Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

copse

Member
Mixed Farmer
Markets cancelled in Wales next Wednesday as the Rural Community head to Cardiff en mass to the Senedd unprecedented in the History of Welsh Farming. If you would like to Google what is being proposed by this lot you will be amazed it's a totally unworkable scheme, the rhetoric an insult to Welsh Farmers. Facebook "Welsh Farmers Protests" will give you good up to date progress as news is not covering it all.
I have an old three leg subsoiler in the nettles if anyone wants to borrow it.
 

Henarar

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Somerset
Just got this from the NSA in their weekly email. Makes good reading

Surge in lamb export sales

Latest full year figures from HMRC show that a global demand for lamb has helped drive UK red meat exports last year, achieving a similar level in value to the record levels seen in 2022. Red meat exports from the UK in 2023 were worth £1.7 billion, largely driven by strong demand for UK lamb on international markets.

The total value of red meat shipments to the EU during the period was up 2% on the year at £1.3 billion, while volumes fell by 12% on the year.

Within this, sheep meat exports to France – the UK’s largest market – was the standout with shipments increasing by 23% in value to £292 million and 23% in volume on the year to 45,000 tonnes
Just what I was told, last few weeks they are struggling to make it pay at the high price we have now
 

Optimus

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
North of Perth
Why does it always come out with…
“lamb doesn’t want to get any dearer otherwise the butchers wont sell it and they won’t make it pay”

when lambs were making £40 did anyone come out and say….
“The farmers can’t make it pay we should give them some more”

did they fuk
Stock isn’t dear enough yet
Just shows how we get shafted most other years.
 

Hilly

Member
They “lamb doesn’t want to get any dearer otherwise the butchers wont sell it and they won’t make it pay”
when lambs were making £40 did anyone come out and say….
“The farmers can’t make it pay we should give them some more”

did they fuk
Stock isn’t dear enough yet
Well said ! We have been royaly shafted for decades ! A good long pay day is well over due.
 

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