Turn a livestock offer into what it actually buys your family — kilos of maize, litres of milk, kilos of beans — and see how it sits against the recent going price at the Isiolo market, so a lowball is clear before the animal changes hands.
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(3 months ago)
A good price is one that feeds your family. When a buyer names a price for your goat, sheep or head of cattle, this turns it into what it will actually buy — maize, milk, beans — and shows how it sits against what the same animal has been fetching at the Isiolo market, from the county drought bulletin. So you don't trek days only to be lowballed. It uses only the price you type; nothing is saved or sent.
Sales-yard days in Isiolo: Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
What will the offer buy?
Pick the animal and type the price you are being offered. Everything stays in this phone — nothing is saved or sent.
Ksh
Going price. The last bulletin reported Ksh 9,000 for goat (two-year) at the Isiolo market, and a county average of Ksh 6,325 across all the markets. In the May 2026 bulletin, about 11 percent above the recent May average, lifted by Eid al-Adha demand — the bulletin expected prices to ease a little from June.
That offer buys about118 kg of maize
118 kg of maize (about 1.3 90 kg bag)
56 kg of beans
106 litre of milk
That is around the Ksh 9,000 the last bulletin reported at the Isiolo market.
Prices are the averages from the drought bulletin for May 2026, checked 19 June 2026.
What "terms of trade" means
A fair price is one that feeds your family. The drought bulletin measures it as terms of trade — how much maize one animal buys. In the May 2026 bulletin a two-year goat bought about 83 kg of maize across the county, but 136 kg at the Isiolo town market and only about 52 kg at the farthest outlying market. That gap — not the shilling number alone — is why where and when you sell matters.
How to use this
Pick the animal and type the price you are being offered at the yard.
The tool turns it into what it buys your family — kilos of maize, litres of milk, kilos of beans — and shows how it sits against the price the last drought bulletin reported at the Isiolo market.
If the offer is well below that going price, it is worth pushing back, or trying another buyer or another market day — you know the animal is worth more.
These are the bulletin's monthly averages. A single sale runs above or below them, so use the number as a guide and agree the price at the yard.
The going prices here are the monthly averages the drought bulletin collected across the market — a single sale on any day runs above or below them, and prices move with the season, the rains and holidays. Use this to know roughly what an animal should buy and to spot a clear lowball, then agree the price at the yard before the animal changes hands.
118 kg of maize
what one goat (two-year) bought · May 2026 bulletin