Would that translate to around 4.60-4.70 for heifers?
Cheers kk.man. where would be best for killing u grade hefier in South East and a few under 16 bulls. First time finishing so bit green.
I honestly don't know as I do bullocks only and none of my cattle will be Us!
I believe hacketstown is good for grading but I have no experience there.
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Just agreed 4.65 flat for six HE heifers. They're going this Thursday.
They should average 250kg on the hook based on weighing them a few weeks ago and them gaining 1kg/day since then. Probably a little light but they're fleshy enough for animals that got no meal. I need to lighten the load a bit in the shed, so happy enough to leave them off at that.
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Thanks. Will try record another one tomorrow but it’ll have to be between showers. Weather is brutal at the moment. Another reason I’m happy to move on a few of those cattle. 20 in the shed now and it’s enough in old cubicles when you’re feeding them bales in a round feeder out in the yard
you should probable have fed them 2-3 kgs for 5-6 weeks. It fleshes them up on the inside and on the ribs
If I can get the feed barriers on the new shed sorted this week, I’ll separate out the next 5-6 to go in the coming days and feed them for 6 weeks in there.
I’ve never finished cattle before so it’ll be interesting to see how this next bunch go after getting meal compared to the ones going Thurs
Got 4.55 for a load of fr bullocks on the grid.
Are factories penalising for under weight carcass at the moment? If so what is the limit and what is the penalty?
Have some nice store Chx bullocks to sell,born April/May 21' would be around 450-500 kg. Were bought in Spring coming from a place where they got a bad do. Not bad for grass so would it be better trade wise to keep them till Marts get smaller into December?.....or show in next few weeks?. Will start building them up to 2kg of beef nuts over next few weeks to warm them up before sale.
Carnew mart and let JK and the KCC and north boys fight over them,
I very seldom see finished cattle make more in the mart than in the factory.
Fully agree,often did the factory maths after seeing some finished animals after going though the ring and reckon alot of them would of hung up worth €100+ more
Finished Cull cows at pinch points in the year, is the only example I have seen
And often 200+, I have seen finished cattle making 300 less in the mart, especially those over thirty month very heavy cattle. What I am often amazed about is the amount of QA cattle that go through the mart that are slaughter fit
In May/June this year yes there was AA cattle in the 550 kg brackets as well as continental cattle that were sold through the mart that made more than factory price but since then only the odd few that made more.
Exactly, and unfortunately it’s the lads selling like that in the marts that are giving the factories the opportunity to drag down the factory prices and leave us all without a margin.
With the weak sterling I wonder will we see prices breaking a 5 a kilo next May
any prices for next week
If ration stays above 400/ton either the price of stores needs to half or lads will need over 6/kg+ efore they will finish them. The forward stores bought over the last few weeks will need the mid/high 5's to break even in the NY and I think it's unlikely.
Talking to a lads that finishes U16 month Friesian bulls and if he dose not get a price indication before they go on ad-lib they are going to be taken off the 2kgs and put out to grass in April.
Looking at finishing costs of 4-6/ day is really gambling territory. It would be no problem to have 30k tied up in finishing costs on 60-70 cattle before they got hung.
5.50 seems a bit away now. Wasn’t the base around 5.25 in June?
Surely grain prices will start to fall in the new year
Will it. Last season's barley cost miller's 310+/ ton green off the combine this year admittedly it was dry,
Futures for grain for 2023 are running ahead of present prices all the time. Rations are looking like 400+/ ton for anything decent and that is if buying fairly decent loads
Very pricey. Beef prices looked good this year but 20 / 21 were better years when you factor in costs, thrive and no heat wave / drought
Cattle looked to made a good turn this year as they left a good gross return but the overhead this year were high with fert, meal & fuel costs.
Was talking to our meal supplier recently and he quoted €340/ton bulk for rolled oats collected this season 😲
It’s €400/T in bags
Last year was a much better year than this year. Cattle killed 15-20 kgs heavier, ration was cheaper a d less was fed. Fertlizer was less than half the price and I bough early in the year. Add in contractor costs gone up 20-30% and this year was nowhere near as good.
At present cattle are 35-40c/kg ahead of last year or 115 on a 330 kg bullock. 100 of that is gone on the extra cost of fertlizer and feed before you add in any extra cost. Add in cattle killing lighter, grading poorer and extra contractor costs and you are looking at 250/ head worse than last year.
In the south east he asked, fat cattle have being a super trade in that mart with all the Leinster factories and Northern Ireland factories competitive each week, and serious prices for fat cattle. Some local finishers are selling in the mart. One local finisher reckoned that some wouldn’t kill the prices in the factory and he doesn’t take too many bites out of a stone wall.
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