Highest price ever for pigs?

[Pan mixer]

Without too much research I am fairly sure that the highest price that I have ever received for pigs before this year was £1.76 per dwt kg.

Am getting £2.00 currently but this is still not break even as far as I can work out using the 'looking at the bank balance' method.

Is everyone of the same opinion?

 

[som farmer]

well done for staying with pigs, it cannot have been easy, to say the least.
its basically supply and demand, the processors/retailers, have been able to take you to the cleaners, utter stupidity, now, when so many sows have gone, pigs will be short, and the price will go up, hopefully, for you, to £4/kg, but that won't happen, alas.
But all ag prices are rising, and its down to supply, not meeting demand. We are dairy, and at around 50ppl, its the highest price we have seen. Normally, at that money, the taps would be fully open, this time, production is still below last yrs, and no real incentive to increase production.
So, hopefully for pig producers, the tap isn't turned up, and supply doesn't meet demand, and the price stays up, you deserve it.
Just killed 3 pigs, our total number, did suggest we put them to the a boar, but got voted down !

 

[Hilly]

£2 isnt enough imo but i just have hobby pigs .

 

[som farmer]

£2 isnt enough imo but i just have hobby pigs .

we have just made a heap of sausages, 160kg of them, bearing in mind, our fingers are not small, and the sausages are bigger than normal, son calculated they actually cost 75p per sausage to make, all costs, except transport. They do, however taste rather better than s/mkt ones ! But, l don't expect we would be in profit, if we had to sell them, at shop price.

 

[Hilly]

we have just made a heap of sausages, 160kg of them, bearing in mind, our fingers are not small, and the sausages are bigger than normal, son calculated they actually cost 75p per sausage to make, all costs, except transport. They do, however taste rather better than s/mkt ones ! But, l don't expect we would be in profit, if we had to sell them, at shop price.

I had 4 pigs killed butched picked up and deliverd on way home , probably cost me money , got another 7 this week , plenty customers because they all say same super market pork not good , but i find it embarrassing handing over half a pig for the amount of money , i dont like it , this time im getting a while pig made sausage burgers so i can top up their half s

 

[Hilly]

Im starting to find it hard to get a butcher they all booked solid for a month or lot longer , all flat out busy …..

 

[som farmer]

Im starting to find it hard to get a butcher they all booked solid for a month or lot longer , all flat out busy …..

the last lot, before these, caught us out, thought sh1t, better get these killed, they are to big, and had to wait 6 weeks for a space. Sold the chops, as 'sharing' chops. Both over 120kg hung up. This lot booked in on time. Last week there was a 10wk waiting list, and told anything for xmas, book now !

 

[Y Fan Wen]

On Farming Today this am story of another small s/h butcher calling it a day (peak district I think).
The chief slaughterman walked out after being told that a vet would be in continuous supervision along with 24 hour cctv being fed to the cloud.
Last time I took anything I found the butcher and his assistant working hard and 4 officials watching.
Outside in the yard were 4 saloon cars under 3 years old and 2 ex gas board vans. Guess who owned which!
Six months later it was closed.

 

[Hilly]

Slaughtering / butchering is going to be a problem in the not so distant future .

 

[som farmer]

a number of unlicensed slaughter houses, will appear, and get used. The exact opposite of what the stupid idiots want. For someone who knows what they are doing, on farm is not difficult.
Sons pal spent a few years in NZ, they home killed most of the time.
To be quite honest, to walk an animal around at home, bang, cannot be anything more humane than that, is there ?. Might not meet hygiene standards, but must be quite clean, in the fresh air, or shed.

 

[Hilly]

a number of unlicensed slaughter houses, will appear, and get used. The exact opposite of what the stupid idiots want. For someone who knows what they are doing, on farm is not difficult.
Sons pal spent a few years in NZ, they home killed most of the time.
To be quite honest, to walk an animal around at home, bang, cannot be anything more humane than that, is there ?. Might not meet hygiene standards, but must be quite clean, in the fresh air, or shed.

I do home kills , just to warm at the moment and cant sell it , use proper route summer and sell , home and myself winter months , proper route is turning a proper pain in ass tho ,

 

[borderterribles]

There was a lass in Staffordshire did time in HMP Drake Hall when she took the rap for her husband's unlicensed, on-farm slaughter exploits. A few years ago now.

 

[Nukemall]

Without too much research I am fairly sure that the highest price that I have ever received for pigs before this year was £1.76 per dwt kg.

Am getting £2.00 currently but this is still not break even as far as I can work out using the 'looking at the bank balance' method.

Is everyone of the same opinion?

Makes a difference what weight you are selling at too. Was speaking to a friend last night and he is over 215 but at a cutter weight.

 

[Pan mixer]

Makes a difference what weight you are selling at too. Was speaking to a friend last night and he is over 215 but at a cutter weight.

I sell some to the hog roast trade that command a premium too, other than that my customers want a 70-75kg pig (dwt)

Back in the day they wanted that size pig live in the market.

 

[Nukemall]

I sell some to the hog roast trade that command a premium too, other than that my customers want a 70-75kg pig (dwt)

Back in the day they wanted that size pig live in the market.

I used to sell some at that sort of weight to the local abattoir, but only if they were 30p premium to the bacon weight pigs, its where they need to be, otherwise take them heavier.

Push them on price, they aren't going to find them anywhere else at the moment.

 

[Pan mixer]

I used to sell some at that sort of weight to the local abattoir, but only if they were 30p premium to the bacon weight pigs, its where they need to be, otherwise take them heavier.

Push them on price, they aren't going to find them anywhere else at the moment.

They still swear that the carcases are coming in cheaper from Germany.

We also suspect that one big local (to me) exporter has freezers full of cheap ones they bought in the winter time.

 

[Nukemall]

I know who you mean. They don't get my sows any more. This was always going to be the problem with that ridiculous storage scheme. It was just another money making scheme for the processors.

 

[Nukemall]

I used to sell some at that sort of weight to the local abattoir, but only if they were 30p premium to the bacon weight pigs, its where they need to be, otherwise take them heavier.

Push them on price, they aren't going to find them anywhere else at the moment.

Sorry read that as 60kg for some reason, was thinking pork weight. I guess 15-20p premium would be more like it for 70-75kg, maybe less if not FA.
Trouble is we still have to take what we can get.

 

[Pan mixer]

I know who you mean. They don't get my sows any more. This was always going to be the problem with that ridiculous storage scheme. It was just another money making scheme for the processors.

They wouldn't be getting my sows either except they are quite close and transport costs being what they are.......

 

[farmboy]

They still swear that the carcases are coming in cheaper from Germany.

We also suspect that one big local (to me) exporter has freezers full of cheap ones they bought in the winter time.

They might start emptying them out if freezers are going to get a lot more expensive to run??