Morrisons sirloin

[livestock 1]

So what your saying is store cattle are cheap? a lot i see sold are 2.50p/kg store price not fat, plain cattle often make to much as stores, you only have to work out your feed costs, straw, & time to realize theirs not much in it, maybe some don,t worry about the margins.

It’s the other end where the problem lies

 

[icanshootwell]

What I’m saying is...if someone buys a 10 month old suckled calf for 1k and sells it for £1200 theyre not very good at their job....unless they’re selling it a month later

Maybe that quote was a bit of the mark but i gave up buying stores a few years ago because the margin not there. Just Finnish my own now. To make any money at the job you got to have some big nos with a small margin per animal.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Maybe that quote was a bit of the mark but i gave up buying stores a few years ago because the margin not there. Just Finnish my own now. To make any money at the job you got to have some big nos with a small margin per animal.

You need to buy them right and not get carried away at the mart

 

[livestock 1]

Buying stores takes a lot of time stood at auctions. Some days are easy, some days you have to show restraint. It is a numbers game in my opinion, that brings borrowed money into the equation

 

[David.]

Back on subject, half sirloins definitely not on offer in Morrison's tonight.
British Topside/Silverside/Top rump roasting joints for nothing, at £5kg though.

 

[had e nuff]

If it only makes £1200 and you’ve paid £1000 for it you want to be looking for an easier way to lose your money....like slow horses and fast women

The fast women will be more enjoyable than a slow horse

 

[hally]

Hardly calves at 10 months, I get 1500 for some of mine, but not all, i would say my average is 1300 to 1400, but then again i,m sure there,s some that claim different.

They are still called suckler calves at that age around here.

 

[Bongodog]

Back on subject, half sirloins definitely not on offer in Morrison's tonight.
British Topside/Silverside/Top rump roasting joints for nothing, at £5kg though.

Tesco's had same offer. I fear this is the result of our fast food economy, huge demand for mince, poor demand for cuts that require any effort to cook at home. It is all round bad news for any beef farmer when prime cuts are being sold off so cheap. There is no way the supermarkets/processors can make money when they sell roasting joints for less than 20% over dwt price, the bone loss on the carcass would be far more than that.

 

[icanshootwell]

Tesco's had same offer. I fear this is the result of our fast food economy, huge demand for mince, poor demand for cuts that require any effort to cook at home. It is all round bad news for any beef farmer when prime cuts are being sold off so cheap. There is no way the supermarkets/processors can make money when they sell roasting joints for less than 20% over dwt price, the bone loss on the carcass would be far more than that.

Probably got a lot to do with the volume of cattle pushed through the system in the last few months, farmers getting rid of cattle cause there short of winter grub.

 

[matthew]

Back on subject, half sirloins definitely not on offer in Morrison's tonight.
British Topside/Silverside/Top rump roasting joints for nothing, at £5kg though.

Same here. I asked for the sirloin, but that was sold out two weeks ago.
So I rummaged through a pile of prepackaged topside, silverside etc and found one with some decent fat covering and marbling. Just one.
The rest looked too lean to eat well imo.

 

[Surgery]

Same here. I asked for the sirloin, but that was sold out two weeks ago.
So I rummaged through a pile of prepackaged topside, silverside etc and found one with some decent fat covering and marbling. Just one.
The rest looked too lean to eat well imo.

Was in there just now , no Sirloin at a £10ner so asked the butcher and he said it’s £20 a kilo , next week £15.

 

[delilah]

You want shooting the lot of you, what the feck are you doing rooting around in supermarkets for your meat, get it from a farmshop/ farmers market/ farmer beef box ffs

 

[Stewartry hill]

Most off my beef will finish up in tesco so have to give something back

 

[David.]

And our lambs in Sainsbury, Aldi etc..

 

[bovrill]

You want shooting the lot of you, what the feck are you doing rooting around in supermarkets for your meat, get it from a farmshop/ farmers market/ farmer beef box ffs

I'm ashamed to admit that I did have a little look for some the other day (there's a Morrisons next door to the Wickes I called into for a bag of cement).
Offer wasn't on.
It all seemed a bit confusing in there compared with the butcher's shop at the front of the slaughterhouse I take the pigs to every Tuesday.

 

[Rowland]

Get most of my meat from two local butchers. Both pretty good one rounds the price down which is always good.
I find farm shops over priced with differing quality

 

[icanshootwell]

You want shooting the lot of you, what the feck are you doing rooting around in supermarkets for your meat, get it from a farmshop/ farmers market/ farmer beef box ffs

Totally agree a friend of mine does Beef box. Absolutely miles better than any supermarket and works out similar money. It's a no brainer.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Morrison’s is good for fresh meat. However, I buy my steak and meat for cooking from our local farm shop as I know the two farms where the meat originates and happy to support that chain. Damn good steaks as well!!

We’ve just eaten a piece of topside from a beast reared by our friend and sold through a local farm shop and it must of been about the best piece of beef I’ve ever eaten.

 

[matthew]

You want shooting the lot of you, what the feck are you doing rooting around in supermarkets for your meat, get it from a farmshop/ farmers market/ farmer beef box ffs

The butchery in our local Morrison’s is very good. And I can use my eyes to judge what’s edible and what is not.

One local chap is doing his own boxed beef and lamb, with huge fanfares on carbon capture and green credentials. Over the hedge, the two year olds are no bigger than my calves. They are underfed, hairy, fed on organic weeds and not very good at all. I wouldn’t want to eat one.

I’ve bought off farmers markets and shops with varying results. Very few I would go back to.

Our own Angus cross heifers go to a top class craft butcher .... and end up in London.

The best meat I have eaten is - our own.

 

[Martin Holden]

We’ve just eaten a piece of topside from a beast reared by our friend and sold through a local farm shop and it must of been about the best piece of beef I’ve ever eaten.

Good is worth every penny