Prices @ Marts

adne

Is there any site that details all prices paid at marts for the past week ??

Mate sold 2 Blue Weanlings at a mart recently, got 1390 and 1250. He wants to check how this compared to other prices on the day

pakalasa

The Farmers Journal has a "Mart Watch", but this only has average, bottom 1/3 and top 1/3.
Still he could compare with the top 1/3 price.

Nice prices BTW. No wonder BB breeding bulls are mad dear this year!

Muckit

Ya there's no denying they are great prices for weanlings. It's hard to see how the next lad will make a few pound. I have no experience of blues, but I suppose they are finished younger and would command a bigger factory price??

As a matter of interest, what age do factories want blues, what weight would they be and how much would a lad get for them, finished??

grizzlyadams

adne wrote: »

Is there any site that details all prices paid at marts for the past week ??

Mate sold 2 Blue Weanlings at a mart recently, got 1390 and 1250. He wants to check how this compared to other prices on the day

Don't think they'll be staying in this country somehow , do you know what weights they were ?

hoodrats

Muckit wrote: »

Ya there's no denying they are great prices for weanlings. It's hard to see how the next lad will make a few pound. I have no experience of blues, but I suppose they are finished younger and would command a bigger factory price??

As a matter of interest, what age do factories want blues, what weight would they be and how much would a lad get for them, finished??

id say nearly all the quality belgian blues go for export for the itilian market , a country where the farmer gets paid a premium price for his animals. the irish weanlings are most likely cheap for the feedlot owners to buy compared to animals bought in their own country.
here we send our r grade cattle and cull cows to the factory and take what we get for them even if it does not covers our costs. and the meat we pay top price for in the supermarket is most likely those old cull cows.

reilig

hoodrats wrote: »

and the meat we pay top price for in the supermarket is most likely those old cull cows.

My guess would be that a lot of the cow meat goes into fast food outlet burgers. Its an ideal market as these types of meat can be minced and pounded so that they are soft and tasty. Most supermarkets around here buy from local abatoirs and do that traceability thing. So its easy to tell the age of the animal that you're buying.
The reason for the strong trade for cull cows in the last 2 years is the increase in demand for fast food since the recession.

Every cloud has a silver lining . . . . or so they say

johngalway

My local mart. Awful hard to book sheep in for sale there at the moment.

reilig

johngalway wrote: »

My local mart. Awful hard to book sheep in for sale there at the moment.

Good prices there for weinlings.
I sent weinlings the opening sale in Mohill last wednesday, they didn't make €2 per kg (with the exception of 1). Lighter weinlings made around the €2 per kg, but if you had anything over 320kg, then you weren't getting compensated for the extra feed that they ate.

According to reports, bull beef is down at least 10p per kg in the factories over the last week and looks set to fall further - which is leading to a fall in demand and price for heavier weinlings. Cows sold last saturday were down at least €80 per head on the week before. Hopefully the SFP will buck up the trade a bit - if we ever get it.

thetangler

Mohill was a small sale last wed wonder if it should have stayed on a Thurs Night.

reilig

thetangler wrote: »

Mohill was a small sale last wed wonder if it should have stayed on a Thurs Night.

I was never a big fan of Mohill, even though it is the closest mart to me. I wasn't there last wednesday for to sell them, but i sent a rep .

Thought that prices were pretty good for lighter cattle, but there weren't too many export buyers there. The lighter cattle were being bought by farmers (or for farmers).

I thought and had been told that Connacht Gold would have enough clout in the mart game to be able to attract a good few export buyers to their first sale which had a media spotlight. Judging by the buyers present and the prices paid, the revamped mohill will certainly pose no threat to Elphin or Carrigallen marts.

So whether they should have stayed with thursday nights or not, I don't really know. Its the same old Mohill mart to me.

Shauny2010

How much are lighter weanlings say 200 to 250 kg making. I have a share of Charlys around 6 months old but most of them are only 200 -250 kg. There is the odd monster one there but generally I think most of them lighter this year.

adne

Shauny2010 wrote: »

How much are lighter weanlings say 200 to 250 kg making. I have a share of Charlys around 6 months old but most of them are only 200 -250 kg. There is the odd monster one there but generally I think most of them lighter this year.

did u sell them, where u based i may be interested?

Tora Bora

reilig wrote: »

I was never a big fan of Mohill, even though it is the closest mart to me. I wasn't there last wednesday for to sell them, but i sent a rep .

Thought that prices were pretty good for lighter cattle, but there weren't too many export buyers there. The lighter cattle were being bought by farmers (or for farmers).

I thought and had been told that Connacht Gold would have enough clout in the mart game to be able to attract a good few export buyers to their first sale which had a media spotlight. Judging by the buyers present and the prices paid, the revamped mohill will certainly pose no threat to Elphin or Carrigallen marts.

So whether they should have stayed with thursday nights or not, I don't really know. Its the same old Mohill mart to me.

Best mart for the best weanlings is Ennis, many people in the game say. Saw weanlings there two weeks ago from as far away as Nenagh, Birr, Castlebar. Not a show day or special sale of any kind.€2 per kg freely available.

pakalasa

Tora Bora wrote: »

Best mart for the best weanlings is Ennis, many people in the game say. Saw weanlings there two weeks ago from as far away as Nenagh, Birr, Castlebar. Not a show day or special sale of any kind.€2 per kg freely available.

See them regularly coming in from Tipp & Limerick. Didn't think they came from as far away as Mayo.
The last day I was there, didnt see too many fancy types like BB, some very good Char and Lim though. Ah, but the quality of cattle down around Clare has always been good.:rolleyes:

johngalway

pakalasa wrote: »

See them regularly coming in from Tipp & Limerick. Didn't think they came from as far away as Mayo.

Never been to Ennis mart, but at Maam Cross they regularly come from as far as Donegal :eek:

One guy comes from the arse end of Achill every week - on a tractor.

One buyer regularly comes from Dublin, with a 4x4 & trailer, not a truck.

Yesterday was the blackface ram show and sale. Lots of Kerry buyers there.

LostCovey

johngalway wrote: »

One guy comes from the arse end of Achill every week - on a tractor.

Rather crude way to put it John? Which end of Achill would that be?

Achill's very nice & gets a bad press, very unfair.

LostCovey