Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[livestock 1]

I read there wouldn’t be a review of which jobs classed as essential on the visa list until next year, and Priti Patel who is in charge made it clear the workforce needed to come from within, relaxing the new immigration rules already would be counterproductive long term. Wait until she can’t get her turkey...

She’s been pretty naive if she thought that our own workers wanted these jobs in volume.
I suppose we have seen the veg farmers warning what would happen for years now

 

[goodevans]

I presume it is the milk companies who take the knock when milk is poured away or is it the producers, ultimately the best paying haulage firms will get the drivers I presume which will slowly reflect backwards down the chain unfortunately, the same with abattoir workers

 

[Skintagain]

I presume it is the milk companies who take the knock when milk is poured away or is it the producers, ultimately the best paying haulage firms will get the drivers I presume which will slowly reflect backwards down the chain unfortunately, the same with abattoir workers

They will all be scrutinising their contracts!!

 

[Top Tip.]

I presume it is the milk companies who take the knock when milk is poured away or is it the producers, ultimately the best paying haulage firms will get the drivers I presume which will slowly reflect backwards down the chain unfortunately, the same with abattoir workers

I thought a lot of the abattoir workers were on piece work.

 

[yellowbelly]

Common sense would say not to allow any here

When has common sense ever been part of any government thinking?

 

[cull cows]

I thought a lot of the abattoir workers were on piece work.

Not with the big firms no.
I know Dunbia pay a kill bonus off 2p per beast at sawley.
So 400 cattle a day @2p is £8.00
Don’t spend it all at once lads

 

[goodevans]

I thought a lot of the abattoir workers were on piece work.

It wouldn't matter how their pay was based ,if they need to pay more to get the workers it either increases finished product price , reduces the price of raw materials or squeezed margins,take your pick

 

[Hfd Cattle]

When has common sense ever been part of any government thinking?

Common sense is not very common in the Commons

 

[gwi1890]

I read there wouldn’t be a review of which jobs classed as essential on the visa list until next year, and Priti Patel who is in charge made it clear the workforce needed to come from within, relaxing the new immigration rules already would be counterproductive long term. Wait until she can’t get her turkey...

She’s probably vegan

 

[Wolfinsheepzclothing]

It wouldn't matter how their pay was based ,if they need to pay more to get the workers it either increases finished product price , reduces the price of raw materials or squeezed margins,take your pick

There are several agencies from Scotland to Cornwall offering £20 to £25 per hour for skilled abattoir operatives, unfortunately it's not as simple as paying more ...there is a skill shortage with the " old guard" returning home . It's hard work and it would appear that no one wants to do it !!

 

[andybk]

There are several agencies from Scotland to Cornwall offering £20 to £25 per hour for skilled abattoir operatives, unfortunately it's not as simple as paying more ...there is a skill shortage with the " old guard" returning home . It's hard work and it would appear that no one wants to do it !!

thats the issue with larry and the supermarkets cutting cost over the years ,(we are the cheapest blah blah blah ) using cheap but skilled labour , at some point there is a correction and you get food inflation , been better to allow prices to rise a bit over the years rather than try and keep everything at 90s prices then get a dramatic explosion at retail end at some point when product gets short , everyone will blame Brexit, but for years it was Blair legacy papering over the cracks in training with eastern european cheap labour and companies lack of investment in homegrown skills and paying everyone in the chain a living wage .

 

[Chae1]

Store cattle have noticeably become a two tier trade this last week, with R grade types easing quite a bit to more realistic levels. I’ve thought for a while all stores have lifted to match the rise in live weight, best end cattle but the d/w trade has only just got back to January levels. They obviously aren’t adding up into profit. In J36, and Selby yesterday dairy bred stores cheaper, U grading cattle no different. Defying logic with barley rising weekly suckler bulls jumping in price, 450 kg bulls up to £1450, dearer than Thirsk on Tuesday when a run of forty odd bulls from one farm looked the dearest trade I have seen yet.

Had a bull last week over £1800. 425kg dw.

 

[tinsheet]

What’s 37 kilo Beltex x Texel lambs out of mules making in the stores at the minute?
Nice sorts tight skins decent flesh (not fat)

£90+ all day down here.

 

[Full of bull(s)]

i was talking a ten month store bull. Could you make that pay with barley @£180 delivered plus protein at that price dead? It was a very nice bull but it was twenty weeks on ad lib away from that weight

 

[livestock 1]

We have to remember anything bought in the stores is bought on potential
Unless anyone wants to try and breed their own that is

 

[Anymulewilldo]

What’s 37 kilo Beltex x Texel lambs out of mules making in the stores at the minute?
Nice sorts tight skins decent flesh (not fat)

I’ll give you £69.50. Payment on the day, I’ll pay the haulage.
Must be double jabbed.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Not with the big firms no.
I know Dunbia pay a kill bonus off 2p per beast at sawley.
So 400 cattle a day @2p is £8.00
Don’t spend it all at once lads

2 pints? Jesus that’s not really much of an incentive is it?!

 

[Anymulewilldo]

thats the issue with larry and the supermarkets cutting cost over the years ,(we are the cheapest blah blah blah ) using cheap but skilled labour , at some point there is a correction and you get food inflation , been better to allow prices to rise a bit over the years rather than try and keep everything at 90s prices then get a dramatic explosion at retail end at some point when product gets short , everyone will blame Brexit, but for years it was Blair legacy papering over the cracks with eastern european cheap labour and companies lack of investment in homegrown skills and paying everyone in the chain a living wage .

I’ve always thought that too much education wasn’t necessarily a good thing. I was in school all through the Blair years. Constantly pushed for us all to be university graduates. If you over educate everyone who will be willing too do the menial but skilled jobs that can’t be learnt from a book! Apart from the medical profession most of us don’t need the degree to operate perfectly normally and successfully as our fathers and grandfathers did. But suddenly you’ve a generation who think basic work is below them! That’s my take on it any way!

 

[livestock 1]

I’ll give you £69.50. Payment on the day, I’ll pay the haulage.
Must be double jabbed.

No words

 

[Anymulewilldo]

No words

Yep, I’m that generous I know.