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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 8186997" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>used to look across the somerset levels, field after field, full of cattle, now, very few cattle, but an awful lot of rushes, and f-ed fields.</p><p>But you only have to look at the number of dairy dispersals that have been, in the last few years, removes a lot of cattle, not only cows, but hfrs, and the calf crop from both. Talked to a haulier, just taken a load of cull cows, to abattoir, a lot of decent cows there, with lot numbers on their backs, cull price is more, on some cows, than farmers prepared to pay, chuck in TB as well.</p><p> But the most obvious signs of less stock, across the whole country, is the values of stock, pigs, very unfortuantly, the exception, everything is high. In the dairy field, milk is at record prices, as are culls, and milking cows, and still processors are short of milk.</p><p> But we should all realise, current prices are only where they are, <strong>because</strong> supply, is less than demand, reverse that to supply, greater than demand, and prices would drop like a stone.</p><p>There is huge pressure on processors and retailers, to keep prices low, the consumer is being hit very hard, with energy price, and now food inflation, guv is desperate to keep both, at lowest price possible.</p><p> Economics, are very simple, its demand, versus supply, until politicians bugger it up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 8186997, member: 86168"] used to look across the somerset levels, field after field, full of cattle, now, very few cattle, but an awful lot of rushes, and f-ed fields. But you only have to look at the number of dairy dispersals that have been, in the last few years, removes a lot of cattle, not only cows, but hfrs, and the calf crop from both. Talked to a haulier, just taken a load of cull cows, to abattoir, a lot of decent cows there, with lot numbers on their backs, cull price is more, on some cows, than farmers prepared to pay, chuck in TB as well. But the most obvious signs of less stock, across the whole country, is the values of stock, pigs, very unfortuantly, the exception, everything is high. In the dairy field, milk is at record prices, as are culls, and milking cows, and still processors are short of milk. But we should all realise, current prices are only where they are, [B]because[/B] supply, is less than demand, reverse that to supply, greater than demand, and prices would drop like a stone. There is huge pressure on processors and retailers, to keep prices low, the consumer is being hit very hard, with energy price, and now food inflation, guv is desperate to keep both, at lowest price possible. Economics, are very simple, its demand, versus supply, until politicians bugger it up. [/QUOTE]
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