Beef price tracker 2

Grass is tight alright but they’re getting nearly 5 kg of meal. Just a few raw lads in it. Was thinking of moving up in quay and money. I don’t know

Had a few bullocks coming up on 30 months so sent them into larry this morning....

Had a decent bullock FR P+ 3+.....i was borderline not taking him in..i just thought he could be an O- so I could get the QA bonus...(1 movement, 200 days resident)

No fear of Larry selling that meat as QA but I wont get a cent of it🤬...

In that situation, am I better off holding onto that animal for another 6 months or to whenever they are stuck for cattle and just put weight on him?

Finally, how accurate are those grading machines?....serious potential for little tweaks & manipulations which could save factories huge money....

Just crunched some numbers there...

By grading my 300 kg FR a P+ and not an O-....I lost out on €54...(18c x 300kg)... 6c grid + 12c QA bonus

By grading my 375 kg red LMX an O+ and not R-...I lost out on €45....(12c × 375kg)...12c grid....

Thats €100 between 2 cattle...do that to enough cattle and the factories are playing us for fools...

Well played Larry👏🏻

4.80 base price bullocks...

Have you to wait long to get them away?

Maybe numbers are starting to tighten as it seems to be very easy everywhere to get cattle moving,

Any issues/waste in throwing minerals on top of baled silage

Ya it would mean carcass weights have dropped significantly due to ration costs and lads grabbing a significant price

If cattle have less finish on them they have less weight. The KO is lower as well. If the number of underfinished cattle has doubled it means right up along the line cattle are being slaughtered with less finish on them.

If they are that weight I would definitely be doing it. The November bonus is gone. They will fatten better in August/September than October. I would even pick the heaviest and start feeding them now

I have 6 18-20 month LM bulllocks and heifers. Live weight 520-570. All fairly stylish types. Normally sell in the mart September time. Would they finish (and pay) if started feeding them now I wonder. Prob not worth the bother.

Those LM can be very hard to get I to FS 3 or even 2+. Having said that at 630-650kgs they would hang 330-350kgs if you got them to FS3 at a base of 4.5 they probably come into 1580-1680 euro.

Your only chance would be to start feeding them now. You would want a real high energy nut/ration. I even be adding maize to it. However I expect that bullocks like that would make 2.5/kg minimums.

You will be pouring ration into them. If you have silage I would overwinter. By the way lads are on there will be a load of you g cattle hung this autumn.

Ration prices are 400+/ton. Unless you have a bin and can put straight mixes in I be looking at the costs.

These cattle will not grade or weight

If they are slow growing cattle you would want to be careful with what you do. No matter how much you feed them they will only do 550-600 grams per day. You would want to look at feeding over 60-80 days 1-2kgs for August and September and go no further than 3.5kgs per day