- Location
- North of Perth
Phoned to book cattle in next week.continentals no shift,AA might be up as thin on the ground.this £5/kg that we all keep thinking about is looking very far away at the moment.
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
If they want a supply chain the easiest way is pay it ASAP then the supply continues lots feeders had a guts full
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Thing is its not just beef and sheep farmers.
I think the $h!t is going to hit the fan for Joe public in next few months. I know in our little family how personal money is running out.
We don't live out of farm, just take a set amount as a wage each month.
- Location
- North of Perth
Be an easier way of living.Might be back to the olden days before too long.
Just keep a few hens, a pig , couple of cows, half a dozen sheep and grow a field of corn to make bread with!
The thought keeps coming back into my head!
Might have to stock up shot gun cartridges though.might be more than just foxes out for the livestock
- Location
- North Yorkshire
I took some lightweight bulls into Northallerton today, watching a very good show of heavyweight suckler bulls mainly 245-265p, they are a good 20 p less than when many would be bought 5-6 months ago. Clean cattle were being bought on the expectation of about £4.70 by now, it’s got to be hurting
And I guess u don’t take as much as you should for what u do
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Well said , Hrs and level of investment , its poor, very poor, bloody shame .
livestock 1
Member
An old boy nearby was asking me he was wondering how we were coping
He’s sold his cows sold some land well enough off probably one of the best farmers I know he’d put 50k into the farm account this spring out of one of his deposit accounts just to keep the job going. He’s not got a big amount of stock either
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
It's difficult isn't it. I could live on less, my wife seems to manage to spend it all.
.She is a primary school teacher so brings in a decent wage. I cant really grudge her it, she's brought up our 2 children on her own and done a really good job.
I'm a absent parent, not often in house and when I do I generally fall asleep, or my minds elsewhere
Northeastfarmer
Member
- Location
- Cleveland
It's difficult isn't it. I could live on less, my wife seems to manage to spend it all.
She is a primary school teacher so brings in a decent wage. I cant really grudge her it, she's brought up our 2 children on her own and done a really good job.
I'm a absent parent, not often in house and when I do I generally fall asleep, or my minds elsewhere
Is your wife single ?
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
She often reminds me she's a single parent!
She still makes my tea every night and go to bed with her so win win!
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Hellish , ive a friend in his 20’s got a job on the railway driving a digger on the rails , £1600 a week in his hand !!! Yet folk producing quality food are having to bail their farm business out . Wtf is wrong with people , if these lot with high paid jobs had to milk the house cow ride goat and cuddle the sheep kiss the cabbage befoe work they wouldnt be able to have these great paid jobs !! We are so under valued its unbelievable, disgusting really in this era .
livestock 1
Member
Have you started switching the lights on and off in the house when it’s daylight??It's difficult isn't it. I could live on less, my wife seems to manage to spend it all.
She is a primary school teacher so brings in a decent wage. I cant really grudge her it, she's brought up our 2 children on her own and done a really good job.
I'm a absent parent, not often in house and when I do I generally fall asleep, or my minds elsewhere
That’s when you know it’s time for change
livestock 1
Member
Seem to turn a lot of stuff over before accumulating any money then spend it all again
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Trading stock at levels that dreams are made of to earn less the country is fuked .
- Location
- Hereford
- Location
- Hereford
....great comment he made a few posts earlier !!
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Exactly, we're idiots continuing to do it.
I think the pennies dropped with the next generation. Very few choosing to follow a career in agriculture.
- Location
- North Yorkshire
I remember saying similar to a farmer/dealer friend back in Christmas 2014 when beef got to £4. He thought it was great, I said tell me that in March when you have to give £800+ for grazing stirks. By then he was too busy telling me how everyone had run out of money to remember to...
Then beef dropped 40p. With interest rates rising, a base rate of 3% will make it unworkable for those on borrowed money, which is the majority now, at a time when inflation will be 3 times that meaning in real terms they are paying us! That’s how crazy it’s going to get
