Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

casper74

Member
Location
North Yorkshire
Beef finishers will never have had,as good a do as they are now.....surely must be the time to bash on and keep going !
You think that!!!! Ask anyone selling fat cattle around here now and you’ll hear a very different story, feed costs well over £3/day now if on ad-lib barley, the margin has gone out of selling fat cattle at moment.
 

Anymulewilldo

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
Beef finishers will never have had,as good a do as they are now.....surely must be the time to bash on and keep going !
It’s the same as everything else. When you’ve had a good do it’s nice too try and hold on too some of it. Would probably be different if we grew some of our own feed for them but everything comes on a lorry here so we feel every single increase straight away, no fooling ourselves it’s only cost us the production costs.
those with a quick 3/4 month turn around, crack on definitely, you’re in and out that fast you can catch the waves. But calf-finished is 12/13 months… long time of corn at £280-300/tonne. (I know it’s not there yet but it won’t be long).
but we have the luxury of not being dependant on beef for our living. Mainly sheep and the beef plugs the gaps. But not if it’s costing £1.05 too make £1…
 
Heard ABP were short of cattle this morning and firms are still short staffed and not killing as many as they would like. Talk of store cattle shortages come spring with people who dont usually buy smaller cattle getting stuck in now so they have something to turnout next hear🤷‍♂️ Strange ole times
Read last week that Irish firms are ‘up to’ with supply
 

Full of bull(s)

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
North Yorkshire
I think the only thing that will lift deadweight prices after Christmas is if the derogation on import checks is finally ended. Originally March, then delayed until July and then again until January. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s extended again though it’s in neither sides interest to enforce the rules, our lot will just see the prospect of higher food inflation if goods are stuck at the border that isn’t a border due to paperwork/software problems.
 

mo!

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
York
Heard ABP were short of cattle this morning and firms are still short staffed and not killing as many as they would like. Talk of store cattle shortages come spring with people who dont usually buy smaller cattle getting stuck in now so they have something to turnout next hear🤷‍♂️ Strange ole times
Our man has just told me they are paying less. We're going to miss a week.
 

Werzle

Member
Location
Midlands
With all the dispersals there have been this year the supply of stores is bound to tighten . I would think those that are purchasing younger cattle are being quite savvy. A lot of folk selling there barley and saying we’ll buy them in the spring.
Dispersals are only the tip of the iceberg. Majority have gone to kill unseen until there calves stop coming to market.
 

thorpe

Member
It’s the same as everything else. When you’ve had a good do it’s nice too try and hold on too some of it. Would probably be different if we grew some of our own feed for them but everything comes on a lorry here so we feel every single increase straight away, no fooling ourselves it’s only cost us the production costs.
those with a quick 3/4 month turn around, crack on definitely, you’re in and out that fast you can catch the waves. But calf-finished is 12/13 months… long time of corn at £280-300/tonne. (I know it’s not there yet but it won’t be long).
but we have the luxury of not being dependant on beef for our living. Mainly sheep and the beef plugs the gaps. But not if it’s costing £1.05 too make £1…
i think id have them bulls sold if they have size and quality.
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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