Skintagain
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- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
It’s grim getting paid in some industries
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
Having one killed next week was wondering roughly how much meat we will get it’s a Limx 22 months old
Size/weight would be more useful than age.
She will weigh @ 525KG
Well I anit no expert but if killed at 55% 288 kgs has a guide.
- Location
- South Devon
200kg after butchering.
- Location
- South Devon
Er the butcher , he take all de bones out.
sheepwise
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- Location
- SW Scotland
All our prime lambs are covered for bad debt by insurance premium of 10p/head
- Location
- South Devon
I'm guessing like me , you wouldn't send off an animal as small as 525 kg L.W.
The slaughtering and hanging are fixed charges , where as the butchering and packing are priced per kg.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
They’ve had plenty of lean years, when you work out what they turnover a day, I wouldn’t want to try and run a market.
sheepwise
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- Location
- SW Scotland
Nor an abattoir think profit as percentage of turnover very low.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
I wouldn’t shed a tear for many of them
FordFarmer
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- Location
- Devon
with a market? How do you know that covers debt insurance and is actually spent or providing what it says on the w
Sale statement?.. insurance would have lots of variables in terms of if it would stand up to and pay out for... To me no market can really guarantee that your sheep are insured against bad debt in particular when they are a solely auction company with limited assets and service offerings..
- Location
- central scotland
Until there is none left???? they are just part of the same chain we are all in .....just we often pull in different directions , and they like to show us how important they are but without us they are done for too
- Location
- Devon
I do sense there has been a noticeable shift recently.
For some time I felt processors couldn't care less about producers as jumping to the tune of supermarkets was all that mattered to them. I believe they have started to realise that we may be important too.
- Location
- central scotland
Is that for bad debt or condemned carcasses post mortem???? not sure but believed that if the vet says it’s ok to kill pre slaughter but when it’s dead there is something a miss with the carcass you will still get payed but could be different with your lamb group
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Yes , some business don’t have that luxury.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
I bet a tenner some take that money and don’t pay the premium
the world has a lot of good people but the scum are closer than you’d hope .