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Calf Prices 2014

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    #512
    loveta
    Registered Users Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭loveta


    Sold 3 AA bull calves yesterday in carrigallen, round the 20-25 days old. Grand calves but nothing real fancy either, E245, E210,E185. Did not wait to sell them but was told not many farmers about the ring with the good weather i suppose.


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    #513
    Farrell
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    loveta wrote: »
    Sold 3 AA bull calves yesterday in carrigallen, round the 20-25 days old. Grand calves but nothing real fancy either, E245, E210,E185. Did not wait to sell them but was told not many farmers about the ring with the good weather i suppose.

    Was there briefly yesterday (didn't see sucks), allot of stock with 4 rings going (dairy, bulls, heifers, & calves), but as you say not too many buyers, 2 new auctioneers, 1 was better than the other. Saw dealers competiting who could put lowest opening bids, heifers of 400kg good quality opening at €450 / €400. Annoying to watch


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    #514
    simx
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    Farrell wrote: »
    Was there briefly yesterday (didn't see sucks), allot of stock with 4 rings going (dairy, bulls, heifers, & calves), but as you say not too many buyers, 2 new auctioneers, 1 was better than the other. Saw dealers competiting who could put lowest opening bids, heifers of 400kg good quality opening at €450 / €400. Annoying to watch

    and what did the heifers end up at?


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    #515
    loveta
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    Farrell wrote: »
    Was there briefly yesterday (didn't see sucks), allot of stock with 4 rings going (dairy, bulls, heifers, & calves), but as you say not too many buyers, 2 new auctioneers, 1 was better than the other. Saw dealers competiting who could put lowest opening bids, heifers of 400kg good quality opening at €450 / €400. Annoying to watch

    Its a joke "that's not so funny" to watch in the calves and dry cow rings with dealers calling them and no rein put on them by the auctioneer. Serious amount of complaints about it and nothing really done. Never being but dowra is ment to be a lot tighter run.


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    #516
    dh1985
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    Sell our weanlings in carrigallen and could never fault it. Thought it to be a well run ship and find the auctioneers good. Will try their best anyway instead of other marts we used previously where they would put them on the market without asking


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    #517
    Farrell
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    simx wrote: »
    and what did the heifers end up at?
    €800-900


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    #518
    Farrell
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    loveta wrote: »
    Its a joke "that's not so funny" to watch in the calves and dry cow rings with dealers calling them and no rein put on them by the auctioneer. Serious amount of complaints about it and nothing really done. Never being but dowra is ment to be a lot tighter run.

    To me the marts are trying, the producer is busting a gut, these guys are taking the piss. Be little the animal, force seller to sell cheap & sell in a different mart within next few days.
    For the 1/2 hour I was there, saw allot of 2 & 3 owner stock within herd for max 1 week.
    Then the same guy trying to buy cheap 1st owner stock


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    #519
    Farrell
    Registered Users Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭Farrell


    dh1985 wrote: »
    Sell our weanlings in carrigallen and could never fault it. Thought it to be a well run ship and find the auctioneers good. Will try their best anyway instead of other marts we used previously where they would put them on the market without asking

    They do alright, odd time you'd hear a farmer say they were put on, but that's only odd time.
    Saw new auctioneer smile in disbelief, when trying to open at 900 & refused down to 400.
    To be fair what could he do.
    If you stand up & say open gate next animal, that farmer suffers


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    #520
    dh1985
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    Farrell wrote: »
    They do alright, odd time you'd hear a farmer say they were put on, but that's only odd time.
    Saw new auctioneer smile in disbelief, when trying to open at 900 & refused down to 400.
    To be fair what could he do.
    If you stand up & say open gate next animal, that farmer suffers

    Yeah very true. They cant beat a bid out of buyers. Its a balls as it takes longer to sell the stock that way than actually starting off with a fair opening value. In the US the auctioneer sets a value on the stock in the ring (price per kilo/pound) and it moves up from there. Lots be sold in half the time


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    #521
    loveta
    Registered Users Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭loveta


    Don't do heifer s or bullocks so I don't know but sucks and dry cows take the biscuit gang a l dealers round the ring and the calling starts. Open as for about a third the value and try and block all round them was there late just Monday night when all the farmer crowd had gone never seen anything like it in my life


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    #522
    Farrell
    Registered Users Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭Farrell


    loveta wrote: »
    Don't do heifer s or bullocks so I don't know but sucks and dry cows take the biscuit gang a l dealers round the ring and the calling starts. Open as for about a third the value and try and block all round them was there late just Monday night when all the farmer crowd had gone never seen anything like it in my life

