Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[polk_farmer]

Very clear from market on Saturday that there is still plenty of demand for finishing/ grazing cattle.

Vet body has stopped vets from doing routine small animal work but farm work for most jobs can continue as long as you ca keep 2+ meters away from the vet. ( but no idea if that's changed on TB testing today )

If they suspend TB testing then the only people that will be able to buy cattle are a handful of farmers with AFU's but where will that leave trade?

Wouldn't surprise me if they did stop TB testing as some police forces have today banned shops from selling Easter eggs!

You need to get a job and stop reading so much tripe online, and then subsequently jamming up decent threads like this one. Live in the real world and just be great full that you and your family are alive and healthy.

(I say get a job, as there must be no way in hell that you can be working full time, yet spend all day every day typing on this forum)

 

[neilo]

easter market ?

No idea. I guess it would have been in normal times?

Heard how trade was overall

Sorry, I forgot to ask.

 

[gone up the hill]

You need to get a job and stop reading so much tripe online, and then subsequently jamming up decent threads like this one. Live in the real world and just be great full that you and your family are alive and healthy.

(I say get a job, as there must be no way in hell that you can be working full time, yet spend all day every day typing on this forum)

100% correct about the Easter eggs.

As for being on here, im just in for a quick coffee and a bit to eat or do I need your permission for that now??

 

[andybk]

No idea. I guess it would have been in normal times?



Sorry, I forgot to ask.

you did well !, well done , not all doom and gloom for springers .

 

[Henarar]

There's no market at Stratford on Avon tomorrow due to no demand.

A day off for @farmersam2

 

[polk_farmer]

100% correct about the Easter eggs.

As for being on here, im just in for a quick coffee and a bit to eat or do I need your permission for that now??

I couldn’t give 2 s****s about whether or not anyone can buy Easter eggs or not. As long as my friends/ family can get through this all unaffected.

Im pretty sure most people come on this thread (me included) to look at lamb/beef prices, not the availability of Easter eggs

 

[Victor]

Wife spoke to butcher today who had to put prices up cause his supplier has put prices up and she told him our beef price has gone down 6p this week
Somebody is making money somewhere further up the chain me thinks

 

[bean]

Our local vets penbode not doing ANY testing untill at least 14 april

 

[Top Tip.]

Wife spoke to butcher today who had to put prices up cause his supplier has put prices up and she told him our beef price has gone down 6p this week
Somebody is making money somewhere further up the chain me thinks

It is very funny how supply and demand works fine until you reach the primary producer.

 

[Celt83]

Wife spoke to butcher today who had to put prices up cause his supplier has put prices up and she told him our beef price has gone down 6p this week
Somebody is making money somewhere further up the chain me thinks

I've never met a poor butcher yet!

What was his response when your wife told him that the farmgate price had dropped?

 

[Shebb90]

Our local vets penbode not doing ANY testing untill at least 14 april

So what I heard is right then

 

[Mc115reed]

I put £95 on them, which is about what they’d make dw (where they’d go if they came home).

They lost a kilo in the trailer travelling 7 miles to the market at Welshpool, so 47kg on their scales. Just heard they made £101.50, which is about a fiver up on similar weight Springers last week iirc.

Can’t complain at that really I always think of you can make £90 a head you’ve made money so considering the current uncertainty you did well really... 47kg springer? When were they born? Breed?

 

[Victor]

I've never met a poor butcher yet!

What was his response when your wife told him that the farmgate price had dropped?

He said "Its probably the middle men"

 

[Werzle]

Unless I missed it all today's report states is that it can be difficult to get a Tb test done, nothing about it being stopped.

Yes your right, MQ beef report said it was getting difficult to book pre movement tbt.

 

[gone up the hill]

Our local vets penbode not doing ANY testing untill at least 14 april

Well they are going against the governments advice then.

To many businesses are shutting down/ not doing work when they don't need to be doing so.

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Pre movement tests are just as important to allow farms to move store stock along the chain.

If the calve rearer cant sell weaned calves he cant buy small calves etc, the whole thing would fall apart in days and stock would be backed up everywhere.

If you stop one you must stop the other as well.

I assume you have some routine tests to do shortly thus why you are keen just for them to continue..

We have just completed 3 routine herd tests and all three herds went clear ,about 260 cattle . On the last test the vet ran them all through on his own because I'm high risk ,very helpful, and then sent a text to say all clear !!

My earlier point was that pre-movement tests shouldn't be needed for cattle movement in my view . It's unnecessary and does very little to stop TB .

 

[gone up the hill]

We have just completed 3 routine herd tests and all three herds went clear ,about 260 cattle . On the last test the vet ran them all through on his own because I'm high risk ,very helpful, and then sent a text to say all clear !!

My earlier point was that pre-movement tests shouldn't be needed for cattle movement in my view . It's unnecessary and does very little to stop TB .

Ahh I understand.

I totally agree, if they stop pre movement testing then they should suspend the requirement for it to be done at this time.

Cannot have thousands of farms unable to sell cattle for 6+ months!

Good news about your tests

 

[farmeronecow]

any news from the front line yet ? exeter / sedge

Spoke to Adam, he said roughly 180 for hoggs and I’m sure he said 240 for springers?? May have heard him wrong though.??‍

 

[Shebb90]

Looking like nsl are wanted not so much the hoggs but hardly any about at market

 

[Moo cow]

Farmers Fresh Kenilworth £4/kg today!