Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

Hilly · Jun 11, 2022

Hanging baskets , when your steading is festoooend in concrete and galvinised gates and hanging baskets with nice flowers and rangerovers and private schools and a young wife in white jeans and collar up you have cracked it !! Regardless of price of a coo and or her keep

the one in the white jeans and collar up with dealer bits will be the dearest mind ewe .

Frank-the-Wool · Jun 11, 2022

Fendt516profi said:
What's a farmer's time worth?

£9.50 an hour minimum wage.
However it is now £10.50 as that is what the Government told the fruit and veg farmers they have to pay for those people that are given visas to come here to work.
That was a great idea as it instantly upped the pay of all the other workers who were permanent staff!!

I wonder how many on here actually earn more than £25 k and only work a 37 hour week?

hendrebc · Jun 11, 2022

livestock 1 said:
I had mine to £400 last winter think £500 will be nearer this time and of course there’s always something I will have missed in the first place

I've just checked now for 2020/21 mine came to just under £610 but that includes keeping their calf from weaning through to finish as well. So we're pretty close I'd say.

Northern territory · Jun 11, 2022

cattleman123 said:
Most of these guys have some sort of outside income....i could go around the ring at Sedgemoor and point out 3/4 who are in that bracket....

I don’t know many farmers that can buy farms in cash purely made from farming. And I know plenty.

Hilly · Jun 11, 2022

Frank-the-Wool said:
£9.50 an hour minimum wage.
However it is now £10.50 as that is what the Government told the fruit and veg farmers they have to pay for those people that are given visas to come here to work.
That was a great idea as it instantly upped the pay of all the other workers who were permanent staff!!

I wonder how many on here actually earn more than £25 k and only work a 37 hour week?

I dont . But if im honest i choose not to.

Top Tip. · Jun 11, 2022

Frank-the-Wool said:
£9.50 an hour minimum wage.
However it is now £10.50 as that is what the Government told the fruit and veg farmers they have to pay for those people that are given visas to come here to work.
That was a great idea as it instantly upped the pay of all the other workers who were permanent staff!!

I wonder how many on here actually earn more than £25 k and only work a 37 hour week?

37 hours!!! What do they find to do for the other 5 days

livestock 1 · Jun 11, 2022

hendrebc said:
I've just checked now for 2020/21 mine came to just under £610 but that includes keeping their calf from weaning through to finish as well. So we're pretty close I'd say.

I often work on how long I would need to keep them to break even when I buy them
Generally the better looking ones or the dear ones need to be here longer than the cheaper end but like @Hilly said about the wives it’s what you want to look at every day that counts

lloyd · Jun 11, 2022

Anymulewilldo said:
Another wedding today, yet again no other farmers in attendance.

Ah with any luck then you might be sat on a
table with a bunch of vegans.

Hilly · Jun 11, 2022

I pay myself in my hand £400 a week and i save out of that and put it back into the farm for reinvestment i reinvested everything i hVe ever hAd in my farm and farming lol i work 7 days a week live eat and sleep farming im the worst farmer ever .

hendrebc · Jun 11, 2022

livestock 1 said:
I often work on how long I would need to keep them to break even when I buy them
Generally the better looking ones or the dear ones need to be here longer than the cheaper end but like @Hilly said about the wives it’s what you want to look at every day that counts

Good job I like looking at small fat native cattle then

livestock 1 · Jun 11, 2022

Anymulewilldo said:
Another wedding today, yet again no other farmers in attendance.

Hilly · Jun 11, 2022

hendrebc said:
Good job I like looking at small fat native cattle then

Mine arnt even fat .

lloyd · Jun 11, 2022

Hilly said:
I pay myself in my hand £400 a week and i save out of that and put it back into the farm for reinvestment i reinvested everything i hVe ever hAd in my farm and farming lol i work 7 days a week live eat and sleep farming im the worst farmer ever .

Dont be daft you're 50% of your time on here.

Edit
Or this part of the job (Market research).

Hilly · Jun 11, 2022

lloyd said:
Dont be daft you're 50% of your time on here.

Closer to 75% id say but some has to wducate the masses .

harperfarmer · Jun 11, 2022

Anymulewilldo said:
Another wedding today, yet again no other farmers in attendance.

Absolute dream scenario. Saves being depressed by a bunch of miserable farmers who carp and moan and never do anything different

Hilly · Jun 11, 2022

lloyd said:
Dont be daft you're 50% of your time on here.
Edit
Or this part of the job (Market research).

To be fAir to me i have decided to have donAte thjs saturday morning to you all as im sick of work so ….

hendrebc · Jun 11, 2022

Hilly said:
Mine arnt even fat .

Most of mine aren't either but bought a little native Angus bull to breed a bit of fat into them so they are cheaper to keep over winter. 50kg of fat on the back of a cow is a lot of cheap stored feed if she has put it on with grazed grass over spring and summer.
Try and bring that £2-3 a day down.

Hilly · Jun 11, 2022

harperfarmer said:
Absolute dream scenario. Saves being depressed by a bunch of miserable farmers who carp and moan and never do anything different

They make me happy , its the happy ones that all their hens lay double yokers that depress me , make me wonder what I do wrong .

muleman · Jun 11, 2022

harperfarmer said:
Absolute dream scenario. Saves being depressed by a bunch of miserable farmers who carp and moan and never do anything different

He will take his phone im sure......so he can log in and still do that!

Top Tip. · Jun 11, 2022

Hilly said:
To be fAir to me i have decided to have donAte thjs saturday morning to you all as im sick of work so ….

Generous to a fault

donating your time to us for free .

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