Probably stand on
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
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Probably stand on
cattleman123
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- Location
- devon
Jerry...on Sat a few guys reckoned that your storelambs...Exeters that is were a lot less than Sat and not as dear as the previous week..Russel was away as well I was told..
Yes David K was selling on Friday That normally indicates a drop.....?
- Location
- somerset
trouble is a large proportion of british youngsters do not have the work ethic. Had a few in the past, but useless isn't the right word. I really don't know who is to blame, parents, schools, or what. Perhaps the youth unemployment throughout the EU is reflecting this as well ! But, kids today, want everything at once, and are surprised when they can't, want 9-5 hours, no weekends, and top money ! What is going to happen when the supply of foreign workers dries up, I have no idea. Where does their money come from unemployment money isn't a lot, other benefits are not easy to get, I know that from own experience, I am disabled, but being self employed, my wife works more than 16 hours a week, entitlement = £0 luckily I qualify for a PIP payment £112 week, but the 2 are separate, and pip does not influence 'social' so the young can't get much on the 'social'. Huge problem coming I expect !!
Aspiring Peasants
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- Location
- North Pennines
According to AHDB Carlisle were up 16.4p
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Not BS, I'm sure. I've heard the same for plants up here and have personal knowledge of a slaughterhouse that is struggling to employ reliable staff.
- Location
- Hereford
It's not just slaughter houses ..some of the soft fruit farms have struggled to retain workers. They are going back home.
On a recent visit to the cutting room at Dunbia Preston, out of sixty odd men on that shift only two were British plus most of the folk in the packing room were related or in a relationship with these men. Eighty five percent of the work force of six hundred were Eastern European
- Location
- Suffolk, UK
with the potential of declining Euro workers, our own medically fit unemployed workforce need to get off their butts and start working for a living.
I also agree with the above, feels like a lot of people today want everything handed to them.
ABP Perth the same ,when we visited there was 200 folk in the cutting room all Eastern European’s apart from 1. Scotbeef have gone down the automated route,they have spent a fortune on machines but there is only so much the machines can do.
We weren’t but Wigton very good today at £93 av
With Tescos as an example bragging about their annual profits of hundreds of millions followed by another big supermarket its plain to see the profit is in the hands of the top dogs. So much for the supermarket regulator if the supply chain was looked after better the poor man picking his fruits in the fields could be payed more if the farmer was getting a fairer share that could be passed on. Until the regulator has more teeth we will see a shortage as their is a disproportionate share of the profits
Youngsters don't want to butcher these days. Took us ages to find one.
- Location
- Northumberland
Had a quick look in Hexham today.Thought it would be better after green showing across markets yesterday and end of last week.These are a few prices i saw; SUFF x,44s @ £68.50. 46s @69.50,£71.50. 47s @£72 .TEX x,47s @£73.50,40s @£64, 38s @£62. These were all good quality proper fat lambs. As good as any i saw were a big pen of Blackies 38s @£60.
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
So it was sh!t?
- Location
- Northumberland
More or less. There was one pen of proper Beltex i saw, that did get to half decent money,maybe 200p.The trouble is they do not have enough buyers if they get close to 2000 lambs in.Only 2 main ones,AA and JC.
I would have liked any post with prices on normally but not for that, I can see why so many geordies at Carlisle. I wonder if they are not fit enough as I noticed the buyers handling a lot more lambs than normal lately. We have housed ours at 40kg for the last few kilos as we find they handle so much better, whether it pays or not though is another matter. Certainly did today.
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
How many of these people are there who need to get off their butts? We are at statistically full employment and that's with 3 million (?) EU citizens.
Woolless
Member
- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Seen a few market lambs on the line at work today and a good few of them were pretty lean.
- Location
- Northumberland
Does JC buy these? Can you equate from the look and feel of live lambs what their carcase looks like?