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moonwind

PIGS ARE WORTH IT

Magic .. Pig Farmers got together in fight to save their market

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NeathChris

I made some calls this week to find some more breeding stock, was shockd to be told one farmer is giving up and alot of pedigree stock may be lost. Bad times, but lets all try and make a difference and support british farmers by buying british at least, even better local, but british will do Wink
dpack

quite right
Rob R

From Jimmy's Farm:

The Essex Pig Company wrote:
As you may have heard in the press recently, a crisis has hit in the Pig farming industry. This has directly affected all pig farmers countrywide, including us here at Jimmy's Farm. Over the last year, the price of wheat has risen over 100%, dramatically increasing our production costs. This has put a great deal of pressure on the farm and has forced us to reduce our rare breed herd quite dramatically. We have come down from 90 breeding sows, to only 30. Many of these sows have been with us since we started the farm nearly five years ago, so it is with a heavy heart that we have had to take this action.
NeathChris

I cut down through winter, just about to restock now.

Sad thing is once prices go up they never come back down, so it looks a not very bright future unless we can get he pork price up.
Rob R

We halved the breeding herd last year, more to do with the loss of buildings than feed price but it came at an opportune moment.

But prices will come back down Chris, the world & his wife have been sowing wheat, even on marginal land, this year. Wether they should go back down is another matter, we should perhaps be looking at other feeds for our stock finishing in the future.
moonwind

With so many hidden taxes many of the buying public cannot afford to pay higher prices.

I suppose the best way for smaller producers is to identify a market that will just keep them earning enough to live rather than to make large profits, those days have been dying for over a decade.

From the first furore of the BSE crisis, and the subsequent arguments on nvCJD was it or was it not ..... right through the other specie specific diseases, scandals, disclosures, whatever covering pigs, sheep, poultry, joint specie diseases which led to mass destructions and subsequent getting rid of some more UK livestock, prices of feedstuffs and banning of certain medicines or products used on livestock or groundcare, hidden taxation and unfair taxation which in turn leads to more pressure on prices of feedstuffs and end price of products if delivery methods are used.

Much of the problem stem from man made hurdles, let alone Nature joining in with heavy rain which made man (CityMan) close flood gates to protect the mighty which in turn led to worse flooding in areas used to produce food and feedstuffs for livestock, which in turn led to price rises due to supply and demand levels dictating prices ...

Welcome to the House that Jack built .. well Gordon is landlord at the present time Wink

Must be all part of the new structure policy for the Eurobeast ..




On a happier note, I have just roasted nearly the last piece of some very tasty Neath Piggy and will be placing another order in the near future, but first have to see what room is left in the meat freezer after a hapless Ewe lays her mutton in it when she returns from hanging about for a week.
Rob R

moonwind wrote:
I suppose the best way for smaller producers is to identify a market that will just keep them earning enough to live rather than to make large profits, those days have been dying for over a decade.


I think everyone should be thinking that way, whatever their business. Where there's a winner, somewhere down the line is a loser, and huge profits for one are taken from someone or something going without.

And about the only problem that hasn't been man-made is the weather, and even that is changed by man Rolling Eyes Shorten the food chain & everyone wins. Cool
Blue Peter

Rob R wrote:
I think everyone should be thinking that way, whatever their business. Where there's a winner, somewhere down the line is a loser,


I'm not sure that that is correct; the world economy is not a zero sum game,


Peter.
Rob R

Not for sustainable profits, no, but huge profits are a different matter.
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