Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

Northeastfarmer · Mar 23, 2020

unlacedgecko said:
Exactly. McDonalds didn’t close the drive through until the government underwrote their wage bill....

Where the fudge will all this money come from

Shebb90 · Mar 23, 2020

Northeastfarmer said:
Where the fudge will all this money come from

I been thinking that all week too....... Could be / will be some difficult years ahead on back of this

Northeastfarmer · Mar 23, 2020

Shebb90 said:
I been thinking that all week too....... Could be / will be some difficult years ahead on back of this

I think the royal mint will be working over time for the foreseeable

Macsky · Mar 23, 2020

lloyd said:
Look on the bright side the grass is starting to grow well
and it's not raining anymore

Speak for yourself!?

Woolless · Mar 23, 2020

livestock 1 said:
Ha what do you think now?

Just made a phone call. The line I'm still getting is that abattoirs are essential, our presence there is essential so get yourself in!

Which is all very well. Speaking to my wife (a district nurse) tonight. She says GPs are getting thin on the ground, presumably staying at home as much as possible. Managers in my line have suspended supervisory visits. Meanwhile, my wife continues visiting her patients and I'm expected to mix with 50 hairy-arsed blokes every work day through the peak of the outbreak while our kids are at one of these daycare hubs AKA viral breeding grounds. Meanwhile, every shiny arse in the country is at home on their laptop. Just feels a bit like getting thrown under the bus. I'm getting nervous about it. God help the folk that are really in the line of fire.

Frank-the-Wool · Mar 23, 2020

Just thinking that it is not possible to just announce that we are all shut down from tonight. Local market has 650 to sell tomorrow, many in tonight and over 1500 sheep in tonight.

I presume that as essential workers we will be able to travel but there will only be two buyers allowed at the market.

LAMBCHOPS · Mar 23, 2020

Has a law been passed that a vendor is not allowed to see his stock sold-- he is part of the "essential food chain therefore an "essential worker". Surely its a closed shop now if it carries on behind closed doors so will there be a guarenteed price system or most important a collection centre. Wheres the fair price dropping trade by 40 pound a head? Could be the end of the "fat" auction if farmers are shafted. Contracts for my 50 ton of lamb and if thats not enough wont be producing it

Hilly · Mar 23, 2020

Woolless said:
Just made a phone call. The line I'm still getting is that abattoirs are essential, our presence there is essential so get yourself in!

Which is all very well. Speaking to my wife (a district nurse) tonight. She says GPs are getting thin on the ground, presumably staying at home as much as possible. Managers in my line have suspended supervisory visits. Meanwhile, my wife continues visiting her patients and I'm expected to mix with 50 hairy-arsed blokes every work day through the peak of the outbreak while our kids are at one of these daycare hubs AKA viral breeding grounds. Meanwhile, every shiny arse in the country is at home on their laptop. Just feels a bit like getting thrown under the bus. I'm getting nervous about it. God help the folk that are really in the line of fire.

Jack the jobs and stay at home ?

livestock 1 · Mar 23, 2020

Woolless said:
Just made a phone call. The line I'm still getting is that abattoirs are essential, our presence there is essential so get yourself in!

Which is all very well. Speaking to my wife (a district nurse) tonight. She says GPs are getting thin on the ground, presumably staying at home as much as possible. Managers in my line have suspended supervisory visits. Meanwhile, my wife continues visiting her patients and I'm expected to mix with 50 hairy-arsed blokes every work day through the peak of the outbreak while our kids are at one of these daycare hubs AKA viral breeding grounds. Meanwhile, every shiny arse in the country is at home on their laptop. Just feels a bit like getting thrown under the bus. I'm getting nervous about it. God help the folk that are really in the line of fire.

