Things we could do in protest

[Amcnab]

With beef prices on the floor,sheep job ain’t looking too hot and with very little advertising going on by our levy boards.
Should we all take our lambs and sell as stores in the market? Thus depriving the hopeless gits of our hard earned.
Also being paid peanuts for our stock whilst pushing us through all the hoops of farm assurance bull crap,is now the time to tell them where to stick their fa?

 

[Bullring]

But if we all sold stores then somebody would have to buy them and eventually they would all be sold fat anyway so they would still get their levy money.

 

[neilo]

I don’t know about anything for beef, as not involved in it, but I believe a big lamb promotion is imminent, timed to coincide with peak lamb selling season.

 

[Greythundercloudys]

The lmb trade is OK for this time in august190kg, and stores are good aswell despite all the brexit talk, no one talking brexit at market on Monday, but most folk say store cattle has been to dear for years.

 

[milkloss]

The lmb trade is OK for this time in august190kg, and stores are good aswell despite all the brexit talk, no one talking brexit at market on Monday, but most folk say store cattle has been to dear for years.

No, the fat price has been too low.

 

[Samcowman]

If the fat price goes too high then people substitute it for cheaper proteins.
Maybe our costs are too high and we need to reduce them??
Maybe we have too much wastage on farm? Maybe we need to make better use of that green stuff that grows in the fields?

 

[Gulli]

I don’t know about anything for beef, as not involved in it, but I believe a big lamb promotion is imminent, timed to coincide with peak lamb selling season.

Theres some stuff going on at the moment and advertising stuff available for order(for free) from ahdb at the moment.
More coming for the first week in September during love lamb week

 

[Amcnab]

But if we all sold stores then somebody would have to buy them and eventually they would all be sold fat anyway so they would still get their levy money.

From the dealers or processors! Bet they’d make some noise if that were too happen

 

[Amcnab]

The lmb trade is OK for this time in august190kg, and stores are good aswell despite all the brexit talk, no one talking brexit at market on Monday, but most folk say store cattle has been to dear for years.

You’re very cheery recently?
Happy with prices from decades ago?

 

[milkloss]

If the fat price goes too high then people substitute it for cheaper proteins.
Maybe our costs are too high and we need to reduce them??
Maybe we have too much wastage on farm? Maybe we need to make better use of that green stuff that grows in the fields?

Not sure of the point of making prices an internal issue. The issues are external to the farming industry and we need better prices for finished stock so the benefit can filter down.

If you’ve got many costs to reduce still then you’ve been doing it wrong.

 

[spin cycle]

i'm fed up with constantly being blamed for climate change....we should have a national 'drive your tractor to the airport day'

 

[NZDan]

The lmb trade is OK for this time in august190kg, and stores are good aswell despite all the brexit talk, no one talking brexit at market on Monday, but most folk say store cattle has been to dear for years.

For most of my life the farmgate price for lamb has been higher in the UK than it has in NZ, these days the farm gate price for lambs in the UK is lower than the equivalent NZ price, someone, somewhere is shafting you all.
I was at a Beef and Lamb do last night and the demand for lamb from China is massive, they are massively under-supplied yet most of the worlds sheep nations are reducing ewe numbers so supply is dropping while demand is rising.

 

[milkloss]

yet most of the worlds sheep nations are reducing ewe numbers so supply is dropping while demand is rising.

As long as there’s enough to catch a market, reducing numbers can only be a good thing surely?

 

[Al R]

For most of my life the farmgate price for lamb has been higher in the UK than it has in NZ, these days the farm gate price for lambs in the UK is lower than the equivalent NZ price, someone, somewhere is shafting you all.
I was at a Beef and Lamb do last night and the demand for lamb from China is massive, they are massively under-supplied yet most of the worlds sheep nations are reducing ewe numbers so supply is dropping while demand is rising.

China has also culled 1/3 of its pigs and they need the meat hence Australia and NZ being sent there...
Parents were in Tesco earlier (dad hasn’t been for 12 months) he said he went to the lamb section, exact same packaging to the letter with branding etc and yet 1 said possibly from UK or NZ and the one underneath it said produce of NZ... we’re not blaming you guys but it’s the supermarkets shafting us all!
How would NZ farmers feel if they saw British meat in their supermarkets ?

 

[AndrewM]

i'm fed up with constantly being blamed for climate change....we should have a national 'drive your tractor to the airport day'

every weeks, the bbc come out with another bloody meat/climate change story. dont hear anything about planes or transport or heavy industry at the moment.

 

[Guiggs]

every weeks, the bbc come out with another bloody meat/climate change story. dont hear anything about planes or transport or heavy industry at the moment.

The sooner everybody cancels their BBC licence the sooner that agenda ridden, biased, anti countryside, left wing shower of sh1t will be forced to change.

 

[Woolless]

China has also culled 1/3 of its pigs and they need the meat hence Australia and NZ being sent there...
Parents were in Tesco earlier (dad hasn’t been for 12 months) he said he went to the lamb section, exact same packaging to the letter with branding etc and yet 1 said possibly from UK or NZ and the one underneath it said produce of NZ... we’re not blaming you guys but it’s the supermarkets shafting us all!
How would NZ farmers feel if they saw British meat in their supermarkets ?

How the hell does that work? They're shafting us and it's costing them!

Don't shop in Tesco! They are a shower of excrement!

 

[Woolless]

For most of my life the farmgate price for lamb has been higher in the UK than it has in NZ, these days the farm gate price for lambs in the UK is lower than the equivalent NZ price, someone, somewhere is shafting you all.
I was at a Beef and Lamb do last night and the demand for lamb from China is massive, they are massively under-supplied yet most of the worlds sheep nations are reducing ewe numbers so supply is dropping while demand is rising.

Can we get our lamb in to China in any volume, though? Not sure what arrangements are in place. India should also be a big market. They don't eat much beef!

 

[Samcowman]

Not sure of the point of making prices an internal issue. The issues are external to the farming industry and we need better prices for finished stock so the benefit can filter down.

If you’ve got many costs to reduce still then you’ve been doing it wrong.

If we have too good prices for finished cattle we will do ourselves out of market share.
We as farmers can’t do bugger all about the beef price we get in the uk but we can do a lot to make getting the cattle to slaughter cheaper. Myself included. Personally getting cattle onto a better rotation and increasing diversity in the pasture will help a lot by better growth rates and extending the season just to name the main ones.

 

[ARW]

Heard on the bbc this morning about eating less meat to help stop climate change, they don’t mention you driving your car, Amazon deliveries, warm house, plastic use, food miles, airplane travel, boats, electric, it goes on.
They forget to mention the 60 million buffalo in America in the 1800’s, the climate started to change after we killed them and started driving!