Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

Utter Rubbish, of course they can are selling it at these prices and if they cannot its not the farmers problem!

And if they cannot then take less profit and get another part time job in the evenings/ night time like everyone else is so keen to tell farmers to do if they cannot make farming pay!

Reality is that with the current very high input prices + loss of subs for livestock farms + current weather patterns means beef will need to be more like £6.50/£7 a kilo and lambs £10/11 a kilo at the farm gate if the supply chain after the farm gate wants a steady and all year round supply of high quality high welfare British beef and lamb.

Also if we are forced to do GFC by the RT/ NFU/ AHDB which looks very likely that will cost a 300 acre farm at least £5000 a year to do so that will mean we will need even more than the prices i quote above to cover this cost and keep people in the job.

Nearly every beef/sheep farmer you talk to around here are all talking about either cutting numbers drastically or quitting the job altogether over the next 3/5 years!
l"oss of subs for livestock farms + current weather patterns means beef will need to be more like £6.50/£7 a kilo and lambs £10/11 a kilo at the farm gate"

can we agree yet @Clive that removal of BPS will raise food prices in shops to the UK taxpayer?

bring it on
 
Once beef goes just over £5 a kilo it will more than likely be £5.50 before long, it jumped quite a bit quickly when it hit £3 and £4 a kilo so no reason why it will not do the same at £5 a kilo.

Reality is everything the Gov has done the last few years and esp now with the EA / SFI etc is to get farmers to produce a lot less food so the days of cheap food will be over untill that policy changes!

Reported the other day that shipping costs of containers went up 300% overnight recently due to the problems with that group of rebels trying to blow up boats!
@Clive need i go on?
 

muleman

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top ones dunbia, bottom ones ABP
Same type mule lambs, hard to work out sometimes!
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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    Votes: 4 1.4%
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Expanded and improved Sustainable Farming Incentive offer for farmers published

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Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer from July will give the sector a clear path forward and boost farm business resilience.

From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and The Rt Hon Sir Mark Spencer MP Published21 May 2024

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Full details of the expanded and improved Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer available to farmers from July have been published by the...
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