New limits to SFI.

[livestock 1]

Would be interesting to know what % of domestic lamb now goes to the supermarkets and what % for export and to the Halal market. I know exports are up so that must be helping and I don't think the Halal market will take frozen lamb

The shops are full of imported lamb and it’s not frozen

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

Therefore that import isn’t setting prices here

Really?

 

[livestock 1]

Really?

Imports don’t set prices in either case

 

[Clive]

It kept us farming tho we’d all
Be long gone if it wast there

it paid the mortgage on land i bought, gave a dividend on land bought by previous generations and it kept landowners i rented from in range rovers

my farming business never saw a £ of BPS in reality as was the case for most that understand the important difference between a trade ( farming) and an investment (like landownership)

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

Imports don’t set prices in either case

I give up.

 

[livestock 1]

Which gets us back to bps. It altered the production so therefore had an effect on volumes therefore altered supply and demand so in turn had an impact on prices

 

[livestock 1]

I give up.

You should

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

The shops are full of imported lamb and it’s not frozen

Not being a great shopper I wasn't aware of that It must be more expensive to import fresh rather than frozen I would have thought

 

[farmerm]

Therefore that import isn’t setting prices here

did you miss the word temporary?

 

[livestock 1]

Not being a great shopper I wasn't aware of that It must be more expensive to import fresh rather than frozen I would have thought

I don’t go but the mrs goes once a week and there’s always the nz stuff in
National ewe flock is low weather is bad slaughter numbers high early on for last season crop
That above is all relative to bps being halved apart from the weather

 

[livestock 1]

did you miss the word temporary?

Our lamb is always dearer
That’s not temporary

 

[Bossfarmer]

@Bossfarmer - question for you ?

have you ever visited a farm in any of these countries ?

Romania
Russia
USA
Ukraine
Poland
Canada
Australia
South america

of course

 

[farmerm]

Our lamb is always dearer
That’s not temporary

That may be so but the scale of the price premium gap is

 

[livestock 1]

That may be so but the scale of the price premium gap is

I hope you don’t go round advising people

 

[Bossfarmer]

What's spiked the lamb price is the boats are having to go round the long way because of the red sea pirates, creating a temporary shortage.

and the lack of home produced lamb to fill the gap, relying on imports causes price volatility

 

[Bossfarmer]

Which gets us back to bps. It altered the production so therefore had an effect on volumes therefore altered supply and demand so in turn had an impact on prices

this is exactly what ive been trying to say, cant see how anyone would think that was anything but factually correct

 

[farmerm]

I hope you don’t go round advising people

on sheep production, no, other than to advise against it.

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

on sheep production, no, other than to advise against it.

Keep doing that and those of us left will get better prices

 

[Bossfarmer]

it paid the mortgage on land i bought, gave a dividend on land bought by previous generations and it kept landowners i rented from in range rovers

my farming business never saw a £ of BPS in reality as was the case for most that understand the important difference between a trade ( farming) and an investment (like landownership)

range rovers arent a big deal these days people from all kinds of jobs have them and correct me if im wrong its a british company so the sub is coming back into the economy, excellent

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

range rovers arent a big deal these days people from all kinds of jobs have them and correct me if im wrong its a british company so the sub is coming back into the economy, excellent

You are wrong.