    Sadly it's always been the way, no matter what your selling, no matter the mart.
    Farmers are gone 930-10pm, or 3-4 on a Saturday, stuff to do, family etc.
    Dealers can stay on.
    Heard guy telling me once, a friend of his had 3 nice heifers, but sadly in at end of sale (luck of draw), worth €800 average, struggling to get €700 average, so he decided not to sell & possibly get earlier another day.
    A dealer approached him afterwards, so he said to himself, if he got €2250 for the 3 he'd take it as the hassle of coming back. Dealer told him they were worth no more than €1800. Goes to different mart now


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    #523
    Damo810
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    Any updates on calf prices?


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    #524
    whelan2
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    5 fr bulls from 1 week to 2 weeks 50 euro
    1 fr bull 2 months old-died about 5 times- 60 euro:o
    aa and wh where the only calves making mental money, smashing blues to 300 euro. about 100 calves in sale


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    #525
    Reggie.
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    5 fr bulls from 1 week to 2 weeks 50 euro
    1 fr bull 2 months old-died about 5 times- 60 euro:o
    aa and wh where the only calves making mental money, smashing blues to 300 euro. about 100 calves in sale

    Yeah whatever is the story with AA and WH this year


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    #526
    whelan2
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    Reggie. wrote: »
    Yeah whatever is the story with AA and WH this year
    tis mental


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    #527
    Reggie.
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    tis mental

    Hopefully it will be the same when the time to sell comes around


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    #528
    moy83
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    Reggie. wrote: »
    Hopefully it will be the same when the time to sell comes around

    I'm afriad that probably wont happen , there will just be a glut of wh/aa cattle by then most probably


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    #529
    Reggie.
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    moy83 wrote: »
    I'm afriad that probably wont happen , there will just be a glut of wh/aa cattle by then most probably

    Ain't it always


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    #530
    whelan2
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    i reckon half the sale was wh calves there today


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    #531
    exercise is the antidote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 346 ✭✭exercise is the antidote


    Is there many fr bull calves still around in marts?

    How are people getting on selling these FR x JR calves...


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    #532
    whelan2
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    exercise is the antidote wrote: »
    Is there many fr bull calves still around in marts?

    How are people getting on selling these FR x JR calves?
    probably about 20 in my mart today fr, some got no bids mainly 15-70 euro, didnt see any jex


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    #533
    loveta
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    moy83 wrote: »
    I'm afriad that probably wont happen , there will just be a glut of wh/aa cattle by then most probably

    Ran out of beef straws there last week and the ai guy was here with some normally use a easy BB and was in a half mind to go HE as the BBs were not so popular this spring "well mine were not anyways" he advised me not to as there is a serious pile of them going on reckons the place will be over run with them next spring HEs that is.


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    #534
    Reggie.
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    loveta wrote: »
    Ran out of beef straws there last week and the ai guy was here with some normally use a easy BB and was in a half mind to go HE as the BBs were not so popular this spring "well mine were not anyways" he advised me not to as there is a serious pile of them going on reckons the place will be over run with them next spring HEs that is.

    Heard that myself


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    #535
    jt65
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    hex bulls 5 weeks under cow

    €380


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    #536
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,400 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    jt65 wrote: »
    hex bulls 5 weeks under cow

    €380

    Whoa


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    #537
    blue5000
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    jt65 wrote: »
    hex bulls 5 weeks under cow

    €380

    Could be a few cows dried off early and fattened yet;)

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



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    #538
    sheebadog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,246 ✭✭✭sheebadog


    Sold a few bull calves this am. All Holstein dams.

    Je x hols €120
    Hols. €120
    Bb x hols. € 475

    All calves between 10 and 21 days old.


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    #539
    farmerjj
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    sheebadog wrote: »
    Sold a few bull calves this am. All Holstein dams.

    Je x hols €120
    Hols. €120
    Bb x hols. € 475

    All calves between 10 and 21 days old.

    you got 120 for jersey cross???


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    #540
    loveta
    Registered Users Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭loveta


    farmerjj wrote: »
    you got 120 for jersey cross???

    My thoughts two..:eek::eek:


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    #541
    Base price
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    From what I am seeing going around to farmers most of the JEx's have finished calving about 3 weeks ago and they are thin on the ground at the moment.

    SB - the veal trade must be flying in France at the moment with those prices.


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