Farmers are not backing up cattle
Worked for 16 yrs as a boner in various factories and have boned bulls,young bulls,cows,steers,heifers,ewes,lambs and deer.The beef for the burgers was got from whatever beef could be salvaged from the bones after they were boned out .This was then mixed with addiitives to enable it to stick together when pressed into individual burgers.Beef factories are capable of running their factories,eg wages,overheads etc on whats known as the 5th quarter which the farmer does not get paid for.The price they pay for the stock is only a fraction of their profits.
Did any of them use mrm
Now that you mention it ,the area-plant that the burgers were manufactired in was called the mrm plant.
What I've seen put through mrm machines you would not give to a dog
As I posted above, dairy farmers have been culling heavily in the past two to three weeks. IMO due to the new TB testing regime for cows some dairy farmers prefer to go direct to the factory rather than the mart. Independent factories were giving more for ex parlour and fleshed cows which I assume means that they have better contracts.
Cattle really backed up now....3 week wait....agents in the marts getting preference and making a mint. Was in mart today and easily turning 100e a head. Where's our rep bodies...oh sorry I forgot they are fighting the Co ops for a better price for milk.
Grass cattle very slow coming through in the midlands too.
Whats the latest beef price this week?....i have a couple of loads booked in for 2 weeks time...
What price were you offered when you booked?
Just booked them, havent discussed price yet...
He probably wasn't given a price when he booked that's what's happening now. I heard last night bullocks are on 4.90 this week.
Yeah I couldn't get a quote for next week. They won't commit to a price until they know how many cattle are already booked in for a week, then they can drop it if there's enough.
Quoted 4.90 for Thursday as well. Where will this price drop stop??
I heard they want it at 4.40
Yea, wouldn't quote in ABP untill partially booked in after a week, they told me too.
Last week was quoted 4.95 for bullocks in Foyle donegal
Eventually got a quote for 5.10 in omagh, across the border.
Anyway 4.95 was last week's quote southern.
What would be a good weight gain in terms of kg per day for nice quality CH bullock storks,bought in April as year olds and let out on good feeding ground,aim to sell in late November/early December. Would they gain a kilo a day on nice grass at this time of the year?
I’d be hoping so anyway
I got 4.95 from Larry yesterday for a lame bullock that was finished...
5.05 omagh next week.
Heard tonight 5.15 was offered by an agent this week, for maybe, liffeys meats, tho not fully sure on factory
4.90 offered ABP.
plenty variable quotes about.
Last of the feedlot cattle are going at present. I imagine that supply is tightening all the time.
ABP have a new factory lairage form. Lactating cows now must be declared and arrangements must be agreed that cows will be slaughtered within 13 hours of last milking.
This is a revamp I say to stop cows going from the mart to the factory
A wee uplift possible you reckon for a period.
Well APB IN clones is shutting for a few weeks, for some internal works, whether that's connected to these new arrangements.
A CH bull weanling I sold @ 8 months over a year and half ago, was killed a week ago. I see he killed at 559 u+2. What would live weight be approx and +2= good or what.
Thanks
U+2= indicates he had poor fat cover and technically was under fleshed. It would have been open to the processor to price him he would.not be on the grid.
@58%K/O he be 960LW probably+/-30kgs if that
He was a serious well made animal to have that weight on him and still not be fully finished. The likes of him needed at least another months feeding.
5.15, was actually in Dungannon Co Tyrone. There is an APB, plant up there as well a DUNBIA . If it was ABP quote, it's shows how the southern plants are acting the maggot.
How long after wrapping bales can you feed them? Grass needs a chance to come back.
559 kg at under 30 months is something totally outside my experience. He grew at 1kg/day carcase weight. I be lucky to do that liveweight.
Had he not been castrated he would have been that weight 10 months earlier.
Sligo. Great cattle. Were all those 3 cattle CHX? Also what is your bulls star rating on the repalcement be interested to see.
