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Calf Prices 2015 *** DISCUSSION THREAD

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    #302
    larrymiller
    Registered Users Posts: 1,456 ✭✭✭larrymiller


    sh1tstirrer wrote: »
    Seriously kanturk mart is on Tuesday.

    Where's that? Mart here is on Monday instead


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    #303
    farmerjj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭farmerjj


    larrymiller wrote: »
    Where's that? Mart here is on Monday instead

    Agh seriouly google it


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    #304
    larrymiller
    Registered Users Posts: 1,456 ✭✭✭larrymiller


    farmerjj wrote: »
    Agh seriouly google it

    Bit far from me. Would pass about 5 marts on the way :)


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    #305
    sh1tstirrer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,489 ✭✭✭sh1tstirrer


    larrymiller wrote: »
    Bit far from me. Would pass about 5 marts on the way :)
    I haven't a clue whether it is a good idea to take them or not there might be extra buyers there with no other mart on and there could also be less buyers saying feck the mart it's Patricks day.


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    #306
    larrymiller
    Registered Users Posts: 1,456 ✭✭✭larrymiller


    sh1tstirrer wrote: »
    I haven't a clue whether it is a good idea to take them or not there might be extra buyers there with no other mart on and there could also be less buyers saying feck the mart it's Patricks day.

    Or maybe they'll be a load if lads in thinking they'll get cheap cattle cause it's paddy's weekend


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    #307
    farmerjj
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    Cant see it been busy,who would wanna hall calves around that day.


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    #308
    Feckthis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Feckthis


    Father was in the mart last week having a look. The same type of FR bull calfs we bought last year for 30-50 euro are going for 70-100 this year. They be average enough ones.


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    #309
    TUBBY
    Registered Users Posts: 828 ✭✭✭TUBBY


    What sort of money are whitehead or angus runners going?

    The Mrs was thinking of buying few calves but i think something a bit stronger that can mind itself better job.

    ps what ye consider runners wrt age and weight?


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    #310
    joejobrien
    Registered Users Posts: 470 ✭✭joejobrien


    Feckthis wrote: »
    Father was in the mart last week having a look. The same type of FR bull calfs we bought last year for 30-50 euro are going for 70-100 this year. They be average enough ones.
    You can the rest of mine for the 100 euro:D


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    #311
    Feckthis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Feckthis


    joejobrien wrote: »
    You can the rest of mine for the 100 euro:D

    Ye can keep em :D. Not buying anymore of them things. Father likes rearing FR bulls I can't stand them. Although I'll probably come home someday and he will have a few in the corner of a shed. There's not one tap to be made out of them I think.


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    #312
    marathon
    Registered Users Posts: 399 ✭✭marathon


    any marts for weanling sale in wexford/wicklow/carlow area tomorow wedsday or thursday? have four weanlings ready to go


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    #313
    marathon
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    and just one more q what way does mart pay is it cheque on the day or into bank account?


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    #314
    Kovu
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    marathon wrote: »
    and just one more q what way does mart pay is it cheque on the day or into bank account?

    Depends on the mart. Most will send on the cheque within a week but there are some who can print it for you at the end of the day or the next morning. Or you could pick up a bit of sellers cash in the office if you're stuck.


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    #315
    whelan2
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    Kovu wrote: »
    Depends on the mart. Most will send on the cheque within a week but there are some who can print it for you at the end of the day or the next morning. Or you could pick up a bit of sellers cash in the office if you're stuck.
    our mart-ardee- give you a cheque on the day, very handy as you can lodge it on the way home


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    #316
    Milked out
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭Milked out


    Do ye all take yer calves in? I haven't been to a mart in years, local haulier takes calves every Mon


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    #317
    farmerjj
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    sh1tstirrer wrote: »
    I'm taking calves to the mart Tuesday, Patricks day

    Well what was prices like?


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    #318
    larrymiller
    Registered Users Posts: 1,456 ✭✭✭larrymiller


    http://www.donedeal.ie/view/8925415
    Yearlings for sale
    Better value than buying calves


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    #319
    sh1tstirrer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,489 ✭✭✭sh1tstirrer


    farmerjj wrote: »
    Well what was prices like?
    €155-€270 they averaged €190. Not many sellers there.


