lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Let me know what it's like.
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
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Northeastfarmer
Member
- Location
- Cleveland
When barley gets back down to £60T I’ll treat myselfLet me know what it's like.
Atm I can’t even afford a weekend in skeggy
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
Northeastfarmer
Member
- Location
- Cleveland
When it gets down to £60T I’ll treat you to a pop up tent. Call it luck money on the cheap barleyIf barley ever gets that low it will be a tent on
the front lawn for me.
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
Nice gain on the grain markets today, might still be sending
you a postcard from palm beach yet.
gone up the hill
Member
- Location
- Devon
Well so bad is the drought in the SW that today a farmer beside the M5 was irrigating grass land that beef cattle are grazing!
You won't like it apparently they pay to go and tramp round in snow of all things
takes a special kind of person to want to do that to themselves for fun....
He is lucky to have that option available to him
We’re burnt right off here, west mids, I’ll have to start feeding the cows something in the next week if something doesn’t change! The rain has gone around us, very annoying
Went round measuring grass on Monday and I'm pretty sure I'll have to shut the ewes up on hay somewhere after weaning or I'll have nowhere for the lambs to graze.
Been very frustrating watching rain go around us both sides I've seen lines in the road where the rain has stopped in town a mile away one side and on the other side a mile or so away towards Ruthin as well
neighbours have been saying the same. Started carrying water to store cattle as well 
muleman
Member
Answering the call of nature you mean?
cattleman123
Member
- Location
- devon
Yep...drove up to see cows/calves...just now wow its dryed right out since sunday...countryside going brown
- Location
- West Wales
Full on irrigating or with a slurry bar?
Need to be putting on more than an inch to make a difference, I have 8million gallon sat here and i don’t think it’s beneficial to do.
- Location
- West Wales
Meanwhile I took my neighbours boar and 2 sows to mart today, boar was massive, I reckon near 4-450kg! He only just turned around in the box. 2 sows were 300+kg.
1 sow, £45, another sow identical £20. Boar £2. Absolutely shocking!!! If I’d known they were going to make that I would’ve driven the extra 50 mile and had them killed for sausages.
Boars shoulders were 24-26” across
1 sow, £45, another sow identical £20. Boar £2. Absolutely shocking!!! If I’d known they were going to make that I would’ve driven the extra 50 mile and had them killed for sausages.
Boars shoulders were 24-26” across
Shocking
livestock 1
Member
A lad had 2 old boars one went to the slaughter house and one went to the mart
The one went to the mart made £60 the one went to the slaughterhouse he had made into sausage and sold it to the caravanners for £400
He asked the buyer at the mart why he only paid £60 when the other made £400 for sausage
The buyer said. ‘ you haven’t got 70 wages to find every week’
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
High wage economy , its going to ruin farming .
Impossible to live on low wages though, house prices and cars ought to be half the money.
- Location
- West Wales
We’re the sausages edible from an old boar? Asking for a friend
my wife went chicken oriental when she found out how much it went for, she said I should have taken it for sausages too, I thought they’d stink but to be fair he didn’t smell when I smelled his shoulders like when a ram does