dairydurham
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The taps wont open as there are so few people out there who want to work.People are currently the biggest constraint on all UK businesses
Milk Price Tracker
- Thread starter rc mx110
- Start date
- Location
- Wormingford, Essex
Supply and demand, either the supply gets greater (reading on here there's not too much chance of it just yet) or demand drops. Approaching 50p a litre and it doesn't seem demand has dropped yet, but who knows what will happen, another lockdown?
- Location
- somerset
funny thing supply and demand, any shortages to demand, mean prices go up, and vice versus.Next-doors is a large sheep farm and has been said lamb price are gonna drop, currently 3 year later he's still wrong, but one day he'll be correct
lambs a funny one, everybody from guv down, expected the price would fall away, to uneconomic levels, guv even hinting at a 'sub', and look what happened, it shot up to record prices, and pretty well stayed there.
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
I think that might be right for 12 months time. 6 months time same as today.
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Tb test is beginning of next month
Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
53 ppl for December is my guess
0ppl
Putin has said he will aggressively pursue any country supplying advanced weapons to Ukraine ............ and guess who has announced today that they will supply rockets capable of taking out Russian assets across the border?
Cash out now ...
Homesy
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- Location
- North West Devon
after you
More to life
Member
- Location
- Somerset
which christmas are you backing
Damn ..... seen through my cunning plan
Apparently it's only 3 sets that GB is supplying, and taking into account wether the Ukraine soldiers are trained to use/maintain this
equipment, then i doubt wether Putin is sweating yet.
British army have been training Ukraine army since Crimea invasion 2014. There’s a reason they’re punching well above their weight. Good on them
- Location
- somerset
might even get a free trade deal..................
SolwayFarmer
Member
Are the calves fed at erratic times too?
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
Don’t know
puntabrava
Member
- Location
- Wiltshire
I went to a farm today, two robots, he says I have priced a third robot and cubicles for a dry cow shed.
There is no hope of sustained pricing I think.
- Location
- Staffordshire
Wouldn’t be so sure of that, 2 farms I know off both over 2000 cows are into energy, one has a digester the other 150 acres of solar going in. As other have said staff are a big issue for everyone, i can see those farms milking a lot less cows and making money from the energy job in stead with less stress. Small farms adding 40-50 isn’t a big issue I wouldn’t say. It’s when the big housed guys turn the taps on is when we get problems but I just don’t see the appetite, feed prices far too high and most would be on a supermarket contract trailing on price. Finally seems the milk market is heading in the right direction for all farmers for a change. And talk of single farm payment turning up early, clearly the government must be finally waking up to the fact there may not be enough food
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
Was on a conference call today with what was admittedly mainly a group of arable farmers. The mood was extremely pessimistic about profitability, angry at RT sceptical about the new subsidy system and fed up at constant metropolitan attacks. I was shocked. I think the government is in for a massive shock if this was a representative sample.
Grassman247
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imagine if they all turn to growing energy crops where there’s no need for red tractor. The government really haven’t thought this through. Local abbatoir said there pork prices were rising sharply because they haven’t got enough pigs coming in simply because the pig farmers have been driven into the ground for so long. It’s too little to late when there’s not enough of us left to produce what they need