- Location
- Bedfordshire
Not a lot in the scheme of things then. Yes it would soon pay as long as the water is good.
Contract Rearing Pigs
- Thread starter Muddy Plox
- Start date
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
That sort of figure should include an improvised iron filter as well
- Location
- Bedfordshire
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Borehole would be nice but not always possible, and they aren't maintainance free.
midlandslad
Member
- Location
- Midlands
When the going is good in the pig job the main producers will do very well out of the B & B job, however, with a falling pig price, increasing feed price and static housing costs, how do they stand it?
Averages, same as the beef job.
The pig price has been volatile for as long as I can remember.
Even the big players will be feeling a draft at the moment though, with pigs cheap and grain dear.
l'ordinary bonville
Member
- Location
- N Yorks
midlandslad
Member
- Location
- Midlands
What are the positives on the horizon? As I see it feed prices will stay high for the next 9 months and pig prices will continue to come under further pressure.
Suffolk Serf
Member
- Location
- Bury/Thetford
And getting off that rollercoaster at the right time.
l'ordinary bonville
Member
- Location
- N Yorks
Your guess is as good as mine
The rollercoaster sometimes goes down for more than a year, and vice versa
- Location
- Near Colchester
It is a painful ride down and the uphill bit can be very steady. It has cured many operators of contract finishing schemes of their desire to be in the pig market before now.
Suffolk Serf
Member
- Location
- Bury/Thetford
Myself included!
I'm now selling 7kg weaners at a fixed price, and trying to buy feed in a risk managed way (easier said than done) via Fram Farmers, so all that leaves us to do is churn out lots of piglets........
- Location
- Near Colchester
That is the name of the game at the moment, fine unless your abattoir tells you to hold pigs back. Mine hasn't yet, this weeks order was for double so that we could get the weights down a bit to about 70 dwt. First time ever I have been told to cut my weights. - most of my pigs go to local butchers.
midlandslad
Member
- Location
- Midlands
What is the cost of production for pigs?
- Location
- Fife
About 10p per kg more than the spot market price.
Nukemall
Member
How long is your piece of string?
Indoor, outdoor, slats, straw, rt, no rt, liquid fed, compound fed, mill mix, 95kg deadweight, 80kg deadweight, home reared, contract reared.... etc. etc.
- Location
- Near Colchester
More than that on current feed prices
midlandslad
Member
- Location
- Midlands
Are producers slowing down production then?
- Location
- Near Colchester
If you stop serving sows now it will be 9-10 months before production stops
Suffolk Serf
Member
- Location
- Bury/Thetford
And culls are worth zilch, and that's if you can get them booked in, so I can't see too many herds culling out.