Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

Werzle

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Location
Midlands
A very in depth market report! - it even covers the fires in Australia!

At these higher prices its even more annoying when you go out in the morning and there is a dead one.. ?‍♂️
Makes the mind boggle when you read china has destroyed almost 200million pigs from their breeding herd because of swine flu. I was telling a non farming friend over christmas and he couldnt believe it hadnt been all over the news.
 
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Don’t think they would have made that price dead weight
 

goodevans

Member
A very in depth market report! - it even covers the fires in Australia!

At these higher prices its even more annoying when you go out in the morning and there is a dead one.. ?‍♂️
Remember you can afford to lose one though because the rest are worth more,I was told once that it was easier to give a bag of potatoes away when they are £10 rather than £2 because he couldn't afford not to sell all the £2 ones
 
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I read that there was a river in a Chinese province that ran red with blood seepage from slaughtered pigs . Now THAT would have made every newspaper and TV headlines in this country if it happened here , with TV crews helicopter camera crews - the lot . All kinds of things happen in a "dictatorial" country like China , that couldn't happen in the same way in less regulated countries . Mind you I'm told similar things have happened to humans with aggressive transmissable diseases in the distant past , but I can't give examples .
 

Anymulewilldo

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
At least with deadweight you know your getting the full value for your stock ,we're not here to subsidise auctions , lamb buyers or abbatoirs ...its us farmers that does all the hard work sitting up at night lambing them,out in all weathers tending to them, you might as well get the full value,auctions can be very hit and miss at times.
??? full value?! Send a wagon load of lambs in then get a phone call "oh these hasn't graded as good as you said so we've applied a penalty" what can you do about it? Stuff all. I remember the shafting we all took during F&M when the abattoirs had us all by the balls. Had my fill of that, once bitten twice shy and all that. Mine go through the market and if I don't like it, they all come back. Trouble is lots of people just take the poor price and say nowt although I accept they perhaps haven't got the set up to bring stock back too
 

muleman

Member
??? full value?! Send a wagon load of lambs in then get a phone call "oh these hasn't graded as good as you said so we've applied a penalty" what can you do about it? Stuff all. I remember the shafting we all took during F&M when the abattoirs had us all by the balls. Had my fill of that, once bitten twice shy and all that. Mine go through the market and if I don't like it, they all come back. Trouble is lots of people just take the poor price and say nowt although I accept they perhaps haven't got the set up to bring stock back too
When youve been doing the deadweight system for a while you get to know the job ....i know to within 50p or a pound what my lambs will come to before they leave the farm, with the live auction it can be lottery, can be £5 or 8 out....but as said before,thats maybe just my type of lambs....i respect those that use the live and feel they can do better that way.
 

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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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