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Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
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d williams
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I’d agree on selling non assurance beef can be a struggle at some markets lamb ewes doesn’t have the same troublesWhen the MHS were responsible for meat inspection around 2002 a report concluded that all abattoirs regardless of size should be charged the same headadge rate for inspection instead of an hourly charge. This was implemented and helped many small abattoirs. However it was abolished a few years later.
The levy boards and the farmers union have stood by and allowed smaller abattoirs to close. Each time an abattoir closes it removes a bidder from around the live ring. These bidders may have placed bids on several hundred animals a day, benefiting farmers. The closure also results in animal welfare issues as animals have to travel further.
Nowadays, unless farmers are Red Tractor and their stock meets supermarket specs they hardly get a bid at the mart. Some may think the levy boards, the farmers union and the large abattoirs are all working together to shaft the farmers
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- Northumberland
There is always more money to be made out of the ugly ones(both cattle and sheep)Strangely no, it all seems to disappear somewhere but I do find that not being proud about what you buy pays better than paying over the odds for something everyone else likes
livestock 1
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As I’ve said before I have a few friends with or that have had slaughterhouses. None of it is easy. Like a lot more things it can be partly a numbers game. Some of the smaller ones I know of have been left being forced to increase throughput or else.When the MHS were responsible for meat inspection around 2002 a report concluded that all abattoirs regardless of size should be charged the same headadge rate for inspection instead of an hourly charge. This was implemented and helped many small abattoirs. However it was abolished a few years later.
The levy boards and the farmers union have stood by and allowed smaller abattoirs to close. Each time an abattoir closes it removes a bidder from around the live ring. These bidders may have placed bids on several hundred animals a day, benefiting farmers. The closure also results in animal welfare issues as animals have to travel further.
Nowadays, unless farmers are Red Tractor and their stock meets supermarket specs they hardly get a bid at the mart. Some may think the levy boards, the farmers union and the large abattoirs are all working together to shaft the farmers
No if 1 was 50%
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So what did you average on the lot? And have you done the same this year?Out of 200
Good going.Out of 200
Just sold the last two this week for eighty each would all be shorn in Feb and fed hard feed but I would make over thirty a head over costs on them. Time, patience and luck is the answer to most things but I did clear twenty a head on some I bought recently in a fortnight
When would you of brought them? And when did most of them go?. I have brought some cheaper ones and they do pay the best.
Bought in October sold in May/June
livestock 1
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You should look after my sheepOut of 200
matthew
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- Location
- Cornwall, SW England
No EHC available yet, for beef to China. So a lot of guessing. Defra / AHDB jumped the gun with the announcement. And no EHC has been lodged yet. TB present or past, will exclude a lot of good cattle from this market.
But an EHC is already in place for pigs, specifying no TB for 6 months for pork, 12 months for breeding pigs.
Live pigs have to be skin tested and then isolated from any other pigs before export.
Details here.
We (farmers) have been seriously let down by successive governments who have let this disease rip, while counting luvvie votes. ?
livestock 1
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Oh Lordy ?But definitely not GUTHs as he would have me sell them all before Christmas
Quite agree. Sell 18 months old store cattle and don't bother declaring farm assured at times no difference in price. Certainly same for breeding sheep and store lambs. Cull cows an issue if dw selling but tried selling lw and declaring farm assured one week and not next no difference when comparing weekly average. Lambs in live assured made 3.27 less than non assured from mid may to second of July. Then assured made 1 45 in next 3 weeks. Confirmed won't bother with assurance scheme next year. Cull cows potential loss but sell as grazers far from the end of the world. If worthwhile it's a pittance of an expense and no hassle to pass. But that's half the problem it's so worthless it and easily abused it reduces it's benefit and when an assured farm passed with distinction is prosecuted for animal cruelty weeks later it does make you question it's worth. Future with exports may require so many years of being assured but got to point of it being so worthless I'm not renewing next year and actually looking forward to it
pine_guy
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- Location
- North Cumbria
Might have only been a batch of two ?
- Location
- South shropshire
What are 550 kg plus continental cross ( dairy bred) steers making at the moment, well fleshed, majority Blue sires.
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Thanks.
Nice strong types and FA or time to get it £1050ish