Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

Werzle

Member
Location
Midlands
The day of days!

Record top price for stirks at the centre ever seen! ( and i suspect any market in the SW of England other than perhaps for show animal/ pedigree breeding bull but even then i do not think anywhere has ever had stirks to todays top prices!

Lim steer circa 10 or 12 months old going to a commercial finisher hit £1285 in the stirks, another at £1250 to the same good home, Angus 12 month old steer to £1200 and so it goes on!

Not to be outdone in the sheep section store lambs averaged £106 head and AND couples to £375 an outfit!

But not left behind in the store cattle ring trade really was on fire and much much sharper on the week, trade topped out at £1780 head for a steer, pen after pen £1400/1500 head but what looked the dearest were the smaller grazing cattle, WOW what a trade they were! R grade 450 kilo steers anything from £1200 to £1295 head, heifers slightly lighter £1000 to easily £1100 + head time and time again!

Deadweight up next week and well over £4.40 kilo now, empty sheds, plenty of cheap straw and silage pits full to bursting across the UK with very high quality first cut silage and cattle numbers very short is only driving trade onwards and upwards.
Good to hear. Brecon had feeding cows to £2300, steers to £1800 and hfrs to £1880
 

Chae1

Member
Location
Aberdeenshire
Better if they had given them food vouchers, some will just blow it because they cannot budget money. I have posted that alot of people didnt need this latest handout so more could have gone to those that really needed it. Get abit tired tbh of seeing some overweight pinked haired slob crying on tv saying they only eat every other day etc, must be one hell of a sitting when they do eat. There not living on carrots and water thats for sure.

What gets me is on the news there's a story about us facing a cost of living crisis.

Next the airports can't cope with the number of people flying abroad and the poor people's holidays are getting cancelled.🤷‍♂️
 

Wee Willy

Member
Location
Tyrone
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mghley

Member
Location
Derbyshire
What gets me is on the news there's a story about us facing a cost of living crisis.

Next the airports can't cope with the number of people flying abroad and the poor people's holidays are getting cancelled.🤷‍♂️
We are quite rightly concerned about food prices being realistic and reflecting the rising costs incurred by our industry but have no doubt to many decent ordinary people the cost of living crisis is a reality.
 

lloyd

Member
Location
Herefordshire
no you havent!

20 quid, fine by me
Big drought in France hitting their wheat crop,
weather concerns elsewhere in the world.
It's not all about Ukraine although even if they
get more corn moved their spring planted is down
a fair percentage.
You would have to be very optimistic to get down
to £200 or for cake to drop £200t.
 
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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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