Beef price tracker 2

Always, give with one hand to get you in the door and take it back off you with the other once their killed. This is where I wonder how the NSAI or standards authority calibrate their weigh and grading machines.

And when you question it you will get the usual "well they won't put on anymore weight now". I'll be honest I have a negative opinion of them and it's negative for a reason because we have got shafted more times between lambs and cattle, usually alway when their tight and want stock and promise you the sun moon and stars.

I can't take any credit, the aul lads does the buying and selling. To be fair to him he has a decent eye for stores, they usually always turn into good cattle but the do get well looked after.

1 month grass, the good silage in the shed for a month

Bucket of meal between a pen of 6 probally 5 times a week only the last month since in the shed, very little anyway we don't like meal feeding.

More than paid for keeping them, they were on a 20 acre field of clover and grass that hasn't seen a bag of manure in over 8 years and grass growth wasn't a problem with how mild it was, then a bale would do 6 of them roughly 5/6 days for the month or so they were in, so really only cost give or take the price of the bales, meal was negligible.

Any quotes this morning for this week? I heard Nenagh had no numbers at all last week. Couldn't fill orders.

Factories killing 450 - 500kg live weight cattle that aren't fit to make up the numbers. Anything instead of raising the price!

Bullocks or heifers and was that base?

Any indications for the coming week?

485 heifers

Have Hereford and Angus Bullocks which will be on 4th Movementat at time of sale should I feed on and hope to Slaughter? Or try sell in mart but hard to see that any one will be ìnterested in buying them. They are in between stock to me Slaughter seems to be best option. Value your advice/opinion.

Obviously two very different animals. You didn’t lose 100kg because of a couple of weeks drought or a wet month of October. He was a poorer thriver throughout the year. Did other cattle thrive bad as well?

Same breeding & probably didn't give enough meal, only 3-4kg.