Why are more farmers selling meat directly to customers?.... NWA auction selling !!!
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2024
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This is Sam and Oliver plus 4 children farming beef sucklers and sheep in the North Yorkshire/Cumbria border area.
We are first-generation farmers, and we've had no help at all to get to where we are now. We are here to show you our life and what we do. I am also here to show new entrance that it is possible to start from scratch. Being strong-willed, determined, and a lot of hard work, you can do it.
We are both from farming backgrounds. I grew up on a family dairy farm. Milking from a very young age.Working for my uncle when i left school. I've learnt everything from him and grown ever since. I met Oliver when I was 16 he was 15. We started with a few sheep when we met and have built up over the 16 years to where we are now. We took on a 500-acre hill farm in 2019, currently 5 years into the tenancy.
Also, here to show people women can be useful in the agricultural world.😉😁
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Thankyou what a lovely comment... iam not brilliant with geting my words out like some, but I try have a rant when it's on my mind 🤣 hard work pays off eventually, my grandad used to say so I will keep going 💪
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Hi ALL, it's SO good that you take the kid's, AND teach them what it's all about .farming life is hard and I thank you for sharing your day. And all you do, take care and all the best. 😊😊😊😊😊👍👍👍👍👍👍
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4,000 subscribers! Way to go everyone.
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Hi same great to see ye out and about at the market as family working together...I totally agree with you about sale prices...another thing I can't really understand about farmers is..farmers buy there inputs at retail price, and sell ther goods at wholesale price,to who ever wants to pay what they want...humm
And this is the financia model on most farmers..no wonder there's no money in farming..
It's great to see your kids out there helping and learning; there are kids these days who have never been allowed to get dirty; going to market is a great experience for kids.
Oh they love it. Swing animals sold and selling their own. Builds confidence
I agree 100 percent with you on the price. It would be great if we could say that's the price we want. At least at minute stock prices are good.
Stock prices are great it's the fluctuation. One year could be terrible and giving them away the next up slightly its the unknown thats scary!
hang in there , i predict in the near future , everything will have to go back from centralisation back to local ,so sell directly to customers , rather than greedy supermarkets
Another great video I love to see the auction, price wasn’t bad but like you say it would be great if you could set the price instead of the buyers controlling it , chin up Sam your a winner 👍
Thanks. I'm glad you enjoy 😃🥰
Sam, I see a slight change in your future endeavors (in addition to being a great mother!!!) pertaining to farming. And you are a fine speaker~ because you speak the truth! Don’t give up your ideas/dreams ~ you are a strong woman!! Things are bound to change….keep your chin up and your dreams alive!! Loved your video
Thankyou 😄😄 love your comments so positive 🥰 Thanks for watching.
sometimes i watch Dragons Den on telly......and they always talk about what there margin is and if there isn't a good margin the dragons won't invest.......if a farmer went on there and asked for some investment from a dragon i think we would soon be showed the door. you will have to get some t shirts printed for the kids with 'we need feeding so please bid again' printed on the back of there shirts for when there in the sale ring😀😀
Haha, brilliant idea for shirts👏 🤣 yes thr accounts wouldn't be good enough 🤣😔
@geraldbeard856 love that idea. Nowt wrong with tugging on a few heartstrings, them kids would get even the toughest farmer reconsidering!
A farmer is the only business man who buys at retail and sells at trade and pays the transport both ways and has to take what they are given .
Well said 👏 absolutely and it's destroying farms everyday.
you got a good price for those sheep .........often people do not know when they are getting a good price .........when the Isreal/ Palestine conflict is over and the Suez Canal is safe to travel you will see the newzeland / Aussie lamb back in force on the supermarket shelves ....... the price of lamb will be back .......todays prices will look good ..!
Thats the worry about farming its unknown and unpredictable from year to year that's the scary part! And I don't see it getting easier. We have the highest welfare standards of meat production that people want....but arnt prepared to pay for it.
It’s supply and demand shot supply equals big price its the same here in Australia the big supermarkets have to much power to set the price they will pay the producer it’s not right for the farmers the price should be set at what it costs to produce
I’m a fisherman, we are another industry that has to accept the auction price on the day. The poor price days are hard to accept but it’s a buzz when you hit the big markets, makes it all worthwhile.
Yes absolutely 💯 join the unknown club🤣🤣 but yes on a good day, it's great
We are the only ones in the industry that can’t get their margins on product the system needs to change or there won’t be anyone left and the cheaper imported stuff won’t always be available. Love the videos keep the head up it’s all that can be done
Well said, iam.not great with words, but yes, I agree. Something needs to change. People want high welfare meat but can't afford it.....