Same here. At work on different farms with different people. Loads of walkers, caravanners cyclists yesterday. Decided to look after kids at home.
Definitely nothing like the exposure you have though.
Good luck

Chasingmytail · Mar 23, 2020

With restaurants closed who is going to buy lamb as a weekly meal? Yes mince is cheap but every other cut is expensive - Leg of lamb (highest sales) talking about £30! Whole shoulder £25 - for a sunday lunch with a large family its not financially viable. Compared to say a chicken (even 2) - a beef roast is a lot cheaper. I cant say I know many friends who buy lamb. We have plenty in the freezer but if I had to buy it it would be for a very special occasion.

neilo · Mar 23, 2020

gone up the hill said:
That isn't the case.

No vendors = a closed sale and this is what happens!

No reason vendors could not have been allowed in to see their stock weighed/ sold even if they had to stay on the opposite side of the pen and well away from the buyer's when they were sold and were only allowed in to see their stock sold and then had to leave.

One buyer with a large farm shop that was rammed with people all weekend said he would not buy any lambs off vendors that were inside the market........

Welshpool this morning and most/all vendors were sorting their own stock as normal, seeing them weighed, penned & graded. Presumably if 50% were unsold, plenty would have been there to see that they weren’t sold too cheaply either.

As for buyers taking advantage of vendors not being there, I was told by my dw man, before any markets would have started selling, that lambs were down £30/hd today, and dw would be following them down.
Almost makes the stability of a contract look good.

gone up the hill · Mar 23, 2020

neilo said:
Welshpool this morning and most/all vendors were sorting their own stock as normal, seeing them weighed, penned & graded. Presumably if 50% were unsold, plenty would have been there to see that they weren’t sold too cheaply either.

As for buyers taking advantage of vendors not being there, I was told by my dw man, before any markets would have started selling, that lambs were down £30/hd today, and dw would be following them down.
Almost makes the stability of a contract look good.

Different markets are doing different things which is a surprise tbh.

Not sure it matters now as I think they cant operate anyway on this lockdown!

gone up the hill · Mar 23, 2020

Frank-the-Wool said:
Just thinking that it is not possible to just announce that we are all shut down from tonight. Local market has 650 to sell tomorrow, many in tonight and over 1500 sheep in tonight.

I presume that as essential workers we will be able to travel but there will only be two buyers allowed at the market.

Governement don't give a sh!t.

All they care about is locking the country down and imprisoning everyone in their homes for the next 18 months +

Chasingmytail · Mar 23, 2020

Its not strictly a lockdown though - Its restrictive movement - I dont understand why lockdown is being used as this to me says you cant leave at all (you are going to work and the supermarket)

lloyd · Mar 23, 2020

gone up the hill said:
Governement don't give a sh!t.

All they care about is locking the country down and imprisoning everyone in their homes for the next 18 months +

Look on the bright side if you whinged in China
like you are doing you would have a knock on the
door and escorted to the nearest cell block.

gone up the hill · Mar 23, 2020

lloyd said:
Look on the bright side if you whinged in China
like you are doing you would have a knock on the
door and escorted to the nearest cell block.

I don't think we are very far off that in the UK tbh.

Beef farmer · Mar 23, 2020

gone up the hill said:
Governement don't give a sh!t.

All they care about is locking the country down and imprisoning everyone in their homes for the next 18 months +

You are uncontrollable man

gone up the hill · Mar 23, 2020

Beef farmer said:
You are uncontrollable man

It is what it is im afraid.

They don't give a sh!t, whole raft of things they could do to make it easier for farmers/ less people on farms but they haven't done any of it.

Spuddler · Mar 23, 2020

farmeronecow said:
Just had a phone call from Sedgemoor, hoggs sold subject to approval. 42-44kg £60. Jobs f@cked

Frank-the-Wool said:
Just thinking that it is not possible to just announce that we are all shut down from tonight. Local market has 650 to sell tomorrow, many in tonight and over 1500 sheep in tonight.

I presume that as essential workers we will be able to travel but there will only be two buyers allowed at the market.

It is essential work so excluded from the two persons rule

Hilly · Mar 23, 2020

gone up the hill said:
Governement don't give a sh!t.

All they care about is locking the country down and imprisoning everyone in their homes for the next 18 months +

Good job they have not done that then.

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