Beef price tracker 2

Siamsa Sessions

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122608125#Comment_122608125

That's OK money for them. They covered most of their costs anyway.

massey 265

I see that angus society are giving a 30 cent bonus for aa stock from oct 7th till nov 15 next.Must be a tightening up of numbers for slaughter on the horizon

grass10

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122608624#Comment_122608624

Yes and also another possibility which is too many Angus going to marts and the factories would much prefer if you deliver the animals into their lairage and they are back in full control of you it's so easy to take 30 cent away from you beware of those that bear gifts

148multi

Yes, remember the slaughter premium years ago, as it rate increased the price per kg dropped, so the factorys got the advantage

White Clover

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122608624#Comment_122608624

Finished Angus, heifers especially get a premium in the ring with the last few years.

nhg

Sold 4 x 680kg AAX bullocks in Kilkenny today @ €2,000 each

Hard Knocks

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122609921#Comment_122609921

They’d be great butchers heifers

Austinbrick

Great money.A nice round figure.

morphy87

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122610144#Comment_122610144

Had you only 4 out? Have you more to sell?

nhg

Last 8 for this year to sell either next Thursday or Thursday week, depends on whether OH has the reseeding finished before Thursday or not…

Sold 3 HEX today as well @ €1920 each think they were around 750 kg

Edited: to correct weight & price as didn’t pay much attention to them selling as I was remote working while watching the sale online

Austinbrick

Will most of it go on bills nhg or have you a few projects set aside for it??

Sold last of our sucklers last week.9 cattle made 11odd grand. Money gone to pay for a slab of concrete put down in June 5000+ , plus rented land and a list of other smaller bills.

nhg

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122610318#Comment_122610318

Cash flow basically…… Long time until next year’s batch of 80 are ready to start selling.

HHH

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122610257#Comment_122610257

All under 30 months? Quality Assured?

I says

5.05 base midlands today plus QA mix of AA and HEX. 320kgs ave happy out. They didn’t die in debt.

kk.man

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122612437#Comment_122612437

What was their mean age

nhg

Yes…

Apologies edited the post above as checked where OH had written it down - the HEX were 750kg €1,920, these were sold 1st so was more interested in the AAX price…

I says

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122612634#Comment_122612634

Not mean at all but average 28months

HHH

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122613378#Comment_122613378

Tremendous weight for an under 30 months HE bullock. Would have made more in the factory I'd say. Have you a scales at home to know the proper weight? I had to buy one this year. Too much money involved in heavy cattle these days to not have an accurate reading of what you have.

kk.man

Are any of you finding it hard to get dairy beef cattle into fat scrore 3 this year? Normal I'm pretty accurate but for some reason I'm having more 2s this year.

morphy87

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122633927#Comment_122633927

Out of all my fresians that I sent I only had one 2, an improvement on last year but I was putting it down to the weather last year

jfh

Quick question, if an animal is 30 months on the day he is killed is he deamed over 30 months? I don't think he could be but just to be sure

Hershall

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122633927#Comment_122633927

Feeding continental blks and never found it as hard to put flesh on them as this year

Bass Reeves

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122633927#Comment_122633927

Ya Killed a Fr heifer nearly bang on the 30 months.She was bought in March @330kgs LW for 530. She killed 230kgs @0=2+ and netted 1150. Another year she have hung another 29kgs DW heavier. On 3kg ration for 8 weeks. Might not have e been getting the full 3kgs as she was the smallest in the bunch

IMO in my system carcasse weights are back 30kgs+ DW at least. I am getting them in FS 3 not but some hung in early July that did not and did not grade either. Had a bunch of mostly heifers targeted for Christmas,now I am thinking of carrying them to next June.

That heifer looked to have the flesh cover on her. Weighted her fresh in the morning straight from the field @485kgs. K/O 47%. She would have been over 30 months next week so went in the load earlier in the week

Still in all 620 euro from early March say 50 euro for ration, 40 euro until she got to grass, 100 for grazing and 50 misc. 380 euro margin wish I has 50 like her. Mind you she has a companion slightly larger frame but weighting 20 kgs light at present. She has to go within 3-4 weeks

kk.man

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122634996#Comment_122634996

Glad I'm not the only one. I got these into the crush a few days beforehand and said to myself I'm going to be conservative here as weather is with me. I felt them all several times. I get why weights are back but I never had as much fat score 2s in my life. I'm thinking is the factory acting the b</=÷#k with the fat scores in order to pay less to the dairy beef cattle. I'm doing these 10 years now.

I actually don't care about where a bullock is a p or and o but fat scores are the most important. My system factored in the grade on the day of purchase.

DBK1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122634607#Comment_122634607

Same here with continental heifers.

Dunedin

I was back 30kg dw on my kill out this year. Wet year last year and the late spring.

Also, never had lungworm like I had in the farm this year. Every animal coughing like a lad on a 100 major a day. Dosed twice now, even the cows were coughing like crazy.

Anto_Meath

@Dunedin & @kk.man the brother killed AAx cattle last week, disappointed with them too, he was giving about them for the last few weeks, weren't putting on condition, where as my ones were doing OK, but they are a month later coming fit than other years.

We done a bit of comparisons.

My silage in 2023 was made in better conditions & was better feeding in the shed over the winter. My land would be a bit dryer than his, I got cattle out the end of March his were out the second week in April.

Finally which I think is the biggest thing, we looked on ICBF and a lot of his cattle had Jersey breeding in them, now only around 6% but it did seem to make a massive difference. When we printed off the list you could match them up to 2's on the kill sheet.

memorystick

Sold bullocks. Bought last October for €730 average. Sold for €1450 average. Just under 200kgs of meal each bought. Not massive costs. I'd say I worked out ok. All dairy X and Frs.

kk.man

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122635856#Comment_122635856

Never thought of that, come to think of it some had a brown tinge. I must check the breeding. Those jerseys are something I'd spot normallybut harder to tell if they are a generation or so back.

MfMan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122634607#Comment_122634607

Haven't had that experience yet thankfully. Plenty of good (dry) grass in front of them all summer. Strangely, I've had an unfed bunch that have fleshed out well the past couple of months.