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High price rams bad publicity
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<blockquote data-quote="cowboysupper" data-source="post: 5581184" data-attributes="member: 711"><p>Fair point, but those meetings are a game of chess and the officials don’t mind throwing a comment in which will make the farmers they’re meeting more uneasy. The officials have to use official stats to aid their policy decisions. A handful of animals which make 5 figure prices in an industry which slaughters millions of sheep at commercial prices does not have much relevance. Yes, perhaps it briefly influences public perception and maybe gives someone a chance to make some throw away comment, but I doubt that’s ever going to change. If those high value sheep weren’t there would it really have much influence on the public perception of sheep farming or indeed policy decisions?</p><p></p><p>The sheep industry is in a difficult place because it is one of the highest value proteins for the consumer but at a farmgate level has some of the lowest returns. Throw in the vulnerability which is faced around Brexit and it is difficult to be positive. Unfortunately there is no easy fix to any of this. The best we can hope for is continued free market access to the EU and continued pursuance of new markets for lamb as that is the biggest influence on our returns I feel.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowboysupper, post: 5581184, member: 711"] Fair point, but those meetings are a game of chess and the officials don’t mind throwing a comment in which will make the farmers they’re meeting more uneasy. The officials have to use official stats to aid their policy decisions. A handful of animals which make 5 figure prices in an industry which slaughters millions of sheep at commercial prices does not have much relevance. Yes, perhaps it briefly influences public perception and maybe gives someone a chance to make some throw away comment, but I doubt that’s ever going to change. If those high value sheep weren’t there would it really have much influence on the public perception of sheep farming or indeed policy decisions? The sheep industry is in a difficult place because it is one of the highest value proteins for the consumer but at a farmgate level has some of the lowest returns. Throw in the vulnerability which is faced around Brexit and it is difficult to be positive. Unfortunately there is no easy fix to any of this. The best we can hope for is continued free market access to the EU and continued pursuance of new markets for lamb as that is the biggest influence on our returns I feel. [/QUOTE]
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