lads buying weanings and selling them on in the mart

bosallagh

Sometimes in the mart you would see weanlings(likely dealer cattle sometimes from parts of the country with poor land) with the last owner only owning the animal about 10 days is there money to be made buying and selling or would the extra move reduce any potential profit?

_Brian

bosallagh wrote: »

Sometimes in the mart you would see weanlings(likely dealer cattle sometimes from parts of the country with poor land) with the last owner only owning the animal about 10 days is there money to be made buying and selling or would the extra move reduce any potential profit?

I'd have thought with the focus on owners on cards this would be happening less and less.
In mart we don't buy anything with more than one owner shown on the board.

Crow Pigeon and Pheasant

bosallagh wrote:

Sometimes in the mart you would see weanlings(likely dealer cattle sometimes from parts of the country with poor land) with the last owner only owning the animal about 10 days is there money to be made buying and selling or would the extra move reduce any potential profit?

I think often that alot of fellas don't mind too much if they get them cheap!

patsy_mccabe

Crow Pigeon and Pheasant wrote: »

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Jeez, I thought my username was long.

Never wrestle with pigs

The last thing I'd buy off a dealer is them. Pulled off the tit in the west and draged across the country in a dealers lorry and into a shed with 50 other strange calves from everywhere. Fed fcuk all and flung back into a mart. It's a recipe for disaster with pneumonia ect.

Bass Reeves

Op there can be money made all right. At present in marts along west coast weanling heifers and bulls below 250kgs are often trading at below 500 euro. Lads may also buy them privately. They then try to sell then on in marts in the east, midlands etc. There are also dealers selling them putting togeather batches and selling them out of there own yards.

https://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/egan-livestock-portlaoise/10981765
https://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/6-bulls-285kg-egans/13948697
https://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/10-u-grade-charlaois-bull-weanlings/13866484
https://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/10-continental-bull-weanlings/13865943
https://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/-quot-frightening-quot-value-egans/13787823

You also had lads buying bunches for shipping and some may be out of spec and the sell the out of spec cattle in the mart.

Farrell

Would marts going online & arranged transport help.
It's hard enough to make money suckling when you get tagglers putting down your stock & give you bare minimum so they could make €200+ a head cos you're in the wrong area

simx

Farrell wrote: »

Would marts going online & arranged transport help.
It's hard enough to make money suckling when you get tagglers putting down your stock & give you bare minimum so they could make €200+ a head cos you're in the wrong area

Say any dealer making €200/head on any one animal is doing it on the very odd one, I'd be dealing cattle myself if €200/hd to be made

Bass Reeves

Farrell wrote: »

Would marts going online & arranged transport help.
It's hard enough to make money suckling when you get tagglers putting down your stock & give you bare minimum so they could make €200+ a head cos you're in the wrong area

Unlikley as mart in general in this situation will be more loyal to locals. DD is an option but lots of lads want highest mart prices for there cattle not average mart prices. Below is an example of a lad overvaluing cattle for sale
https://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/bucket-reared-bulls/13969229?campaign=3

Lads would be willing to travel to buy cattle if local marts treated them fair. Online would be no different to being there.

Lady Haywire

I dated a dealer who was at this lark. Was in a mart most days or on the road dropping off stock. There's a definite decrease in the number of lads at it since traceability has gotten so strict and number of owners being clamped down in factories.
But this chap had repeat customers who wanted a select number of stock per year, all of similar quality etc. Could be cows, weanlings, heifers or calves. Rarely sold stock in a mart, most were brought home to a bedded shed, if anything looked snotty or off it'd get a few shots.