Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[livestock 1]

Yes a lot of time and money has been spent here improving things, especially the meadow land and better pastures. You can see the difference in the stock for doing so as well. Granda always said good ground should be bare, stock doesnt do right when the grass has been left to go rank and all the goodness has gone out of it. You cant tell these clipboard waving folk that tho, they’re not interested in what the stock is like. Just how many birds and bees there are.
A lot of ground that used to be bare in the spring ( they would say overgrazed) was teaming with lapwings and curlews, when they all went into stewardship and cut the stock back the rushes took over and the birds disappeared. It was all the farmers fault tho.

I’m with you and your grandad there
Hill ground needs to be able to carry a decent number of stock then it works well

 

[livestock 1]

Yep a bad deal perhaps but best stop worring what others are doing or get what you can yourself.
Chap down the road or over the hedge is no odds to you

These arable farmers pleading poverty but needing £650 per ha to tice them into it

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

I’ve read the options I wasn’t greatly excited about what was available. Thought we were dealt a bad hand considering the long list arable had then most of them crossed out for us. Very limited

Arable has got much better payment options, it’s because they’ve worked on an income foregone model. However, I think if any restrictions come in it will be for arable options because they are taking the pee as Steve Barclay alluded to.

 

[Stw88]

I’m with you and your grandad there
Hill ground needs to be able to carry a decent number of stock then it works well

You can’t farm this harder ground out of a text book. It takes years and generations to find out and know what works. I wish I didn’t have to feed hay and silage all winter to ewes and feed tons of ewe rolls at £300+ a ton but it’s what you have to do to keep the stock alive and reward you with good ofspring to sell.

 

[livestock 1]

Arable has got much better payment options, it’s because they’ve worked on an income foregone model. However, I think if any restrictions come in it will be for arable options because they are taking the pee as Steve Barclay alluded to.

We already have a lot of flowers legumes birds wildlife walkers we have by far the major share of all that. Payments are poor looking at that respect in comparison. As far as ‘income forgone’ then many hill farms struggling either side of profit or loss surly don’t require anything to make that situation any worse

 

[muleman]

It's not good if you aren't allowed to poach, we've made a living off poaching

 

[aangus]

It sort of annoys me that we have improved ground over the years but now have a support system which appears to be non productive and is most likely going to make everything go back over rather than forward

Take whatever monies are available now, can't see these payments lasting long before they will be cut or dare I say go back to some kind of headage. Tin hat on

 

[Optimus]

We already have a lot of flowers legumes birds wildlife walkers we have by far the major share of all that. Payments are poor looking at that respect in comparison. As far as ‘income forgone’ then many hill farms struggling either side of profit or loss surly don’t require anything to make that situation any worse

Sounds like your needing to sell up an head north.no SFI up here.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

These schemes just look like another way of the government trying their best to finish off livestock farming in this country. All payments gearing towards growing pansys and wild oats.

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

These schemes just look like another way of the government trying their best to finish off livestock farming in this country. All payments gearing towards growing pansys and wild oats.

The way it's looking there is going to be more arable acres going out of production

 

[Henarar]

These arable farmers pleading poverty but needing £650 per ha to tice them into it

such is life.
Tell me when you were but a little lad did anyone take you to one side and tell you life would be fair ? if they did they were wrong

 

[livestock 1]

A mate here same age as me has just put one of his farms up for sale, another one a bit younger has sold everything apart from the house sheds and a little bit, another has put 200 acres up for sale that’s nearby

 

[copse]

A mate here same age as me has just put one of his farms up for sale, another one a bit younger has sold everything apart from the house sheds and a little bit, another has put 200 acres up for sale that’s nearby

How much is land making up your way ?

 

[livestock 1]

How much is land making up your way ?

Depends on the usual things like the amount sold at once and who wants it. Generally the better land £6000/£7000 an acre in bigger lots £10,000 in smaller bits up the hill a bit £3000 or less

 

[copse]

Depends on the usual things like the amount sold at once and who wants it. Generally the better land £6000/£7000 an acre in bigger lots £10,000 in smaller bits up the hill a bit £3000 or less

It’s making fair money then.

 

[livestock 1]

It’s making fair money then.

Probably looks cheap to you we have bought a fair bit it always looked dear for it’s capabilities
Think some of it now has a base price for trees or carbon

 

[Shebb90]

Any sold any hoggs

 

[Average Farmerboy]

Any sold any hoggs

Just watch mart eye. Some over £200

MartEye

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[Northeastfarmer]

Any sold any hoggs

You waiting till they get to £300?

 

[Just because]

Any sold any hoggs

Be a lot of these used in report DW going to be £7:50 before end of week to keep up