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hendrebc

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Livestock Farmer
Chicken a luxury….someone must be deranged…if it’s as dear as steak then beef will be going up rapidly….
It always was historically. One of the promises of one American president in the early 1900s was a chicken in every pot it was so expensive it would be like promising everyone now could afford to eat lobster. No one could afford to feed corn to poultry its why they were all slaughtered for Christmas (and thanksgiving in America) as you couldn't carry them any further into winter feeding them grain. Beef and sheep could be kept all winter on some sort of grazing and cheaper hay.
 
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Cleveland
It always was historically. One of the promises of one American president in the early 1900s was a chicken in every pot it was so expensive it would be like promising everyone now could afford to eat lobster. No one could afford to feed corn to poultry its why they were all slaughtered for Christmas (and thanksgiving in America) as you couldn't carry them any further into winter feeding them grain. Beef and sheep could be kept all winter on some sort of grazing and cheaper hay.
Let’s hope it gets as dear as beef and everyone eats beef instead
 
People seem to forget that beef cattle will be converting concentrates at 7 to 1, chickens will do it at 1.5 to 1, if chicken goes up like that beef will need to go through the roof
Only bit to add to that is chickens indoors need a bit more electricity and bio security and the 7:1 cattle can or will have eaten some grass so the end figure will look much better than that
 

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
I had a first at Welshpool today. Only took 19 as nearly out now, all 47-48kg at home yesterday afternoon. The mart calculator must have been broken, as they insisted they were 55kg. One exlana I put separate was weighed about right, at 46kg. I'd normally have been glad of the extra weight...

The 55kg ones (all continentals) made £128, apart from a toother that made £105, and the shedder made £115.
 

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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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