Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[andybk]

Sheep job is an interesting one. How many sheep were actually killed in those aus bushfires. It certainly seems to be helping our trade. I think the real judgement day will be this time next year as numbers are obviously short with people off loading pre Christmas. Dunbia seemed desperate for Hoggs last week. And they hardly ever ask.

I think it will be a long time before we see the highs of this spring again , anyone wanting to get out , this is the year , along with forward payments of BPS (golden handshake ) should make easy decision

 

[spin cycle]

I think it will be a long time before we see the highs of this spring again , anyone wanting to get out , this is the year , along with forward payments of BPS (golden handshake ) should make easy decision

the worry i have is that once china has rebuilt it's pig herd it won't import as much aus/kiwi lamb....price falls and ends up here.......that said i don't know why pig price is low

 

[gone up the hill]

Sheep job is an interesting one. How many sheep were actually killed in those aus bushfires. It certainly seems to be helping our trade. I think the real judgement day will be this time next year as numbers are obviously short with people off loading pre Christmas. Dunbia seemed desperate for Hoggs last week. And they hardly ever ask.

The pictures of those poor sheep in those Aus bushfires were heart breaking.

Millions were killed, like when F+M hit the Uk in 2001 and took out millions of breeding cattle/sheep/ pigs it then took many upto 10 years to get back to their pre cull stocking numbers!

 

[Woolless]

the worry i have is that once china has rebuilt it's pig herd it won't import as much aus/kiwi lamb....price falls and ends up here.......that said i don't know why pig price is low

I think it's issues with export markets and Covid staffing issues at meat plants. Plus a bit of light shafting by their vertically integrated paymasters, doubtless...

 

[spin cycle]

I think it's issues with export markets and Covid staffing issues at meat plants. Plus a bit of light shafting by their vertically integrated paymasters, doubtless...

but why isn't staffing/export probs hurting us ......i just wonder if it's merkels muslim migration millions helping us

 

[livestock 1]

going to have to get used to it , world prices I'm afraid , with BPS going , will have to be recent prices all the time , now the EU sub tit has gone , any future elms payments is for the farmer , not subbing big PLC supermarket chains

I don’t swallow this. Certain people were quoting ‘world prices’ a few years ago when lambs were 160p the same folk are quiet now

 

[Woolless]

but why isn't staffing/export probs hurting us ......i just wonder if it's merkels muslim migration millions helping us

I don't know. But there was a bit on 'Farming Today' about pigs (100,000?) backed up on farm because of lack of slaughter capacity. The main Scottish plant at Brechin was shut for two weeks recently because of a Covid outbreak.

 

[andybk]

I don’t swallow this. Certain people were quoting ‘world prices’ a few years ago when lambs were 160p the same folk are quiet now

my point was that world prices control the market ,( more so that we are not in the club anymore ) not necessarily staying high , Buyers and consumers have to get used to prices high or low according to availability, We may tap into new emerging markets with huge muslim populations that we didnt have access to before .

 

[livestock 1]

my point was that world prices control the market ,( more so that we are not in the club anymore ) not necessarily staying high , Buyers and consumers have to get used to prices high or low according to availability, We may tap into new emerging markets with huge muslim populations that we didnt have access to before .

Well I did think that before we left but now it’s emerging that the lack of competition we had in the eu was actually stagnating prices not keeping them high

 

[jendan]

Meadow quality reporting that one slaughterhouse has cut a days killing because they cannot source the cattle. They are also reporting some firms stocking up for a spell of freezing weather and snow around the second week of march!!

The long range forecasts dont have this.High pressure end of this week then back to westerlies.

 

[livestock 1]

The long range forecasts dont have this.High pressure end of this week then back to westerlies.

Was at a funeral on Saturday they were on about snow in America atm

 

[Boydvalley]

At one point last week 73% of the USA was covered in snow

 

[Full of bull(s)]

At one point last week 73% of the USA was covered in snow

If New York gets it we usually do 8-10 days later

 

[Full of bull(s)]

If New York gets it we usually do 8-10 days later

I’m not sure you should be liking that @livestock 1 you are more likely to get it than me

 

[Highland Mule]

If New York gets it we usually do 8-10 days later

If you ask any serious meteorologist they would tell you that’s a fallacy.

 

[jendan]

If you ask any serious meteorologist they would tell you that’s a fallacy.

What they mean is that if it does happen,it is not from the same cold air mass. If we got theirs a week later,it would have warmed up over the Atlantic.

 

[livestock 1]

 

[J 1177]

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[Fake it ‘til you make it]

going to have to get used to it , world prices I'm afraid , with BPS going , will have to be recent prices all the time , now the EU sub tit has gone , any future elms payments is for the farmer , not subbing big PLC supermarket chains

Wasn’t BPS already for the farmer/ landowner?

 

[Skintagain]

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She looks like she's weakening to charm.