Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

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Devon
have they said why its not selling ?

Morrissions wont sell any beef if they don't put it on the shelves to start with.

In the last month I have been in 3 different large stores of theirs and the beef shelves were all but empty and I asked the butcher in one of the stores why the shelves were so empty and her reply was that even thou they were ordering large volumes of beef for some reason very little was getting delivered to the store and this is happening week after week.

Lambb and pork sections wasn't much better either!
 
Location
Devon
That’s how you eradicate modern day Tb. A farm in the next village has been down with Tb for the past nine years and reportedly has made a fortune on it, but last year the top price he had was £2400.

This year he passed with flying colours. Strange that after eight years of crazy compensation he gets a table valuation and the next year he passes. Maybe I’m a cynic?

What part of the UK are you?? because Britain has been on table valuations for several years now and unless you have poor animals you will not get the full market compo for any reactors under the table scheme.
 
Location
Devon
Cheers. Shed bulls would be 6-9 months, getting wheat, barley & maize, some palm kernal, pot ale and a bit of soya.

Those steers are 16-18 months, they're getting a sniff from the snacker, mostly to help handling. These would be the oldest group reared last year and will likely get housed sharpish in the autumn, to be down the road by Christmas. The last batch of 2017's rearing (22-26 months) are also at grass and will get serious feeding in/outside (depending on weather/grass supply) from next month. A well-grown HF steer with a modicum of shape can finish quickly when he takes the notion, while the bull has no ambitions beyond a 2.

What's your new regime, now the B&Ws are history?

Yep I totally agree that if a Fri steer has a good frame about him they are very easy to put finish on quickly on a decent diet and get them to a 3/4L quite easily.

Bulls are always much harder to get the cover on, feeding 20/30% wheat in the diet will help with this thou.

Switching to native cattle ( ie Angus/ Hereford ) plan is to grow them on high protein/ sugar grass red clover silage and then finish them on that with crimp grain by 24 months, wont have enough clover silage this year so will do a simple trial for the growing cattle by feeding some the above and some the current diet so can compare costs and more importantly weight gain between the two groups and then tweak the red clover diet if needed.

Problem with Fri cattle is they eat to much, the base price for them is much lower than contx/ native cattle and with the native cattle you can add a small premium with the bonus so for a 330 kilo ( deadweight ) animal those two things alone means that the price difference for a Fri v Angus animal is a good £200 head and when you could buy Fri cattle cheap there wasn't much difference but now Fri cattle that are any good are making nearly as much as native cattle in the store rings if under 15 months old.
 
Location
Cleveland
Morrissions wont sell any beef if they don't put it on the shelves to start with.

In the last month I have been in 3 different large stores of theirs and the beef shelves were all but empty and I asked the butcher in one of the stores why the shelves were so empty and her reply was that even thou they were ordering large volumes of beef for some reason very little was getting delivered to the store and this is happening week after week.

Lambb and pork sections wasn't much better either!
Can you take some pictures of the meat shelves in your local one?
I will take some of ours...their meat shelves are exceptional in ours
 

goodevans

Member
We understand that but the average shopper doesn't and religeously goes by the sell by date ,so shopping any day before Friday is no good for a Sunday roast
 

Celt83

Member
Livestock Farmer
What part of the UK are you?? because Britain has been on table valuations for several years now and unless you have poor animals you will not get the full market compo for any reactors under the table scheme.

Not in Wales pal!!

Capping/table valuations hasn’t come in effect for us until last year. £5k is the most these dairy farmers can have now and then they will have to pull a face, the cow to have a longer pedigree than your arm and a picture of the cow sent to the ministry.
 

Raider112

Member
That’s how you eradicate modern day Tb. A farm in the next village has been down with Tb for the past nine years and reportedly has made a fortune on it, but last year the top price he had was £2400.

This year he passed with flying colours. Strange that after eight years of crazy compensation he gets a table valuation and the next year he passes. Maybe I’m a cynic?
Maybe best to keep your cynicism to yourself? that's just the sort of comment that the anti cull brigade jump on. There won't be many going clear after years of reactors if that lot get their way.
 

Gedd

Member
Livestock Farmer
Darlo report seemed pretty rubbish for bulls, fri/hols seemed even worse
Yeh was there with bullocks fair enough trade on the day but would of stood another 10p/kg at least to heavy for deadweight though will have to take more this week
 

Jackov Altraids

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Devon
Maybe best to keep your cynicism to yourself? that's just the sort of comment that the anti cull brigade jump on. There won't be many going clear after years of reactors if that lot get their way.

Fair comment but the truth is that the dairy boys were compensated well enough that they lacked the will to worry too much about it.
It is very apparent that it wasn't until things changed that the dairy sector was willing to pull their finger out and try and tackle the problem as they suddenly suffered in the same way the beef boys always had.
 
Location
Devon
Not in Wales pal!!

Capping/table valuations hasn’t come in effect for us until last year. £5k is the most these dairy farmers can have now and then they will have to pull a face, the cow to have a longer pedigree than your arm and a picture of the cow sent to the ministry.

Well lucky you but the table valuations this side of the bridge have been going for years and the compensation is rubbish ( around £850 for a suckler cow the last time I looked )
 

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