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price of lamb

  • 17-08-2010 9:46pm
    #1
    North_West_Art
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    hi everyone, I may be on the wrong forum, but here goes... can anyone tell me why all the supermarkets seem to stock New Zealand lamb, when we are surrounded by sheep in this country? Surely its not more cost effective for lamb to be shipped from the other side of the world?


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  • #2
    supersean1999
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    it must be,i presume the factories charge a lot because the farmers certainly does not get a fair share,, iv stopped shopping in tesco out of principle, they are imo anti the irish farmer, i never buy meat in any super market anyway, butcher only for me


  • #3
    5live
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    I used have 220 ewes but just let them die off through non replacement. Down to 60 now and trying to figure out if this is start of long term improvement or dead cat bounce. shearing costs more than the wool. Prices need to stay at this level at least to have a return of 20 or 30 euro a ewe to justify their existance on my farm anyway


  • #4
    yessam
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    Talk with your feet - haed to your local butcher that sources his meat locally and encourage others to do the same. Only then might our sheep trade improve.


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    LostCovey
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    yessam wrote: »
    Talk with your feet - haed to your local butcher that sources his meat locally and encourage others to do the same. Only then might our sheep trade improve.

    Isn't this just supply and demand? If everyone goes to their local butcher, assuming their lambs are good enough, then his limited buying capacity will soon be swamped and he will drop his price. Won't he?

    Are you seriously suggesting that butchers are being ignored & are sitting there deprived of lambs despite being willing to pay over the odds while everyone troops off to the factory to get poor prices?

    If only life was that simple.

    LostCovey


  • #6
    yessam
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    LostCovey wrote: »
    Isn't this just supply and demand? If everyone goes to their local butcher, assuming their lambs are good enough, then his limited buying capacity will soon be swamped and he will drop his price. Won't he?

    Are you seriously suggesting that butchers are being ignored & are sitting there deprived of lambs despite being willing to pay over the odds while everyone troops off to the factory to get poor prices?

    If only life was that simple.

    LostCovey

    Quiet the opposite LostCovey, if every one went to there butcher, the demand would rise and the price would hold up and demand would be supplied without bringing in New Zealand lamb to the Irish market.


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    i71jskz5xu42pb
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    North_West_Art wrote: »
    hi everyone, I may be on the wrong forum, but here goes... can anyone tell me why all the supermarkets seem to stock New Zealand lamb, when we are surrounded by sheep in this country? Surely its not more cost effective for lamb to be shipped from the other side of the world?

    They don't ship them over, they simply drop them into the water and let the ocean currents do the rest. The ones that make it around Cape Horn and don't get eaten by sharks are harvested from European shores. I saw a documentary on the Discovery Channel about it a few weeks ago.

    Despite this I pretty much only see Irish lamb in the shops. Local butcher for sure but even Tesco is pretty much all Irish, right?. Where are you seeing NZ lamb?


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    snowman707
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    yessam wrote: »
    Quiet the opposite LostCovey, if every one went to there butcher, the demand would rise and the price would hold up and demand would be supplied without bringing in New Zealand lamb to the Irish market.

    agree ................... but !
    i think that less than 20% (don't have the correct figure) of lamb produced in ireland is consumed here, the price we receive is dictated by the demand for and price of our exports.

    we are been dictated by the factories and the tescos


  • #9
    5live
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    We sell all our lambs locally to butchers and last 2 years they seem keen to support local producers. I get a small premium over the mart price and they collect themselves. As for supermarkets, just keep an eye on labels eg irish breaded chicken v breaded irish chicken is a favourite of mine. And ,all politics aside, is northern milk/lamb/butter/whatever okn to be labelled irish?


  • #10
    LostCovey
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    snowman707 wrote: »
    agree ................... but !
    i think that less than 20% (don't have the correct figure) of lamb produced in ireland is consumed here, the price we receive is dictated by the demand for and price of our exports.

    we are been dictated by the factories and the tescos

    This would be my understanding too. I wish it were otherwise.

    LostCovey


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