But a lot of sellers are down to their last draws.
Cattle prices
- Thread starter nelly55
- Start date
But a lot of sellers are down to their last draws.
- Location
- Northumberland
Would you not be better showing a loss for one year and keep the barley, but then it would show in your valuation so no difference really. Or was it cash flow?
- Location
- Shropshire
Cash flow, it was 100% out of necessity
- Location
- Shropshire
I agree with you. It doesn’t take many weeks to thin the glut out
- Location
- Northumberland
our local slaughter house is on a 4 day week now due to lack of numbers.
- Location
- North Yorkshire
As will stores double there have been so many sold in the last two months men are full but stronger cattle will dry up overnight and the big boys on the volume bonuses will have to fight it out. In 25 years I can’t remember stores being either cheap or plentiful in June
The next year or two will sort the beef job one way or the other the way suckler herds are disappearing around here they just won't be there
- Location
- East Sussex
plenty of dairy bred beasts though?
kiwi pom
Member
- Location
- canterbury NZ
Barley at the height of the grass growing season in the UK?
I take it everyone has more cattle than they have land for, if feed needs to be bought in?
- Location
- Cheshire
Lots of close at finishing cattle won’t get too see grass. Keep them forced and gone. My bulls never see grass full stop, although I’m running them well down onto tick over until the job stabilises.
livestock 1
Member
I can never understand the mentality of this
- Location
- North Suffolk
I cant get my head around people who cost their home grown ration at what it cost them to produce. Surely you should be costing it at market price, discount a little to take into account knock offs etc, as that's what you could sell it for without the hassle of putting it through a beast first where the margins are not that great as it is 
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Farmer economicsI cant get my head around people who cost their home grown ration at what it cost them to produce. Surely you should be costing it at market price, discount a little to take into account knock offs etc, as that's what you could sell it for without the hassle of putting it through a beast first where the margins are not that great as it is
- Location
- Hereford
You can make them work anyway you want to make yourself feel better .....or worse !
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Correct !
casper74
Member
- Location
- North Yorkshire
All my costings are done at what it could be sold for approximately, however you always get people who don't do costings properly, I have a friend who takes cattle into Thirsk (about 25 mile round trip) for no cost as he does it himself.I cant get my head around people who cost their home grown ration at what it cost them to produce. Surely you should be costing it at market price, discount a little to take into account knock offs etc, as that's what you could sell it for without the hassle of putting it through a beast first where the margins are not that great as it is
You also get the farms who will now go out or nearly out of cattle as barley is to dear to feed and find it easier to sell, then when barley goes below £150 you find them back in the store rings buying cattle again.
Then you get others who just keep going with similar numbers all year round regardless of feed costs at £120 or £200. It does make you splutter a bit though at £200/tonne !!!!
livestock 1
Member
If you jump in and out of something you tend to miss the good bits though
Average out a few years back at a time usually four years at least to see if there’s a margin there. By the time stores look cheap and feed looks cheap the boat has sailed
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Farm accounts are as divers as the land we live in , mostly though they reflect what the farmer wants to do.