Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Optimus]

I’m only jealous. I wouldn’t go skiing unless I was getting paid a lot of money. Shooting on the other hand… would happily go shooting every week of the season but can only afford 2/3 days a season

Be lucky if I can afford one drive this year.1 pheasant will be the same price as a store lamb!

 

[Anymulewilldo]

What are cull cows doing atm? Got a 49 month old Blue x cow, smart beast. Dry, slipped calf 7/8 weeks since so piling on the condition nicely. Just right to go on and feed. I’d have thought her 550 ish kgs.

 

[Skintagain]

Be lucky if I can afford one drive this year.1 pheasant will be the same price as a store lamb!

Driving anywhere is bad enough never mind paying to drive to a drive paying for the drive and then having to drive home and pay for that drive. Enough to drive you crazy crazy I tell you

 

[hendrebc]

Feck off, it was only me that was genuinely concerned , all you lot were doseing him up an jabbing him in the arsè

I was too busy laughing to think about jabbing or dosing him

 

[Anymulewilldo]

I was too busy laughing to think about jabbing or dosing him

Thanks… I was thinking at the time “I bet the buggers wouldn’t even let me have a new needle either.”

 

[Optimus]

What are cull cows doing atm? Got a 49 month old Blue x cow, smart beast. Dry, slipped calf 7/8 weeks since so piling on the condition nicely. Just right to go on and feed. I’d have thought her 550 ish kgs.

£3.90 base the other day

 

[welger rp 220]

What are cull cows doing atm? Got a 49 month old Blue x cow, smart beast. Dry, slipped calf 7/8 weeks since so piling on the condition nicely. Just right to go on and feed. I’d have thought her 550 ish kgs.

I've got one going tomoz at £4.05 base depending on shape I'd have thought the one you got be £1100 at 550 kg

 

[Woolless]

@Woolless likes his sheep crack on the arable or straw price thing

He’s a trail blazer

He's a forking idiot! Then he's got the cheek to crawl back on here and post prices for his baldy sheep

 

[Sid]

How can you be short of grass?? confused dot com...

As when ever i post about the very dire situation ref grass growth/ lack of grass etc young Sid pipes up and claims there is plenty of grass in Devon/ grass is growing well and some farmers have grass a foot tall that they do not know what to do with it....

But back in the real world the situation is getting very serious, it was bad before but the ground has burned so much now its back to bare soil on grazed fields the last 3/4 days here.

@kill

Plenty of places with grass. Was on a farm yesterday with over a foot of lush green grass. Our is still keeping up with majority of stock

Correct there are places with grass, they have caught thunder showers and or have deep rooting leys.

This week will now even start to bite those.

But a good thunder shower and warm ground grass will recover amazingly quickly.

 

[Henarar]

Listen to the Kivells Exeter market report on FB for today!

All very well the auctioneer saying too many lambs were to lean and should be sent into the Friday store market instead as they are knackering the prime SQQ but they need to go further than that and send those lambs home and tell them to bring them back a week on Friday in the store market or pull them out of the prime sale and sell them as stores for double the store lamb comm after the prime lamb sale!

Isnt it up to the vendor when they sell ?
I thought the SQQ was for in spec lambs and anything that wasnt in spec was excluded.

 

[Poorbuthappy]

But a good thunder shower and warm ground grass will recover amazingly ququickly.

True for those who are only just beginning to suffer.

However where it has really burnt back, it will take weeks to get going again after significant rain (not just a thunder shower)
The last dry summer we had (nothing like this) I had a couple dry naps that burnt so bad they still looked barren the following summer. I have much larger areas looking like that this year. I'm considering running round with some seed when we get proper rain.

 

[Hilly]

Its turned really good weather here again but so dry ,,, this week will
Do some damadge now …

 

[Martyn]

Supermarket food could soon carry eco-labels, says study

Scientists hope that a scoring system will lead manufacturers to compete over sustainability.

www.bbc.co.uk

More propaganda for consumers, how possibly can they compare food when it doesn't for example tell you if it grass based beef from the UK or intensive fed beef/horse meet from abroad, world going mad!

 

[Sid]

True for those who are only just beginning to suffer.

However where it has really burnt back, it will take weeks to get going again after significant rain (not just a thunder shower)
The last dry summer we had (nothing like this) I had a couple dry naps that burnt so bad they still looked barren the following summer. I have much larger areas looking like that this year. I'm considering running round with some seed when we get proper rain.

Didn't get a "good" winter as it was still far drier than normal.

Also lots have cut back on spring fertiliser applications so that stressed the grass as well.
Almost a perfect storm?

This week will affect those fields that were grazed the last 10 days for sure.

 

[Northern territory]

Some crazy thing on bbc news website about supermarkets labelling food with environmental impact of each item. What a surprise beef and lamb are way out in front on 34%. Yet more biased attacks

 

[Estate fencing.]

I think people use the word drought to easy. But now I think we are in prober drought, 3mm of rain in months on top of a very dry winter and spring. I’m sure we will get through it but making life stressful atm.

 

[Hilly]

I bought some bags of feed came with carbon foot print on label , load of sh!t …. Its coming because folk pander to it .

 

[Northern territory]

I bought some bags of feed came with carbon foot print on label , load of sh!t …. Its coming because folk pander to it .

Is it all this tosh that supermarkets and abattoirs are wanting information out of you. I never bothered with the dunbia thing they sent ages ago.

 

[Sid]

Some crazy thing on bbc news website about supermarkets labelling food with environmental impact of each item. What a surprise beef and lamb are way out in front on 34%. Yet more biased attacks

What's the BFU doing about it?

 

[Hilly]

Is it all this tosh that supermarkets and abattoirs are wanting information out of you. I never bothered with the dunbia thing they sent ages ago.

If it gets worse i shall stop farming , i want no part of any of it , when instatted farmimg i didnt sign up to be involved in that crap.