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Henarar

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Somerset
There are some that do think it is a moral conundrum. They feel it is their moral duty to grow food. It isnt. Surely a customer is a customer and you sell to those that pay the best?! As and when it all end/changes you just go back to selling to someone else. Are you telling me if a fresh man came in to the store ring upsetting the regulars and outbidding them for your stores for a few sales you would feel duty bound to go to the regulars and offer yours privately because its all likely to end in tears for the new man after a while? You'd take the uplift in prices while he was there and go back to the regulars buying them when he's gone. The fact it's the government paying me rather than a grain merchant offering me bugger all for wheat makes little odds.
Subsidy has been decoupled from production since Single payment started, about 20 years ago, most carried on producing though cos at the end of the day we are farmers, the SFI options we have done won't make any odds to production and I shall carry on with the cows and sheep, personally I think it won't be the payment system that finishes our farming here it will be the EA and environmental regulations, we are not doing anything wrong but I think there are new regs coming we just won't be able to afford and the same goes for other farmers around here I talk to, I don't know any grassland farmer who is drastically cutting production in favour of SFI, they seem to be just fitting what they can round their farming.
 
Lancaster this morning
 

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andybk

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Mendips Somerset

GTH - Agriculture & Sedgemoor Auction Centre - Greenslade Taylor Hunt

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Monday 11th March 2024
Today at a glance.......
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Prime Cattle (110)
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Steers sold to £1956.05 and 279.5ppk
Heifers sold to £1939.65 and 289.5ppk
All UTM/OTM Av £1591.83
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Barren Cows (43)
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Angus sold to £1528.65 and 193.5ppk
Hol/Fr sold to £1341.40 and 184.5ppk
Charolais sold to £1302.85 and 177.5ppk
British Blue sold to £1295.75 and 177.5ppk
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Cull Bulls (3)
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Angus sold to £2096.28
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and 177.5ppk
Limousin sold to £2076.92
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and 189.5ppk
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Prime Hoggetts (1365)
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Sold to a new market record top price of £221
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and 400ppk
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SQQ av 365.91 All av 356.77 and £176.54
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Prime Lambs (7)
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Sold to £187 and 416ppk
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Easter Show and Sale of Suck Lambs next Monday 18th March





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