Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[hendrebc]

Poor shape and fat. Not a market for lorry loads of O4H’s.

O4H how did they manage that someone must be breeding sheep with no sense of how they look at all

 

[Woolless]

It’s a pyramid scam, the ones at the top are making a fortune and the middle ones are trying like hell to get other people to invest in them. Need to keep the fresh blood coming in.

A 'pyramid scam' is a bit strong! What's the last page been, we're losing money on sheep so we'll put the boot in to somebody that might be making something out of it?? And then accuse them of racing to the bottom?

Horses for courses, the sheep trade is bewildering. What works this year might be a disaster next.

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

O4H how did they manage that someone must be breeding sheep with no sense of how they look at all

Probably just selected on data

 

[Estate fencing.]

O4H how did they manage that someone must be breeding sheep with no sense of how they look at all

Its what Iv heard for a main buyer.

 

[Northern territory]

A 'pyramid scam' is a bit strong! What's the last page been, we're losing money on sheep so we'll put the boot in to somebody that might be making something out of it?? And then accuse them of racing to the bottom?

Horses for courses, the sheep trade is bewildering. What works this year might be a disaster next.

I don’t have a problem with other breeds but nobody is going to do a lot of good at £70-£80, whether they have a cheap system or not, we need to thrive not survive

 

[Woolless]

Regards current price crisis: I used to think the Irish meat firms were real clever operators, not so sure now. They are maybe just starting to cotton on to the fact that they can't expect people to produce cattle for a loss forever. But they and their supermarket paymasters can't wait to stand on the neck of the sheep industry. The way the price is going now, they may well be guaranteeing themselves paying more next year as more folk pack them in!

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

A 'pyramid scam' is a bit strong! What's the last page been, we're losing money on sheep so we'll put the boot in to somebody that might be making something out of it?? And then accuse them of racing to the bottom?

Horses for courses, the sheep trade is bewildering. What works this year might be a disaster next.

I think what riles people is that they come across as wanting to rubbish other systems as a way of marketing their sheep. What other industry would argue that prices should come down. . I've seen them say tail docking and ringing is a welfare issue for example just to try and frighten (mostly new starters) into buying their sheep. They just hand the supermarkets and anti farming lobby the bullets to try and sell their sheep

 

[Woolless]

I think what riles people is that they come across as wanting to rubbish other systems as a way of marketing their sheep. What other industry would argue that prices should come down. . I've seen them say tail docking and ringing is a welfare issue for example just to try and frighten (mostly new starters) into buying their sheep. They just hand the supermarkets and anti farming lobby the bullets to try and sell their sheep

Fair point, but the phrase 'permitted mutilation' wasn't made up by them. It's what's in the codes of practice. And the way things are going, would it surprise you if that permission was removed?

 

[Woolless]

O4H how did they manage that someone must be breeding sheep with no sense of how they look at all

There's some poor examples of shedding sheep about, that's for certain.

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

Fair point, but the phrase 'permitted mutilation' wasn't made up by them. It's what's in the codes of practice. And the way things are going, would it surprise you if that permission was removed?

Well it will be if the sheep industry support it being removed! Then what will happen to the store lamb trade and of course it's another way of trapping people into only being able to sell deadweight

 

[Estate fencing.]

Trying justify there own bone idlenesses, I lamb mules out and ring the lambs but do have to get off the bike.

 

[hendrebc]

There's some poor examples of shedding sheep about, that's for certain.

Yes. But it doesn't have to be that way what @Electricfencer and @Aspiring Peasants are talking about is a stockman problem selecting them all on data and probably drawing lambs on weight alone. Someone who did it properly would have noticed the lambs were finished before they were 4h and would have chosen rams with some shape not just numbers out of a catalogue.

 

[sheepwise]

I think what riles people is that they come across as wanting to rubbish other systems as a way of marketing their sheep. What other industry would argue that prices should come down. . I've seen them say tail docking and ringing is a welfare issue for example just to try and frighten (mostly new starters) into buying their sheep. They just hand the supermarkets and anti farming lobby the bullets to try and sell their sheep

100% correct.

 

[sheepwise]

Fair point, but the phrase 'permitted mutilation' wasn't made up by them. It's what's in the codes of practice. And the way things are going, would it surprise you if that permission was removed?

It’s the same with this clip fitter castration thing. Trying to sell their product by highlighting alleged welfare issues with rubber rings.

 

[Henarar]

Aye not the type of sheep I’m after ......the ideal sheep is surely the type that produce enough to be sustainable with the smallest possible flock this doing more and becoming more”efficient “ is starting to get tiresome

Quite.
Efficient at what ? producing more lamb or making money ?
You can do less and become more efficient at making money.
You can produce less and make more money.

 

[digger64]

Poor shape and fat. Not a market for lorry loads of O4H’s.

bit like shorn mules then

 

[hendrebc]

Good average on mediums in Builth

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Not as good an average but mediums a reasonable average at Ruthin on Friday as well

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[Lincs]

I think AHDB must be doing a good job because every market report I read has fresh buyers buying on numerous accounts every week. Across the country there must be hundreds of new faces every week wanting prime lambs

 

[Northeastfarmer]

It’s the same with this clip fitter castration thing. Trying to sell their product by highlighting alleged welfare issues with rubber rings.

That p!sses me right off…they go on like bloody vegans

 

[Chuckie]

I think AHDB must be doing a good job because every market report I read has fresh buyers buying on numerous accounts every week. Across the country there must be hundreds of new faces every week wanting prime lambs

I think the ahdb are a monumental waste of money