- Location
- North of Perth
Jesus, think I'm about £180/t I am on a winter contract though.I was quoted £285/t for biscuit meal about five weeks ago. (full rigid load, so assume 20t)
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
Looks like they’ve blocked all the ports for the last 2 days in protest… doesn’t seem very widely reported but from what iv seen looks a rather large protest …
Woolless
Member
- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
What's this about?
- Location
- South Molton
Is £50 x 1000 not £50k
If it had been through the market cafe then I'm surprised it was only 100% out!
- Location
- N.Lincs
Google says it was a one day protest yesterday about fuel prices.
Google is lying too you
was 2 days, they stood down yesterday evening after some of there demands had been met from what I read… the protests weren’t about fuel prices either they were about underselling food and food imports
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Well you won’t reduce bills by keeping big ewes, capable of producing huge lambs, and by feeding lambs long enough to get to those weights.
Even if it’s not from bought in feed, then there is still a higher cost in terms of stocking rates, and extra fodder eaten.
Luckily, for some, it’s paid to take some types of lambs to those high weights, but it won’t be with reduced costs.
Incidentally, I was watching good 56kg lambs generally making just £5-6/hd more than 45 kg lambs in Welshpool yesterday.
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- Location
- West Wales
I know you know this @neilo but for everyone else who hadn’t worked it out it Also comes back to 100kg x 1,000 ewes = 100,000kg on an area. By moving to 75kg ewes you can get 1333 ewes on the same area, based on a rearing of 175% that’s 2332 lambs, for the 100kg ewes at 175% it’s 1750 lambs.
For a bit more work you have an extra 582 lambs approximately Jim on the same area although you probably need a few more acre when their all 35-45kg.
582 extra lambs x £70 is £40,740 increase.
- Location
- West Wales
According to a close friend who is a transport coordinator for a major Irish haulage firm he said as far as he’s aware they are still there - and good on them!
i think they’ve been 2 totally different protests from reading online this morning, wagon drivers blocking the ports over fuel prices and farmers blocking distribution centres over food prices and imports, farmers ended there protests this morning probably too go back and milk
- Location
- Devon
Farmers block food distribution centre as protest enters second day
Around 200 people and over 100 vehicles attended the protest, which has now entered its second day
www.irishexaminer.com
The issues sound very familiar.
"A target by the government to reduce the average slaughter age of cattle from 27 to 24 months is also of great concern for the group."
Who much do you think Larry is involved in the governments' plan?
That grass/turnips looks to be from a very good supplier and well drilled inour feed usage this backend will be considerably less than most years as we’ve had a great summer and autumn with loads of grass and a good crop turnips.
We’ve been on a six day standstill for a long time so we just let the lambs that we haven’t sold early just grow on.
Luckily weight is paying this year
BELOWAVERAGE
Member
Your forgetting one thing, those big ewes will have their lambs going earlier at good weights and money, you can then summer the ewes easy, your little ewes won't finish the lambs as quick, and especially in a dry year you'd either have a hell of a creep bill or a lot of store lambs.
1000 big ewes X 175 = 1750 X £100 = £175,000.
1333 X 175 = 2332 X 75 = £174,900.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
That grass/turnips looks to be from a very good supplier and well drilled in
Delivered by bicyclist?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
More than one way too skin a cat Neil! And if we all skinned it the same thered be a f**k load of dead cats about for 2 months of the yearBut the lambs have gone this week.
Timbo
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- Location
- Gods County
I dont see any issue there. Nearly every breed of clean beast should be fat by 24 months . If it's not, you need to ask yourself why not.Farmers block food distribution centre as protest enters second day
Around 200 people and over 100 vehicles attended the protest, which has now entered its second day
The issues sound very familiar.
"A target by the government to reduce the average slaughter age of cattle from 27 to 24 months is also of great concern for the group."
Who much do you think Larry is involved in the governments' plan?
To balance out supply!?
BELOWAVERAGE
Member
Sorry I'm thick.But the lambs have gone this week.
So ALL of your lambs have gone, none going on to turnips ? Two debates going here, one for big versus small ewe's, and one for big or mid weight lambs, a few lambs went from here last week, woolly headed shrop's 58kg £157.50p per head, how does that compare with the lambs you are currently selling, or have sold recently.