i dont think they will be joy. beef will have to go up for many of these stores just to wipe there arses and i cant see it.
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
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I agree. Hope I’m wrong. Does anyone see true benefits in profit to lower carcass weight limits.
Skintagain
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God you lot are depressing. Don’t buy them if they are too dear. If you have some cattle sell the bloody things it’s as easy as that. If I had bought grazing cattle in the spring I would be loading them all back up and taking them back now
weight always pays untill you are 100 grams over then youve fed it 30 days for nothing.
In all my years of farming as soon as the beef or lamb trade moved up the prophets of doom come out . They in the most part were wrong there has been the occasional time when the job went wrong but there have always been more winners than losers, as always you have to be in it to win it.
Woolless
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Don't know why I 'loved' that, I'm looking to buy some cows soon
(might be the McEwan's export).sorry i am no prophet , just a realist, look across the irish sea ,there will be tons coming over. usa trade deal . hope i am wrong . but i dont think i am.
Going forward looking at the rest of this year there is less beef in the system in GB and Ireland and consumption is up.
That wasn’t the question. The question was store prices didn’t come down in line when carcass weights dropped. Obviously that is fine as the store men need to make money. My argument is that lower carcass weights haven’t lead to higher prices current situation aside.
The main feeding men buying 50+ store cattle week in, week out, seem happy enough, they are there buying them when they are cheap or off the clock.
Irish/polish/american imports are just a broken record scare story nowadays. Covid 19 showed up the lies within the beef industry and proved supply and demand was tighter than we had all been led to believe. There isnt a glut of irish beef and people do not want to eat polish or american beef.
muleman
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How were store lambs at exeter yesterday?
back a touch. especially at start. Prices rose a touch towards the last third.
Beef was also stockpiled ready for a brexit date that came and went , this beef has now been used and/or didnt exist. They couldnt stockpile beef now even if they tried, there isnt any spare .
Have any more?
Nope. Sadly not as I’ve got rams In the breeding sale on Tuesday so could not dye to MVt rules
Northeastfarmer
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With less people going abroad this year, meat consumption will be well up
Skintagain
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The Money staying here too will do things world of good instead of it all disappearing abroad when folk blow it on holiday.
Farmer1001
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So why’s mainstream beef not £4kg? It’s a perfect storm for beef prices to be higher than ever, yet it’s static and nothing to shout about. You do make a good point NE. There would normally be around 2 million British holidaying abroad at anytime during August, they are home and needing to be fed.
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have you not seen this ?: the cartels (larry and the supermarkets ) have colluded to keep our prices on the floor ,we are currently the cheapest in western europe