Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
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- Location
- Cheshire
I really hope you are right, I really do! But I've been looking over the hedges at cereal crops and forage crops this last fortnight and I wouldn't be surprised if the price of feed this winter means we need to be on £4 to be in the same place we are now!! its starting too look serious in places. I've had to give in and put Hoggs and lambs in on silage block and just starting strip grazing the sucklers on another! good job I've a shed full of cheap hay bought in March/April!!
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
You have a LOT to learn!
If markets had been shut down back in March when the lockdown started then prime beef would be sub £3 kilo now and spring lambs would never have been over £4 kilo or £80 head and hoggs would have been sub £70 head.
Quite clear you are the type that are happy to take 10pk more deadweight to screw over your fellow farmers..
Disgusting!
Sheeponfire
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And yet we are told the market wants lighter carcass!!
Oh I do love a bit of shifting the goal posts.
So you can see your stock sold but only buyers are allowed in the sale ring, how does that work?
Must be a revolving door by the auctioneers box! ?
i take your comments to heart but stand by mine , they stand round the ring whithin a ring . + i dont run the risk of our prime cattle heading for the jew boys thats worth somthing!
- Location
- North of Perth
Yes they do but its also nice to be able to call the shots for a change.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Take a look at Ireland, the live markets there have been all but been finished by farmers with your attitude! and suffice their beef price is always on the floor and much worse than ours, the only thing keeping the Irish beef industry going is the competition that comes from the live exports of cattle to places like Italy etc.
Without that export job and no live markets to speak of the Irish beef industry would be finished which it sounds like you want to happen to the British beef industry!
You MUST open your eyes with your MISTAKEN belief in only deadweight selling!
LESS COMPETITION = LOW PRICES.
You're very lucky in the South West that you haven't suffered too badly with the virus so far, hopefully the situation in Weston Super Mare isn't the start of your troubles as if you'd had what somewhere like Cumbria has suffered where most of us know of someone that never made it you might see it differently.Excellent news!
I just hope that markets don't over complicate this issue of allowing vendors in and not sure how they will work it if vendors are not allowed in the sale rings as for cattle most markets wont allow vendors in the actual ring with the stock.
Of course this whole virus issue is all about population control and the 2 meter rule is an absolute farce that needs to be scrapped asap and from what I have seen no one in supermarkets/ the street or indeed the beach are bothering with this pathetic rule anymore!
THE SOONER MARKETS ARE OPEN AGAIN AS NORMAL FOR EVERYONE THE BETTER!
Sell live to thrive
I agree that the sooner we are back to normal the better but we are a long way from that.
From what my neighbor said ( he works on dairy side plus calves sometimes) they have made a area by the the ring where some sellers can stand by and then go in the ring and then out and maybe more will be let in. I anit 100 per cent sure how it's going to work I'll find out more tomorrow.
I am very grateful that we have gotten a way with it lightly so far and hopefully it will stay like that but who knows.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
I know of no one who has died of the virus.
I know of THREE people who have died due to cancelled operations/ treatment due to the NHS only being forcused on Virus treatments for the last 3 months!
As for WSM, the problem there is the totally useless managers at the hospital, the guy in overall charge couldn't organize a pee up in a brewery if you turned the taps on for him ( and that comes from someone I know who is a close relation of his )
Only 20 deaths a day from the virus itself now, most coroners have NOT seen a death certificate for things like heart attacks/ cancer etc in the last 6/8 weeks... One very clever virus to cure ALL heart attacks/ cancer deaths is all I can say!...................
guth im waiting.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
What about the sheep prime markets where at Exeter for example they sell the sheep in the pens as per normal?
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
livestock 1
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Just look at it another way. People like guth and many others including myself are working hard on your behalf to keep your deadweight prices where they are.
Maybe a good reason for less of your taunting
take your comments. but your selling in differant mkts to the weak buggers down here.
livestock 1
Member
You can bet your bottom dollar that your base prices wouldn’t be where they are if it weren’t for the existence of live markets.