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    #320
    farmerjj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭farmerjj


    sh1tstirrer wrote: »
    €155-€270 they averaged €190. Not many sellers there.

    What breed?


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    #321
    _Brian
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    larrymiller wrote: »
    http://www.donedeal.ie/view/8925415
    Yearlings for sale
    Better value than buying calves


    Are them barriers VERY BIG or the cattle had a tough year !


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    #322
    sh1tstirrer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,489 ✭✭✭sh1tstirrer


    farmerjj wrote: »
    What breed?
    All aa mostly bulls.


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    #323
    Farmer Pudsey
    Registered Users Posts: 6,326 ✭✭✭Farmer Pudsey


    _Brian wrote: »
    Are them barriers VERY BIG or the cattle had a tough year !

    The slats are two foot below the feed barrier.


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    #324
    sh1tstirrer
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    Farmer Pudsey wrote: »
    The slats are two foot below the feed barrier.
    it isn't half obvious that he is a dealer with about 3-4 batches fed and managed differently. It's hard to say but it looks like a place I visited a few years ago to buy cattle the owner claimed that he reared them all even though some were half hungry and others fed on. What he didn't know is that I was talking to him the year before in his local mart and I knew he was a dealer.


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    #325
    larrymiller
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    Calf sales are strange.in enniscorthy today. Bought a few fr bulls for 80. Few wh and Angus through and everyone got wet for them. I went for dinner and a walk up to the shops and came back all those lads were gone and loading up and I picked up some aa. Wh and lmx bulls and hfrs and didn't pay more than 200 for any of them.
    Then the dealers were arguing between themselves and I picked up a smasher of a bb heifer for 250.
    Calfs are only dear if ya want them dear.
    Have some patience and be cute and they ain't so bad


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    #326
    marathon
    Registered Users Posts: 399 ✭✭marathon


    must keep me eye on your posts larry sensible talk


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    #327
    just do it
    Registered Users Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    larrymiller wrote: »
    Calf sales are strange.in enniscorthy today. Bought a few fr bulls for 80. Few wh and Angus through and everyone got wet for them. I went for dinner and a walk up to the shops and came back all those lads were gone and loading up and I picked up some aa. Wh and lmx bulls and hfrs and didn't pay more than 200 for any of them.
    Then the dealers were arguing between themselves and I picked up a smasher of a bb heifer for 250.
    Calfs are only dear if ya want them dear.
    Have some patience and be cute and they ain't so bad
    And also spend loads of time in the mart!


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    #328
    freedominacup
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    just do it wrote: »
    And also spend loads of time in the mart!

    Can be time very well spent.


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    #329
    Farmer Pudsey
    Registered Users Posts: 6,326 ✭✭✭Farmer Pudsey


    larrymiller wrote: »
    Calf sales are strange.in enniscorthy today. Bought a few fr bulls for 80. Few wh and Angus through and everyone got wet for them. I went for dinner and a walk up to the shops and came back all those lads were gone and loading up and I picked up some aa. Wh and lmx bulls and hfrs and didn't pay more than 200 for any of them.
    Then the dealers were arguing between themselves and I picked up a smasher of a bb heifer for 250.
    Calfs are only dear if ya want them dear.
    Have some patience and be cute and they ain't so bad
    freedominacup wrote: »
    Can be time very well spent.

    Too many lads are in a rush in a mart. Thanks be to God. Patience is the name of the game. There is more money made around a ring, or buying farm to farm than by most farm efficiency. If they do not come in at the right price they cannot go out at the right price.

    What did Larry with a lorry save today if he bought 10 calves and by the sound of it he bought more than that he saved 500 on ten. Not a bad days work.


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    #330
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    The arse has fallen out if the young fr market. This is the first time that there was only 1 bidder.

    We will only have a few more bull calves at this stage so my weekly visit to the mart is over for this year. A place I hate.

    Will keep all male calves till Sept and sell off land for €400 in Sept. did it last yr and was happy


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    #331
    Sheep breeder
    Registered Users Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭Sheep breeder


    i must have being in a different enniscorthy mart yesterday than larry miller,a serious trade for all types bar the small very soft calf and the the jersey cross,
    the dealers bought most of the calves out of it yesterday, heifers calves were a crazy trade with any type of a heifer 350 to 450 and the same calves bought last year for 220 to 320.


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