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Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

Location
Devon
Record breaking day for Store cattle at Exeter today!

They topped out at a staggering £1750 head for a bunch of four 28 ish month old steers!

Edit.. I did not see them sold but told that is what they made.
 
All the bnb men I have talked to always say never borrow to build shed it’s only for if you have shed already etc and they can pay feeders off over certain amount of batches , so if they are in debt they have done it against advice .
A lot here do. Banks think there’s no risk
 

aangus

Member
Location
cumbria
Record breaking day for Store cattle at Exeter today!

They topped out at a staggering £1750 head for a bunch of four 28 ish month old steers!

Edit.. I did not see them sold but told that is what they made.
I thought there were stores in carlisle on wednesday not as dear as the week before, couple of buyers missing which I was more than greatful for.
 

andybk

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Mendips Somerset
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U.K. food and drink makers could run out of carbon dioxide within two weeks in the wake of an energy crunch, with meat production particularly vulnerable, an industry group warned.

Soaring energy prices have forced two European fertilizer makers to halt some output in recent days, threatening shortages of CO2 -- a byproduct of producing the nutrients. Chicken and pig plants rely on the gas to stun animals at slaughterhouses and beverage makers use it to give soda and beer its fizz.

A lack of CO2 will cause “massive disruption” to food supplies within 14 days, the British Meat Processors Association said Friday. Meat companies may have to shutter production lines, leaving farms crammed with extra animals. Already this year, livestock plants have cut output due to worker shortages, while consumers have faced bare grocery store shelves amid a lack of truckers.

“It’s plunged the industry into chaos,” Nick Allen, head of the meat group, said in a statement about the CO2 risk, adding that pig farmers were already facing the “imminent prospect” of culling animals.
 

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

This webinar will be...
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