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josephsoap wrote: »

Noticed the exact same as myself, sold a few in last year and it will be the last time I ever sell in it.

Sold a 360KG peach of Lim weanling bull last October only went €600....found out after a member of the mart staff had bought him...had him again in carrigallen mart 2 weeks later.....

Jaysus didn't think it had gotten as bad as that. I still sell my bulls in it as I always got on well there and didn't want to tempt faith by changing. But the last couple of times I was there with heifer weanlings, and they would be fairly decent ones hitting for 400kg, I came home disappointed and felt there was nothing in the heifers ring only a few dealer lads looking for light heifers around the 650 to 700euro mark.

Who owns Carrigallen mart?

I've heard some talk that it might be sold, whether there's any truth to that i'm not sure.

Most marts live and die on the Manager in charge. Needs to run a tight ship and now allow any cliques to grow.

Sold some fr cull cows during the week. average 1.50/kg price was OK but I was very pleased with their weights much higher than I expected. Early in the sale maybe helped.

Also sold a 2015 red lm cow. I bought her off a fellow I brought some heifer weanlings off. She had a difficult calving and didn't go back in calf.
Thought I might be able to sort her for breeding but scanner man said it was doubtful.

645 kgs and made 1540.

Have some bought in lm heifer weanlings booked in for this week.

I know some posters on here are critical of the present set up but I think it's the best thing that happened in a long time.

Some marts however need to up the ante a bit or they will go by the way side.

Sheep breeder wrote: »

The marts that are privately owned seem to be doing well, huge sale of cows Friday night and very big today for the heifer sale today finishing up at 8.15 in Carnew.

As I posted previously the mart in Gortatlea is an eye opener. I know people on here were saying that the facilities are not great with only the one ring operating but it's some mart to watch with the numbers and speed that go through the ring. It must be doing something right since farmers are willing to bring their cattle to it.

Dozer1 wrote: »

On upping their game it looks like the new man in castleisland is turning numbers again. It would be good to see as it offers greater choice to farmers in the area

I heard that too, not too long ago it was a power house mart that left the others trailing.
With the last few years, cattle were passing Abbeyfeale and Castleisland on the way to Gortatlea and passing Kanturk and Castleisland coming from the east.
The new man would have strong historical connections to Castleisland so it wouldn't surprise me if the mart there was on the way up.

Albert Johnson wrote: »

Facilities are only ever going to be a secondary consideration after trade or lack of it in a mart. It's matter less what facilities a mart has if it hasn't a sufficient number of buyers and sellers. Take Mohill for example, Aurivo spent a vast amount of money on the mart and it's surroundings and yet it done next to no business for large parts of the year until quite recently. A few miles further down the road in Dowra where it was a battle against nature to ever build or operate a mart and with zero chance of expansion and it's turning over large numbers every week of the year.

Yes Dowra seems to be booming in the last while, seen on their FB page they had 820 cattle for sale yesterday.

Base price wrote: »

As I posted previously the mart in Gortatlea is an eye opener. I know people on here were saying that the facilities are not great with only the one ring operating but it's some mart to watch with the numbers and speed that go through the ring. It must be doing something right since farmers are willing to bring their cattle to it.

Everything you said is correct the facilities are poor one ring but still getting huge numbers skibereen had top of the range facilities but Gortalee has wiped them out no numbers going there the difference is the manager seen it myself in skib buyers having rows with each other over each lot telling each other that this lot is mine in Gortalee buyers standing around ring no messing or shouting over who has what lot just bidding

Base price wrote: »

The online bidding has prevented a lot of "cliques" stopping/claiming lot numbers amongst themselves.

OH was collecting some yearling heifers that he bought at a mart and met a guy who would be known to be amongst that group. He was like a bull cause the online bidding had disrupted their cosy arrangement and they either had to pay more for the cattle or go home empty handed. It's better for the seller as they are getting a higher price.

It also stops farmer buyers being bulked on price. The ''cliques'' cannot bull buyers on price as they do not know the buyers and cannot be sure who is bidding. If you were standing up in a mart and were a stranger in the mart you could expect to be bulled by the ringside. Unless you were willing to come regularly and they found they could not fazzle you then they would half let you alone but you would still pay for cattle. As well money that was going to dealers before for buying cattle for people is now going directly to sellers as lads can buy the cattle themselves

Albert Johnson wrote: »

I don't see what could be done with the existing setup. Unless they sacrificed the bit of parking on the mart side of the road and changed the slope to have the intake bay's parallel as opposed to perpendicular to the road. It's some spot of a busy day, luckily there isn't much else happening in the locality as traffic grinds to a halt. The last machinery auction they had in killargue was some mess as regards parking.

Maybe they should get Temple Grandin in to do a flow for the humans as well as the animals.

Albert Johnson wrote: »

I couldn't see that going down to well with management, he'd take a fair pull out of one of those fags when she'd start outlining her plans.

https://youtu.be/fozZLuLMCHM

Came across a video here of Dowra mart filmed in the 80’s ....it doesn’t seem to have changed at all

Albert Johnson wrote: »

I don't see what could be done with the existing setup. Unless they sacrificed the bit of parking on the mart side of the road and changed the slope to have the intake bay's parallel as opposed to perpendicular to the road. It's some spot of a busy day, luckily there isn't much else happening in the locality as traffic grinds to a halt. The last machinery auction they had in killargue was some mess as regards parking.

Pity there couldn’t be a another access to bring in by side of office
Is there an opportunity to use the sheep pens for loading lorries?
Wouldn’t like to be a stranger in a hurry on a Saturday alright

Albert Johnson wrote: »

I suggested changing the intake to run perpendicular to the road as it would allow for a longer and less steep ramp compared to the current setup. This would mean loosing the parking along the side of the mart which wouldn't be as much of an issue if they weren't already so short of parking.

Don’t know enough about the mart
Is there an option to move some parking to the main st with a walk to the mart?

Don't see it taking off. Purchasers cannot judge stock crammed into pens. All sold subject....waiting for marts to get hold of sellers to see if they will accept....travelling a distance and not knowing if you have a load bought or having to come back again for an extra one or go home home with one less.. then internet dependant.

It might suit some who will buy on the blind or who are happy to judge them wedged in the pen....but personally the sooner it gets back to normal the better. Plus sitting in a jeep / lorry for 3 or 4 hours hoping the battery lasts in you phone is not exactly much of an atmosphere / social aspect of life that many would warm too IMO