Up Horn/Down Corn

[Agrivator]

A biggish fat lamb (50kg?) is worth £160. (the same as a ton of barley)

A small fat beast (500kg) is worth £1600. (the same as 10 tons of barley).

Has the value of finished stock compared to the price of grain ever been a high during the last 10,000 years?

 

[Drillman]

Cheap to feed valuable stock, what’s not to like if you have livestock on the farm.

 

[Yale]

About time!

 

[Hilly]

Been a long time coming ..

 

[bobk]

About time!

Been a long time coming ..

Try buying some

 

[DrWazzock]

The beauty of mixed farming.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Cheap to feed valuable stock, what’s not to like if you have livestock on the farm.

you obviously havnt been lambing in the last few weeks.

needs top be what it is , darn site harder than arable farmer with their arse on seat all the time and nothing to do in winter bar shoot and ski and decide what new combine or drill latset trick implement to buy next year thats fornsure.

 

[som farmer]

lambs reached £190 down here last week.

and given we are in a cost of living crisis, that's a ridiculous, but welcome, price, there isn't a lot of meat on a lamb.

but it is what it is, cattle and sheep are short on numbers, supply v demand kicks in, and for a change, its nice to see, well, till you have to buy to replace.

and they say food inflation is under 'control', bullshite. Wheat at £160, barley at £130's, wild flowers at £935 ha, simple maths tells a different story of what is going t happen.

and to be honest, why blame farmers for taking the options, we most certainly are. The way input costs keep rising, unless product prices rise, there's feck all in it.

so our cattle will be grazing herbal leys, might look round to see if l can buy some cheap corn to feed for the summer, our crimped wheat is running low.

but food inflation 'under control', not likely.

but, its good news for us farmers, and l shan't feel guilty.

 

[nails]

A biggish fat lamb (50kg?) is worth £160. (the same as a ton of barley)

A small fat beast (500kg) is worth £1600. (the same as 10 tons of barley).

Has the value of finished stock compared to the price of grain ever been a high during the last 10,000 years?

Yes , pretty sure it was in the 90,s. Bloke i used to work for who had built up his dairy from milking a handful of cows on a few acres and running a lorry to milking 140 cows and finishing everything on some 400 acres. He used to rub his hands with glee when the corn price was on the floor and say "About time they [ the Arable boys) caught a cold.

 

[Hilly]

Try buying some

More into selling, try breeding them …

 

[bobk]

More into selling, try breeding them …

Didn't mean that

 

[tr250]

A biggish fat lamb (50kg?) is worth £160. (the same as a ton of barley)

A small fat beast (500kg) is worth £1600. (the same as 10 tons of barley).

Has the value of finished stock compared to the price of grain ever been a high during the last 10,000 years?

Was watching Harry’s farm on YouTube the other day about him making a loss this year on arable started me thinking that on a mixed farm like ours the profit varies very little year to year having a few fingers in several pies

 

[Hilly]

Was watching Harry’s farm on YouTube the other day about him making a loss this year on arable started me thinking that on a mixed farm like ours the profit varies very little year to year having a few fingers in several pies

Best way for sure , diverse .

 

[Hilly]

Didn't mean that

What did you mean ?

 

[deleted user 837354]

I remember the farm manager doing the sums on barley vs bull beef. Would have been around 2000. Used to grow a fair bit of barley and mostly chuck it at limousin bull beef. Would be interesting to compared the numbers back then to what they are now. What would barley have been worth in autumn 2000?

 

[deleted user 837354]

Was watching Harry’s farm on YouTube the other day about him making a loss this year on arable started me thinking that on a mixed farm like ours the profit varies very little year to year having a few fingers in several pies

Makes it a bit easier to sleep at night I guess, steadier/more consistent workload, plus having stock on a farm always puts a bit of joy in your heart. Nothing like seeing a load of good looking cattle on the place. Crops standing there in front of you just don't look the same.

 

[Hilly]

Beefs been shyt since bse , need a good twenty year , bet they crash by may loli

 

[thorpe]

Makes it a bit easier to sleep at night I guess, steadier/more consistent workload, plus having stock on a farm always puts a bit of joy in your heart. Nothing like seeing a load of good looking cattle on the place. Crops standing there in front of you just don't look the same.

sorry there both on a par for me, barley in the breeze in june, wheat in full ear before it start's turning , a pen of bullocks ready for the off it's all a plesure

 

[Yale]

Beefs been shyt since bse , need a good twenty year , bet they crash by may loli

I hope not because we’ve sold a few stores and I wish the buyers well that they make their wedge on them.

Everyone has to make ‘wedge’ or thesystem doesn’t work. It just feels like it’s a while since there’s been some firmness to prices for us livestock boys.

 

[tr250]

I remember the farm manager doing the sums on barley vs bull beef. Would have been around 2000. Used to grow a fair bit of barley and mostly chuck it at limousin bull beef. Would be interesting to compared the numbers back then to what they are now. What would barley have been worth in autumn 2000?

Complete guess but £70-80 this was about the time I left school and thinking about a career in farming when everyone was discouraging their kids out of farming because the job was so bad. A lot of these big farming partnerships were on the back of £60/ton wheat in the late 90s