It's the way farming is and has always been you can only get what the buyers are prepared to pay because they want to sell it on to the next buyer before it goes to the person looking to get the meat from it, far to many people taking their bit from the top the only farmers making money are the guys who have thousands of acres and more head of stock that they can't keep count given them even more money from subsidise make it even easier for them to take even less money at the market any way on wards and upwards, enjoyed your video keep at it
Well done great sale for great stock
Thankyou 😁
well done
Yes😁😁
Brilliant 🤩
Thanks!!
it must be lovely to have a farm shop and command top dollar for the meat, but you would have to hold on to the end for that to happen. another informative video and 3.99k as of just now cmon guys join the best farming channel on you tube
Haha awh thankyou 😁 yes would be lovely watch this space 🤣 would love a little shop hear we are right on side of road and handy for tourists 😁 but be a rough ride to get to the point of selling,!! Thanks for the comment 😄
I think farming is more similar to other industries than farmers realise. Every industry has to set a price that is attractive to buyers while being profitable or go bust. The gamble is the fluctuations of production often weather dependent but also farmers going in and out of things resulting in huge price fluctuations.
Pigs used to work on a 4 year cycle. Prices would be good, production went up to the point of over supply and some would go bankrupt after overextending themselves and the cycle would restart.
But 2 outside influences changed things. Buyers got larger while British farmers look to get the best price over each other rather than against the buyers. On the continent they cooperate to get long term prices whereas we look at the here and now in the UK. It’s so ingrained in the UK so I can’t see that changing.
Secondly the government says one thing and does another. They want high welfare but low food prices resulting in the competitive disadvantage.
Going back to pigs, the most successful used to be the ones who consolidated in the good times and expanded in the lean. It’s not a hard and fast rule but worth considering while prices are high.
We as farmers are professionally gamblers
We sure are its not for the faint hearted!
Great video Sam as always 👌
Thankyou much appreciated 👏
Brilliant video
Thankyou
Great video again Sam. ❤ 😊
I understand what you were saying about prices & meat quality etc. Sadly a lot of the population here has got used to cheap & cheerfull so theyre reluctant to pay any more even if the quality is way better. Speaking to traders at farm shops & farmers markets when i can they say the same - people are reluctant to pay £2.50 for a pie 🥧 cos theyre used to getting 3 for that price from supermarket or big chain bakers.
Education is the key and your doing your bit so be proud and keep grafting and keep flying the flag for British food.
Thankyou yes people want high welfare standards, but don't want to pay for it ! Can't win ! I will preach till my dieing day not that it will make a difference! 🤣😬
@Sam-shutt you'd be surprised! Shy bairns get nowt!!
If your videos make just a few people go away and think about price vs quality & welfare standards then that's a win, then if 1 person changes their habits then you've started the snowball effect.
it should work where farmers choose prices and shops pay for it and we pay for it i prefer to go to farms and buy meat and veg than supermarkets even if i have to pay more, sadly i cannot find many by me
Absolutely need more farm shops around. Nothing beats a proper farm shop like they used to be farm markets where you go for your essentials. Just the government doesn't seem to be backing it. 😕 its the cost and Al the preparation and health and safety to get through even before you can start thinking of selling. They don't make anything easy 🤣 I would love to open a little farm shop home reared made with love . Be brilliant
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Top class calfs
Thankyou 😄 love the cows and calves 🥰
Think what you are trying to say is that farmers are a price taker not a price maker which I agree is a very unfair position to be in an industry that has as much red tape and bureaucracy that is connected to the farming industry its a case of strong back weak mind 🤦great channel keep up good work 👌
Thankyou 😁 agree to your comment couldn't of put it better myself
Great video again sam. Calves are looking good. Easy see why that calf is your favourite. I know what your trying to say. Its not that long ago when we got 100 euro for factory lambs. Same lambs today are making over 200 euros. Nearly at 4000 subscribers sam. Come on people get ur friends hooked on this great families journey on a hill farm.
