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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: tuggers1956 on February 18, 2011, 01:41:23 pm

Title: I must keep up.
Post by: tuggers1956 on February 18, 2011, 01:41:23 pm

Shows how out of touch you can get when your not involved with farming on day to day basis, as I said by brother runs our farm whilst I run the factory.
A friend of my wife keeps a few chickens and bought half a tonne of Wheat off us last autumn at £160/tonne. She rang this morning to order another half tonne. Now I new that prices had increased but was staggered to find that my brother is currently selling wheat at £235/tonne and feed Barley at £190/tonne.
The local feed merchants are selling poultry grain in 20k bags for £6.90 (£345/t).
Current grain prices are good for us arable farmers but must be crippling for livestock farmers. I know what I would rather be.

Title: Re: I must keep up.
Post by: ellisr on February 18, 2011, 01:57:35 pm

I would rather be the supplier but I am the consumer and it is crippling at the moment

Title: Re: I must keep up.
Post by: tuggers1956 on February 18, 2011, 02:17:29 pm

I understand why my brother gets twitched when he catches my game keeper helping him self to bags of Wheat out of the grain store.
If the current prices hold, then shooting is going to cost the syndicate members a lot more next season.