Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

neilo

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
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Montgomeryshire
jendan said:
I hope you are right,but there has never been such a drop in price as seen from last Thursday to yesterday.
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But last week saw an unprecedented high, which only those with the most rose tinted of specs would see as sustainable. Better to compare against prices 2-3 weeks ago which obviously still show a drop, but likely from a level we will return to once the dust settles.
 
neilo

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
andybk said:
cost me £40 in diesel to do that monday for nought , cant do that every time ! not like you can go to town or MVF for few hours , not going to work without a base price . someone or everyone is going to get pants pulled down
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Once it was clear that lambs had dropped so much on Monday, I did toy with the idea of fetching my ewes back (only a dozen). Then I thought of the potential cost of bringing back scab (or worse) and the hassle of keeping them isolated from the rest of my Mv accredited sheep (which I assume you will be doing too?).
I went and found a fallen tree that needed clearing instead, to resist the urge, and they made £130/hd. That’s about what I’d have been very happy with last week tbh, when a bigger/poorer mob made substantially more. Won’t be any more going for a while anyway.
 
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Hindsight

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Location
Lincolnshire
andybk said:
no but there is going to be whole families need feeding , whereas before the young uns might have had takeaway or ready meals , and left overs used not binned .
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But Andy a leg of lamb is four times price of chicken retail. In my local Morrisons I can pick up a medium chicken 1.35 kg at three for £10. So that is three meals for small family, plus a soup if you are sad like me. Or a large chicken 1.7k bird for £4. A couple of weeks ago I decide to cook a Lamb Balti, so picked up two packs of 250 grammes lamb pieces - total cost off top of my head £9. Nice curry but explains why in my local Morrisons the lamb section of the fresh meat area is miniscule. In these straightened time a family may take a leg of lamb over easter, many will stick to chicken I suspect? Do challenge me as I am a pure arable man. Post not intended to be antagonstic. I am just an interested bystander. Best wishes.
 
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Werzle

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Midlands
Hindsight said:
But Andy a leg of lamb is four times price of chicken retail. In my local Morrisons I can pick up a medium chicken 1.35 kg at three for £10. So that is three meals for small family, plus a soup if you are sad like me. Or a large chicken 1.7k bird for £4. A couple of weeks ago I decide to cook a Lamb Balti, so picked up two packs of 250 grammes lamb pieces - total cost off top of my head £9. Nice curry but explains why in my local Morrisons the lamb section of the fresh meat area is miniscule. In these straightened time a family may take a leg of lamb over easter, many will stick to chicken I suspect? Do challenge me as I am a pure arable man. Post not intended to be antagonstic. I am just an interested bystander. Best wishes.
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Most of your posts are antagonistic and its strange that you have moved onto this thread but i think we will see a sea change in peoples cooking habits as boredom kicks in, many will try cooking better meals. Gardening is seeing the same revival with everybody now at home and bored, so why not cooking.
 
andybk

andybk

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Mendips Somerset
Hindsight said:
But Andy a leg of lamb is four times price of chicken retail. In my local Morrisons I can pick up a medium chicken 1.35 kg at three for £10. So that is three meals for small family, plus a soup if you are sad like me. Or a large chicken 1.7k bird for £4. A couple of weeks ago I decide to cook a Lamb Balti, so picked up two packs of 250 grammes lamb pieces - total cost off top of my head £9. Nice curry but explains why in my local Morrisons the lamb section of the fresh meat area is miniscule. In these straightened time a family may take a leg of lamb over easter, many will stick to chicken I suspect? Do challenge me as I am a pure arable man. Post not intended to be antagonstic. I am just an interested bystander. Best wishes.
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dont be daft i dont think your antagonistic , just getting thoughts out there , i quite agree ,with what your saying except after a short time the chicken wont be there either in the volume to feed everyone , now everyone is having to buy fresh meat ,(a huge amount of cooked cuts come in from thailand ) it will for sure, be the go to meat i agree , but with grain and soya going up (+£60t for soya at last look ) and grain can only climb further due to poor uk plantings that price difference will close , lamb and beef can be grown quite cheaply outside on grass over summer if required . ok not to get in that top grade but edible meat . Dont forget a dominos pizza is nearly £20 so a £30 leg of lamb is still a cheap meal for family , maybe that leg should be cut down into steaks and cheaper cut directly minced to make it more affordable
 
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S J H

S J H

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Bedfordshire
Hindsight said:
But Andy a leg of lamb is four times price of chicken retail. In my local Morrisons I can pick up a medium chicken 1.35 kg at three for £10. So that is three meals for small family, plus a soup if you are sad like me. Or a large chicken 1.7k bird for £4. A couple of weeks ago I decide to cook a Lamb Balti, so picked up two packs of 250 grammes lamb pieces - total cost off top of my head £9. Nice curry but explains why in my local Morrisons the lamb section of the fresh meat area is miniscule. In these straightened time a family may take a leg of lamb over easter, many will stick to chicken I suspect? Do challenge me as I am a pure arable man. Post not intended to be antagonstic. I am just an interested bystander. Best wishes.
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I don't know how you get that much meat off of a chicken, you need 4x the amount of lamb, to be able to taste anything.
 
S J H

S J H

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Bedfordshire
Werzle said:
Most of your posts are antagonistic and its strange that you have moved onto this thread but i think we will see a sea change in peoples cooking habits as boredom kicks in, many will try cooking better meals. Gardening is seeing the same revival with everybody now at home and bored, so why not cooking.
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Could do with some tv adverts from AHDB saying that eating well will make you feel well. People will be grazing and eating crap at the moment.
 

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