Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
- Location
- South Molton
It was half the £150 last year!£200 an acre for one place up her
livestock 1
Member
Yes that’s right how old were they? Older than me?
borderterribles
Member
- Location
- South Shropshire
Pigs on the up? Best gilts to £2.38/kilo today in Market Drayton!
livestock 1
Member
That will please a few. Pigs been poor for a while now
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Hexham has a lot of dispersals part dispersal s , unreal how many are jacking sucklers in Northumberland .
Northeastfarmer
Member
- Location
- Cleveland
They’ll be virtually extinct in 10 years time
- Location
- Northumberland
Take away the BPS,or diminish it on some of these tenanted farms and the suckler job does not stack up.Add to that an ageing farmer with sons or daughters not interested in carrying on.The TB tests(even 4 year ones) with Limousin x cows,and also the calf tagging rules with Lim x calving out on the hill.Its easy to see why some are giving up sucklers.
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Aye this job is buggerd , things trading at record highs but profits still pee poor in regard to investment etc bloody shame we have served the public well keeping them in good beef for long time but I see the end of the road now .
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
I know, shame . Think tb has crept in as well some on a lot more than 4 year I’m hearing !!
Will people just put land into schemes. Surely they all won’t want more sheep.
- Location
- North of Perth
Full of optimism this morning [emoji23] .we might go the other way and cut back the sheep,keep a few more cows.
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Get to Hexham dispersals their will be some good cows on offer at them dispersals .
Northeastfarmer
Member
- Location
- Cleveland
Everyone says that at lambing time...me included...
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
I don’t know but as said above they all getting older done all their life and probably feel not enough to show for it , the younger generation don’t want to be tied to either end of a cow 365 days year who can blame them then TB is creeping north .
- Location
- North of Perth
I breed my own.too big a risk of bringing something in.
- Location
- North of Perth
I know but genuinely do have too many.will sell some gimmers in the autumn. Try make a £out of them.
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
You do right !
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
It doesn’t matter to a large extent how many cows you have or have not the system is designed so you can’t win . Take ten steps back and look at it form a negative point and no one in their right mind would get involved 