The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: bamford6 on September 10, 2010, 03:28:19 pm
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iv just paid the feed bill this month and it is up £100 pounds i carnt believe its this price saw dust up £1.20 mix corn 90 pence starter crumbs 1 pound layers 1.10 pence thats 1 thousand 200 pound rise in chickins . the round bales are £30 pound up 5 pound sheep feed 80 pence a bag and thats with out vat in January i honestly dont think we can cope with this rise .more people will stop keeping animals goats chickins etc .i will cut all my stock in half
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its going to be a hard winter i think for folk with animals everything goes up and up
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My poultry growers 25Kg had gone up mearly 40p this morning :o
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After reading this, i wish i'd got some extra feed in this week instead of waiting til next ::)
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The winter before last we were paying 10 euros per 25 k. sack for pig food. Hope it never gets that high again.
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i will cut all my stock in half
Whoah! :o don't do that! You'd be better to simply reduce the numbers.
;D
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Well don't say I didn't warn you !
Posted about looming price increases across the board on 20 August in Coffee Lounge.
We have found that our Trade Bulk prices have rocketed this month - so retail will be even higher.
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the prices at our local agricultural supplies go up and down like a yo yo but not to bad at the moment paid £9.25 for 25 kg of mixed corn and 25kg of layers pellets didnt think this was too bad?
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I picked up feed today, mixed corn £7.75 for 25kg and layers £5.50 for 20kg, both gone up 50p a bag in the last 2 weeks
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wow digit that is unbelievable the corn i buy is half that price didnt realise how lucky i was!
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wow digit that is unbelievable the corn i buy is half that price didnt realise how lucky i was!
Mine is £8.25 a 20kg bag for either. You are ALL lucky!
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Our business is based on selling animal feed luckly so far we have had no increase on prices since sept 09.Hope it stays that way!
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yes i gather that .but this price increase was for stock that was standing .we haven't got the real price yet iff i have £100 pound increase for chickins iv got sheep on top bedding nuts etc up £20 pound then diesel up as well as shopping it could be £150 a month .£37 a week naw .and i haven't made no think this yere .i will sell a bit later but i still ow £3000 at 50 pound a month intrest