I heard tell of it yesterday and meadow quality beef report this morning confirmed it. AFU boys will be smiling
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Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
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I heart welshpool down 25p
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Very clear from market on Saturday that there is still plenty of demand for finishing/ grazing cattle.
Vet body has stopped vets from doing routine small animal work but farm work for most jobs can continue as long as you ca keep 2+ meters away from the vet. ( but no idea if that's changed on TB testing today )
If they suspend TB testing then the only people that will be able to buy cattle are a handful of farmers with AFU's but where will that leave trade?
Wouldn't surprise me if they did stop TB testing as some police forces have today banned shops from selling Easter eggs!
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I don't doubt you but can you post up the report?
If it isn't safe to do Pre movement tests then it isn't safe to do routine testing.
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- Hereford
Just look on their website you berk !!
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Yep I did and I couldn't see anything posted today about TB testing.
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- Hereford
In my view we must keep annual testing but I think pre-movement is an unnecessary activity
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Unless I missed it all today's report states is that it can be difficult to get a Tb test done, nothing about it being stopped.
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Nothing either on their facebook page as of now saying pre movement tests have been stopped .
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- Mendips Somerset
any news from the front line yet ? exeter / sedge
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Pre movement tests are just as important to allow farms to move store stock along the chain.
If the calve rearer cant sell weaned calves he cant buy small calves etc, the whole thing would fall apart in days and stock would be backed up everywhere.
If you stop one you must stop the other as well.
I assume you have some routine tests to do shortly thus why you are keen just for them to continue..
25p down on lambs today from last week is that what you mean?
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- Montgomeryshire
I put £95 on them, which is about what they’d make dw (where they’d go if they came home).
They lost a kilo in the trailer travelling 7 miles to the market at Welshpool, so 47kg on their scales. Just heard they made £101.50, which is about a fiver up on similar weight Springers last week iirc.
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Knackerman told me 25 p down on last monday
Hes clearly fill of crap thank god
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- Mendips Somerset
easter market ?
Heard how trade was overall
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- Montgomeryshire
Yes, that’s why I have never put a reserve on before. If they came back, they’d be isolated until they went to the abattoir with the in-spec ones, probably later this week.
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- Somerset
There's no market at Stratford on Avon tomorrow due to no demand.
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I cannot see the French etc not buying our lamb for very long, they still have to eat.
No problem lorry's coming into the UK so should be no problem lorry's going the other way!