Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

Old Tip

Member
Location
Cumbria
Up 7p/kg live last week and less about, hopes are rising, will draw anouther trailer load for next week and hope they keep rising.

we may get out of this hole yet

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balerman

Member
Location
N Devon
No way general public can afford beef if it goes to £5 kilo. Would be worst thing that could happen as we might end up like the sheep trade and have big crash in price.
Agreed,lets get to £4/kg steadily,and go from there,we are in the best position we ever have been at the moment.If you cant make a profit at that,your costs are too high and you need to find out why.
 
Location
Devon
Agreed,lets get to £4/kg steadily,and go from there,we are in the best position we ever have been at the moment.If you cant make a profit at that,your costs are too high and you need to find out why.

As fast as the beef price goes up then stores follow!! as for the consumers not being able to afford beef at £5/kilo dw, no reason they have to as the current mark up ( after costs ) from farm gate to supermarket shelve is massive... sirloin in the shops is around £16/£17/ kilo for example...
 

andybk

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Mendips Somerset
lamb prices on the way back up at last , sedgemore monday , tues market similar prices , culls not so sparking yet
(1572) HOGGS Top price p/head £95.50 , Top price p/kg 196.0p (49) LAMBS £102.00 top price 250.0p/pk SQQ Average 177.28p/pk hogs 222.81p/pk lambs
 

Henery

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
South shropshire
Waitrose have funded beef producers to establish their true cost of production, warts and all. No one has , so far, shown a figure per kg that represents a profit....
Higher prices are great, but costs are eating it all faster than the price is increasing.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


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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