Fair comment but the imported beef job got terrible press a few months ago and shoppers didnt buy it ,plus after December 31st it wont be allowed in perhaps. Trade deal with the US will not happen overnight and people are not going to touch it after hearing about the hormones etc, i expect school kids will end up being fed it. High grain prices or grain shortages could be a factor but low oil prices are keeping a lid on prices and making other feeds like maize gluten cheap. Biggest threat for beef prices other than us trying to find reasons for the firms to drop the price is the influx in dairy beef in 18-24mths time imo
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
- Location
- Cheshire
I do hope you a right! It makes sense and is a logical train of thought.
But when has logical ever stuck in farming? ??
I've cashed all my stronger stores and bought extra sucklers so time will tell!
livestock 1
Member
I think that’s the way I will be going if the trade allows. Sell stores younger and keep more cows. I probably will have to because I’ve already bought the cows.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Are you sure that's right? Don't they mean British not scotch?
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
No - it's a survey done by QMS, so looking specifically for the Scotch logo. It could be that the beef is from up here but non-FA or from south of Hadrian's wall, or indeed Scottish FA but that the assurance got messed by being killed or cut in southern factories (does/ can that happen?).
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
There is no ifs or buts of barley getting to £200 ,its not going to happen.
Straw is going to be dear though.
livestock 1
Member
The better types are up £180 in the prime ring so why wouldn’t stores go up?
Timbo
Member
- Location
- Gods County
That at shrews or Drayton?
Probably should of sold strong stores and bought small grazing cattle but now the grass is growing again small store prices will improve further. Biggest threat to the beef trade is all these dairy calves which farms will be forced to rear but they will not be fit to kill until 2022 almost
- Location
- Shropshire
Ludlow Monday, shrews and b’north Tuesday, Drayton (and I think Oswestry) wednesday
But the dairy calves are being reared now, and have been reared for years.
The only extra calves I can see coming on the market will be the runty bull calves.
There's a Muslim festival (Eid or qurbani?) on the 22nd of July is it worth keeping cull ewes for a bit? When would they want them?
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
No. Up till now have calved all backend cows to saler and hereford bulls. Kept most of heifers for replacements in spring herd and finished rest as bulls.
We sell spring calves as stores about ten months old.
My feeling being a glass half empty kind of guy is that these high prices can't last and by selling them in September you might be able to take advantage of current price rise before they drop again.
pine_guy
Member
- Location
- North Cumbria
Not all of them, maybe have a look at my post on this thread
xbred dairy bull calves
Our Hereford crosses have been the least valuable calves this year All ours are sold privately with a premium to suck cows herds, as no holstein blood in our herd and we're mostly the same high farm as them so cows are fair hard.
thefarmingforum.co.uk
TBH, I was expecting that price, they are nice well fleshed commercial texel and Suffolk lambs but by no means extreme shapes.
- Location
- Shropshire
I can’t understand why the unwanted calves can’t be taken an minced at under 40 days old.Not all of them, maybe have a look at my post on this thread
xbred dairy bull calves
Our Hereford crosses have been the least valuable calves this year All ours are sold privately with a premium to suck cows herds, as no holstein blood in our herd and we're mostly the same high farm as them so cows are fair hard.