Mart Price Tracker

White Clover

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

They look like great cows in fairness.
https://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/clearance-sale-40-sucklers-gortatlea-mart/19707139

Where exactly is the mart? Would someone mind posting up the coordinates. Just curious really. I couldnt find it on google earth.

On mobile so no coordinates patsy. If you follow the main castleisland to tralee road, about 4 miles out from castleisland, after the old John A wood quarry, go left, and it's about a mile down that road on the right hand side. WW Doherty of adare have their Kerry branch right next door.

patsy_mccabe

White Clover wrote: »

On mobile so no coordinates patsy. If you follow the main castleisland to tralee road, about 4 miles out from castleisland, after the old John A wood quarry, go left, and it's about a mile down that road on the right hand side. WW Doherty of adare have their Kerry branch right next door.

Found it thanks. Coordinates for anyone that's intersted.

Gortatlea Mart - 52°14'14.78" N 9°32'10.16" W

Dozer1

He's improved it a lot but it's still along way off some of the better marts with catwalks etc. Hard enough to see properly unless u are ringside aswell so be prepared as they say.

Base price

whelan2 wrote: »

Used there be 3? Ashbourne, trim and carnaross

Dublin and Meath farmers also had access to Maynooth and Drogheda both of which closed within a couple of years of each other in the early noughties.

adne

In elphin Monday night. Trade for weanling bulls was great. 2.60 to 2.90 a kilo and above. Granted most stock was gr8 quality.

Weanlings heifers a different story

Danzy

adne wrote: »

In elphin Monday night. Trade for weanling bulls was great. 2.60 to 2.90 a kilo and above. Granted most stock was gr8 quality.

Weanlings heifers a different story

There is Cattle apartheid at the moment.

The one with the Friesian mother is walking home, never mind being at the back of the bus.

Albert Johnson

Was in Dowra today for a few bull weanlings. Bought 10 continental lads from €650 to €745. Averaged 270kg @ €690, €2.55 a kilo. I was reasonably happy, weanlings were an average enough trade or so I thought.
I can't help but think that these type of calves will be cheaper in 2 months time as it was a small show of stock today. It makes you wonder with no shipper activity what will happen when the real glut appears.

charolais0153

460 kg 1080lim
440kg 1130lim
2x370kg 1010lim
390 kg 1100 2nd prize blue
Bull weanlings

rushvalley

charolais0153 wrote: »

460 kg 1080
440kg 1130
2x370kg 1010
390 kg 1100 2nd prize blue
Bull weanlings

What breed were the 370kg lads?

charolais0153

rushvalley wrote: »

What breed were the 370kg lads?

Limousin

tanko

charolais0153 wrote: »

460 kg 1080lim
440kg 1130lim
2x370kg 1010lim
390 kg 1100 2nd prize blue
Bull weanlings

What bulls are those lads off??

Who2

A bit of a change over the few months. What are they worth in the mart? Or should I finish them at 16 months.

charolais0153

tanko wrote: »

What bulls are those lads off??

1130 kjb
One of the 1010 was eby
Blue was bbq. Others was stockbulls

furandfeather

charolais0153 wrote: »

1130 kjb
One of the 1010 was eby
Blue was bbq. Others was stockbulls

Good prices for good stock. You gone away from the Charolais?

charolais0153

furandfeather wrote: »

Good prices for good stock. You gone away from the Charolais?

3 were out of heifers. Another out of a 2mf calver tjat valved as 2yr old. Blue is out of a narrow type of cow not suitable for charolais

Bass Reeves

Young lad took a spin down to Killmallock today. Friesian bull weanlings sub 200kgs were not making there weight, after haulage and fees you would still have them for there weight or less than it. Friesian store bullocks around 400kgs were only making less than 100 with there weight. Lighter WH, AA and LM dairy bred bullocks around the 300kg mark were making about 100 with there weigh at best.

Muckit

You're telling us nothing. How many did he buy?:D

Bass Reeves

Muckit wrote: »

You're telling us nothing. How many did he buy?:D

None like everybody else not enough silage. But if some of the lads with the lighter cattle had made a small effort this year most would be able to carry them over the winter.

Willfarman

The lighter cattle will be still cheap in the spring.

Bass Reeves

Willfarman wrote: »

The lighter cattle will be still cheap in the spring.

The weanling that will bw yearlings will be, but those light stores are value. They are better value than forward stores. Those 300kg coloured cattle with a bit of TLC will kill 300kgs next June/July, the Friesian's will kill 330 kgs. They will make over 1200 euro/head hanging. I think either would average 1250 over the group. but it is dependent on having silage available

_Brian

Bass Reeves wrote: »

None like everybody else not enough silage. But if some of the lads with the lighter cattle had made a small effort this year most would be able to carry them over the winter.

maybe they made a huge effort and are just selling what they still don't have feeding for even after their huge effort

TITANIUM.

Any one see that article on agriland about the recent sale in Balla mart? One 425kg heifer made 2260. I know that's only one heifer. But prices in general for decent cattle seemed to be on an upward trend there. I suppose the saying good cattle always sell still holds true. Nice to see some positivity and confidence in the market all the same.

charolais0153

TITANIUM. wrote: »

Any one see that article on agriland about the recent sale in Balla mart? One 425kg heifer made 2260. I know that's only one heifer. But prices in general for decent cattle seemed to be on an upward trend there. I suppose the saying good cattle always sell still holds true. Nice to see some positivity and confidence in the market all the same.

Eby out of a hdx cow i think.a neighbour of the seller tried to buy her at home but he would only sell her at the mart. I dont know if he bought her in the end tho.
Prices in general were only ok in balla that day... Good limousin bulls 370 only making 950..

A 275kg heifer made 1400 in ballinrobe yesterday also.

bogman_bass

whelan2 wrote: »

Used there be 3? Ashbourne, trim and carnaross

That’s going back a while now. Trim must be 20 years closed at this stage

whelan2

bogman_bass wrote: »

That’s going back a while now. Trim must be 20 years closed at this stage

I remember selling sheep in trim

Muckit

Bass Reeves wrote: »

None like everybody else not enough silage. But if some of the lads with the lighter cattle had made a small effort this year most would be able to carry them over the winter.

That's only teasing yourself!!

Danzy

_Brian wrote: »

maybe they made a huge effort and are just selling what they still don't have feeding for even after their huge effort

Aye, have to agree there, I've never seen fields as cold or as bare here as they were in the end of April.

By the time crops were cut here the first week of June, ground was hardening up to rock.

I'd guess that there were weeks in other years, where more grass was grown than between 1st of June and the end of August this year and with a smaller fertilizer bill on top.

It is really only in the last ten days that growth has returned here.

Bass Reeves

Muckit wrote: »

That's only teasing yourself!!

He went not mee he is home for a few days and gave a spin down there to have a look. Same mart would always be a good place to sell cattle, seldom buy any there.

Dozer1

Kilmallock is a buyers mart no question about it,
Not a place to bring good continental stock if you want to get paid well for them. really a home of the AA/HE/FR cross cattle.

I'd bring plainer cattle there and they do ok but in general if you have good stock you'd want to leave the county unfortunately

patsy_mccabe

I know in Clare, guys don't like buying Limerick cattle. They'd consider them too soft, coming off good land and all that.