Historic wheat prices
- Thread starter Iben
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This.
Dont do it, it will only make you want to cry at how little the difference is
Excellent thanks. Didn't think they would go that far back. Will go and look.
It would be interesting....but we all know the score don't we...
It would also be interesting if someone had COP figures as well.
It would also be interesting if someone had COP figures as well.
the great omnishambles
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- The Great Curve
Is Nix from the ages on-line now?
Flintstone
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- Berkshire
Flintstone
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- Berkshire
And then, this one adjusted for inflation is the scary one. :-(
Basically, we are fooked.
To be clear, in 1956, our grandparents were selling wheat at prices that would equate to £650 per tonne today!!
We are worse off today than when we were at war in the forties!!
At the 1950's prices, we could tell the RPA to shove it up their jacksy.
Basically, we are fooked.
To be clear, in 1956, our grandparents were selling wheat at prices that would equate to £650 per tonne today!!
We are worse off today than when we were at war in the forties!!
At the 1950's prices, we could tell the RPA to shove it up their jacksy.
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Simon Chiles
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- Surrey/ Kent Border, UK
Funnily enough I was discussing this with @martian only today. This is what he remembers.
Wheat price per cwt
1960- 21 s 4d
1961- 20s 7d
1962- 21s 10d
1963- 20s 11d
1964- 21s 11d
1965- 22s 6d
1966- 22s 4d
1967- 25s 2d
1968- 27s 5d
1969- 29s 0d
1970- 30s 3d
1971- 32s 7d
1971- £1.63 after decimalisation
1972- £1.72
Per tonne
1973- £36.7
1974- £39.62
1975- £51.8
1976- £65.00
1977- £85.86
He was moaning about how he used to get 24s per cwt in 1257 but conceded that 1287 was a particularly low year at only 2s 10 1/4d.
Wheat price per cwt
1960- 21 s 4d
1961- 20s 7d
1962- 21s 10d
1963- 20s 11d
1964- 21s 11d
1965- 22s 6d
1966- 22s 4d
1967- 25s 2d
1968- 27s 5d
1969- 29s 0d
1970- 30s 3d
1971- 32s 7d
1971- £1.63 after decimalisation
1972- £1.72
Per tonne
1973- £36.7
1974- £39.62
1975- £51.8
1976- £65.00
1977- £85.86
He was moaning about how he used to get 24s per cwt in 1257 but conceded that 1287 was a particularly low year at only 2s 10 1/4d.
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- South Wales UK
Have to look for old british farmer and stockbreeder mags in cupboards somewhere ?
Better prices then than now compare to relative terms then
Better prices then than now compare to relative terms then
Don't forget that through the 50's and 60's the top rate of tax was 90%. From 1974 earnings over £20,000 (roughly £180,000 now) were subject to 98% tax. It doesn't matter how good a farmer you were, succesive greedy governments made sure you were fooked either way.
Simon Chiles
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- Surrey/ Kent Border, UK
1257...
Yes. He gave up ploughing when a horse went from 10s to 15s ( 17s for a good one ) in 1295 in a bid to cut his costs.
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- West Suffolk
Found a 1980 farmers weekly round the farm, wheat was £130 pt!!!!
Happy days...you'd have a hell of a night out for a groat and still have enough change for a bit of badger baiting on the way home
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- Peterborough
This from the U.S
TelesnaAg
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- Portland, Victoria - Australia
This is very evident by the near impossible task for new farmers to start up...
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