Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Hilly]

Seriously what is driving store cattle prices. Fat is better yes but with straw and feed expensive margins have to be questionable?

I guess supply and demand.

 

[livestock 1]

I guess supply and demand.

Easier job feeding stores

 

[ISCO]

Dunnbia £5.20 Monday

 

[MOG]

So long as we are in lock down and people eat at home rather than in bars, pubs, restaurants and sandwich bars the job will be good. Almost all meat sold in UK supermarkets is home sourced, while a fair proportion of catering meat will have been imported. Even at current prices you can buy the meat to feed a family of 4 for less than the price of a single meal out! Once hospitality restarts, all bets are off. Don't get left holding the baby!

Edit: and home many people choose lamb on a menu when eating out.? That is if it is even on offer.

 

[Sid]

Because people don’t want to keep 2 animals to sell one
Because people don’t want to calve cows and suck calves on
Because people like to finish a tea time and not be up all night

Seems the trade on suckler cows were on fire last week at Sedgemoor.
In calf cows over £1000 without a calf at foot!

 

[livestock 1]

The drop in price is likely just an attempt by the processors to pull prices back to where they want them to be
They will have put their heads together to do this
It is a dangerous time for them to leave prices where they are without intervening at this time of year as numbers tighten and prospect of numbers being tighter than normal
They know there’s only a set number of sheep and it annoys them to be paying more than they see necessary
We will see what happens but if my theory is correct it will lift sharply when it does within a few weeks

 

[livestock 1]

Seems the trade on suckler cows were on fire last week at Sedgemoor.
In calf cows over £1000 without a calf at foot!

Same at Carlisle breeding sale in December

 

[Northeastfarmer]

In calf cows over £1000 without a calf at foot!

You can’t get a good 9 month old bulling heifer for that up here

 

[lloyd]

So long as we are in lock down and people eat at home rather than in bars, pubs, restaurants and sandwich bars the job will be good. Almost all meat sold in UK supermarkets is home sourced, while a fair proportion of catering meat will have been imported. Even at current prices you can buy the meat to feed a family of 4 for less than the price of a single meal out! Once hospitality restarts, all bets are off. Don't get left holding the baby!

Edit: and home many people choose lamb on a menu when eating out.? That is if it is even on offer.

When lamb is offered on a Sunday lunch menu it seems
to be sold out first ,the trouble is you are correct in your
observation of it being infrequently offered.

 

[thorpe]

You can’t get a good 9 month old bulling heifer for that up here

IMSURE THEY WOULD BE A DIFFERENT COMMODITIE.

 

[Woolless]

Because people don’t want to keep 2 animals to sell one
Because people don’t want to calve cows and suck calves on
Because people like to finish a tea time and not be up all night

If finished stock stay at these prices, and lord knows they should, then the folks doing the real graft should be rewarded.

(BTW @livestock 1, if you bought an AA bull you might be able to get to your bed on a night )

 

[Northeastfarmer]

IMSURE THEY WOULD BE A DIFFERENT COMMODITIE.

No need to shout I’m not mutton

 

[livestock 1]

If finished stock stay at these prices, and lord knows they should, then the folks doing the real graft should be rewarded.

(BTW @

Loads round about sold their cows and now buy and sell a few stores
They can’t all do it the thing will be getting out of balance

 

[thorpe]

No need to shout I’m not mutton

sorry .

 

[thorpe]

sorry .

ps the joys of dw 1 over weight 1 H all Rs we thought we had 2Us.

 

[Skintagain]

sorry .

Pardon?

 

[Woolless]

Loads round about sold their cows and now buy and sell a few stores
They can’t all do it the thing will be getting out of balance

I think it's only fair to tell you that I edited that post whilst you were replying to it .

 

[Northern territory]

Loads round about sold their cows and now buy and sell a few stores
They can’t all do it the thing will be getting out of balance

I think it will get out of balance, trouble is what we will be left with is everything out of dairy cows.

 

[thorpe]

ps the joys of dw 1 over weight 1 H all Rs we thought we had 2Us.

wish they had left the price where it was and graded them right , we would be quids in!

 

[livestock 1]

I think it's only fair to tell you that I edited that post whilst you were replying to it .

Yawn it’s every night I get this now. It’s not a matter of if it’s when. Even cropped up on the Valtra thing
Have a look at your Angus premium scheme
There you go ! Was that what you wanted me to say