Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Estate fencing.]

New Zealand lamb here by the boatload is what im hearing this morning.
It kind of fits in with what one or 2 have been saying on here....that these meatfirms aren't going to be caught out 2 years running paying high prices for hoggs.

How can it be cheaper thought, lambs have been making £90 for what looked like small 25-30kg stores. How can they finish them, kill them and put them on a ship and be cheaper than ours?

 

[pine_guy]

How can it be cheaper thought, lambs have been making £90 for what looked like small 25-30kg stores. How can they finish them, kill them and put them on a ship and be cheaper than ours?

I’m guessing import just enough dear lamb to tip the balance of supply and demand and drop the price of home lamb

 

[Boydvalley]

New Zealand lamb here by the boatload is what im hearing this morning.
It kind of fits in with what one or 2 have been saying on here....that these meatfirms aren't going to be caught out 2 years running paying high prices for hoggs.

what is the cost of the lamb on the boats. Lamb is expensive down under Plus shipping. Hopefully put a high base but probably take the froth off the market.

 

[Optimus]

How can it be cheaper thought, lambs have been making £90 for what looked like small 25-30kg stores. How can they finish them, kill them and put them on a ship and be cheaper than ours?

No idea but it does make you wonder what other sneaky tricks their up too.

 

[Werzle]

How can it be cheaper thought, lambs have been making £90 for what looked like small 25-30kg stores. How can they finish them, kill them and put them on a ship and be cheaper than ours?

Probably making a loss on them but if it drops uk lamb by £10-15/hd its worth it to them. Dirty trick though.

 

[muleman]

How can it be cheaper thought, lambs have been making £90 for what looked like small 25-30kg stores. How can they finish them, kill them and put them on a ship and be cheaper than ours?

It might be a tenner dearer this week of the year but they are maybe trying to stop ours going any higher

 

[z.man]

Probably making a loss on them but if it drops uk lamb by £10-15/hd its worth it to them. Dirty trick though.

Hope they have showed their hand too early, cheaper supply now but Easter and Eid clash together in mid April I think, for the long keepers the short /medium keepers had a nice December to be fair

 

[Hilly]

Shipping lamb around the globe to save a few pennies , disgusting

 

[muleman]

Shipping lamb around the globe to save a few pennies , disgusting

I wonder where they think theyre gonna get meat from when theyve forced all the british farmers out of business?
They cant suddenly send youngsters to college, provide grants to increase production again,this is a skilled business with the knowledge passed down from generation to generation, there will be nobody left who knows how to farm.

 

[deere 6600]

I wonder where they think theyre gonna get meat from when theyve forced all the british farmers out of business?
They cant suddenly send youngsters to college, provide grants to increase production again,this is a skilled business with the knowledge passed down from generation to generation, there will be nobody left who knows how to farm.

Don’t think the powers at be (whoever they are ) care in the slightest

 

[Hilly]

I wonder where they think theyre gonna get meat from when theyve forced all the british farmers out of business?
They cant suddenly send youngsters to college, provide grants to increase production again,this is a skilled business with the knowledge passed down from generation to generation, there will be nobody left who knows how to farm.

From massive farms that are contracted and have billions borrowed thus under their full control . same as pig poultry .

 

[muleman]

Don’t think the powers at be (whoever they are ) care in the slightest

Not whilst their bellies are full no.

 

[copse]

Hoggs totally shite at melton today.

 

[copse]

Would be about £2.40

 

[neilo]

From massive farms that are contracted and have billions borrowed thus under their full control . same as pig poultry .

I think you overestimate the scale of the supermarket lamb contracts. Tesco are by far the biggest retailer and they only have 200 producers contracted. Many of those haven’t been supplying them this year either, and are on suspension. They certainly aren’t in control.

 

[tinsheet]

Probably making a loss on them but if it drops uk lamb by £10-15/hd its worth it to them. Dirty trick though.

called a "loss leader" buy it in dearer than ours to drive our price down they then recoup their loss from/through us

 

[Hilly]

I think you overestimate the scale of the supermarket lamb contracts. Tesco are by far the biggest retailer and they only have 200 producers contracted. Many of those haven’t been supplying them this year either, and are on suspension. They certainly aren’t in control.

I didn’t say they were , I said what will happen in the future .

 

[yellowbelly]

Shipping lamb around the globe to save a few pennies , disgusting

Google says it's 12,000mls by boat from NZ.
It also says a container ship burns 60,000 gals of fuel a day and it will take 40 days to get here. So that's 2,400,000gals, which, I'm guessing is a sh!t load of CO2.

Anybody want to sell Tesco some carbon offsets to cancel it out?
I don't think so. Total barstewards

 

[Hilly]

Google says it's 12,000mls by boat from NZ.
It also says a container ship burns 60,000 gals of fuel a day and it will take 40 days to get here. So that's 2,400,000gals, which, I'm guessing is a sh!t load of CO2.

Anybody want to sell Tesco some carbon offsets to cancel it out?
I don't think so. Total barstewards

Na just barstewards , the total
barstewards are the barstewards in this country that get in on contracts with them to sh!t on everyone else they are the total barstewards, selfish short sighted desperate pansies I didn’t write pansies .

 

[neilo]

Google says it's 12,000mls by boat from NZ.
It also says a container ship burns 60,000 gals of fuel a day and it will take 40 days to get here. So that's 2,400,000gals, which, I'm guessing is a sh!t load of CO2.

Anybody want to sell Tesco some carbon offsets to cancel it out?
I don't think so. Total barstewards

They move a few tonnes at a time though. The carbon footprint of moving stuff around the globe by ship is supposed to be very small indeed, per kg shipped.

Flying it in would be different obviously, and has been done on occasion.