Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Hilly]

Got even worse what she said after that she was just winding the job up

What ?

 

[livestock 1]

What ?

Lol

 

[Northeastfarmer]

A new abattoir in the US to be built to process 8000 cattle per day

A massive new abattoir is to be built in the United States, with the capacity to process 8000 cattle per day.

www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk

 

[serf]

If it was a ewe you’d cull the useless twunts

If it was a ewe you wouldn't have let em get past the lamb stage ....

 

[J 1177]

Darlington Farmers Auction Mart

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[HarryB97]

The place id buy them from breeds pretty good calves, they leave calves on the cows, no jerseys either all Holstein crosses… just bouncing ideas around really…
If you were too start a cattle enterprise how would you do it? I’m not really in a position too have the outlay that calves to finished cattle takes what ever I did I’d need money back from it within 12 months really..

Rearing calves. A huge demand for well reared 12 week old calves, quick turn around and you set your own prices if selling privately.

 

[e3120]

Rearing bw calves was traditionally the cattle way of turning your labour into profit if capital outlay is restricted. Any other route now either needs pots of cash, a funding partner (who gets the cream) or you're stuck with inefficient hobby numbers.

 

[Full of bull(s)]

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You have to hand it to them they don’t give a flying f###

 

[Sheepykid]

Rearing calves. A huge demand for well reared 12 week old calves, quick turn around and you set your own prices if selling privately.

Wouldn’t be so sure there’d be much in that now with £2400 powder and £400/ton calf cake. Unless your sourcing your calves extremely cheaply. In the southwest the young cattle job hasn’t moved on since 12 months ago. People are too concerned with the money needing to finish them I think. Just my take on it.

 

[J 1177]

You have to hand it to them they don’t give a flying f###
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Aye saw that. Close to the knuckle but funny

 

[Sid]

When will folk get it?

nowt jobs are now £30k per year

£50k jobs used to be few and far between 5 year ago now quite standard.

Two million more people paying higher rate tax

The number of workers in higher income tax bands has risen by almost two million in three years, says HMRC.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Vorest Tat]

I think the traditional professions do not make the big wages like they used to, unless you get right to the top.
Too many people went into them years ago. What is valued now are what traditionally were the lower paid careers that everyone was told not to do 30 years ago.

Wot like farming??

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Wouldn’t be so sure there’d be much in that now with £2400 powder and £400/ton calf cake. Unless your sourcing your calves extremely cheaply. In the southwest the young cattle job hasn’t moved on since 12 months ago. People are too concerned with the money needing to finish them I think. Just my take on it.

And those “cheap” calves aren’t worth jack when they are reared… I’d go with you on this take. Reared calves are the cheapest way to buy them at the moment. Get to Drayton on a Monday afternoon and apart from the odd flash pen it’s not very fast when you consider the inputs!

 

[Hilly]

 

[Hilly]

 

[Sheepykid]

And those “cheap” calves aren’t worth jack when they are reared… I’d go with you on this take. Reared calves are the cheapest way to buy them at the moment. Get to Drayton on a Monday afternoon and apart from the odd flash pen it’s not very fast when you consider the inputs!

You hear of the odd deal where people agree to take a job lot of calves of one dairy farm they might be bought better. But market prices for calves hasn’t eased. But the inputs into them has rocketed. Shame. We did do lots of them each year. They used to pay alright. Nothing in beef pays brilliantly in my experience anyway. Especially if you didn’t have a big cropping acreage to finish those cattle. But that game has changed for the foreseeable it seems. Difficult to know what to turn your hand to really.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

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You’ve taking photos behind @livestock 1 ‘s outfit again?

nice looking Angus bulls there. I won’t be swapping my lim, but they are nice things.

 

[Hilly]

You’ve taking photos behind @livestock 1 ‘s outfit again?

nice looking Angus bulls there. I won’t be swapping my lim, but they are nice things.

One on the left is just young, only 20 month .

 

[Anymulewilldo]

You hear of the odd deal where people agree to take a job lot of calves of one dairy farm they might be bought better. But market prices for calves hasn’t eased. But the inputs into them has rocketed. Shame. We did do lots of them each year. They used to pay alright. Nothing in beef pays brilliantly in my experience anyway. Especially if you didn’t have a big cropping acreage to finish those cattle. But that game has changed for the foreseeable it seems. Difficult to know what to turn your hand to really.

Quite agree it used to be a good job, but powder and calf corn has about buggered the job. Never liked taking all the calves. You get the bad ones that eat all the profit of the good ones and that leaves the middle ones twice the work to do!

 

[Hilly]

No power harrow , pig harrows !