Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[gone up the hill]

You cannot compare demand for the ethnic festivals with last year @livestock 1 due to the severe lockdown and people's worry's over the virus, to compare this years trade/demand you really need to ignore last year and go back either 2/3 years.

On future prices for beef/lamb, now that pubs etc are slowly opening up i would not be at all surprised to see beef/lamb prices go up another 30/40ppk before they level out and start pulling back.

 

[Top Tip.]

Mackintosh Donald £7 for hoggs next week

They were very fit in Thainstone on Thursday.

 

[Top Tip.]

You cannot compare demand for the ethnic festivals with last year @livestock 1 due to the severe lockdown and people's worry's over the virus, to compare this years trade/demand you really need to ignore last year and go back either 2/3 years.

On future prices for beef/lamb, now that pubs etc are slowly opening up i would not be at all surprised to see beef/lamb prices go up another 30/40ppk before they level out and start pulling back.

Pubs etc are a different market ,they simply won’t pay the price consumers are paying from the butcher to eat at home . I worry that the job could slip once the restaurant’s get going as they will pull the cheaper product in from abroad. Hope I’m wrong.

 

[gone up the hill]

Pubs etc are a different market ,they simply won’t pay the price consumers are paying from the butcher to eat at home . I worry that the job could slip once the restaurant’s get going as they will pull the cheaper product in from abroad. Hope I’m wrong.

There is no/ little meat from abroad that will be coming into the UK.

And last year when pubs etc opened in July both the beef and lamb prices started to climb quite quickly, no reason why that wont be the case this year!

 

[Shebb90]

There is no/ little meat from abroad that will be coming into the UK.

And last year when pubs etc opened in July both the beef and lamb prices started to climb quite quickly, no reason why that wont be the case this year!

So why no meat to come here?

 

[gone up the hill]

So why no meat to come here?

Leaving the EU is the main reason ( for beef ) imo

If you look around the supermarkets/ online stores etc supply of anything be that food or other goods are in very short supply if they come from any EU country's and the only reason this is not front page news in the media is due to non stop coverage of the Virus issues and other sad events.

As for lamb, our prices were at least £20 less than they should have been for the three years or so after the leave vote and of course now worldwide supply is very very tight.

 

[cattleman123]

If you think sheep are dear just wait and see how far cattle are going to go yet.

I am hoping...

 

[Optimus]

Mackintosh Donald £7 for hoggs next week[emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]

Need to be! sent some last week,wasn't impressed with the grades or weight.lambs kill out much better at dawn.

 

[Ceri]

Pubs etc are a different market ,they simply won’t pay the price consumers are paying from the butcher to eat at home . I worry that the job could slip once the restaurant’s get going as they will pull the cheaper product in from abroad. Hope I’m wrong.

I hear this all the time... So what country/countries is all this cheap sheep meat going to come from and why is it not here now.......?? Why are they waiting for the pubs to open to bring it in........??

THERE IS NO CHEAP SHEEP MEAT WAITING TO COME HERE FFS..........

 

[Top Tip.]

I hear this all the time... So what country/countries is all this cheap sheep meat going to come from and why is it not here now.......?? Why are they waiting for the pubs to open to bring it in........??

THERE IS NO CHEAP SHEEP MEAT WAITING TO COME HERE FFS..........

The Irish beef price is way lower than ours, just saying. It’s called product displacement if beef or chicken is a lot cheaper On a restaurant menu people tend to gravitate towards the cheaper meat. NZ lamb is way cheaper than ours at the moment.

 

[sheepwise]

Need to be! sent some last week,wasn't impressed with the grades or weight.lambs kill out much better at dawn.

Trim to a different spec. Was always told they needed to be at least 10p/kg in front of others and that was when they were about £4/kg.

 

[livestock 1]

You cannot compare demand for the ethnic festivals with last year @livestock 1 due to the severe lockdown and people's worry's over the virus, to compare this years trade/demand you really need to ignore last year and go back either 2/3 years.

On future prices for beef/lamb, now that pubs etc are slowly opening up i would not be at all surprised to see beef/lamb prices go up another 30/40ppk before they level out and start pulling back.

Difficult to judge because we don’t know how many they bought up for the job in the previous weeks and months leading up to the festival last year
It was too many whatever was happening and as you say the lockdown in the middle of all that.
General reduced demand around that time last year yes I agree
I remember the same week last year as we sold hoggs maybe around the 160ppk which seemed a bad trade at the time. I was warned that there wasn’t much demand that week but there was much uncertainty at the time and we were shifting them most weeks anyway. Mainly dealers turned up to pedal them back through in the coming weeks. Mate rang up making a bit of a fuss about his the next day wanting to make something of it he made me feel better his were 140

 

[livestock 1]

Need to be! sent some last week,wasn't impressed with the grades or weight.lambs kill out much better at dawn.

Typical dw carry on they can get price where they want it one way or another

 

[Optimus]

Trim to a different spec. Was always told they needed to be at least 10p/kg in front of others and that was when they were about £4/kg.

I would believe that.Think someone gets a bit too excited.cattle are fine though.

 

[deere 6600]

There is no/ little meat from abroad that will be coming into the UK.

And last year when pubs etc opened in July both the beef and lamb prices started to climb quite quickly, no reason why that wont be the case this year!

Is beef and lamb just as pricey as it is here uk. Abroad. ?

 

[Ceri]

The Irish beef price is way lower than ours, just saying. It’s called product displacement if beef or chicken is a lot cheaper On a restaurant menu people tend to gravitate towards the cheaper meat. NZ lamb is way cheaper than ours at the moment.

They reakon that generally when people go out for a meal it's a treat so would tend to treat themselves to stuff like lamb....? Who on earth would go out for a meal & order shittin chicken.. U can eat that slimy stuff at home if u wanna watch the pennies...! Anyway our Muslim friends will keep the job sweet thank god they don't believe in chicken or pork.........!!

 

[Sheeps]

I hear this all the time... So what country/countries is all this cheap sheep meat going to come from and why is it not here now.......?? Why are they waiting for the pubs to open to bring it in........??

THERE IS NO CHEAP SHEEP MEAT WAITING TO COME HERE FFS..........

This is a quote from a mart manager in Ireland in the farmers journal this week so there must be some cattle getting the boat.

 

[goodevans]

The Irish beef price is way lower than ours, just saying. It’s called product displacement if beef or chicken is a lot cheaper On a restaurant menu people tend to gravitate towards the cheaper meat. NZ lamb is way cheaper than ours at the moment.

My mates don't gravitate when we split the bill

 

[Northeastfarmer]

They reakon that generally when people go out for a meal it's a treat so would tend to treat themselves to stuff like lamb....? Who on earth would go out for a meal & order shittin chicken.. U can eat that slimy stuff at home if u wanna watch the pennies...! Anyway our Muslim friends will keep the job sweet thank god they don't believe in chicken or pork.........!!

The ethnics love chicken...thankfully they love lamb as well

 

[Dave6170]

They have to be getting rare the suckler cows certainly are ! And they trade they are doubt anyone carry any passengers either lol

Every year a suckler herd is dispersed in my area alone. Will be the same all over the country