Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
The butcher is young fella worth helping , i might make him an offer of averaging i will see ..
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
livestock 1
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I’m not worrying. I’ve spent more time worrying the other way, I was just relaying what they say and trying to make any sense of it. We never get to the bottom of these things.They say this every time prices go up. What other industry would worry about getting too much for what they produce
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
You’re in trouble when @Devil's advocate reads thisI wonder if there"s any nice corn merchant/arable farmer out there who could help me out ? My ewe rolls are a tad dear,I would be alot happier paying nearer £200 than £300 a ton,just till I dont need anymore rolls then I can pay any amount for themAlso thinking straw is a bit over priced for a "biproduct" think I could stand £75-80 a ton delivered? just till turn out then I can pay absolute top wack.....so pleeeeease can someone help me out, I will be very grateful til next week..........................(no need to be too rude!)
Only a farmer could suggest their product was too deer so we'll sell it to you for a bit less
He can come and do a bit here. Amazing how quickly i can chuck gaps up when I need to gather up all the lambing hurdles
If so surely arrangements could be made for discounted services in the future, butchering home kill for instance
We have kept more Ewe lambs back for replacements than we normally do, won't be selling them,
Back then our chap was paying more than market price.
I am only talking about a few lambs but It can work but both parties need to play fair.
- Location
- North of Perth
Well cut the price of the lamb an put 25p/50p mark up on the rest of the produce in the shop.
sheepwise
Member
- Location
- SW Scotland
You know what they say, there is only one cure for high prices! To be fair our butcher often says at certain times of year lamb can be a loss leader to him but he always wants to keep his regular customers supplied as they buy a lot of beef too.
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
he will at some point , look at anything else that has had a massive price increase , bit of a shock to start but soon becomes normality , how many of us would have paid £400T for creep or ewe nuts a few years ago (thats what lambs were fed on last summer ) .
Stw88
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- Location
- Northumberland
Our local butcher has a sign up sayin he isn’t stocking lamb due to high prices. Will order some specifically if ordered tho.
Plenty in the supermarkets on offer so Clare said this morning, perhaps the custom won't come back
Mine aswell. Lamb available pre order only. He had some 2T chops which he said he had trimmed a lot of fat off. £13.00 a kilo.
d williams
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Yes I would as long as he showed me his margins and we had the same deal all year round
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Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Last time I took note of the price of chops they were £16/kg (Borough Market London two years ago).
Devil's advocate
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- Location
- Posh side of Barnsley
I like the idea, not sure it will work out like that.
The price of grain would be eye watering & I sell it.
- Location
- Devon
That's the thing. Plenty of butchers/ farm shops want a fixed price rather than something that follows the sqq. That's fair enough if you can agree a price to work with.
But if this guy is buying out of market, he's gotta take the rough with the smooth?
The big processors will average out these high prices with what they were paying 3/ 4 months ago.