Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

d williams · Jun 5, 2022

Chae1 said:
All the local gossips have us getting rid of all our cows!

The lad that helps us asked if he would still have a job.

News to us.

Haven't even had the discussion yet. Have 700 acres of arable, so that should support them and keep our heads above water. Crops look fantastic, but that's mainly because cut back on fert and put cattle muck on everything. So mixed farming works. Not that, that will be news to most on this thread.

If it continues losing money long term changes will be made. Hope to see out the storm for now.

That's the problem though in my opinion. People like us willing to subsidise beef with income from other parts of business. We need everyone to cut back and reduce supply. As simple as that.

Which bit of the business is pulling it back ??
I thought you outwinterd your cows on stubbles and stores and fat always seem to be good prices with home grown feed ??
Hope things improve for you

copse · Jun 5, 2022

lloyd said:
I've got a 407 on order.
I think you had a quote on a 457?

Yes that was the one

Chae1 · Jun 5, 2022

jendan said:
Does it all go into Ice Cream?

Yes think so.

They make chocolate now too. So use cream for that too I imagine.

Have there own ice cream vans too and a shop in Aberdeen, so selling directly to end user, which is way forward in my opinion.

They had a open day last Sunday but unfortunately we never made it.

hendrebc · Jun 5, 2022

Electricfencer said:
Case. I did look into one at Christmas, I think it was £17k but wasn’t man enough for post banger.

There seems to be a big jump in prices for tractors when you go from 70hp to 90+hp from what I've seen. You can get a 70hp tractor for not much more than 25k but if you start going to 90+hp it goes to 40k pretty quickly.

livestock 1 · Jun 5, 2022

Chae1 said:
Yes think so.

They make chocolate now too. So use cream for that too I imagine.

Have there own ice cream vans too and a shop in Aberdeen, so selling directly to end user, which is way forward in my opinion.

They had a open day last Sunday but unfortunately we never made it.

Bloody nice stuff if it’s the pot with the blue writing on that I’m thinking of

Chae1 · Jun 5, 2022

d williams said:
Which bit of the business is pulling it back ??
I thought you outwinterd your cows on stubbles and stores and fat always seem to be good prices with home grown feed ??
Hope things improve for you

We are too reliant on bought in feed. Rely on lots of fert to grow grass.

lloyd · Jun 5, 2022

copse said:
Yes that was the one

Most things came standard on a 457 looks
a fair lump of a machine.

livestock 1 · Jun 5, 2022

Henarar · Jun 5, 2022

livestock 1 said:
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madness

livestock 1 · Jun 5, 2022

That’s it there ^ think it’s been for sale for a while
Unfortunately a big part of the comments under the picture were all for these trees with only a few questioning the sense in any of this
They can plant that same area on some of mine and I will swap them

livestock 1 · Jun 5, 2022

Henarar said:
madness

Well at least we agree on something

Northeastfarmer · Jun 5, 2022

livestock 1 said:
That’s it there ^ think it’s been for sale for a while
Unfortunately a big part of the comments under the picture were all for these trees with only a few questioning the sense in any of this
They can plant that same area on some of mine and I will swap them

i wonder if the people in the comments who are all for it will be thinking the same in 20 years time when all they have to eat is some pine bark

Chae1 · Jun 5, 2022

livestock 1 said:
Bloody nice stuff if it’s the pot with the blue writing on that I’m thinking of

Yeah that's them. My favourite is there honeycomb.

Optimus · Jun 5, 2022

Chae1 said:
We are too reliant on bought in feed. Rely on lots of fert to grow grass.

I'm like a smaller version of you.just wish I could grow a bit more arable.

Chuckie · Jun 5, 2022

Frank-the-Wool said:
Nothing wrong with a Massey Ferguson 135!!
Probably the only tractor that goes up in value every year you use it!!

This made £5k+vat at a sale last week. Multi power, one owner from new...........

livestock 1 · Jun 5, 2022

jendan · Jun 5, 2022

Chuckie said:
This made £5k+vat at a sale last week. Multi power, one owner from new...........

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Where was that at then? What was the blue in the background and what did it make?

livestock 1 · Jun 5, 2022

This thing gets cursed daily not that reliable but in it every day has constant fault codes but no way would I want to go back to a 4600 and mine was four wheel drive spent thousands every winter keeping it going cracked hubs knuckles and bearings

d williams · Jun 5, 2022

Chae1 said:
We are too reliant on bought in feed. Rely on lots of fert to grow grass.

Yes I can understand the position your in the problem with bought in feeds is it’s going through to many peoples hands and everyone needs a profit each time which is understandable and the fert is just crazy for the return ratio on grass for sucking cows

Chae1 · Jun 5, 2022

livestock 1 said:
Hasn’t this always been the case of altering the system we have and in my case buying into things that most people are getting out of

That's one of my dad's favourite sayings!

He'll probably go back into outdoor pigs soon!

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