CloughCasey1 wrote: » 3.75 base for the next 3 weeks according to agent. He is finding it hard to book in cattle.
patsy_mccabe wrote: » Guys, can anyone remember a few years back when the beef trade was roaring? Everyone finishing bulls etc? What year was that and what was drining the trade at the time? Just thinking about it today.
kk.man wrote: » I sold fr bullocks in June 2012 for 4.28 per kg dw flat price. They weigh an average of 390 kg I think. That was 2012. That year the following happened; 1. British beef was very scarce. 2. The milk quotas were still in place. 3. Irish beef was scare..kills of 24k per week. 4. The final driver was the London Olympics and the Britannia were gagging for steaks!
charolais0153 wrote: » Think it was 2013. Bulls crashed the following year in 14. Got 3.50 for e grade bull under 16 months
kk.man wrote: » No 2012 Olympics every 4 years and occur on an even year.
Base price wrote: » It was 2012. We sold FR bulls pre Christmas for between 3.95 and 4.04. It went downhill fairly quickly in the New Year when the horse meat scandal hit in January. Here is a link to DAFM 2012 prices. It worth having a read of some of them for nostalgia :rolleyes:https://www.agriculture.gov.ie/farmingsectors/beef/beeffactorypricesweeklyreports/2012/averagepricesincludingvatforsteerscowsheifersandyoungbulls/
charolais0153 wrote: » Price was upto 50c/kg higher in 2013 on last week of may than 2012
Base price wrote: » I'm not doubting it. Spring 2013 was the most difficult time for anyone feeding bulls as factories wouldn't quote let alone accept them :mad:
CloughCasey1 wrote: » Yet this June they would nearly take your mother in law.
Bass Reeves wrote: » Yes I think it was the in early 2013 the bust happened on Bull beef. Again farmers paid for the processors dodgy dealing's. Before 2013 there was always a good trade in light bulls pre and post Christmas. Kill used to be lower than present but O grade bulls traded around the 3.9-4.1/kg, R grade stock from a dairy background traded 10c/kg more while suckler bred R/U bulls were another 10c/kg more. In the autumn of 2012 AIBP feedlots bought a lot of HE 18 month old bullocks at huge prices, store producers taught they would never see a poor day again. Larry killed all these cattle first pre and post Christmas and left the bulls back up. Was it in the spring of 2012 that they bought all the HE calves the three card trick they did not repeat.
charolais0153 wrote: » Bulls took a hit in 2013 but a dive in 14 [Img]content://media/external/file/169975[/img]
riemann wrote: » Is my memory going or did we not get close to 5eur/kg in the harvest of 2013? I remember some high prices after the horse meat scandal.
Bass Reeves wrote: » That will see us into and through the white meat so no price increase until after Christmas. You could well see prices sub 4/kg until mid/late April. Lads finishing cattle and paying 270-300/ton for rartion will take some beating as forward stores are not that cheap. Any lad that sold his silage @30+/bale to dairy men and did not restock is way better off
Willfarman wrote: » remarkable how these agents are so educated in beef marketing. It’s perfectly normal for fridges to be full in the run up to Christmas and the following weeks. The market and apparently the the British market in particular is moving well. Mainly because the price is very competitive. But supply is tightening next week and perhaps the week after a little improvement in price but the bounce will come in January and another in mid March. Unfortunately it’s swallowed with increased costs but such is the game.
Willfarman wrote: » I bet ye both a a box of empty quality street wrappers there’s be 3.90 for steers 2nd week of January and over 4.00 2nd week of March.
