Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[unlacedgecko]

New Zealand….they just shoot them…

Euthanasia is good welfare. Dead animals don't suffer.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Euthanasia is good welfare. Dead animals don't suffer.

You’d be well suited over there…

 

[Plain steer]

I don’t know how paying rent pays full stop atm

Just the same as paying a mortgage on land though plenty expanding farms does that people on the outside often say how does it pay but it usually does

 

[Stw88]

Big demand at the moment, probably linked to the fert job

Be even worse when they start paying them 50p+.

 

[unlacedgecko]

You’d be well suited over there…

If I could get a visa I'd be gone. Sadly poor decisions in my personal life mean I'm 36 and no exportable.

 

[lloyd]

Unpopular opinion, the UK has very poor welfare for sheep.

Cant agree welfare is so much better than 30 years ago and
certain practices of the past are now banned.
Sheep are worth too much not to look after them properly
by any full time livestock farmer and neglect would be counter productive
to their business.There will always be a minority who let the side down
but they will more often than not fall by the wayside.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Just the same as paying a mortgage on land though plenty expanding farms does that people on the outside often say how does it pay but it usually does

Yes but at the end of the mortgage you own the land.

 

[lloyd]

New Zealand….they just shoot them…

They would have to regularly see their sheep to do that.

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

Yes but you quoted the other chap. I thought he was the "you" that was referenced.

Apologies, I quoted the wrong post
I'm not getting at either of you

 

[Hilly]

New Zealand….they just shoot them…

Might be something in that you know .

 

[Plain steer]

Yes but at the end of the mortgage you own the land.

Yes that’s what I meant

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

With the end of BPS, do you foresee prices falling?

I don't think they will. As an example there was a farm near us to let on a 5 year FBT of 110 acres. They had 4 bids in excess of £20,000 pa. and they had to buy the entitlements.

The couple who got it both have good jobs and I imagine are looking at it as a way to build up stock and capital as a way to get a bigger farm. In the meantime they have a nice place to live and the house would cost least £1000 pm to rent on its own

 

[Hilly]

Just the same as paying a mortgage on land though plenty expanding farms does that people on the outside often say how does it pay but it usually does

Even that must be getting harder now , your payimg a mortgae on something valued with valuation bears no resemblance what it can earn ? , in the past yes but today im not sure its affordable .

 

[JSmith]

Bridgnorth this morning a lot keener for the hoggs, last pen is a pen of mules, I’m happy with that, an that’s all the matters

 

[Anymulewilldo]

10 quid will and does buy me four meals worth.
We have lamb sausages in the freezer which are actually more expensive because of the cost to make them, not sure about the costs with mince we have had it though. Who's fault is it that markets are not developed?
Anyway the point is it is not expensive when you consider the quality and nutritional value and also the environmental credentials of what you are eating, that is if it hasn't been ruined on its way to the supermarket

I fully agree with you. But our main market doesn’t give a toss. They want too feed the family for as little as possible. Yes there are plenty who talk about only wanting sustainable sourced produce etc. But when the chips are down price dictates what people buy.

 

[muleman]

There will be as much sub as ever you could want as soon as folk are starting to feel hungry.....only trouble is there wont be enough animals or folk with the knowhow to produce food by then if not careful.
Be ration books before long, that will make folk squeal.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Which is insane when the UK is one of the best grass growing countries in the world.

Nahhhh, you're wrong there. Some hippy scientist somewhere has decided we are much better at growing trees than grass...

 

[Northeastfarmer]

There will be as much sub as ever you could want as soon as folk are starting to feel hungry.....only trouble is there wont be enough animals or folk with the knowhow to produce food by then if not careful.
Be ration books before long, that will make folk squeal.

If I have to go on rations they’ll hear me squealing from space

 

[Bob the beef]

Euthanasia is good welfare. Dead animals don't suffer.

Dont know what it’s like now, but when I worked there 30 odd years ago I saw some really questionable welfare practices that were considered the norm for them, but would not be condoned at all here.
Certainly less lame sheep, but then as said any lame ones would be

 

[Estate fencing.]

If I could get a visa I'd be gone. Sadly poor decisions in my personal life mean I'm 36 and no exportable.

so were stuck with you then, can we send guth instead.