- Location
- Cheshire
good, they are quick enough to bump prices up when we make a shilling. when we are taking a drubbing its only right they do too!!
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
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gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
That is NOT livestock farmers problem!
Plenty of areas they can cut costs and that starts with useless managers and reps that have non jobs but cost feed co's 100k per person employed!
- Location
- Cheshire
Big meeting in the Midlands years ago held by one of the big feed compounders. They were telling farmers what they would HAVE too pay and how they were lucky too have the compounder. Grandad stood up and told them they wouldn't be worth shite if it wasnt for the family farmers who tighten belts and carry on when the job is sour. That lot couldnt manage 3 months on tight profits and stormed out. UNcle was with him and said he'd never been so embarrassed! Next morning 3 staff members from the compounders were in our yard trying to talk him around to carrying on buying their feed. Grandad ordered them out and we never bought another load. he kept fairish of pigs bcak then as well as the sheep, using fairish of corn. The corn firm went bust big style within 12 months...
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Cannot get a price for deadweight lambs next week as the slaughter company's are expecting lamb prices to drop sharply on Monday morning in livestock markets!
Prices are already £10/20 head less than 12 months ago + add on £30 head in increased input prices per lamb on 12 months ago so at least £40 head less in real terms on 12 months ago so its quite clear what is very likely going to happen within 12/18/24 months from now if they carry on trying to force farm gate prices downwards!
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- Location
- Cheshire
our local independent corn mill was saying last week that barley is £312 on farm now and wheat-feed in Liverpool was over £300. it was the wheatfeed upsetting him the most as its £300 for what is basically filler!
livestock 1
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Haha sounds a bit like I’m preaching from his hymn book !!
He’s right totally right
- Location
- Cheshire
our farm was bought on the back of pigs. as soon as we had been here 15 years Grandad was established enough too manage without them and he reckons it was one of the best days when his last pigs went. made and lost a lot of money
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Drover told me today his grain buyer had called his dad this week and wil pay £340 ton for Barley ex combine as long as they can supply it by the 10th of July!
Basically they are literally going to run out of grain unless its a very early harvest, well they only have themselves to blame for the shortage as they have been driving UK grain prices well below what they should have been the last few years!
- Location
- Cheshire
of all the cattle, sucklers will be the last too leave here. I can feed a cow a long way when good rearing calves are £300-350 and milk is £50+ a bag. and after all that you still get an animal that wont grade/weigh like a suckler bred.
- Location
- Cheshire
Friend of grandads over on the east coast keeps thousands of laying hens. last time he was over here he'd just had another shed passed and he'd be over 100 000 hens on site. he reckons that if he's in profit 2 months of the year he makes that much profit that for the other 10 if he just breaks even he's doing very nicely. Wether this recent silliness has upset all that I dont know.
Iv always said mole valley slogan "Its a way of life" is used so they can shaft us, make us think that we don't need to make money because its a way of life and not a business.
livestock 1
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Hope the same happens with beef and lamb
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Ive always disliked that saying , its a pathetic excuse , just lie down and take it …
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
You are correct !!
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Bricklaying is a way of life for brickies …… they dont use that saying to be happy witj less money ….
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
This is what happens when hogg prices aren’t good enough….there’s not enough money to reinvest in the business
livestock 1
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Generally from what I’ve heard there’s been a lot less cake sold and a lot less fert.
Personally we’ve fed the same to everything that’s being sold prime or store a bit less cake for ewes (that’s probably due to milder winter) and half the fert up to now.
There’s storage sheds brim full of fert in Cumbria which is usually emptied by now
Looking like production is decreasing
Personally we’ve fed the same to everything that’s being sold prime or store a bit less cake for ewes (that’s probably due to milder winter) and half the fert up to now.
There’s storage sheds brim full of fert in Cumbria which is usually emptied by now
Looking like production is decreasing
livestock 1
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Too much walking around the sheep
Thought you would be in flip flops down there by now?
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
I bought digestate instead , holy sh!t that makes grass grow better than any man made fert !!
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
I am on an afternoon but there’s a heavy dew early every morning…hence why I’ve got a wet sock every morning