Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

Northeastfarmer · Aug 3, 2020

thorpe said:
we like our cattle as heavy as we can get but we dont want 400.2 kg . it was good when we could go to 430 !

It was better at 450

copse · Aug 3, 2020

Chae1 said:
Will the eat out to help out campaign help prices?

A steak normally 20 odd quid up here. I generally don't have 1 if out with a group as feel its unfair on everyone else me having most expensive thing on menu.

If I can get a tenner off and its £12, hey I might just push the boat out and have a steak!

Or two!

Celt83 · Aug 3, 2020

Chae1 said:
Will the eat out to help out campaign help prices?

A steak normally 20 odd quid up here. I generally don't have 1 if out with a group as feel its unfair on everyone else me having most expensive thing on menu.

If I can get a tenner off and its £12, hey I might just push the boat out and have a steak!

I've been kicking fert about all afternoon and that's all that's been on hart radio is that the restaurants are fully booked up until the end of the month around here and everyone is going to have a steak and raving about the £10 vouchers.

This hype and people getting excited must be good for our industry.

Ceri · Aug 3, 2020

Frank-the-Wool said:
Between now and the last day of the year the sheep trade will continue to be very good.
The World is short of sheepmeat.
Australia has suffered from drought and has found new high value markets.
NZ has had the worst drought for a century in the North Island and it is thought that ewes tupped could be down by a third and also has new high value markets and their prices are mostly on a par with ours.

The population who appreciate lamb and mutton continue to increase .
The pound against most currencies is weak, especially the euro.

However we are in the hands of politicians and a government that is hell bent on leaving the EU and a NO deal is looking much more likely than a deal which will leave us in the same place.

All I do know is that any tariff and disruption to the free movement of goods has the potential to seriously knock the price of lamb.

At present what were proper store lambs and not those that were killed for the Festival are only around £8.00 more than last year, or they were at Ashford on Friday, which still looks realistic, especially for the stronger lambs that will go by New Year.

I think this virus will knock any no deal on the head I really do. Either side just can't afford a no deal. Imagine the the uk treasury trying to keep the country afloat with the financial effect of coronavirus & a no trade scenario......? I'm now v v confident a deal will be done last minute simply cause either side simply can't afford not to.......

Greythundercloudys · Aug 3, 2020

Stores at ua Stirling, where they are weighed were 2kg for most lambs 70/80£.

S J H · Aug 3, 2020

What’s the usual limit on cull cow deadweight please?

Timbo · Aug 3, 2020

S J H said:
What’s the usual limit on cull cow deadweight please?

There isnt

andybk · Aug 3, 2020

Chae1 said:
Will the eat out to help out campaign help prices?

A steak normally 20 odd quid up here. I generally don't have 1 if out with a group as feel its unfair on everyone else me having most expensive thing on menu.

If I can get a tenner off and its £12, hey I might just push the boat out and have a steak!

i just went in maccys for big mac , saw the price bought another and had a bacon burger fries and coffee , dont worry im a skinny burger and had no furlough and had room in the tank lol , looking forward to a pint of guinness and cookie dough pud in wetherspoons soon . fill your boots lads

beltextexel · Aug 3, 2020

I certainly don’t begrudge paying more money for store lambs, quite glad to really as long as there’s something for us at the end of it.

Shebb90 · Aug 3, 2020

andybk said:
i just went in maccys for big mac , saw the price bought another and had a bacon burger fries and coffee , dont worry im a skinny burger and had no furlough and had room in the tank lol , looking forward to a pint of guinness and cookie dough pud in wetherspoons soon . fill your boots lads

Mcccys sign up to eat out to help out?

andybk · Aug 3, 2020

Shebb90 said:
Mcccys sign up to eat out to help out?

yea idiots still using the drive through ,
eat in , half price and they bring it in bags to take out , lol bound to help the beef price for a bit , along with vat reduction

Chae1 · Aug 3, 2020

andybk said:
i just went in maccys for big mac , saw the price bought another and had a bacon burger fries and coffee , dont worry im a skinny burger and had no furlough and had room in the tank lol , looking forward to a pint of guinness and cookie dough pud in wetherspoons soon . fill your boots lads

I'm a fat barsteward!

How much is a big mac now?

andybk · Aug 3, 2020

Chae1 said:
I'm a fat barsteward!

How much is a big mac now?

duno £1.49 ish ? , bacon cheese burger £1 , coffee 50p milkshake 80p (is there any real milk in that to help the milk boys ? )

Cows 'n grass · Aug 3, 2020

andybk said:
duno £1.49 ish ? , bacon cheese burger £1 , coffee 50p milkshake 80p (is there any real milk in that to help the milk boys ? )

Plenty of real milk. In the UK I think we (Arla) make all the milkshakes for McDonalds.

goodevans · Aug 3, 2020

Agrivator said:
I normally pay the tip in lieu.

You 2 need to get your mates to eat steak

MDL POWERUP · Aug 3, 2020

andybk said:
lol i do ! i need best part of £100 a lamb to make a living here , and i outwinter all my flock on keep inc 100 rams , theres a place for store lambs but industry cant really afford a whole layer for most lambs for long , most of continental europe is practically zero store lambs , so more is invested to finish lambs on place of birth and why continental breeds of all stock finish better than uk ones

That's a broad statement, plenty native breeds finish fine. Sheep, cheviots, blackies, maybe not swales... All finish off grass. Find it harder to fatten texels than chevs. Also cattle, surely native stuff finishes a lot easier than continental breeds??

livestock 1 · Aug 3, 2020

MDL POWERUP said:
That's a broad statement, plenty native breeds finish fine. Sheep, cheviots, blackies, maybe not swales... All finish off grass. Find it harder to fatten texels than chevs. Also cattle, surely native stuff finishes a lot easier than continental breeds??

Swales like to point there feet towards the good lord when you try to feed them on

andybk · Aug 3, 2020

MDL POWERUP said:
That's a broad statement, plenty native breeds finish fine. Sheep, cheviots, blackies, maybe not swales... All finish off grass. Find it harder to fatten texels than chevs. Also cattle, surely native stuff finishes a lot easier than continental breeds??

ahh but not going overfat (sheep) , yea plenty of down breeds finish ok but run fat if you miss the weights , continentals tend to have a much wider finish mark ,better meat yeild , better ko% (finer bone) which gives flexibility in marketing . the big boned / framed suff only came about because of the store sales and were eye candy for the buyers , why do you think they dont have the same type in NZ ? , dont worry the continentals are going down same road now .

MDL POWERUP · Aug 3, 2020

andybk said:
ahh but not going overfat (sheep) , yea plenty of down breeds finish ok but run fat if you miss the weights , continentals tend to have a much wider finish mark ,better meat yeild , better ko% (finer bone) which gives flexibility in marketing . the big boned / framed suff only came about because of the store sales and were eye candy for the buyers , why do you think they dont have the same type in NZ ? , dont worry the continentals are going down same road now .

True but I've found texels hard to finish.
Suffolk must be one of my least favourite breeds, soft, don't finish and sh!t like a holstein giving 9000litres and the nz variety looks like a Suffolk mule...

Northeastfarmer · Aug 3, 2020

Chae1 said:
I'm a fat barsteward!

How much is a big mac now?

I could be wrong but I’m sure I heard McDonald’s were having a sale and a lot of items were half price for August

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