Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
Not really , most beef sheep men currently enjoying highest prices ever , what’s to be scared of ?
Australia Free Trade Deal?
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Courier
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- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
Ahem .rainy shitole perlease
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
Dina you and Milton Jones be slipping any crocodile meat in either mind ...
Cowabunga
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- Ceredigion,Wales
UK livestock farming is not particularly efficient. It is hamstrung by being tiny micro-businesses with high overheads, rules, regulations, cross-compliances, high land and labour prices and small fields. The UK grassland livestock farmer just can't compete with imports from Australia, New Zealand or South America in nine years out of ten.
Not sure where you got the idea that UK farming was efficient. In some sectors it is, such as arable, but mainly grain not vegetables or fruit; poultry and pigs, although very few piggeries left now because only the most efficient and committed are left.
But thanks very much for pointing out the Australian perspective, which is certain to give a much needed wake-up call to more snoozing introspective UK farmers.
Cowabunga
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- Ceredigion,Wales
So is their milk. However, that only happens about one year in ten, if not one year in twenty on average.
However, due to Chinese domestic conditions with African Swine Fever, and the amount of beef already exported to China, world beef prices will remain high for the next two years or so.
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- Limousin, France
And the yanks will want the same terms of tariff free access!
caveman
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- East Sussex.
Fantastic.And the yanks will want the same terms of tariff free access!
Bring it on.
Slightly off topic but related to farm subsidy. I have tried to think about how much farm subsidies depress prices by. Obviously there is the effect of stimulating extra production on otherwise marginal land, but also Messrs. Tesco, Sainsbury, Aldi et al must factor the SFP when offering contracts etc?
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
The U.K. auto industry consists of assembly plant and forecourts assembling and selling Japanese cars
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
I watch the Oklahoma stock yards now and again and their store cattle are slightly cheaper than ours but also more than slightly less cattle so not much cheaper over all imo, they often say they tight in supply and could sell lots more so I don’t see America as the huge threat it’s billed as by sore remainers and doom mongers.
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- Beragh, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Is Beef consumption rising in Asia?
Cowabunga
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- Ceredigion,Wales
It has risen dramatically in China due to internal supply issues with pigs and so on. Basically there is a world shortage of beef currently which seems likely to last for a couple of years. This is fortuitous for UK farmers faced with free trade. Amazingly fortuitous. Especially as it is demand led.
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- Mendips Somerset
huge muslim population and hardly any sheep , cant see sheep farmers complaining much
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- southern riverina Australia
So what are you all whinging about?? Or is that just the "British way'" .....Since the 5 minute drought finished must move on to next thing to moan over.
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
You couldnt afford our crocodilious.......
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
More than what's left here now......The U.K. auto industry consists of assembly plant and forecourts assembling and selling Japanese cars
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
How do you know what I can’t afford?
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
Crocodile is a bigger delicacy than your haggis......To expensive for a mere cattle farmer.