Beef price tracker 2

Couldn’t agree more. Let them grow on until October/November and let them off in the mart if you don’t want to winter them.

Still they’re all over 24 months. Summer calves are the issue.

Remember that earlier on Glanbia (I think) were going to penalise for excess production during the main grass growing months. A number of farmers culled numbers so that they wouldn't go over their peak milk production - since then Glanbia did a massive U turn and scrapped the idea.

No point in trying to sell in the mart. They are too slow growing. I would put them on 2kgs and feed away and slaughter as they come fit. They will not make huge money but still a 280kg AA grading O+ at a base of 4.6 will come into 1350 euro

I feed the AA. I have a few Fr like that myself May/June'20 born bought last October 330 kgs costing 480 euro. My instinct is to over winter and finish next May or June. They will struggle with weight or grade at any stage this autumn. They will also eat 500 kgs of ration.they will kill@400 kgs+ next summer

Short answer.

Date of tb test rarely matters to buyers.

Friend of mine rang an agent this morning, 4.80 Bullocks and will take tomorrow morning if he wants, so no problems getting them away it seems

Where are you getting that notion?

And what would that indicate? A possible increase in price?

When the gap between cows and prime beef is very small it indicates a strong demand. Having said that watching Listowel today finished cattle were making 1-200 less than factory price however there might not have being enough furnished cattle there to fight over.

A lot of Friesian cows still being killed straight from the mart. There has being no flush of grass this year. Cattle are killing lighter than last year in my case anyway. Present price may be hiding that

Ive most of my cattle going next week....in all my time at this game, beef price only goes one way from here until the end of the year (although last year it just stayed the same)....therell be the usual pile of grass finishers from september onwards....

I guess itll hold at 4.80 for a good while...id be shocked to see it increase again in the next few months....

There is a minimum weight in factories of 240kgs got bullocks and 220 for heifers. If 1-2 fall below they will not penalise you. However if you have 20-30%of the stock below this weight the processers will dock you

There is a lot off AA and some Hereford bullocks doing about or sub 500grams liveweight per day from birth. As two year olds they still will not be 500kg LW.

No two animals are the same. I have a rig that is fairly bare at present I have him pulled out with for LM bullocks and they are getting 6 kgs per day on grass. The LM are 6-8weeks from slaughter

The problem with my rigs is that they will not flesh up. They were badly squeezed and still have a rod. If I can get them into FS2+ I will get the QA on them.

Hung four yesterday. 3 O- and a P three of them hitting 30 months. Averaged 1530. Cattle are hanging 7-10 kgs less than last year. I had at least 5 more cattle hung this time last year. No flush of grass at all to drive cattle on. 2nd cut silage ground will be coming into the rotation in 7-10 days time.

Everything being fed at the moment some on 2 kg most on 3 kgs

I bought a rig in a bunch of bullocks a few years back. Good proper British fr. He doubled his purchase price in 6 months. Loved his grub. Very wary of him near the end though.