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    #7922
    Bass Reeves
    Registered Users Posts: 18,244 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    Bullocks wrote: »
    It wouldn't take a lot to boost our price if it came back to us of course. Even €2 on retail beef wouldn't be killing anyone for all the kilos we buy in a week. I'd like to see BB doing a bit on this side of things

    I saw an article in either the FJ or FI about 4-6 weeks ago. Retail price in the UK has gone up by about 10% on the last 12 months while farmers price has gone down by 20-30% in the last 2 years

    Slava Ukrainii



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    #7923
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,183 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    That's the point of it. Same story with the €4 chicken, farmer was getting less than 50c to rear it. If the chicken was €4.50, you'd still buy it and the farmer would have a €1.
    From my past business experience, I put this mainly down to middle management. They'd save a cent to justify their job.
    We're talking about Fairtrade, for the Irish farmer.


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    #7924
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,227 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    3.45 for next week. Was talking to agent this evening


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    #7925
    Cavanjack
    Registered Users Posts: 2,566 ✭✭✭Cavanjack


    whelan2 wrote: »
    3.45 for next week. Was talking to agent this evening

    Steers?


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    #7926
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,227 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Cavanjack wrote: »
    Steers?

    Yes he was saying lads are losing around €250 on each one being killed atm on last year


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    #7927
    ppn
    Registered Users Posts: 177 ✭✭ppn


    Bullocks wrote: »
    It wouldn't take a lot to boost our price if it came back to us of course. Even €2 on retail beef wouldn't be killing anyone for all the kilos we buy in a week. I'd like to see BB doing a bit on this side of things

    Reminds me of a quote from Pat McDonagh of Supermacs in 2018 saying that an increase of 7cents for him on the price he paid for a 5oz burger was worth 50c/kg to the processor. (Probably nothing passed back to farmer no doubt).


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    #7928
    ppn
    Registered Users Posts: 177 ✭✭ppn


    Seeing reports on WhatsApp that individuals have been offered €4/kg for cattle since disruption from the BeefPlan protests. Doubt they're making a loss at that, if true...


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    #7929
    epfff
    Registered Users Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭epfff


    Please do not send cattle on lorry to Pass picket
    United we stand divided we fall


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    #7930
    kk.man
    Registered Users Posts: 3,452 ✭✭✭kk.man


    Rang a big finisher last night. He told me they paying 3.40 for steers this week and no-one is getting sweat heard deals.

    He is not sending cattle till this protest is over.


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    #7931
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,383 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    kk.man wrote: »
    Rang a big finisher last night. He told me they paying 3.40 for steers this week and no-one is getting sweat heard deals.

    He is not sending cattle till this protest is over.

    Gonna be a case of whos first to blink


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    #7932
    southkilkenny
    Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭southkilkenny


    Much bigger numbers and protestors outside Dawn Grannagh close to Waterford city today. Lorries on side of road approaching factory. Even lorries parked in centre ghost island not going or being let in. 4 squad cars and 5-6 cops around also.


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    #7933
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,227 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    southkilkenny wrote: »
    Much bigger numbers and protestors outside Dawn Grannagh close to Waterford city today. Lorries on side of road approaching factory. Even lorries parked in centre ghost island not going or being let in. 4 squad cars and 5-6 cops around also.

    What are the rules about livestock in transit , how long can they stay in the lorries for?


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    #7934
    mahoney_j
    Registered Users Posts: 11,111 ✭✭✭✭mahoney_j


    whelan2 wrote: »
    What are the rules about livestock in transit , how long can they stay in the lorries for?

    7/8 hours I think and factories know this and are using it as a ploy to try get cattle in ...


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    #7935
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    mahoney_j wrote: »
    7/8 hours I think and factories know this and are using it as a ploy to try get cattle in ...

    In fairness, the hauliers know this as well and the onus would be on them to make sure they can get the cattle back to where they came from before their time runs out.


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    #7936
    Cavanjack
    Registered Users Posts: 2,566 ✭✭✭Cavanjack


    Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »
    In fairness, the hauliers know this as well and the onus would be on them to make sure they can get the cattle back to where they came from before their time runs out.

    I thought they can’t be stopped from entering the factories?


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    #7937
    Bass Reeves
    Registered Users Posts: 18,244 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    Cavanjack wrote: »

    I thought they can’t be stopped from entering the factories?
    In theory they cannot be but they are using it as a tactic to get past protest's

    Slava Ukrainii



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    #7938
    Waternotsoda
    Registered Users Posts: 229 ✭✭Waternotsoda


    Any quotes for next week?


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    #7939
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,711 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Waternotsoda wrote: »
    Any quotes for next week?

    "No Surrender" :D

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #7940
    Dunedin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,241 ✭✭✭Dunedin


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    "No Surrender" :D

    Keeping Monday night free in the diary


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    #7941
    Keep Sluicing
    Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭Keep Sluicing


    Agent told me 3.40 for bullocks.


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    #7942
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,182 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Waternotsoda wrote: »
    Any quotes for next week?
    A friend told us that the factory he supplies pulled the price of o and p grading cows by 10c/kg on Friday. The factory was not picketed by the Beef Plan.


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    #7943
    Dunedin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,241 ✭✭✭Dunedin


    morphy87 wrote: »
    3 40 I suppose they want us now to take the hit to compensate them for the high prices that were given to the scabs to cross the pickets during the week

    I think it’s related to the drop in price of shoe polish in Peru which has to be passed on to the farmers.


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    #7944
    kk.man
    Registered Users Posts: 3,452 ✭✭✭kk.man


    Keep Sluicing wrote: »
    Agent told me 3.40 for bullocks.

    They should not be supplied cattle at that price.


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    #7945
    Dunedin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,241 ✭✭✭Dunedin


    kk.man wrote: »
    They should not be supplied cattle at that price.

    Totally agree and it has to be back to the pickets Monday night at this price


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    #7946
    High bike
    Registered Users Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭High bike


    kk.man wrote: »
    They should not be supplied cattle at that price.
    they shouldn’t have got cattle at 3.45 last week but they did


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    #7947
    jntsnk
    Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭jntsnk


    High bike wrote: »
    they shouldn’t have got cattle at 3.45 last week but they did

    The protest doesn’t have a leg to stand on until cattle supplies to factories stop completely but I can never see that happen so the factories will continue to drop the price.


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    #7948
    Keep Sluicing
    Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭Keep Sluicing


    Keep Sluicing wrote: »
    Agent told me 3.40 for bullocks.

    Just for context. Same agent quoted my dad the Friday before the protest started, 3.40 for the week the protest started.... if ya get what I mean.


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    #7949
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Keep Sluicing wrote: »
    Just for context. Same agent quoted my dad the Friday before the protest started, 3.40 for the week the protest started.... if ya get what I mean.
    What did the lad you hadn't dealt with for 10 yrs offer on Friday night?

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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    #7950
    Keep Sluicing
    Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭Keep Sluicing


    blue5000 wrote: »
    What did the lad you hadn't dealt with for 10 yrs offer on Friday night?

    He wouldn't say the price over the phone, but was said "it'd be a decent price, and he'd meet me to discuss it"
    I'm off on holiday for a few day since Saturday afternoon and didn't want to get involved in that messing.


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    #7951
    Good loser
    Registered Users Posts: 3,185 ✭✭✭Good loser


    Dunedin wrote: »
    Totally agree and it has to be back to the pickets Monday night at this price


    No,no,no. Sure to make things worse if anything.


    I want to move stock this week.


    On its own the fall of sterling against the euro has taken 14c/kg off the base price in the last two weeks. You're in Brexit land now!


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