casper74
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- Location
- North Yorkshire
1 man today turned out cattle at 7 and 8 months old £1150, how much does he want!!!!!!!
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
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livestock 1
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Was there anybody in at them tho?
casper74
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- Location
- North Yorkshire
Yes (not me)
spin cycle
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- Location
- north norfolk
peter crichton is an auctioneer /valuer in suffolk with a particular interest in the pig job....on his website he does a regular 'pig commentary' which is an interesting read 
.....i'd post the page but it won't let me...one little snippet from it ...red tractor weaners are worthless...presumably 'better' schemes out competing it
.....i'd post the page but it won't let me...one little snippet from it ...red tractor weaners are worthless...presumably 'better' schemes out competing itSkintagain
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- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
Greedy twit
MDL POWERUP
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70p per pig per week I think, you pay bedding water. They pay feed. Not as rosy as it seems but good cash flow that's why banks like it I presume.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I don't know anyone that actually produces pigs in any number (other than B&B). No idea whether @Suffolk Serf would be at liberty to divulge how incredibly wealthy he's becoming?
livestock 1
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I think that’s what it is too. Easier to understand the accounts. For the financiers
Skintagain
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- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
Banks will like it because its transparent easy to calculate. Having a calf to rear up to a cow, to rear a calf that all might die doesn't float a bank managers boat
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
x 2000 pigs and it's not a bad income. Sheds approx £250k though I heard, on a greenfield site.
Safer money than in eggs I suspect, with less capital tied up?
They’re probably being bought for the kids to keep them busy and occupied in lockdown , not to make money
MDL POWERUP
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Cattle sheds or old silage pits are fast converted for no where near that cost. Straw cost takes the shine off though 2000 pigs will go through more than you think. You've also got to like mucking out a lot and stinking like nothing else.
There's a lot in this and most the paper's are quoting from it, worth a read..
ffcc.co.uk
Farming for Change - Food, Farming and Countryside Commission
New FFCC report shows that agroecology can produce enough healthy food for a future UK population.
ffcc.co.uk
cattleman123
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- Location
- devon
Have they suddenly found a stack@?
Suffolk Serf
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- Location
- Bury/Thetford
All I know is that a few years ago I had designs on being the next BQP and had a few farmers rearing and finishing for me on contract. It was all very exciting having pigs all over Norfolk and Suffolk but not profitable enough to sustain the high borrowings and I got out of it before it finished me and I reverted to selling weaners to people more clever than me.
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cattleman123
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- Location
- devon
Exeter av 98.50...Sedgemoor must have been the same...had to be seen to be belived
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
thats going to need huge expansion of cattle / sheep ,and legume crops "do away with artificial fertilisers "There's a lot in this and most the paper's are quoting from it, worth a read..
Farming for Change - Food, Farming and Countryside Commission
New FFCC report shows that agroecology can produce enough healthy food for a future UK population.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Companies doing it locally apparently want new buildings, to their spec, rather than conversions, hence the cost. Maybe they're paying more/pig for the privilege though?
Copious quantities of pig muck produced is some sort of fert supply imported too, if you can make use of it all of course.
serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
Wheres it going end up
- boom or bust, can't imagine plateau after the rate prices have risen