Beef price tracker 2

How long should 12 weanlings take to eat a Bale of Silage? They are getting a bag of meal as well!

Maybe 4 or 5 days, depending on the bale and the age if the weanlings

Friesians are very unforgiving. They is a huge difference between selling them slightly underfinished and with a bit of finish on them. You can lose grade, weight and QA( on 1 out of 3)

Friesians are preforming badly this year compared to last year. Last bunch of 5-6 I sold were brutal grass is starting to be excellent for me at present.

I have half my replacements bought so far. Ya they have taken a bit of a hammering over the last 10 days but a 430kg FR is too light to finish over the winter rations ate 400-450/ton. A 430 kg friesian fed for 150 days (50-60 3kgs+ silage and 6-8+ for the rest) will struggle to kill 300 DW. Ration alone is 350-400 euro alone.

If the lad that bought them got them for sub 50/ head and had a good system he might have 150/head out of them

Yea that’s the ideal but hard in practice.

Silage going a savage price in Cork, lad bought bales in North West Cork , 45 and 15 to deliver and it was a long, long haul.

One might make more selling some of it in a months time than feeding.

What breeds are we talking?

There is no money in cattle that are kept long term. If anyone is serious about the calve to beef job they must spend money on a very good calf house with all the bells and whistles. Calves die or are poor thrivers if not properly done.

The most only way I see to make a few Bob out of that game is 21 month finish. Less sheds, more stock and out the gap asap.

I’ve been saying that for a long time on here.

I cannot understand all the fuss over the 30 month old age limit. There should be only a small minority of cattle that ever see it anyway.

Off a dairy cow only the jan and feburary aa/wh calf are the only calves suitable for finishing under 21 months and even at that is it profitable ,you wouldn't hear of many bullock finished at 21 months either

Hereford, Angus Friesian some over 2 years old weigh less than 500 kgs.

Switched from continental sucklers selling weanlings to dairy calf to beef here 10 years ago,we kill all calves as bullocks and heifers before there second winter.They are a mix of AA and HE.Dead weights usually average 270kg for heifers and 315kg bullocks

Main thing is i have a good relationship with the dairy farmer I buy off,he let's me pick the ai straw for his beef calves before breeding,he has no Jersey blood in the herd at all,all calves are bought in the region of €150 flat rate bulls and heifers +3 weeks old,it works well so far but if I had to go back buying in marts from unknown herds I wouldn't bother rearing calves

One day the bull gats the blame and the next the cow will get the blame .What does drafting an underweight animal for the factory prove only they will clean you .She would have come into r grade if left until proper factory weight so someone tot up what that brain fart cost

She would have come into 880 euro and that is depending on no penalty for low carcass weight. Kepak had proposed a penalty on light cattle of 20-50/kg depending on how far below 230kgs DW she was. She would probably be hit with 30-40c/kg so another 60-80 below that if there was an underweight penalty.

If you slaughtered her next June at 280+kgs and as an O+ grade she would hit over 1400 at the same price. However June price is usually 30-50c/kg above autumn price so 1500-1550 euro.

The only thing next year is the proposed slaughter premia for U24 months of 100 euro however I see there is hints of 24-26 months of age

any prices for this week ie week commencing 19th Sept