Awh thankyou 💓 growing slowly ! Iam shocked! And really enjoying it ! Thankyou for the feedback
You’ve a Bonnie brood ❣️❣️❣️❣️
Thankyou there alight 😂😉😍
Hello Sam
Sam I was thinking to have a bit more money have you thought about selling your own merchandise and the money you get from the merchandise can go in to the farm it just a idea ,
Everything I do or try to do goes towards the farm 🤣 but yes I've thought about merch, watch this space 😉😁 thankyou for the idea 💡 😀
Farmers are price takers.the retailers have contracts prices with the processors up to 2 years in advance only look at the price a leg of lamb or centre lion chops which have remained the same price all backend and spring .in other words they are taking a hit that is the processors are .be sure they will make it up down the line.
You are right
Go and buy anything and you have to pay price they charge
Farmers can’t charges or get what they want and hope the day of selling is good
I didn’t hear what ye got
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280 pound sterling I think she said.
Yes sorry £280 they made so average £93 a life
morning lovely. mobile sheep pen. prattley. cost a fair bit but i know what you mean. look after yourself sam.
That's the one prattley and alligator there is. All coming back to me now 🤣🤣
hubbys not getting any stick on this vid ha ha
Haha no🤣🤣 thought I would give him a break for a day 🤣
Don’t know why if I worked with him would get a slap no need for language and attitude
@@truckman4175 he is who he is. And a lot of people can relate to him 👍
Just wondered; what happens when you sell swaledales that are hefted to your fell? Do they have to go far away so they don't try to get home??
Only time we sell swaledales is when there knackerd, so go through the cast/fat ring and we try and sell them as draft ewes, which I will explain once the time comes. Ideally our neighbours will be selling to so usually its a lowland farm that buys them 😀 so not close but yes if they were to go back near were they came from a few might wonder back
Farmers are price takers. I thought your lambs were the best in the ring. I just think it a bit sad not taking the lambs through to slaughter weight but I am guessing , being a hill farm, you may have to sell lambs as stores. The girls enjoyed being in the ring I think.
Would love to sell them fat. But we just don't have the grass or the room or the money for provin to see them through. So everything is store :( maybe 1 day we get a lowland farm and can change ways. Yeh they loved it Jim wanted to be in their 🤣🙈 thankyou I thought they looked great !
Farmers always have to buy at retail but have to sell at wholesale
Yes and pay the fright both ways ! It's awful
Prattley
That's the onneeeee
Farmers always get the bad end
Unfortunately!
Selling stock is hard when you want to grow the flock, but needs must.
Selling the kids for £100...you let them go cheap ! I suppose it would save you a lot on food to have them sold but you can't do that, so just have to take them home.
There must be some farmers with money who are able to buy your sheep.
Was Jimmy crying or whining all through the auction of your sheep ? It sounds like that.
I try to buy meat from my village butcher. He gets animals from this area. We also have a couple of farms nearby which sell vegetables grown on the farm. I use them as often as I can. That's my bit for my local farmers.
A lot of supermarkets do sell British grown foods but there's always going to be price pressure from imports.
Yes wanting to build up but having to sell to get by. We've kept more hogs this year and last year.... so hopefully enough replacements 👌 he was whining then started to cry 🤣 poor lad he can go in next time .
@@Sam-shutt Jimmy might get knocked over by the sheep in the ring. Sometimes you are right to say no.
Did the ewe survive ?😢
She's still alive at the moment. 🤞 have to catch them early with CCN she was on our rented land, and we can't get there every day! We will try tho !
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That’s all we can do is try our best and hope they live on
You should consider a Agri tourism project … Sam the way the world is going people like you will be needed to teach the snow flake generation about life.
Not sure iam a good enough speaker but Oliver is 🤣🤣 yes seems to be geting that way !
Sam hen is that baby due ???
27th June 😄😄
Lamb prices are still way up
The supermarkets have always taken their ‘pound of flesh’
You’ve bred them, fed them, watered them and they have had good lives
I hope you get good prices
I myself have not bought meat from supermarket for around 8-9 years
I buy from a local farm shop Limousin Cattle
My lamb comes from within Staffordshire and Lichfield local farm shops
Best quality but NOT CHEAP
I like many are prepared to pay high prices for excellent quality
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Well done you. Lamb prices are up amd are brilliant it's were they should be and not fluctuate🤣🤣
@@Sam-shutt I live In Birmingham and I am retired and take relatives and my neighbours out for lunch
It takes me around 1 hr to get to the Cotswolds. Many farm shops on the way. One is Ragley Hall and their meat is off the estate
Top quality and they have trained butchers so you can ask for small cuts of steak and similar the lamb
Also I hear on the news that 🏴🏴🇬🇧🇬🇧 there is an over population of Deer so there may be a flood of venison coming to market
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