Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

andybk

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Mendips Somerset
Store lambs averaged £111 at Sedge yesterday...

Prime lamb/ hoggs will hit £7 kilo in the next few weeks....

Prime beef is just shy of £4 kilo and will smash that mark and some in the next few weeks.

Small 8/9 month old Char suckler steers £900 head +today with buyers not batting an eyelid paying such high prices..

Early breeding sales of ewes are predicted to be around the £200 head mark...

What could possible go wrong!..
How long is cull ewe value going to be there ?
 

Anymulewilldo

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
You've got one as well? I am currently trying to defend mine against demands for a pony! Need to buy some heifers or cow/calf outfits!
When asked “can I have a pony?” I have 1 question.
“Does my body appear too be dead?”
If the answer is yes, you can have a pony.
If the answer is no, I’m having more cows

Worked for the last 10 years

Luckily the wife quite likes cows too so the question never goes further than the first hurdle! 😂
 
When asked “can I have a pony?” I have 1 question.
“Does my body appear too be dead?”
If the answer is yes, you can have a pony.
If the answer is no, I’m having more cows

Worked for the last 10 years

Luckily the wife quite likes cows too so the question never goes further than the first hurdle! 😂
Wife and son demanded I had to go and buy cattle on Friday ‘we need a few more and there’s some older lasses to go they are only going to get dearer when the sun comes out’ they said. I think they’ve heard this from me that long they are now turning into me!
Ref the 🐎- you can only put this off so long we have 2 mother and daughter = horses
 
When asked “can I have a pony?” I have 1 question.
“Does my body appear too be dead?”
If the answer is yes, you can have a pony.
If the answer is no, I’m having more cows

Worked for the last 10 years

Luckily the wife quite likes cows too so the question never goes further than the first hurdle! 😂
Right, I'll give that line a try. Although the way they're banging on I think I'm putting my life on the line!
 

serf

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Location
warwickshire
Went to local ag merchant a few years ago looking at gates, they had stupidly high gates like in @Anymulewilldo has and I asked wtf they were for 🤷🏻‍♂️Lim’s was the reply 😱😮
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Can well believe it ! We got heifer this year thats gone off the scale , bout done our time with em , time for a change i think !
Breeding Bulls have always been as placid and friendly as you could get :scratchhead:
 
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Al R

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Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
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Can well believe it ! We got heifer this year thats gone off the scale , bout done our time with em , time for a change i think !
Breeding Bulls have always been as placid and friendly as you could get :scratchhead:
Breeding bulls tend to actually have human contact, a friend of mine who has little knowledge of the farm said to me years ago that his dad had bought a new cattle scaring machine, it wasn’t until I saw a brand new straw chopper there I realised what he meant. So many farms now the only contact cattle have is with a straw chopper and a feeder wagon, if they see humans it’s either picking fat or TB testing, even as calves their’s a lot on machines doing all the feeding :/ similar to me with the sheep mind, I can’t get within 30 metres of any of mine yet some people the sheep come up and greet them every time they hear them. I know which I’d rather 👍🏻
 

Anymulewilldo

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
Went to local ag merchant a few years ago looking at gates, they had stupidly high gates like in @Anymulewilldo has and I asked wtf they were for 🤷🏻‍♂️Lim’s was the reply 😱😮
Mostly those gates are too contain the Holstein bulls, the Lims spend most of their time at one of the other farms. The gate looked ideal for turning cattle into the handling system and stopping joe public from climbing over for a 👀. In all the years we’ve run a Lim bull we’ve never had 1 that was nasty/flighty or wild. Strangely all the bull calves are quiet as mice too but the 3/4 or 7/8 bred heifers seem too be a bit flighty. 🤷🏻‍♂️
 

serf

Member
Location
warwickshire
Breeding bulls tend to actually have human contact, a friend of mine who has little knowledge of the farm said to me years ago that his dad had bought a new cattle scaring machine, it wasn’t until I saw a brand new straw chopper there I realised what he meant. So many farms now the only contact cattle have is with a straw chopper and a feeder wagon, if they see humans it’s either picking fat or TB testing, even as calves their’s a lot on machines doing all the feeding :/ similar to me with the sheep mind, I can’t get within 30 metres of any of mine yet some people the sheep come up and greet them every time they hear them. I know which I’d rather 👍🏻
I know what you mean with the mechanisation however ours never seen any of this , as anymule says the bulls are as placid and 'safe '
as you will find , seems to be down the female line where they go off the rails !
 

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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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