Beef price tracker 2

Dunedin · 09-09-2025 04:12PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123798940#Comment_123798940

you didn’t read DBK post very well so.

Bass Reeves · 09-09-2025 07:15PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123799438#Comment_123799438

No I did not read it correctly but it's actually worse. @50HX posted that forward stores were making more than finished cattle. His sold for 4.75-4.85 per kg liveweight. To put that in perceptive was it 2 or 3 years ago they cattle made little more than that deadweight

Gordon Gecko said greed is good but that thinking is ridiculous. As 50HX said he would have to house them, he would probably be paying 350+/ ton for ration. Personally you sell cattle when and where ever you think you will get the most for them. If 50HX kept them cattle it's unlikely they would make anymore in 6-8 weeks time after consuming 150-200 euro or maybe more worth of feed.

Anyone that has sold whether in a Mart or factory before now if they got the higher level off prices is not going to see that money or especially profit again.

I posted a link to the DAFM cattle slaughter numbers. Have a look at it and do the calculations. Maybe I am wrong. Maybe someone got John Coughlan to fly 100k+ of them secretly out of the country.

IMO it's going to be a euro or more price difference between summer and autumn thus year.

older by the day · 09-09-2025 09:27PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123798353#Comment_123798353

And what happened to me was the over all price given by the valuer, they then deducted the gross price made in the factory. So I lost the transport and deductions.

DBK1 · 09-09-2025 10:18PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123800413#Comment_123800413

I don’t think you understood my post.

What I meant was, and it’s just my opinion, selling the factory fit and forward stores in the mart is short term gain for long term pain. The reason they can drop the prices now is because they have control over the numbers now because they filled their feedlots and fridges.

Lads selling in the mart were happy because they thought they were getting a few euro more than selling in the factory. If all them cattle were kept away from the marts the factory price would have stayed rising to entice them out. The annual price drop that occurs at this time every year would have been happening from a higher base point then.

I know it would be very hard to get all farmers to come together on something like that and every lad will be thinking “sure my few cattle going to the mart isn’t going to make a difference” but if farmers could just stick together and keep the factory fit and forward stock out of the marts we’d have the control again.

There’s no point any farmer that sold forward stores complaining about feedlots and factories because if they weren’t selling them forward stores the feedlots would be empty.

bogman_bass · 09-09-2025 10:32PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123801108#Comment_123801108

Counter Argument: Factories could have held the line together but it was the high prices in the marts that gave clear evidence to those selling to the factories that there was more to be had and allowed them to dig in deeper than normal

Robson99 · 09-09-2025 10:32PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123801108#Comment_123801108

And then they would screw over the lad that kept his stores and tried to get into the factory...push him out two weeks and offer him 20 cent less than their regular customers. They went on 3 day weeks…they can afford to cut back for 6 to 8 weeks to keep manners on the farmers. Who needs who more ???