Bossfarmer
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- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
l"oss of subs for livestock farms + current weather patterns means beef will need to be more like £6.50/£7 a kilo and lambs £10/11 a kilo at the farm gate"Utter Rubbish, of course they can are selling it at these prices and if they cannot its not the farmers problem!
And if they cannot then take less profit and get another part time job in the evenings/ night time like everyone else is so keen to tell farmers to do if they cannot make farming pay!
Reality is that with the current very high input prices + loss of subs for livestock farms + current weather patterns means beef will need to be more like £6.50/£7 a kilo and lambs £10/11 a kilo at the farm gate if the supply chain after the farm gate wants a steady and all year round supply of high quality high welfare British beef and lamb.
Also if we are forced to do GFC by the RT/ NFU/ AHDB which looks very likely that will cost a 300 acre farm at least £5000 a year to do so that will mean we will need even more than the prices i quote above to cover this cost and keep people in the job.
Nearly every beef/sheep farmer you talk to around here are all talking about either cutting numbers drastically or quitting the job altogether over the next 3/5 years!
can we agree yet @Clive that removal of BPS will raise food prices in shops to the UK taxpayer?
bring it on