Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Stw88]

Did you send your lambs last week after they dropped the price? Bit of a sickner that trick and then to put the price up 10p for this coming week

Yes I wasn’t impressed! Had the grades and weights but no prices yet. I’m hoping they re thought and paid on 6.40.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Although we would all love £7.50 a kg Job starts to get a bit sticky once price gets to £7. Makes them look elsewhere and try to crash the price when the glut comes to average things out.

So are we meant to get £6 a kilo till the end of time….all food has gone up….lambs can’t be £120 forever

 

[Stw88]

So are we meant to get £6 a kilo till the end of time….all food has gone up….lambs can’t be £120 forever

Theres a happy medium for everyone in the chain to make a £. How many aren’t buying new tractors as regularly now since they’ve jumped in price? How many cut down on fertiliser when it went dear? How many reduce/ look for other products when straw jumped in price. We have to keep the general public buying our product, once they’ve started buying something else it’s hard to get the custom back. Red meat sales are doing very well at the moment and the public are using local butchers more. At least they certainly are in my area.

 

[Plain steer]

Probably!!

Sw?

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Theres a happy medium for everyone in the chain to make a £. How many aren’t buying new tractors as regularly now since they’ve jumped in price? How many cut down on fertiliser when it went dear? How many reduce/ look for other products when straw jumped in price. We have to keep the general public buying our product, once they’ve started buying something else it’s hard to get the custom back. Red meat sales are doing very well at the moment and the public are using local butchers more. At least they certainly are in my area.

I can see beef and lamb becoming a luxury item in 10-15 years time because there’s going to be virtually no one farming them in this country at the rate of where things are heading

 

[livestock 1]

No one can properly value lamb because store lambs were £35 and fat lambs £60 for what felt like eternity
What everyone should be asking is how long of a period of good prices do we need to pay back for all that shortfall?
Lambs haven’t been dear in the backend and summer they have rolled around that 260/70p live not very exciting, heavy lambs have been much dearer than normal they have been the ones in the mart reports making £130/40 but they needed weight to get there. Light lambs have been hopeless until November. The 300p live area has only been the last 6 weeks no need to get carried away thinking they are too dear.

 

[Full of bull(s)]

Sw?

That had crossed my mind

 

[Shebb90]

No one can properly value lamb because store lambs were £35 and fat lambs £60 for what felt like eternity
What everyone should be asking is how long of a period of good prices do we need to pay back for all that shortfall?
Lambs haven’t been dear in the backend and summer they have rolled around that 260/70p live not very exciting, heavy lambs have been much dearer than normal they have been the ones in the mart reports making £130/40 but they needed weight to get there. Light lambs have been hopeless until November. The 300p live area has only been the last 6 weeks no need to get carried away thinking they are too dear.

Still waiting for it to hit £3 average down here

 

[livestock 1]

Still waiting for it to hit £3 average down here

We are feeding lambs/hoggs and I reckoned up before Christmas we would need £3 to make anything out of them or get out of them

 

[Shebb90]

We are feeding lambs/hoggs and I reckoned up before Christmas we would need £3 to make anything out of them or get out of them

I think any stores brought in last month are going to need to be at least £3 to come out of them and not sure £3 will be enough

 

[Sleepeasy]

Will good beef pride especially cow price make the more people get out of cows or more people start keeping cows?

 

[Hilly]

Will good beef pride especially cow price make the more people get out of cows or more people start keeping cows?

i doubt many will start keeping cows, current trade is ok but facter in housing slurry storage labour feed fert land price , the accountant wouldn’t be happy even yet ..

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Will good beef pride especially cow price make the more people get out of cows or more people start keeping cows?

Unlikely

 

[Sleepeasy]

Yeah just think it could be perfect storm for more people to get out of cows if cow price is good

 

[goodevans]

Unlikely

Politicians reply ,2 questions one answer

 

[Henarar]

i doubt many will start keeping cows, current trade is ok but facter in housing slurry storage labour feed fert land price , the accountant wouldn’t be happy even yet ..

Environmental is going to kill it off more than anything else

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Politicians reply ,2 questions one answer

Well do you think more people (when the average age of farmers is 65+) will either go into or increase their suckler cows?
Finished cattle over 2k is only where they should of been 10 years ago

 

[goodevans]

Well do you think more people (when the average age of farmers is 65+) will either go into or increase their suckler cows?
Finished cattle over 2k is only where they should of been 10 years ago

Personally I think they will slowly drop,even though weaned calves off marginal ground at £1000 doesn't seem to bad,as with all farming I think there maybe an increase in the larger herds on estates and large farms that are looking at the greening credentials but they won't produce the top dollar calves that you (and I) like looking at

 

[casper74]

Sw?

No

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Personally I think they will slowly drop,even though weaned calves off marginal ground at £1000 doesn't seem to bad,as with all farming I think there maybe an increase in the larger herds on estates and large farms that are looking at the greening credentials but they won't produce the top dollar calves that you (and I) like looking at

I don’t even think they will on the larger farms or estates….Labour being the main reason