livestock 1
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You had it off us for £60 for 30 years though and charged £17.50 a kilo for chops
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
You need a farmers belt plenty holes in it just keep yarking it a bit tighter and carry on
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Hard f**king life isn’t it? Maybe you should diversify?
Didn’t hear you squealing when we were selling it for £60 and we were taking the hit. If you had read my post you would have seen that it was Dubai I was talking about.
Yeah right, any less than £200 a lamb - when you've to keep it's mother all year with feed at £300+ /ton ever increasing fertiliser, fuel, vet costs, isn't gonna be much left to pay the shepherd
- Location
- central scotland
Thanks for Posting , you must have know what response you were going to get
but are you still buying lamb and turning money or have you stopped already looking for a better margin ? I’m genuinely interested and your not response will give us an insight to future prices
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
He’s got some balls coming onto this thread I’ll give him that
Just because
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He might not be making any money on lamb might even be losing money on them BUT what is your mark up on pork,eggs, chicken,beef pork pies and sandwiches 
. No good coming on here moaning about prices saying it to expensive. The problem is it's been to cheap for to long.
. No good coming on here moaning about prices saying it to expensive. The problem is it's been to cheap for to long.
- Location
- North of Perth
I was thinking that!He’s got some balls coming onto this thread I’ll give him that
Heroes during COVID mind!!
- Location
- East Sussex
I sympathise with your situation.
However there are ways to mitigate the volatility in price.
Do you buy lambs direct from a farmer?
We supply butchers and wholesalers 44 to 48 weeks of the year and try to keep the price level for long periods of time.
Having regular customers every week helps us to manage supply and gives a regular cash flow.
Although to get numbers every week means you have to carry numbers through to ensure a quality of supply and over the last couple of years the demand for heavy carcasses has increased significantly.
At the present time we are probably £40 behind on each hogget as I agreed a price up to Easter. Last week butchers took over 50.
The price will go up next week and I guess that numbers will almost stop but that is fine as we are coming to the end anyway.
What a lot of farmers don't realise is that they may be getting £200 for a hogget but there are at least another £25.00 of expenses on the top.
muleman
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I have every sympathy for you because they are going to get much dearer still, £200 will just buy a runt before too long!
livestock 1
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How many are you after?
I know where there is a few
Aspiring Peasants
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- Location
- North Pennines
I've 75 strong store hoggs, you can have them all for £200 each if that would help you
muleman
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I've got a few to sell!
muleman
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I don't want strong for £200, runts £200
There lot talk of £200 Hoggs but I don't see them averaging that in market?
Went into local butchers other day I asked about lamb sales he said yes its dear but still buying and still selling it. He said costing £9.20 kg to buy in then you see chops at £17 a kg on display.
I do think big jumps in prices never do any good steady rises are always best but we been to far behind there got be a few jumps
Went into local butchers other day I asked about lamb sales he said yes its dear but still buying and still selling it. He said costing £9.20 kg to buy in then you see chops at £17 a kg on display.
I do think big jumps in prices never do any good steady rises are always best but we been to far behind there got be a few jumps
Aspiring Peasants
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- Location
- North Pennines
Damn, I always get it wrong
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Well ask the AHDB what you should do... When farmers complain about high costs v low sale prices of their animals they will tell you to do more for less and if that does not work then get a part time job shelf stacking in Tesco or the like...
Reality is that there is that the sub payments have/will be drastically reduced for grass/ livestock farms under SFI, costs are going up all the time so lamb/ beef prices at the farm gate have to rise to keep up with this, if they do not then supply will get less and less, simply not viable for farms to keep absorbing ever increasing input cost prices and not be able to pass them up the line to their customer.
Every other industry passes their costs up the line and farming cannot be any exception to this if the industry is to have any future so you will just have to pass your own increased costs up the line, yes people might moan for a bit but they will soon accept higher prices.
As an aside i have heard of another two ewe flocks going to be sold this year, land they are on is mostly going into producing crops for AD plants and also heard of another suckler farming very likely to be sending his suckler cows down the road this summer as well, prices we are getting now are still not good enough when you take everything into account to keep people lambing sheep/ calving cows.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Thing is thou Frank its not the farmers problem that he has another £25 in costs after he pays £200 for the hogget!
He needs to do what every other industry does and that is pass these higher costs up the line to his customers.
Farmers have to carry on through periods of low profits, we have all carried cows or sheep whilst they have been making sod all, subs kept us in business. Most businesses will have cut loss making parts of their business long ago but if it's gone then you have nothing to sell when times improve. You have to be in it to win it.
These butchers who choose not to stock loss making meat will lose their customers to others that do stock it and keep going until things get better for them.
Local butcher has sign up saying he will not stock lamb as too expensive but will take pre orders for it....not very loyal imo and it will be remembered.
Saying that one local butcher, fancy house and Cayenne, another one drives 80k grenadier and I doubt if either crawled out of a lambing shed at 4am this morning.
These butchers who choose not to stock loss making meat will lose their customers to others that do stock it and keep going until things get better for them.
Local butcher has sign up saying he will not stock lamb as too expensive but will take pre orders for it....not very loyal imo and it will be remembered.
Saying that one local butcher, fancy house and Cayenne, another one drives 80k grenadier and I doubt if either crawled out of a lambing shed at 4am this morning.