Beef price tracker 2

Albert Johnson · 04-09-2023 09:43PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121069781#Comment_121069781

You have to be prepared to mix and match to a certain extent. It's grand going in and picking out I'm going to buy X,Y and Z but it becomes an expensive undertaking most of the time. You're only codding yourself if you expect to buy every one of them cheap but if you got a bit of value this time you could stomach giving a bit more than anticipated for the next one to put with them and average it out.

The biggest disaster of all in a way is buying the first one at very right money especially if you're looking to buy another few. You spend the rest of the sale comparing everything to you're first purchase and will probably leave things after you that weren't that bad of value upon reflection but paled in comparison to what you'd already bought. That's not to say you should give a rob for the first one but hitting the jackpot right away isn't always the business either.

A local man who buys a lot of cattle for jobs would always comment upon the hammer falling to you for something looking good value that "he's as good as buying 2". That was grand until you put you're hand out for something else and he enquired whether you wanted them all today and somehow they never ended up as cheap after that.

Bass Reeves · 04-09-2023 09:56PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121069855#Comment_121069855

I know what you mean. A few weeks back a bunch I was the highest bidder on was pulled by the owner, he wanted 50 more I was willing to come 30 more. I was sorry I did not give it the following day. However it probably was no harm as it pointed out to the mart that I will only go far.

Albert Johnson · 04-09-2023 10:35PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121069896#Comment_121069896

I showed bullocks in a mart I don't usually frequent the week of the Galway races (a real bus man's holiday and I wouldn't know anything about the races, all Irelands ect being on only for others talking about them as I'm useless that way). Cattle had taken a bit of a hit at the time but I got on as well as I expected and it didn't work out too bad. The last bullock of mine into the ring finished at €1370 and he was part of a few that I hoped to average over €1400 for which I had achieved as he was the lowest priced one. When the auctioneer turned around I enquired as to him trying whoever was the highest bidder for €1400. His exact words were "it's well and truly over at that and he's either on or off at it". The man probably had a point and I told him to hammer the bullock at it.

I decided to take advantage of a slack day to buy a few replacements and the weanling trade wasn't that exciting either. I pulled in around the ring and had 4 bought handy enough after the first few pens. There was a man with a pen full of good CH weanlings around 350-450kg and he missed every one of them. The last one in was 290kg of a real good golden one and I wound up the highest bidder at €970 (I wouldn't usually venture that high but he looked right value enough and I watched 260kg of hardly as good a one make €1000 today at work). The auctioneer challenged me for €1000 for the hammer. I shook my head and said not a chance, in fairness he didn't push it any further and I wasn't anyway insulted but it was no harm to lay down the marker either especially after earlier.

leoch · 04-09-2023 10:43PM

How fo u mean.....

.he missed everyone of them.....

amacca · 04-09-2023 10:53PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121067116#Comment_121067116

Good advice so long as its not too predictable...I used to move around the back if I was in the mart so I wasn't a sitting duck/they couldn't get a bead on me, try to position myself directly behind them up the back but beside lads .....it irritated the shite out of some of them that they had to keep turning around looking back to see who was bidding against them...then theyd get a spotter😅...so drop out for a while ..drop back in (try time that with stuff you dont want if youve looked at the lots beforehand..I'd also get in early at low money on stuff I wasn't interested in and drop out as randomly as possible ...then not bid on certain lots if they were similar to what I had been buying (sacrifice a good lot or two/or the lesser of a type)...basically try not let them see a pattern....

Occasionally try leave them with an expensive one....but that's a dangerous game with more risk for me than when they are working with each other.

Albert Johnson · 04-09-2023 11:07PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121070084#Comment_121070084

He didn't sell any of them. He wasn't really getting enough for the heavier ones to be fair and they'd probably make another €100-€150 more apiece atm but that was a month ago and it wasn't easy to know it then either.

Aly Daly · 04-09-2023 11:13PM

The ring man in the large kerry mart on lsl that some have referred to as good I would not agree,not a stock man always tapping cattle between the ears,unnecessary hard smacks to big animals that are not given time to react,poking calves at foot,not nice and totally unnecessary.

Bass Reeves · 05-09-2023 07:51AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121070205#Comment_121070205

I. Ever watch the calves. However if you are buying cattle because of his actions and the camera you get a good view of the cattle, better that any other mart I know

StevenToast · 05-09-2023 08:51PM

4.60 base price today off Larry...got 20c QA bonus and 15c breed bonus on a load of HEX....

Possibly 5c increase next week....

HHH · 06-09-2023 11:03AM

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/factories-deploy-e5-kg-flat-price-in-scramble-for-stock/

Where are these rates available??

€4.60 this week in the midlands. Even with QA & potential herd bonus it's nowhere near €5 flat.

And they say the're full with cattle!

Is it purely to feed lots or what's going on?

nearlybreak · 06-09-2023 08:20PM

Hear 4.70 even 5 cent more around for bullocks for next week seems the poor factories are under fierce pressure

Fine Day · 06-09-2023 09:35PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121075540#Comment_121075540

No wonder lads are gone silly in the marts giving mad money for cattle with Agriland putting stuff like that on there site.

grange mac · 07-09-2023 10:39AM

They are some shower... With weather poor in July and Aug they took to dropping prices weekly and now weather picks up and prices doing rapid u turn... Like where is tootlless regulator in all this.

Bass Reeves · 07-09-2023 01:10PM

The kill is only 1200 behind but that is not the real story. Steers are back 1200 and heifers are back 400 with you g bulls static. The drop in the kill is young cattle and it will probably sharing further.

Bass Reeves · 07-09-2023 01:13PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121025177#Comment_121025177

Well was my assessment fairly right now. Like I said there is more than one fact to check

KAMG · 07-09-2023 02:02PM

Hard to tell yet. Sure, the price drops from over the summer have certainly stopped. For now anyway. As far as I can see its still 4.60 to 4.65 for bullocks. Which is the same price as a month ago. But, the kill is still between 33 and 35 thousand. What happens when the annual kill increase kicks in.

nearlybreak · 07-09-2023 03:56PM

4.70/5 freely available next week for a load of cattle

White Clover · 07-09-2023 03:58PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121081274#Comment_121081274

Where is this available?

nearlybreak · 07-09-2023 04:09PM

All factories I’d say heard it from a good few lads agents giving free transport and all the extras things having turned a lot in the last ten days for the farmer it seems just have to be tough with the ****