Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Hfd Cattle]

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.........!!

Its amazing how the pubs can dress chicken with some fancy name and dupe people into thinking they are buying something special ......but in the end its is just chicken !!!!

 

[Werzle]

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.

They would be northern irish though(unless border smuggling is up and running). Uk supermarkets bar two i think are contracted to sell FA beef, irish beef isnt FA so they have had to buy ours at any price to fill shelves. Irish beef price is rising now because they are stocking up to supply the catering trade when covid restrictions are lifted. Catering meat can be any old muck because nobody will ask where its from when dining out.

 

[Hilly]

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

And for every herd in the borders here their has been ten herds in Northumberland dispersed, marts that used to get 1000 plus stores a week now struggle to get 400 week , massive breeding sales down to handfuls , they will reap what they have sown one day and it will be a long day as cattle take a long time not like sheep.

 

[livestock 1]

And for every herd in the borders here their has been ten herds in Northumberland dispersed, marts that used to get 1000 plus stores a week now struggle to get 400 week , massive breeding sales down to handfuls , they will reap what they have sown one day and it will be a long day as cattle take a long time not like sheep.

Breeding sales are bloody hopeless now

 

[Hilly]

Breeding sales are bloody hopeless now

I remember them in their day at Carlisle you couldn’t go wrong , quota bse foot n mouth lots of private deals is all had detrimental effect ruined them.

 

[Full of bull(s)]

Its amazing how the pubs can dress chicken with some fancy name and dupe people into thinking they are buying something special ......but in the end its is just chicken !!!!

They have to, at the end of the day it doesn’t taste of anything. Is it coincidence that banks have been falling over themselves for years to lend money to put up poultry units? Pushing the cheapest meat protein to produce, and by far the most profitable for the food industry. It has no flavour so you can stick any highly processed sauce/flavouring you like on it and the masses flock for either the next new thing at huge margin for the retailer, or steamed off reformed slurry nuggets because they are so cheap and easy compared say to lamb chops or braising steak. I wonder how much this policy has kept a lid on inflation over the last 20 years by holding back prices of other foods? There’s always a bigger picture behind the scenes and it’s strange how the vocal animal/eco lobbyists within Whitehall never apply pressure about planning for building huge sheds in the middle of the countryside to cram 50,000 birds in on top of each other. I think lockdown has turned me into a conspiracy theorist

 

[Woolless]

They have to, at the end of the day it doesn’t taste of anything. Is it coincidence that banks have been falling over themselves for years to lend money to put up poultry units? Pushing the cheapest meat protein to produce, and by far the most profitable for the food industry. It has no flavour so you can stick any highly processed sauce/flavouring you like on it and the masses flock for either the next new thing at huge margin for the retailer, or steamed off reformed slurry nuggets because they are so cheap and easy compared say to lamb chops or braising steak. I wonder how much this policy has kept a lid on inflation over the last 20 years by holding back prices of other foods? There’s always a bigger picture behind the scenes and it’s strange how the vocal animal/eco lobbyists within Whitehall never apply pressure about planning for building huge sheds in the middle of the countryside to cram 50,000 birds in on top of each other. I think lockdown has turned me into a conspiracy theorist

No, you may have a point. Chicken welfare rarely gets a mention. And everyone loves Nando's or a £3 bird for the weekend.

 

[livestock 1]

They have to, at the end of the day it doesn’t taste of anything. Is it coincidence that banks have been falling over themselves for years to lend money to put up poultry units? Pushing the cheapest meat protein to produce, and by far the most profitable for the food industry. It has no flavour so you can stick any highly processed sauce/flavouring you like on it and the masses flock for either the next new thing at huge margin for the retailer, or steamed off reformed slurry nuggets because they are so cheap and easy compared say to lamb chops or braising steak. I wonder how much this policy has kept a lid on inflation over the last 20 years by holding back prices of other foods? There’s always a bigger picture behind the scenes and it’s strange how the vocal animal/eco lobbyists within Whitehall never apply pressure about planning for building huge sheds in the middle of the countryside to cram 50,000 birds in on top of each other. I think lockdown has turned me into a conspiracy theorist

You could be right
I used to think it was due to bankers being able to read accounts easily for such like pig or chicken units
Some see beef and sheep as a waste of time partly due to not being able to understand accounts

 

[Skintagain]

You could be right
I used to think it was due to bankers being able to read accounts easily for such like pig or chicken units
Some see beef and sheep as a waste of time partly due to not being able to understand accounts

Milk pigs and chucks are easy to calculate far too easy. Farmers have also given over too much info.

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

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

yes they do, but much prefer they are still clucking before they hit the pot!!

 

[whitefox]

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

I wish they would hurry up and get there then, if a 25kg dw lamb is making £150, then i see no reason why a 350kg dw of beef is not clearing £1750 plus

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

They would be northern irish though(unless border smuggling is up and running). Uk supermarkets bar two i think are contracted to sell FA beef, irish beef isnt FA so they have had to buy ours at any price to fill shelves. Irish beef price is rising now because they are stocking up to supply the catering trade when covid restrictions are lifted. Catering meat can be any old muck because nobody will ask where its from when dining out.

Numbers up over 40% from south to North!!

 

[Andrew1983]

They have to, at the end of the day it doesn’t taste of anything. Is it coincidence that banks have been falling over themselves for years to lend money to put up poultry units? Pushing the cheapest meat protein to produce, and by far the most profitable for the food industry. It has no flavour so you can stick any highly processed sauce/flavouring you like on it and the masses flock for either the next new thing at huge margin for the retailer, or steamed off reformed slurry nuggets because they are so cheap and easy compared say to lamb chops or braising steak. I wonder how much this policy has kept a lid on inflation over the last 20 years by holding back prices of other foods? There’s always a bigger picture behind the scenes and it’s strange how the vocal animal/eco lobbyists within Whitehall never apply pressure about planning for building huge sheds in the middle of the countryside to cram 50,000 birds in on top of each other. I think lockdown has turned me into a conspiracy theorist

funnily enough as I tried a bit of chicken out of my wife’s chippy t last night I thought to myself is this just a bridging point between real meat and fake meat

 

[Werzle]

Numbers up over 40% from south to North!!

I wouldnt worry, there beef price isnt that far behind ours so it isnt going to effect our price much if at all. If they were 50p+p/kg behind us it would be a concern but i think they are only 10-15 p and closing

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

I wouldnt worry, there beef price isnt that far behind ours so it isnt going to effect our price much if at all. If they were 50p+p/kg behind us it would be a concern but i think they are only 10-15 p and closing

They are a euro behind or 85p!
Cows are closer in price.

 

[Hilly]

I wish they would hurry up and get there then, if a 25kg dw lamb is making £150, then i see no reason why a 350kg dw of beef is not clearing £1750 plus

Not enough fat cattle traded live ring is part of problem, that and contracts .

 

[livestock 1]

 

[livestock 1]

There’s this weeks prices ^ euro trading at 115 -£ today get calculators out nearer 50 p probably but still a concern
What’s it cost to get it here? Does that take some of the shortfall up?

 

[livestock 1]

 

[Sandy]

Is that for a R grade over 380 kg?

Under 380