lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
It has lasted longer than I expected .
Sold some skins for nearly a £100 each
last Monday which would have been £5 specials
20 years ago.Now that's proper inflation .
If only the same buyers ate pork.
Good News in the pig trade
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Sold some skins for nearly a £100 each
last Monday which would have been £5 specials
20 years ago.Now that's proper inflation .
If only the same buyers ate pork.
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Yes , its lasted longer thsn i thought as well , amazing old ewes and old cows worth so much yet used to be worth nothjng .
- Location
- Near Colchester
Cull cows are good too, sold one for almost 1800 the other day
bet you wish cull sows were as good a trade
- Location
- Near Colchester
There is a world of difference between 60p per dwt kg for the sows (boars 50p) and around £4.00 for the cows
there must be some big bucks being made out of these sows!
- Location
- Near Colchester
Well, big sausages anyway - mostly in Germany where they have too many pigs still and African Swine fever has just jumped right across the country somehow to nearly France and we still import all their pigmeat without inspection whereas my sows would have to be accompanied by endless paper trails and inspections.
dont we eat sausage here?Well, big sausages anyway - mostly in Germany where they have too many pigs still and African Swine fever has just jumped right across the country somehow to nearly France and we still import all their pigmeat without inspection whereas my sows would have to be accompanied by endless paper trails and inspections.
- Location
- Near Colchester
Not enough of the strong continental sausage like Bratwurst (sp), has to be heavily spiced or else the bad smells come through I am told.
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Last Thursday Baroness Harris of Richmond led a debate on the current pig crisis in the House of Lords
Here is the Hansard transcript
Here is the Hansard transcript
Suffolk Serf
Member
- Location
- Bury/Thetford
Cut back to 75% of contracted numbers this week apparently.
I bet that's only for purchased pigs, not their own. Also they've bought a large outdoor pig producer out. (not the one that you keep pigs for).
Batty
Member
Is that a recent purchase?
Suffolk Serf
Member
- Location
- Bury/Thetford
I think only announced last week.
I heard that
It's not surprising that they've been splashing the cash considering the money they've made this last year, a 9000 sow heard will cut the tax bill for certain. It's only expected to be fair that they'll prioritise their own pigs.
Batty
Member
Not heard anything on the jungle drums in Yorkshire or in pig world are you willing to reveal who or would you rather not say?
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I contract rear outdoors for the guy who xxxxxxxxx has just brought out, been told today that I’m now only rearing to 40kg outside free range and then there off to be put in sheds in there agisters sheds in Yorkshire so I’m told. Big changes for me overnight. We knew it was coming he couldn’t carry on as he was.