"Brian Sandle" wrote in message
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In sci.agriculture Jim Webster wrote:

"Brian Sandle" wrote in message
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In sci.agriculture Jim Webster wrote:

"Brian Sandle" wrote in message
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You have a related problem - another unnatural agricultural
procedure
that
was warned about: feeding meat to cattle, causing spread of BSE.

and that affects wheat prices exactly how?

BSE did impinge on beef prices

And there were fewer cattle to feed,

no, because beef animals are predominantly a by-product of the dairy
industry.

I see, dairy cattle not eating animal byproducts, therefore not
getting BSE, therefore not being slaughtered and reduced in
numbers owing to BSE?


Total and utter rubbish, you have missed the point by so much it is hardly
worth the effort of correcting you.


The number of beef cattle has been falling very slowly over the
years as the number of dairy and beef cows has slowly fallen. The
biggest
cause in the fall in beef numbers is milk quota which, when combined
with
steadily increasing dairy genetic merit and milk yields has meant there
are
less milk cows producing the same about of milk

and less money to buy grain
feed?

Ruminants are not big users of wheat, pigs and poultry and the largest
users

What proportion of UK wheat is bought buy farmers? Then the
available storage silos would be getting full sooner, so the wheat
would have to go to market without waiting for a better price.

Not a problem, the beef industry is not a major user of wheat


I see 1/3 of UK wheat goes to animal feed. And a few days ago you
wrote:

: In the long term, maize has been displaced by wheat in UK diets
: purely on price, the last round of CAP reforms cut the market price
: of EU produced feed wheat which made maize comparatively expensive
: for feed compounders using 'least cost' formulations. When I was a
: kid cattle feed was basical ly a mixture of maize and soya, which
: is something the UK industry hasn't be en able to afford for over
: thirty years.

Looks like you were relating of cattle feed.

That was why I used the words Cattle feed, because I was relating it to
cattle.
Indeed the largest consumers of cattle feeds are dairy cows anyway, which is
why I said the beef industry is not a major user of wheat.

It is remarkably easy to understand if you actually read the words

Jim Webster