Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[muleman]

 

[copse]

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You wouldn’t win master chef with that one.

 

[muleman]

You wouldn’t win master chef with that one.

Tastes good!

 

[Hill Ground]

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Might be something up with your calendar.....if you present the mrs with that on valentines day she might be a bit miffed!!

 

[muleman]

Might be something up with your calendar.....if you present the mrs with that on valentines day she might be a bit miffed!!

I don't bother with valentine's day, prefer yesterday

 

[copse]

Tastes good!

Are you not a day late?

 

[muleman]

Are you not a day late?

Never late me!

 

[Poorbuthappy]

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[livestock 1]

£260 per acre plus messing around with weeds. No crop to sell.

You only need to sell two lambs to match that & can still use your land to produce more lambs.

I'm voting with my feet, herbal leys, maybe grazing some cover crops, more sheep & more time spent with hedges & walls. Arable losses unsustainable.

Sheep have been a good trade for 2 months. Your arable payments are 80 x more than some of what we have on offer and what we have is limited very limited. The only decent payments are claimable if you have no stock on or don’t graze during the short growing season for 5/6 weeks
I can’t get my head round why good land that is easier to make a profit from farming needs a higher subsidy payment than land that grows for 4/5 months a year.

 

[livestock 1]

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Where did you find mushrooms growing in February

 

[Beef farmer]

Serious question could I go and buy a couple hundred tons of barley today at £99 for July delivery

No, it's an ex farm price. Be 125 on farm min

 

[Attam]

Where did you find mushrooms growing in February

Probably inside them soggy wellies of his

 

[goodevans]

Bit off topic I know,but having just flipped through last week's FG,I was wandering why they are only to quick push New Zealand workwear because Dickies have ceased in the UK workwear market yet we all moan when one NZ lamb leg ends up on the supermarket shelf,perhaps in hindsight Dickies should of been supported more,or were they Asian based factories

 

[Devil's advocate]

Serious question could I go and buy a couple hundred tons of barley today at £99 for July delivery

I very much doubt it.

Maybe by late May. If crops grow better than expected.

You do mean straw? Feck you otherwise, ruddy vulture.

 

[crazy_bull]

Serious question could I go and buy a couple hundred tons of barley today at £99 for July delivery

Not when the market is about £140x for harvest barley. No idea what that £99 barley price is. Weird

C B

 

[Devil's advocate]

Sheep have been a good trade for 2 months. Your arable payments are 80 x more than some of what we have on offer and what we have is limited very limited. The only decent payments are claimable if you have no stock on or don’t graze during the short growing season for 5/6 weeks
I can’t get my head round why good land that is easier to make a profit from farming needs a higher subsidy payment than land that grows for 4/5 months a year.

What is your land worth per acre?

Surely the better the land, if it is been taken out of production, the higher the sub needs to be?

Easy way see how many arable farmers, go bankcrupt over the next two years.

 

[digger64]

Its very sad, how hard it is for the arable sector at the moment.

If you can imagine hoggs at £40 & cull ewes at £28 for good sorts not hill breeds. That is where arable is at the moment.

Please do anything you can to help them.

I did last year and it will take years to get over what we paid for grain - would have preferred a sensible average TBH

 

[livestock 1]

What is your land worth per acre?

Surely the better the land, if it is been taken out of production, the higher the sub needs to be?

Easy way see how many arable farmers, go bankcrupt over the next two years.

Well not really. I find it quite insulting lecturing someone with poor hill land how to farm with crumbs of a sub payment when it’s unlikely you would manage to do it yourself being used to good land.

 

[Northern territory]

Easy way see how many arable farmers, go bankcrupt over the next two years.

not so sure, there are a few more options with arable land, dairy men, spud men, AD etc etc.

 

[Devil's advocate]

Well not really. I find it quite insulting lecturing someone with poor hill land how to farm with crumbs of a sub payment when it’s unlikely you would manage to do it yourself being used to good land.

Certainly did not mean to insult.

May be chucking a few hand grenades back at those who throw them at the arable sector, all in good fun on my part.

We used to have some hill land, but was sold to one of the richest men in the country. Its recently been planted with trees.

I would need lessons in using a dog, but stock tasks & especially wall maintance /restoration I'm experienced in so would adapt well.

To be fair you might struggle to grow veg of the spec needed by the modern market here, took me a long time to get it right, 60% of the time.

Cereal growing is going through a crisis, you might enjoy mocking them but it is really bad.

I hope lambs continue to make high prices, but this boasting of grinding grain & straw suppliers into the floor is hard to stomach.