Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[yellowbelly]

Make sure that your store cattle qualify for PGI status now seems to be the case!

Westcountry PGI for beef and lamb is what they wanted to know if they qualified for!

It seems to have taken a while for it to kick in. @Demolition Man's video was made in 2015 and it says the West Country got PGI status in 2014.........

.....it's funny we've never heard about it on here before. How much difference to the price of stores did it make yesterday @gone up the hill ?

 

[Henarar]

What a pile of rubbish...wonder if they wanted to know what region the Clydesdales came from when they were buying them for the steak pies!

its not rubbish and you can't blame them

 

[Northeastfarmer]

its not rubbish and you can't blame them

Why don’t they just make it up like they did with the farm names?

 

[Demolition Man]

Would market drayton be a good bet for well fleshed 23 month friesian stores. Just thinking selling by p/kg there would be better than chancing headage and possibly fewer buyers on the day in local mart? Any thoughts?

 

[Henarar]

Why don’t they just make it up like they did with the farm names?

They actually want it and you can't blame them

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Would market drayton be a good bet for well fleshed 23 month friesian stores. Just thinking selling by p/kg there would be better than chancing headage and possibly fewer buters on the day in local mart? Any thoughts?

@gone up the hill will give you 1k each for them off the farm

 

[Demolition Man]

@gone up the hill will give you 1k each for them off the farm[/QUOTE

Sounds good to me .

 

[Henarar]

Sounds good to me .

Sold

 

[gone up the hill]

@gone up the hill will give you 1k each for them off the farm

Worth £870 to £930 head.

Be better off fhinshing them and sending them direct himself tbh!

 

[gone up the hill]

its not rubbish and you can't blame them

Trouble is its another excuse to drop the price on animals that don't qualify, just like FA/ number of moves etc is all about!

Personally imo in a post brexit world when we will need to be major exporters of produce then we should have one scheme to cover the whole mainland of the UK/

Westcountry/ Welsh/ Scottish PGI is a direct result of EU rules.

 

[gone up the hill]

It seems to have taken a while for it to kick in. @Demolition Man's video was made in 2015 and it says the West Country got PGI status in 2014.........
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.....it's funny we've never heard about it on here before. How much difference to the price of stores did it make yesterday @gone up the hill ?

Didn't take any notice tbh but upto now it hasn't made any difference to prices of prime cattle/ sheep in the live markets ( or dead for that matter )

 

[gone up the hill]

Not a big pro ahdb lover before I get misunderstood, but the old saying you pay peanuts you get monkeys... we as an industry are stuck in the dark ages, we all loved the lamb price june to august. It was great!! It was great compared to the year before. Go back 30years and add on inflation and see where a lamb should be. Whether ahdb wages are a b xor y they are not high, yes massive for the farming industry but you are going to get a junior, half rate or retiring cant be arsed type at those figures. Anyone with drive or ability wont consider that job and budget. @guth said if in private sector they would be answerable for performance, yes maybe, but also if in private sector they wouldn't have taken the job at that wage. Also I saw of interest their income/ expenditure, a decent tv marketing campaign would cost what? Not a 25 second advert at 11.40 am or 2.15pm, prime time, I have no idea but I bet if you advertised in the break of coronation street, prime time for a month, that would eat into a million of that budget? Without the cost of making a decent ad worthy of that expenditure, yet if asked/ told levy was to quadruple to fund this, how many of us wouldn't be moaning like hell on here? Remember a" high quality burger firm " in a service station half way up m6, guess would have been set up by a few individuals with maybe some investment from backers/ shareholders, would most of us gladly pass over 10k each to go big in a rival chain, franchises of a competitive yet tastier, healthier, carbon foot print friendlier product, accept no dividends for 3 years to build and look long term for a better future, or would 20% maybe invest and the other 80% hope to have a short term gain on the back of others and then be the first to moan when it failed, despite the reality they sold their meat to rivals at a short term inflated price to kill opposition.

Fine paying top dollar for these people at the AHDB if they deliver top dollar results for levy payers but the trouble is nearly all the current lot are FAR from delivering for levy payers!

They spend to much time on Spin/ writing statements about KPI/ Knowledge exchange etc and none of this will make any difference to farmers bottom lines.

The wage of JK is not far off what the PM of the UK earns!

 

[exmoor dave]

Didn't take any notice tbh but upto now it hasn't made any difference to prices of prime cattle/ sheep in the live markets ( or dead for that matter )

I was told back in June selling lambs DW that WC PGI was worth 10p/kg ......... but *only* till Welsh lamb numbers kicked in, then it was worth nothing extra.

 

[cattleman123]

I don't know the history of levies, I know they need to be there to monitor trade, but I don't feel the need to be sent a booklet telling me how to do the job.

It seems to have taken a while for it to kick in. @Demolition Man's video was made in 2015 and it says the West Country got PGI status in 2014.........
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.....it's funny we've never heard about it on here before. How much difference to the price of stores did it make yesterday @gone up the hill ?

What a load of crap...its beef..or lamb so whats the problem..more bull.....

 

[S J H]

IMO these regional selling names, just water down the idea of people buying British. I don't think the consumer knows what the feck to buy or look out for anymore.

 

[gone up the hill]

IMO these regional selling names, just water down the idea of people buying British. I don't think the consumer knows what the feck to buy or look out for anymore.

Yes I agree but they have them as it keeps pen pushers that run/ promote them in jobs!

 

[Demolition Man]

Beef.... up, down or stand on?? People telling me locally been a drop but nothing mentioned about drop here or have I missed it?

 

[Old Tip]

Lambs down 5p at our local collection, makes them £3.90

 

[aangus]

Abp £3.90 last week and stand on for this coming week. Thought they should of been more, wasn't at Penrith but was told it was a good 43kg £86 for 3/4 texels

 

[Ross121]

Farmers fresh 3:80