TringSaint
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I always butcher into sensible sized bits, so boned haunches or cut into steaks, loins, bags of stewing or mince.
The cost is time and a few vac pack bags.
Venison Price drop!
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The cost is time and a few vac pack bags.
Aston Martins dont grow on trees you know!
Its supply and demand. There isnt enough demand in the UK market as its seen as a premium product, out of reach.
At the low end, which family is going to choose venison mince over lamb or beef mince. At the higher end, restauteurs are probably not buying via BR.
Its supply and demand. There isnt enough demand in the UK market as its seen as a premium product, out of reach.
At the low end, which family is going to choose venison mince over lamb or beef mince. At the higher end, restauteurs are probably not buying via BR.
Don't bin the offal at these prices!Venison is the only thing I’ve ever sold where the buyer gives me the price he wants to
I know they are from a farmed source but - Haunch Steaks Waitrose £ 37/kg
How can we ever sort this $h1t out !?
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Firefly
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That's surely for a transplant, at that price.
good stuff....
Farmers as primary producers have always been price takers not price makers. Sell everything wholesale and buy everything retail. Such is the way of the World when people don't value their foodVenison is the only thing I’ve ever sold where the buyer gives me the price he wants to
jim_allen_uk
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You’re not selling vension though. You’re selling deer carcassesVenison is the only thing I’ve ever sold where the buyer gives me the price he wants to
I know they are from a farmed source but - Haunch Steaks Waitrose £ 37/kg
How can we ever sort this $h1t out !?
paulbshooting
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It is screwed. Bottom of the food chain price is low as dealers need / want to buy low and I get that so they can make money / max profits. In the marketplace instead of dealers there is always someone cheaper so the price for venison remains low. Supermarkets and others up the food chain can charge what they think the market will bear. The irony is the need to mobilise the UK stalker 'army' to get on top of record numbers. I can't see an easy fix and too many stakeholders to make it possible.
Hayduke
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Damned indeed.every one is being asked to cull more deer. - period
so the price goes down
now you have to shoot more deer to get the profit
damned if do and damned if you don’t
Landowners can get a £90/hectare deer management grant with no requirement to pass it on to pay deer managers / stalkers costs, whilst exerting more and more pressure on us to increase culls even though deer are transitory between woods, estates and land ownership.
Our costs continue to go up, diesel, copper, qualifications, equipment etc.
Game dealer cartels rob us.
I’d rather feed it to the dogs.
devon deer stalker
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Don't worry people, the Britsh Quality Venison Scheme will sort this all out
Nobody gets the liver apart from me. Best bit.
Hell Toupee
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Whilst I commend this, and I sort my own venison out, I simply don’t have the time to process all the carcasses for friends and family. I think in the last 3 weeks I’ve put 12 reds, 3 sika and a roe to the dealer (not always this productive but still). No way do I have time to butcher them after work, and sadly as mentioned on here already, the vast majority of people are unwilling to take an in skin carcass and do it themselves.
TringSaint
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Yup. I totally get that.
For me I tend to process 4 cwd/muntjac a week during the season as I don’t hang them for long (3-4 days) then I break down into primaries and leave in fridge for 48 hrs and then butcher, with each animal going into 3 vacpac bags, plus a bag for the bits for sausages.
If I was shooting the same number of fallow /roe/red then I couldn’t do what I do.
timbrayford
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Precisely, applies to feathered game too .The public are confused by the product, don't you have to leave it to go rotten before you eat it they might ask? Retailers on the other hand see it as a high mark up premium product and aren't concerned about increasing the volume of sales. The public end up missing out on excellent value for money meat, not sure that there is a solution to this though.
Firefly
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I stand corrected (although I do sell venison)
Carcasses are the only thing I‘ve sold where the buyer gives me the price he wants to
Try being a dairy farmer...Carcasses are the only thing I‘ve sold where the buyer gives me the price he wants to
Dunwaters
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There aren’t too many people out there nowadays that would welcome a carcass in the skin.
Take the money.
Being in the same shoes as the rest of the public, my main issue is often that there simply is not space in a city centre flat to hang up a carcass to skin.
I can repurpose the dining table to work on the butchery, but frankly have nowhere that makes it immediately possible to hang to skin (although I am currently mulling the idea of one of those door frame exercise/pull up bars...)
So the chap I would get carcasses off (before I've gone for my own FAC and stalking) would skin them for me for a bit extra. But I imagine there would be even more takers if a note was added to the offering post (on Giving Up the Game for example) to say either 1) folk would be welcome to skin the beast before taking it away with them or 2) offered to show how to skin.
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