Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

Anymulewilldo

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Livestock Farmer
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Cheshire
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Bentham tonight
 

Full of bull(s)

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Livestock Farmer
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North Yorkshire
It looks like £4 is a far as they want it to go. We can only hope the border paperwork is as bad coming in as going out and it keeps a lid on volumes. I think it’s got to the point that the supermarkets would pay more for Irish than ours for a while just to to take some heat out of the trade if necessary. They will be losing money on beef and with shelves emptying rapidly of the large margin lines that usually absorb it as a loss leader they’ll be getting twitchy. Also empty meat shelves going through the door will trigger panic buying again
 
It looks like £4 is a far as they want it to go. We can only hope the border paperwork is as bad coming in as going out and it keeps a lid on volumes. I think it’s got to the point that the supermarkets would pay more for Irish than ours for a while just to to take some heat out of the trade if necessary. They will be losing money on beef and with shelves emptying rapidly of the large margin lines that usually absorb it as a loss leader they’ll be getting twitchy. Also empty meat shelves going through the door will trigger panic buying again
Do you think they are loosing money on beef? Or do you mean not making as much as before?
 

Full of bull(s)

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Livestock Farmer
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North Yorkshire
Do you think they are loosing money on beef? Or do you mean not making as much as before?
If you walk down an aisle and look at the price/kg of the cuts, they are but their business model means they just take more margin elsewhere on less price sensitive products. I rarely go into supermarkets but I went last weekend and was shocked by the stretches of empty shelves in every aisle, tinned products, alcohol, freezer section all affected.
 
We can only hope the border paperwork is as bad coming in as going out and it keeps a lid on volumes.
The requirement for export health certificates for EU beef (including IRE) entering GB comes into effect in October, so the friction on imports will increase then. Physical checks will begin in January. The phased introduction of these measures was a pragmatic move to keep inbound flows running, and it is a pity the EU were not so pragmatic in respect of UK exports to EU.
 

Full of bull(s)

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Livestock Farmer
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North Yorkshire
The requirement for export health certificates for EU beef (including IRE) entering GB comes into effect in October, so the friction on imports will increase then. Physical checks will begin in January. The phased introduction of these measures was a pragmatic move to keep inbound flows running, and it is a pity the EU were not so pragmatic in respect of UK exports to EU.
Not long then 🤞🏻
 
If you walk down an aisle and look at the price/kg of the cuts, they are but their business model means they just take more margin elsewhere on less price sensitive products. I rarely go into supermarkets but I went last weekend and was shocked by the stretches of empty shelves in every aisle, tinned products, alcohol, freezer section all affected.
Shite food has gone up no end I thought when I went last weekend
 

Hilly

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The problem occurs when one buyer is there week in week out regardless of financial conditions and weather and can be called upon even if he doesn’t want anything then the other buyers come when it suits them or like myself every now and again
Why’s that a problem ? That’s the way it is and always has been they choose to stand their week in week out , some weeks they win others they loose
If you walk down an aisle and look at the price/kg of the cuts, they are but their business model means they just take more margin elsewhere on less price sensitive products. I rarely go into supermarkets but I went last weekend and was shocked by the stretches of empty shelves in every aisle, tinned products, alcohol, freezer section all affected.
Empty shelves is cos of that stupid track and trace app .
 
Why’s that a problem ? That’s the way it is and always has been they choose to stand their week in week out , some weeks they win others they loose

Empty shelves is cos of that stupid track and trace app .
The problem is when that buyer ends up chasing the rest of the buyers out of the mart ending up with the auctioneer and and one buyer
 

Anymulewilldo

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Livestock Farmer
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Cheshire
I see, I wouldn’t go I’d stay and make the pay for every single thing play them at their own game .
But you can only do that for so long is what we’re getting at, if you went weeks without buying any stock (but making laddo pay heavy for his) yes you’d have a lovely warm feeling but the lack of stock coming through your system would hit home.
It’s ok if you’re a dedicated buyer for your own farm in Marts almost everyday too make up for one day of no purchases it’s ok. But if you’re like most of us (which I’m 99.9% sure you are 😉) we can’t afford too go to marts repeatedly not buying when we should be at home working? So you find somewhere you CAN buy stock and go there instead.
 

Hilly

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What if in the death though they dropped all these over priced animals on you, it would surely make you start to think twice. If this chaps been banned from all the markets, where does he get his stock from ? Or has he not actually been banned ?
Just run him to your own max make sure you have the bid on your limit and let him do what he likes after that . But don’t let him have them cheap
 

jendan

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Northumberland
Just run him to your own max make sure you have the bid on your limit and let him do what he likes after that . But don’t let him have them cheap
Thats probably what all the other buyers did at Darlington on Monday,and then went home with an empty wagon.It would be a total waste of a day,and time is money,not to mention diesel and mileage.After another week or two,they will stop going and look to another mart to go to. In fact,it already might have driven trade at Carlisle yesterday for big forward stores.
 

pine_guy

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Location
North Cumbria
Thats probably what all the other buyers did at Darlington on Monday,and then went home with an empty wagon.It would be a total waste of a day,and time is money,not to mention diesel and mileage.After another week or two,they will stop going and look to another mart to go to. In fact,it already might have driven trade at Carlisle yesterday for big forward stores.
Larger Quality in the weanlings looked much better value for money than larger dairy bred in the stores from what I saw yesterday
 

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