Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

neilo · May 9, 2022

livestock 1 said:
Blair had agreed in a meeting in Brussels to get rid of millions of sheep and cattle the year before coincidentally, no one knew at the time how he was going to do it

To be fair, he was acting on the information he'd been given by incompetent scientists. The one 'expert' was predicting BSE would kill half the population and another group had found that the sheep's brains they'd been looking at were full of BSE prions, showing it had jumped the species barrier.

The first was using models that have clearly been incredibly inaccurate, and the second lot of numpties nearly culled the entire UK sheep flock because they'd made a mistake, and actually been looking at the brains of cattle that had died of BSE.
Apparently that cull came VERY close to happening on the back of that 'data'.

neilo · May 9, 2022

BELOWAVERAGE said:
Couldn't the same be said about tup breeders, buy a cheap crossbred tup lamb and chances are lambs will make more than some fancy marketed tups lambs, isn't it just good business sense ?

Not really. We don't all chip them out of the same seam.

Full of bull(s) · May 9, 2022

Optimus said:
Clean still £4.40 at Macintosh. Doesn't seem to be moving at the moment

A pause for breath I think. There will be consumer resistance until chicken and pork jump again at retail level, which it will, then beef will look better value again. There’s nothing cheap to import to replace it especially with the pound dropping.

livestock 1 · May 9, 2022

Anymulewilldo said:
There’s plenty of areas not up too pre F&M levels. It was one of the things that drove people too the agri environment schemes too survive

Well there’s another thought
Agri schemes pre written and handed to folks taken out

Hilly · May 9, 2022

neilo said:
To be fair, he was acting on the information he'd been given by incompetent scientists. The one 'expert' was predicting BSE would kill half the population and another group had found that the sheep's brains they'd been looking at were full of BSE prions, showing it had jumped the species barrier.

The first was using models that have clearly been incredibly inaccurate, and the second lot of numpties nearly culled the entire UK sheep flock because they'd made a mistake, and actually been looking at the brains of cattle that had died of BSE.
Apparently that cull came VERY close to happening on the back of that 'data'.

Same carry on as covid , i these scientists must live and work in a permanent state of fear and alert , any little thing they scare the beee jesus out the government and the populace so far all turned out almost hoaxes fortunatly but the more they cry wolf ….

Hilly · May 9, 2022

Bob the beef said:
TBF the Snowie family had been heavily involved in all sorts of waste management long before FM. They were just a farming family that started out doing a bit of opencast reclamation, then got into sewage sludge etc.

They just had the balls and inclination to go after a contract that not many other companies were interested in. The kit would all be be part financed by the gov.

Sadly the money did the family no favours at all. One brother died last year in his early fifties, and the rest of the family have had various difficulties.

They used to have a big stand at the highland show.

Gedd · May 9, 2022

Hilly said:
Same carry on as covid , i these scientists must live and work in a permanent state of fear and alert , any little thing they scare the beee jesus out the government and the populace so far all turned out almost hoaxes fortunatly but the more they cry wolf ….

Worst case scenarios much as michael fish with his there is no storm comments

Hfd Cattle · May 9, 2022

NFI said:
Pre F & M the national flock was around 60m. Now it's around 30m.
And dropping..

Yes your right there ...had 2 tack sheep die over the weekend....that's 2 less

Werzle · May 9, 2022

NFI said:
Pre F & M the national flock was around 60m. Now it's around 30m.
And dropping..

That does surprise me , sheep meat would be free if we had an extra 30 million

Northeastfarmer · May 9, 2022

Werzle said:
That does surprise me , sheep meat would be free if we had an extra 30 million

There’s only one way sheep numbers will go

primmiemoo · May 9, 2022

Werzle said:
That does surprise me , sheep meat would be free if we had an extra 30 million

Perhaps you're too young to remember the British Wool campaign? *60 million British sheep can't be wrong ~ Buy British Wool!

*that's iirc. It was something similar as a slogan.

Estate fencing. · May 9, 2022

Hfd Cattle said:
Yes your right there ...had 2 tack sheep die over the weekend....that's 2 less

Not got rid of them yet, they must have eaten half your cattle grass

JSmith · May 9, 2022

Hfd Cattle said:
Yes your right there ...had 2 tack sheep die over the weekend....that's 2 less

I had a ewe hang itself under the lid of the creep feeder, so that’s three useless feckers less

Hilly · May 9, 2022

Gedd said:
Worst case scenarios much as michael fish with his there is no storm comments

They need to stop it !! Idiots with nothing to loose, but everyone else is loosing .

Hfd Cattle · May 9, 2022

Electricfencer said:
Not got rid of them yet, they must have eaten half your cattle grass

They getting less ....about 75 to go tomorrow and that's it then

Old Tip · May 9, 2022

Hfd Cattle said:
They getting less ....about 75 to go tomorrow and that's it then

I waiting for everyone else to clear out then take my fifty in, shorn and same size as a lamb I’m thinking they will ok (if they ever get fat that is)

Bob the beef · May 9, 2022

Hilly said:
They used to have a big stand at the highland show.

Four brothers with a bit of graft, balls and the gift of the gab. Came from not very much, to millionaires…..

Just like Del and Rodney!

Chae1 · May 9, 2022

Optimus said:
Clean still £4.40 at Macintosh. Doesn't seem to be moving at the moment

It's apparently going to rise in 2 weeks.

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We are holding off. Got a couple loads nearly ready.

With barley over £300/t it better be a decent rise.

Anymulewilldo · May 9, 2022

Hilly said:
Same carry on as covid , i these scientists must live and work in a permanent state of fear and alert , any little thing they scare the beee jesus out the government and the populace so far all turned out almost hoaxes fortunatly but the more they cry wolf ….

If they don’t make a big thing about something then they risk having their work and funding sidelined or cut when things are being streamlined… job justification and all that…

Henarar · May 9, 2022

livestock 1 said:
Blair had agreed in a meeting in Brussels to get rid of millions of sheep and cattle the year before coincidentally, no one knew at the time how he was going to do it

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