Livestock Markets may be closed from next week

[d williams]

People in the uk are soft they need to toughen up , they will have to do as the government says.

Look at what was achieved during ww2 when they get the bit between their teeth stand back !

That was a total different generation/breed of people to this day and age!!!!!

 

[gone up the hill]

Routine TB testing must continue.

It was stopped once before and look that what cost us and the country! Keep calm and keep testing!

I totally agree routine testing must continue but I don't think that is very likely to happen for long going by the PM's comments today!



Even if they do carry on routine testing they certainly could suspend the requirement for pre movement testing of cattle from clean herds and also extend the 60 day limit for selling tested cattle to 90 days to make things easier for farmers and vets.

 

[gone up the hill]

Once pigs start getting back logged it’ll end in carnage

From the sounds of it the whole industry regardless of sector will end up in carnage before long.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

From the sounds of it the whole industry regardless of sector will end up in carnage before long.

It’s going to be a grim few months by the looks of it

 

[gone up the hill]

It’s going to be a grim few months by the looks of it

Aye and straight off the back of a very tough and expensive autumn/ winter for most livestock farmers.

 

[J B]

From Facebook:-

Barbers Auctions

BUSINESS AS USUAL
However, due to the severity and reality of this situation we are currently facing as a nation and how we combat the Coronavirus, Market Drayton Market will have to implement several changes to its day to day structure of the market.
In our attempt to exercise due diligence and implement best practise in the work place we need to operate in a sterile and bio-secure way to safeguard you our valued clients, staff and the future of our industry, the following steps will have to be implemented.
1. If you are showing symptoms of the Coronavirus please stay at home and self-isolate.
2. Please utilise hand sanitizers and keep hands clean.
3. Restricted access to the livestock market to vendors, buyers and staff only. Please no onlookers.
4. The canteen will have limited access for take-out food only.
5. All stall holders and rural hub merchants have suspended trade from our facilities and should you need anything from these business please contact them directly – we are happy to supply phone numbers.
6. Please can all vendors have their paperwork filled out, passports and licenses signed and can stock be dropped and left. Any issues of luck money can be sorted via the office and no luck to be given from the rostrum or point of sale.
7. Buyers observe suitable space around the sale rings or point of sale and minimise contact.
We apologise this is a dramatic realisation to the social and rural hub we have to try to promote at Market Drayton Market. Unfortunately dramatic situations call for dramatic action and our attempt to keep Market Drayton Market operating as a livestock market.
Thank you.

 

[som farmer]

lets hope common sense prevails, stock has to move, we have to trade, people have to eat, if imported supplies begin to get effected, they already are, then home produced becomes more important, so, as farmers, we are in a much better situation than many other businesses, pubs, cinemas, shops etc. So, if markets are closed, you would think the auctioneers, have an alternative in place, we do a lot of private treaty deals with Kivells, and can confirm they are very efficient, but for now, lets hope mkts continue. But to get a backlog of pigs, either they have staffing problems, cannot physically move it, or they want cheap meat, by letting pigs go out of spec

 

[Woolless]

From Facebook:-

Barbers Auctions

BUSINESS AS USUAL
However, due to the severity and reality of this situation we are currently facing as a nation and how we combat the Coronavirus, Market Drayton Market will have to implement several changes to its day to day structure of the market.
In our attempt to exercise due diligence and implement best practise in the work place we need to operate in a sterile and bio-secure way to safeguard you our valued clients, staff and the future of our industry, the following steps will have to be implemented.
1. If you are showing symptoms of the Coronavirus please stay at home and self-isolate.
2. Please utilise hand sanitizers and keep hands clean.
3. Restricted access to the livestock market to vendors, buyers and staff only. Please no onlookers.
4. The canteen will have limited access for take-out food only.
5. All stall holders and rural hub merchants have suspended trade from our facilities and should you need anything from these business please contact them directly – we are happy to supply phone numbers.
6. Please can all vendors have their paperwork filled out, passports and licenses signed and can stock be dropped and left. Any issues of luck money can be sorted via the office and no luck to be given from the rostrum or point of sale.
7. Buyers observe suitable space around the sale rings or point of sale and minimise contact.
We apologise this is a dramatic realisation to the social and rural hub we have to try to promote at Market Drayton Market. Unfortunately dramatic situations call for dramatic action and our attempt to keep Market Drayton Market operating as a livestock market.
Thank you.

I try not to be critical but this is certainly not 'business as usual' and while the mart may be biosecure, it certainly won't be 'sterile'!
I know many folk drop their stock and come home regularly but I think I would rather go deadweight than let the buyers and auctioneer sort things out behind closed doors.

 

[som farmer]

I try not to be critical but this is certainly not 'business as usual' and while the mart may be biosecure, it certainly won't be 'sterile'!
I know many folk drop their stock and come home regularly but I think I would rather go deadweight than let the buyers and auctioneer sort things out behind closed doors.

if everything has to go deadweight, bet the price will drop, a fair amount, all the abattoirs are out to make as much money as poss, this is another opportunity to make a killing, it's a cutthroat market, with very little morals.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

This will be like foot and mouth again

 

[Hilly]

This will be like foot and mouth again

Close marts the jobs fuked they will capitalise on the fear and take our trousers down .

 

[sherg]

This will be like foot and mouth again

It'll depend on exports

 

[penntor]

Yep, just like 2001 when we were screwed over by the abattoirs.