Anyone exit Suckler system??

Not the same I don't think as standing ringside even just to annoy them if nothing else and to see the playacting going on

We collected two from Gortnalea on a Thursday around noon. The young lad said we go to Listowel and try to buy a few.

Every animal we went on we lost at the last bid. As we were on the way home the young lad said ''f@@k that''. Two weeks later again I was collecting late he rang me he said he had one bought in Listowel, he had another one bought by the time I arrived there and a third by the time I went to pay for them.

There was a bit of gawking as I put the trailer in a loading gate before I paid. If the other f@@kers can do it so can I

Ya, buy them all online from a mart that's only 10 miles from me. I get batches of 10 and do two runs with the car trailer.

was in Ennis on tuesday which was show and sale day, was coming into mart after 9.30 and was dreading a big queue that you might usually find on such a day..not a single jeep infront of me, drove straight into ticket office and had my choice of loading bays..now there was plenty there after but it struck me that it was nothing like olden times when the place would be mobbed, no exit scheme needed i would think id say sucklers already dying away

If so many are leaving suckling, then it might leave better prices for those that are left.

PRoblem with that Patsy is that there is no difference in eating quality between suckler bred beef or dairy x. The dairy x will keep a lid on price. Exports are the only place that a premium might appear.

Expanding on this (every time I'm filling the tanker I'm typing). I fail to see this niche for pgi status for suckler bred Irish beef. Am I missing something?

Some top end restaurants are paying for grass fed suckler breed beef in D4, but sadly they’re a minority. Most restaurants want food supply the cheaper the better as they are limited on what they can pass on.

How can there be a pgi for each different breed/system? It leads only to confusion and stasis.

Irish Grass fed beef : can be anything as long as its grass fed, this is the ICMSA pushing their byproduct.

Irish Suckler reared beef: can be from a feedlot as long as it was a sucker calf... ffs...

That's before you go into rare breeds or family farmed.

It's as bad as trying to buy eggs in a supermarket. - 10 different virtue signaling marketing gimmicks.

Only if the actual beef is verifiably different or better than competitive product from the same country should any of have pgi status.

Nearly all mince and burgers taste the same and that's what the customers are eating most of.

Hereford and Angus brands have been totally devalued by the inclusion of dairy crosses which are half Holstein or Jersey.

Same with WAGU.

For the ABP Dexter kill, they have to be Ped Redg. There is some case for this as top chefs use it in their restaurants and it regularly wins world steak competitions.

Its not about the winning, it's the taking part 😅

Has it?

depending on which blind taste test expert is flavour of the week.

Then why doesn’t Mart prices reflect this

Some people like Easter Lamb as well

He’s actually retired since and a man that worked for him for years took over the business from him. But he was farming himself also and killing all his own stock, the one a week from my neighbour was only keeping him topped up.