Farming in France

[Je sais pas]

Thanks...can't really make out the french one...2.91 for a limousin heifer of between 250 to 300kg, yet 4.70/kg for a cow?
Surely the 2.91 is for live weight...ie 250/300kg x 2.91 = 727/873 .
But what is the price deadweight for like a 2yr R?

Pillow says 4.05 p or 4.85 euro in UK.
We've never seen that price in Ireland.
We'd think that was great! ...I know fertiliser has doubled and might triple etc.

 

[czechmate]

Thanks...can't really make out the french one...2.91 for a limousin heifer of between 250 to 300kg, yet 4.70/kg for a cow?
Surely the 2.91 is for live weight...ie 250/300kg x 2.91 = 727/873 .
But what is the price deadweight for like a 2yr R?

Pillow says 4.05 p or 4.85 euro in UK.
We've never seen that price in Ireland.
We'd think that was great! ...I know fertiliser has doubled and might triple etc.

carcass price for Limousin bulls, with no weight limit, is €4.65.
We have large heifers going this week but I didn’t ask the price But it’ll be over €5

 

[nxy]

carcass price for Limousin bulls, with no weight limit, is €4.65.
We have large heifers going this week but I didn’t ask the price But it’ll be over €5

Label Rouge U+3 big heifers 400/450 Kg were 5.00€ exactly last week.

 

[pellow]

Thanks...can't really make out the french one...2.91 for a limousin heifer of between 250 to 300kg, yet 4.70/kg for a cow?
Surely the 2.91 is for live weight...ie 250/300kg x 2.91 = 727/873 .
But what is the price deadweight for like a 2yr R?

Pillow says 4.05 p or 4.85 euro in UK.
We've never seen that price in Ireland.
We'd think that was great! ...I know fertiliser has doubled and might triple etc.

Friend from Monaghan had 5 euro per kg his week for his clean Simmental

 

[nxy]

Another thing to bear in mind when reading french prices - a Limousin heifer is exactly that, a pure bred Limousin mother and a pure Limousin father its not a cross breed or got an dairy breeding in it at all. For Label Rouge that bull needs all his paperwork too.

 

[czechmate]

Another thing to bear in mind when reading french prices - a Limousin heifer is exactly that, a pure bred Limousin mother and a pure Limousin father its not a cross breed or got an dairy breeding in it at all. For Label Rouge that bull needs all his paperwork too.

Is there any other way?

 

[nxy]

Is there any other way?

Is there any other way?

Its been years since I was back in the UK but when we farmed there when someone said they had limousin/charolais/angus etc cows more often than not they were cross bred in some way . May be its changed.

We were on an Angus scheme with Waitrose in the 1990s and only thing Angus about it was the bull.

 

[czechmate]

Its been years since I was back in the UK but when we farmed there when someone said they had limousin/charolais/angus etc cows more often than not they were cross bred in some way . May be its changed.

We were on an Angus scheme with Waitrose in the 1990s and only thing Angus about it was the bull.

Actually, the idiots we bought this place from used an unregistered bull, so some offspring have 34 on the front of the passport but 39 on the back. We kept the odd good ones as cows, and their calves still have 39 on the back. Doesn’t affect the price at all

 

[nxy]

Actually, the idiots we bought this place from used an unregistered bull, so some offspring have 34 on the front of the passport but 39 on the back. We kept the odd good ones as cows, and their calves still have 39 on the back. Doesn’t affect the price at all

I often wonder if the label rouge is really worth it.

 

[Je sais pas]

And to think Ireland was down to 3.50/kg for R3 less than a year ago! Tis a wonder how prices are thought up. I'd imagine that year or two of woeful prices would've put a seed of doubt in many a suckler cow and dry stockman .

 

[Je sais pas]

What's the story with crosses and 'commercial ' cattle at the french factory? I'd imagine they'd be alright?

 

[czechmate]

And to think Ireland was down to 3.50/kg for R3 less than a year ago! Tis a wonder how prices are thought up. I'd imagine that year or two of woeful prices would've put a seed of doubt in many a suckler cow and dry stockman .

Well, it wasn’t so long ago our bulls bottomed at 3.55

 

[Matthew Britton]

I often wonder if the label rouge is really worth it.

It’s not something we have looked at but we seem to get very similar prices to what those of you in the west mention.

 

[czechmate]

It’s not something we have looked at but we seem to get very similar prices to what those of you in the west mention.

WTF, are you in the Ukraine?

 

[Matthew Britton]

WTF, are you in the Ukraine?

No just further east than you with red cows in white cow country. I was frequently told not to buy lims here because it would be hard to sell them. Turns out they are still saleable and for similar money. My point was that my non label rouge beasts seem to sell for similar prices to the label rouge beasts you are speaking of but with out the hassle of the paper work and rules.

 

[nxy]

It’s not something we have looked at but we seem to get very similar prices to what those of you in the west mention.

I have no hard facts to base this on but working from my memory alone I get the impression that since we have been in france the price premium paid for the top quality has slowly declined.

 

[czechmate]

No just further east than you with red cows in white cow country. I was frequently told not to buy lims here because it would be hard to sell them. Turns out they are still saleable and for similar money. My point was that my non label rouge beasts seem to sell for similar prices to the label rouge beasts you are speaking of but with out the hassle of the paper work and rules.

I came here partly to get away from assurances . But, my Czech wife seems to love rules and regulations (it’s their normal upbringing) so she got us into it... and fully deals with it. But there isn’t much to it at all

 

[Matthew Britton]

I came here partly to get away from assurances . But, my Czech wife seems to love rules and regulations (it’s their normal upbringing) so she got us into it... and fully deals with it. But there isn’t much to it at all

Good

 

[seedman stains]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/edit...end-to-brexit-illusions/ar-AAUvCdR?li=AAnZ9Ug another good read preaching to us converts

 

[bobk]

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