Thought I'd better check and I was wrong but still a lot more than you guys are on, and it was a contracted price! Would your price be an artic load Optimus?
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
Northeastfarmer
Member
- Location
- Cleveland
I remember people on here saying breed everything 40 kilos because that’s what fits into a plastic tray and that’s what’s wanted…now they are wanting big lambs
As the old adage goes….they always want what you haven’t got
As the old adage goes….they always want what you haven’t got
- Location
- Devon
I imagine that is because you have not considered it , or other people, properly.
There are lots of different people farming a lot of different systems. Why penalise someone whose system may be longer.
Much more importantly, why do you think it is that this policy is being heavily pushed by processors?....
Does it improve taste/ saleability? No.
Does it make its carbon footprint less? No.
Does it give processors a much more predictable supply? Yes
Does it make the window for marketing finished cattle much smaller? Yes
It is one big step closer for the processors to control beef in the same way as they already do for poultry and pork.
But hey, if you don't think it will affect you, you obviously don't care.
- Location
- Northumberland
How did you get on today?
Faster its finished the less it tastes!
Bossfarmer
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- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
if your making £50/head on 200 should you not be making more like £70/head on 2000 as youve the economies of scale to pay for the machinery etc?Ha ha i was waiting to see who spotted that typo mistake first....
I meant 2000 head ( not 1000 )
So 200 head x £50 head is 10k, what can you do with that?
2000 head x £50 head is 100k, that you can do something with.
- Location
- West Wales
21.5kg £171.35 in May, unfed.
Bulk of my lambs go in June/July at 18-18.5kg, stop sending once weaned then go for bigger weights in the autumn finished lambs. Everything still on grass fed and no lambs will hit green crop, my turnips for the ewes have gone from a good crop to a 1/4 crop in the last 2 storms but are recovering after the last 48 hours giving 18mm of rain, the leaves today don’t taste salty.
Many ways of skinning a cat and everyone has there own system, it would be mighty boring if everyone did the same.
- Location
- West Wales
@Mc115reed has got us all skinning cats nowMore than one way to skin a cat.
How much are cat skins worth?
muleman
Member
If live trade would get their act together this wouldn't happendeadweight lamb prices getting pulled back 10p for end of the week
I know of a bloke that used to have a market for them 50 years ago!!
- Location
- West Wales
Think of the money he’d make now with so many cats in the country
serf
Member
- Location
- warwickshire
Trying to get some sheep out the field other day was like herding cats , fecking things wouldn't move , so this is where the cat analogy comes in
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ISCO
Member
- Location
- North East
There's a bloke in Downing Street always looking for a dead cat.
- Location
- N.Lincs
Should have shut the gate and knocked a rail off the fence next to it - the buggers would have been through a little hole like that in no timeTrying to get some sheep out the field other day was like herding cats , fecking things wouldn't move , so this is where the cat analogy comes in
- Location
- Cheshire
I don’t think I’ve ever had a ewe above 80kg!
but you are those huge Suffolk Halfbreds and 7/8 bred texels and they do take some space up!BELOWAVERAGE
Member
So the original debate was whether it paid to take lambs to bigger weights now, what sort of weights and money are your lambs doing now, without their organic premium ?
BELOWAVERAGE
Member
Those ewe lambs what you buy wouldn't grow into what you'd class as a smaller type of ewe though would they ? There'd be some weight in them.I don’t think I’ve ever had a ewe above 80kg!