Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

andybk

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Mendips Somerset
Time is standing still for sheep. The fact they ain’t £200 each in 2022 is ridiculous
Totally agree , BUT: europe still has the cap (cheap food policy) we are always going to be competing against that , despite our gov cutting ag support , or at least the big charities / gov quangos are going to hoover up a big proportion of whats on offer rather than putting food on the table
 

Anymulewilldo

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
Facebook page for butchers , they all moaning they cant sell a damned thing at the moment … scary 😟
Was talking too one of the butchers in the village last week. I said you must be minting it with the size of the queue most days. He said it’s alright but it’s very obvious people are starting too rein in the spending. Selling a lot more mince per week than the last couple of years. I said you’re minting it on pork though. He pulled a face, “if the processors are shafting you for the pigs, and they’ve hardly dropped the price too me, something funny is happening in the middle!” Then he was saying that his supplier is wanting too put pork up “because they are getting dearer!”
I asked how lamb was moving and he says he can only sell small lambs. People don’t want too pay for big lamb joints. He showed me a gorgeous pair of leg steaks in the chiller. Proper lamb steaks. He’d tried selling them too 3 people that morning and they had all baulked at the price. Cut them 1/2 inch thinner and can sell them fast as you like but he doesn’t like cutting lamb that thin. Says you can ruin it too easy and then people blame the meat and won’t buy it for weeks
 
Sounds like they want to get to a market one day per week and buy what they need. Be better all around
Was talking too one of the butchers in the village last week. I said you must be minting it with the size of the queue most days. He said it’s alright but it’s very obvious people are starting too rein in the spending. Selling a lot more mince per week than the last couple of years. I said you’re minting it on pork though. He pulled a face, “if the processors are shafting you for the pigs, and they’ve hardly dropped the price too me, something funny is happening in the middle!” Then he was saying that his supplier is wanting too put pork up “because they are getting dearer!”
I asked how lamb was moving and he says he can only sell small lambs. People don’t want too pay for big lamb joints. He showed me a gorgeous pair of leg steaks in the chiller. Proper lamb steaks. He’d tried selling them too 3 people that morning and they had all baulked at the price. Cut them 1/2 inch thinner and can sell them fast as you like but he doesn’t like cutting lamb that thin. Says you can ruin it too easy and then people blame the meat and won’t buy it for weeks
 

Anymulewilldo

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
Sounds like they want to get to a market one day per week and buy what they need. Be better all around
I said you want too get too Leek for your pigs and he said (which I have too see the point of) “I haven’t a clue what a good animal looks like on the hoof, I can walk down a cold store line and pick all the best bodies. But put the skin on and I’m totally lost.” 🤷🏻‍♂️
 

serf

Member
Location
warwickshire
Was talking too one of the butchers in the village last week. I said you must be minting it with the size of the queue most days. He said it’s alright but it’s very obvious people are starting too rein in the spending. Selling a lot more mince per week than the last couple of years. I said you’re minting it on pork though. He pulled a face, “if the processors are shafting you for the pigs, and they’ve hardly dropped the price too me, something funny is happening in the middle!” Then he was saying that his supplier is wanting too put pork up “because they are getting dearer!”
I asked how lamb was moving and he says he can only sell small lambs. People don’t want too pay for big lamb joints. He showed me a gorgeous pair of leg steaks in the chiller. Proper lamb steaks. He’d tried selling them too 3 people that morning and they had all baulked at the price. Cut them 1/2 inch thinner and can sell them fast as you like but he doesn’t like cutting lamb that thin. Says you can ruin it too easy and then people blame the meat and won’t buy it for weeks
Can't understand why they don't get the pigs from the mart then and have them delivered in halves , and if they can't sell all the cuts just bin em and they would still be in pocket with the pittance they sell for at market!

Edit. Just seen other posts 🙄
 

Estate fencing.

Member
Livestock Farmer
The good news today is that if hoggs have lost teeth but the new ones haven’t broken the skin they are still classed as lambs teeth. The bad news on the way home got a phone call to say that 50 acres I pay nothing for has been sold today (I didn’t know it was on the market) and the new owner wants me out by the end of the month. 😩
 

Hfd Cattle

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Hereford
The good news today is that if hoggs have lost teeth but the new ones haven’t broken the skin they are still classed as lambs teeth. The bad news on the way home got a phone call to say that 50 acres I pay nothing for has been sold today (I didn’t know it was on the market) and the new owner wants me out by the end of the month. 😩
O flop ....that's a tad awkward ☹️☹️
 

serf

Member
Location
warwickshire
The good news today is that if hoggs have lost teeth but the new ones haven’t broken the skin they are still classed as lambs teeth. The bad news on the way home got a phone call to say that 50 acres I pay nothing for has been sold today (I didn’t know it was on the market) and the new owner wants me out by the end of the month. 😩
No wonder they sold it if you didn't pay them anyting for it 🤣
 

Hfd Cattle

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Hereford
Just put trailer on to fetch cow and calf from market and spot this crack in the drawbar 😔😔
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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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