Beef price tracker 2

Did it though at 4.50 and meal at 400/ton best twist was made from mid December to early march

Another Factory blockade is needed. If you have cattle hold firm make the Factories pay for them. They see it's easy we ( the Factories) keep dropping the price yet Farmers queue up to offload. It is a no win situation. I can't believe the prices that I paid for cattle and thought they were value for money. They are not worth what I paid for them it is a no win situation. Farmers need to put manners on the Factories.

I can't see any location or grouping willing to take on the factories with a blockade. Last time you had a fledging beefplan which had gathered momentum. Unless the farm orgs are willing to group

The SRM is costing him. It's a controlled material. There is only one entity in charge of it in the Republic. Along with that there is a distance limit you can travel with it.

As you get nearer the border there is more competition

The big lads all got shafted in the end as well, they got 3.45/ kg like everyone else. Ya the processor were offering them more to break through the strike, but very few got through.

It's hard to say how many are getting extra and if much extra. Really good article in the FI saying that 26% of the kill so far this year was feedlot cattle. That is all contracted. This is all now allowed as feedlot beef. Get on to the minister because it not photos of feedlots that Boards via or Larry use on there brochure. There was an article about a ( was it a Dawn) feedlot in the Midlands gushing about its systems ( I think in Agriland ) nearly all the land was in tillage.

Look at the FJ and the campaign it ran to get U16 month bulls included in grass fed.

We need an organisation that will throw sh!t and keep throwing sh!t about issues like this until it sticks

A Factory Blockade is simple you just don't let the Factories have the Cattle that they have to pay for then if they want them. Then they see that the Farmers are setting the price. The Farmers always give in too easily.

Yes and rte will report on the news that the bad farmers are causing the factories to lay workers off

Something simple along the lines of over booking cattle and then sending them to the mart that day instead. Enough farmers doing that collectively accros the country would mess up lines and have them juggling for numbers.

The biggest issue for us as farmers is to have unity. Very hard and next to near impossible. It's dog eat dog

You must be a factory agent!? The cheapest place for factories to get cattle is the mart. If no farmer brought anything heavier than 400kgs to the mart factory prices would rise instantly as the factories would have to coax the heavy stock out.

Marts are full of runner calves under 140kg at the moment,farmers paying up to €450 for them, im no accountant but the minute the hammer fall the buyer has signed his contract to loose money..can't blame the feedlots or factory for that.

I'm no longer looking at livestock units to the hectare but hectares to the livestock unit.

Worst animal you could buy to keep down grass,they need the best of grass not what's going/gone strong..the fr bullock is the lad to keep down grass..no worries about moves or QA..bit of value in them at the minute too

it would depend on breed and quality. 140kgs is poor enough weight for what are now 5-6 months of age cattle. however we are after a month of rain and cattle are starting not to weigh. however anything bucketfed that is that light is now often poorly bred, with bad weight per day LW gain. Starting to see pure friesian breeding that is failing to hit 600kgs at 28-30 months. It was just the AA or HE you had to watch before now it nearly everything.

this would definately put the wind up factories. Too many lads carrying cattle to 500+ kgs and then selling.Feedlots buy them stuff them with ration and sell to the factory. They have high cost systems and need cheap stores to survive,

I am getting cagy about them, Beware those 300-400kg nice fleshy looking square stores. These is breeding piut there now that is similar to the poorer AA's. 4-500 grams per day and trundle along.

The above would mean that Bord Bia, Teagasc and the IFA would have to get the finger out and do something productive for the farmer. No chance

Far from it, haven't a thick neck for that game. Less than 5% of stock coming in or going out of the place goes through the mart. I just focus on what I can control to improve profitability inside the gate.

The beef trade relationship between farmers and processors, reminds me of a bad marriage. Both need each other, one partner has coercive control over the other and is sleeping around a bit with more attractive suppliers