NZ - UK trade deal.

[andybk]

Transport prices are killing the job at the moment so you should be able to compete quite easily. When it comes to lamb, I don't see why you can't anyway. Lambs get fat off grass, the UK grows grass very well and in many cases you get paid for owning the land the grass grows on.

Perhaps retailers import because of carcass balancing? They can order just what they want at the standard they want and don't have to worry about the bits they can't use/sell?

This ^^
so many out of spec lambs in mart , and lack of price differential by the buyers is a major problem , (throughput and all that ) farmers buying huge over fed rams to put on big ewes (suffx mules down here ), struggling to finish them @ 40kg. and to many breeds used ,

 

[ollie989898]

no that's fine ,all part of global trade. as long supply is steady not over at certain times of year like early suck trade ,because that should be ours and ours alone to keep the viability of early lambing flocks

There needs to be steady ness with all of it ,

all the those involved in the food chain must realise this,

People involved in the food chain do it to make money. This is the reality and the only thing one needs to realise.

There is no rule book that says the UK should do X or Y. Don't rely on the government to protect or defend your business interests as they are morons and have demonstrated it countless times.

 

[Bury the Trash]

People involved in the food chain do it to make money. This is the reality and the only thing one needs to realise.

Of course
and If any one part of that food chain farmers (say for instance New Zealand gets covered in trees in stead of sheep or Asia takes it all... ) or processors fails to be sustainable ,then it will be broken .


hasn't got to that point for many decades but when subsidies are gone here but if it did look out mother....

 

[kiwi pom]

This ^^
so many out of spec lambs in mart , and lack of price differential by the buyers is a major problem , (throughput and all that ) farmers buying huge over fed rams to put on big ewes (suffx mules down here ), struggling to finish them @ 40kg. and to many breeds used ,

I've always thought it must be much easier for supermarkets to import something like Lamb. They get to talk to one large processor, order exactly what they want at a spec they want knowing its all pretty much come from one farming system Got to be easier than buying from processors who buy a pen at a time from a market with a huge variety of breeds, systems and standards and who need to sell the whole carcass.

 

[Bury the Trash]

This ^^
so many out of spec lambs in mart , and lack of price differential by the buyers is a major problem , (throughput and all that ) farmers buying huge over fed rams to put on big ewes (suffx mules down here ), struggling to finish them @ 40kg. and to many breeds used ,

and also the specific bits of meat that they want there's only so many chops on one lamb.

DW contracts will get consistency as well.