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I am not sure if I ever remember factory prices dropping in the second week of December, having never lifted from their autumn low.
Nevertheless, the price is down 5c/kg this week when I had expected a movement in the opposite direction. Usually, I try and finalise the prices for my fertiliser needs for the coming spring in the post-harvest period. This year, with so much autumn activity, real quotes were thin on the ground. To cut a long story short, I have ended up buying my CAN almost 50% up on last year and the 10.10.20 about 10% up. I hope that product prices will reflect my extra cost.
This week, we sold our usual few bulls. I was, this time last year, persuaded to try a few Piedmontese – a light-boned, high-yielding breed from Italy. While they were healthy and ate well, with few problems, the liveweight gain was mediocre
To reflect commercial reality, it would be fairer if we had a measurement of lean meat yield for this type of animal.
In the meantime, I cannot get over the abandon with which people dump rubbish along the sides of the road and in the ditches.
While the council does a remarkable job, I cannot understand why we don’t have small, local rubbish collection points with a skip where old tyres and general rubbish could be left free of charge.
As long as rubbish collection is charged for separately, rather than included in a property tax, the temptation to dump along the roadsides will exist.
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