fencing and a lack of markets for them. I am in love with them and want to stay with them...so please help me out folks. Our experience is in the cattle markets... Thanks, Shawna and Jack Gulick Gulick Farms Fair Grove, MO _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ This message is from the Blackbelly mailing list Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info
