beef price tracker

Ive become so disillusioned with the whole beef farming industry, prices for heifers and bullocks for the last few years leave a small profit, but nothing better than a megre part time wage. I was going through the books this evening and i get more in my than 60% of my profit from SFP, Glas and ANC.
To draw the payment takes approx 10 hours a year, the cattle take a 1000.

Bass Reeves wrote: »

With the present kill the processors will back up young bulls unless you are a regular supplier and maybe even then. Bulls can keep from going over fat and as well can be feed for 150+ days before going off feed. Can agent not book them in for 10-14 days time if not just try the AIBP plants in Nenagh and Rathkeale, Kepak in Ennis but I imagine if regular agent cannot get them in you will struggle elsewhere as well

same as 2013, bull price is first to suffer in a glut,
County livestock rep was at our branch AGM, very poor demand for bulls

Anyone see if continental cull will be worth more after Xmas than now or cut my losses ? Mart I’m thinking not enough cover for factory

Any ideas will they be a shade better after Xmas or waste of time/ money / feed/fodder?

blue5000 wrote: »

Mod note can we get back on topic, beef prices please.

Sorry blue, they probably should be in here https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057910894&page=4
maybe you could move them


Mod: Done. Hopefully the right ones. Now, be good, children!

Last of this years finishers booked in for next Wedneaday. Agent sees no rise coming down tracks.

CHOPS01 wrote: »

Last 2 gone this morning. Lad that carries them for me struggled to get cattle for himself killed last week. Nothing but 3.75 everywhere. Over supply a huge problem

Yip thats same story i got. Oversupply is king for factories. If we at least got the proper grading and no over trim for what we have, I think this would be as good as we will ever get. Beef plan has work cut out to get changes re price.

wrangler wrote: »

Someone refuted this saying there was a good trade for bulls, post seems to have disappeared.
Neighbour was asking me was there anywhere, was it a Cavan factory that was buying, neighbour very stuck

Think it was me last week or the week before. Clonee but we kill a good few and suppose we have a "relationship" with them as the papers say so might get them away that bit quicker.

wrangler wrote: »

Have you good heifers as well.

Have neither good nor bad heifers here.

TBH it was standing out since the drought that there would be a lot of cattle for slaughter from late autumn on until well into the New Year. With the scarcity of silage and high rations prices it was on the cards that lads would finish cattle as early/quick as possible this winter. With the good autumn and good grass growth it added more cattle to the kill. It has been my opinion for a while that the economics of winter finishing are skewed all wrong even in a normal year. However some lads are trapped on the merry go round of the 70-100 day system and turning cattle over in that timescale forces lads to kill at least once if not twice over the winter. It is hard at present to see numbers fall off a cliff. From the end of next week the processors will struggle to keep beef from fridges moving as the change over to white meat happens. Consumer demand will not rise again for beef until after Christmas. Processors may not kill at all between Christmas and the New Year if fridges are full. If we see a price rise in the New Year it will be to 3.9/kg at most IMO which with ration/nuts heading towards 300/ton leaves little of a margin

Sterling taking a hammering. Not good.

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Sterling taking a hammering. Not good.

where is it now,

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

£0.90 = Euro

To be fair it’s been at £0.89 for the last week

Bass Reeves wrote: »

TBH it was standing out since the drought that there would be a lot of cattle for slaughter from late autumn on until well into the New Year. With the scarcity of silage and high rations prices it was on the cards that lads would finish cattle as early/quick as possible this winter. With the good autumn and good grass growth it added more cattle to the kill. It has been my opinion for a while that the economics of winter finishing are skewed all wrong even in a normal year. However some lads are trapped on the merry go round of the 70-100 day system and turning cattle over in that timescale forces lads to kill at least once if not twice over the winter. It is hard at present to see numbers fall off a cliff. From the end of next week the processors will struggle to keep beef from fridges moving as the change over to white meat happens. Consumer demand will not rise again for beef until after Christmas. Processors may not kill at all between Christmas and the New Year if fridges are full. If we see a price rise in the New Year it will be to 3.9/kg at most IMO which with ration/nuts heading towards 300/ton leaves little of a margin

Why do you keep insisting that they're backing up bulls, surely they're moving stock as quick as they can with the. massive kills going on at the moment. now you say the fridges are full, We were always told that bull beef was difficult to sell and first to suffer I'd be surprised if we're heading into the same crisisi as 14 with the lessons farmers got then....if they heeded it is suppose