patsy_mccabe wrote: » € 2,440 for cow and calf. Bass Reeves clicking away like mad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3JbOXrynrY
Bass Reeves wrote: » Will we see 1-2 more closedhttps://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/mart-temporarily-closed-due-to-covid-19-protocol-breaches/
richie123 wrote: » What was the point then...whether u get a crap price off Maurice or a crap price in the ring ? Cattle standing around all day ina mart losing weight and condition and under stress. Any mart these days with huge numbers going through it and just one ring should be avoided like the plague. Farmers are gas falling for tricks like that.
DukeCaboom wrote: » Mauty is a one man band. He started out with a few sucklers and worked his way up. Incredible credit due to him. He'd well over 60k cattle there last year, you can't keep everyone happy.
orm0nd wrote: » Was watching a mart during the week and it was quite obvious the auctioneer was taking bids ringside or at least on the premises. He let it slip more than once. Dept turn a blind eye some places and hound others. Don't know the story re above.
Albert Johnson wrote: » That's the second time Delvin has been closed for Covid breaches if I'm not mistaken. A mart manager's job isn't easy even at the best of time's but I definitely wouldn't envy it atm. Covid has added a whole extra layer of red-tape and work that never existed before hand.
DBK1 wrote: » They’re definitely getting a bit more “casual” with the restrictions alright. I was watching one mart during the week and it was very clear that there was a bit of messing going on. Some lots being opened when they were still on the scales and 5 or 6 bids in before they even come into sight of the camera. The auctioneer knocking some of them down very quick as well, when they were still in the ring and bids still coming in very fast. Other lots then and he would take an age to try get another bid in. Definitely suspicious looking anyway.
zetor 4911 wrote: » I have noticed that the pictures are about 10 seconds behind the auctioneer has something to do with sound travelling quicker than pictures.So that could explain why the cattle are opened while it appears that they are still on the scales.
DBK1 wrote: » I is was giving them the benefit of the doubt at the time and assuming that was the case but that then makes it a hell of a lot worse for the lots he was knocking down when the cattle were still in the ring and bids still coming in. Opening them to soon would be bad enough but the price they’re actually sold at is a lot more important so it looks even worse now. Also if the camera was a few seconds behind the sound then there should be a big lull between the cattle being on the scales and them being opened as nobody would be able to see them.
Anto_Meath wrote: » Ye heard auctioneers making a few comments but presumed it was to the lads droving the cattle around the ring. I know Carnaross Mart has sheets of plasterboard & plywood to keep lads 2 meters apart when they were allow into the mart under easier restrictions and these sheets are still in place.
zetor 4911 wrote: » Noticed that, I would say in fairness to Carnaross they seem to be running a good show. I also noticed that Gortalea have gone to great effort to block the view around the ring.
zetor 4911 wrote: » Not trying to defend the marts but the reasons why they are opened before we at home can see them in the ring could be one of the following - Buyers have viewed the stock before hands so don't need to see them in the ring so can open them when they are on the scales - Auctioneer open them as he can see them before us! - Someone around the ring opens them as they can see them in the ring before we see them at home.
DBK1 wrote: » Yea I’m not having a go more so just stating what I’m observing happening. If you look back through this thread you’ll see where i would have been defending them as well. I’d have no problem with a few lads being around the ring for various different reasons. There could be mart staff buying cattle, maybe a lad in viewing stock might want to purchase some when he’s there viewing etc. It’s the knocking them down to a lad around the ring when there’s still bids coming in online that I don’t like.
amacca wrote: » Its a royal pain in the hole but I find you have to be prepared and have the ability to say no sale from time to time to get fair play if you are going selling to a place frequently.
kk.man wrote: » It's fairly wholesale the dealers can't survive without being physically present at a live mart. Thick as two short planks a sizable amount of them are.
Base price wrote: » I was getting a tyre changed at the tyre place beside Granard mart a couple of weeks ago and the boys (I'd know them by sight) were standing in small groups outside the mart bidding away on their phones. In fairness they all had masks on albeit some were pulled down under their chins. Other people were sitting in the jeeps/cars in the car park bidding.
Bleating Lamb wrote: » Just bumping post from above...what kind of trade are year old Chx stores for grazing in comparison to this time last year?
Albert Johnson wrote: » Cattle for grass are a very strong trade atm, there as dear if not dearer than this time last year. I'm assuming your after a CHx store around 350kg, a storish bullock at that weight is going to be €850+ and your probably going to be nearer €1,000 for nice types. Hungry type stores are very scarce atm locally, I've only seen a few bundles lately and they made a total klondike for handy bullock's.
