Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Northeastfarmer]

Farmers have to carry on through periods of low profits, we have all carried cows or sheep whilst they have been making sod all, subs kept us in business. Most businesses will have cut loss making parts of their business long ago but if it's gone then you have nothing to sell when times improve. You have to be in it to win it.
These butchers who choose not to stock loss making meat will lose their customers to others that do stock it and keep going until things get better for them.
Local butcher has sign up saying he will not stock lamb as too expensive but will take pre orders for it....not very loyal imo and it will be remembered.
Saying that one local butcher, fancy house and Cayenne, another one drives 80k grenadier and I doubt if either crawled out of a lambing shed at 4am this morning.

Most butchers I’ve seen all drive brand new Range Rover vogues or range rovers sports

 

[hally]

Most butchers I’ve seen all drive brand new Range Rover vogues or range rovers sports

Bit rich moaning about the price of stock really, can't get in the car park at borderway for buyers range rovers as well. There has always been plenty money in stock but we are just useless at ensuring it remains with us.

 

[goodevans]

Most butchers I’ve seen all drive brand new Range Rover vogues or range rovers sports

In defence of butchers there would be more going out of business than farmers

 

[Hilly]

yeah right. 200 quid lamb - 60 pound for each of the legs and 40 pound each for the shoulders leaves you trying to pay the men out of the chops and the breast. thats to kill 'em and bone 'em. If your wife came home with a leg of lamb and said she had got it at wholesale price - just 60 quid.... you'd hit her over the head with it.

Need to cut your costs and become more efficient , thats the shyt we have to listen to for forty year .

 

[Northeastfarmer]

In defence of butchers there would be more going out of business than farmers

I’m not surprised….those range rovers aren’t cheap to run

 

[Attam]

How many are you after?
I know where there is a few

Don’t you be flooding the market! Had the geld hoggs in Texel x are going. Keep the Chev mules. If nobody else is going to then I will help the butchers out and take £199 for them

 

[aangus]

Farmers have to carry on through periods of low profits, we have all carried cows or sheep whilst they have been making sod all, subs kept us in business. Most businesses will have cut loss making parts of their business long ago but if it's gone then you have nothing to sell when times improve. You have to be in it to win it.
These butchers who choose not to stock loss making meat will lose their customers to others that do stock it and keep going until things get better for them.
Local butcher has sign up saying he will not stock lamb as too expensive but will take pre orders for it....not very loyal imo and it will be remembered.
Saying that one local butcher, fancy house and Cayenne, another one drives 80k grenadier and I doubt if either crawled out of a lambing shed at 4am this morning.

Are you thinking Brampton butchers?

 

[hally]

Are you thinking Brampton butchers?

Haltwhistle

 

[Hilly]

In defence of butchers there would be more going out of business than farmers

Most of the farmers went about 35 year ago . The survivors cut there costs mainly aka staff , shepherds cattlemen tractor men, they mostly all went to other industry other than big places . If butchers are having a hard time tough sh!t, i have hard financial time all my life along with many other farmers non more so than livestock and especially hill/lfa livestock farms .

 

[livestock 1]

I was just thinking what some of these sheep have eaten and are eating it’s not all roses really

 

[Northeastfarmer]

I was just thinking what some of these sheep have eaten and are eating it’s not all roses really

It’s been a very expensive winter

 

[livestock 1]

It’s been a very expensive winter

Liquid feed cake silage fertiliser it just goes on

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Liquid feed cake silage fertiliser it just goes on

All right for these butchers they only own them a week

 

[Henarar]

grass and a bit of blend io finish

 

[muleman]

Liquid feed cake silage fertiliser it just goes on

£16 per ewe here so far

 

[copse]

£16 per ewe here so far

On cake?

 

[livestock 1]

£16 per ewe here so far

Straw and tents will add a bit for me

 

[muleman]

On cake?

Treacle and cake

 

[livestock 1]

Treacle and cake

I’ve not worked mine out but won’t be far away

 

[copse]

Treacle and cake

Have you started lambing yet?