That's 5c better than 2 weeks ago
€4.65 base in Enniscorthy today
Bullocks or Heifers?
Bullocks
Is there a factory in Ennuscorthy?
Slaney meats, Camolin. A few miles north of Enniscorthy.
Clohamon, just outside Bunclody, not Camolin. Camolin is Irish country meats and kill sheep.
Thanks for clarifying that. It’s a long ways from here!
Forgot them and often killed cows there.
Things must be starting to favour the seller.a man from donegal came two & a half hours on a tractor with a trailer load of cattle to liffey bjd today.
Never seen as many fridge trailers moving about either.
Bullocks freely making 4.65 for the week gone, south east
Heard of an agent looking for bullocks to bring up the north yesterday. €4.80 base
Everybody hold for a week or two
With the weather improving, people should hold and forget about this 30 months for awhile and see what will happen,but agents are ringing around looking for cattle
Better weather and good grass growth should tighten up supply next week too
Alot of cattle gone into sheds with the weather in the past 2 -3 weeks causing a bit of a shortage for the next weeks according to my agent.
But they r not paying big monies only up 5c from the bottom and stores thru the roof. Makes no sense as usual.
After the calm....the storm.
The time to buy was 2-6 weeks ago. The market is the market. May to August cattle are always value
Numbers are small in marts between May and August so it's not as easy as just saying that was the time. You could have a lot of running and racing done. Plus IMO store cattle have been too dear for the past month. Can only see them coming back in price
@Kk man the last thing the factories want to do is lift the base price at the minute. Some are giving €4.65 plus a 10 cent "suppliers bonus". They love the old close & mirrors stuff.
Anyone following the English beef trade ? British Farming Forum reporting a big increase in fat cattle price particularly beef cows . Albeit from a lower base in 2023 than 2022 but it would indicate a significant increase in demand over there.
Thats effectively € 4.75 base .
Time to start looking for € 5 base .For starters !
No running. Just use LSL after you have a couple bought hook up the box and head away for them.
That’s perfect for lads dealing in small numbers but any lad buying a selling any substantial amount would be on the road every day if only buying in 2’s and 3’s.
Box will carry 5-6 250-400kg stores. Will often have another 1-2 bought before I hit the mart. You will waste as much time hanging around a mart. Two and a half hours will go for collect and bring home a load. Depending on when you buy during the summer add 18-20kgs per month to weight before housing.
A June bought store is at least 80-100kgs heavier by November housing. You will buy lighter coloured stores at 2-2.2/kg. Bought 330-350kg friesians earlier in the summer for 1.6-1.8/kg.
Greater numbers do not necessarily mean greater profit. Too much competition for the more forward a store is with less room for margin. Cattle bought in the early mid part of one year and hung in the middle of the following year can leave a gross profit of 1k with very little ration fed.
I don’t dispute anything you’ve said there but I wonder did you reply to the wrong person because very little of your post has anything to do with my post you replied to?
My post was that lads buying in bigger amounts of cattle don’t like buying 2 or 3 at a time from small sales or they’d be on the road every day. That will be the case no matter what time of year it is or what the prices are.
Also a lot of beef farmers would be in full time jobs as well so wouldn’t have the freedom to come and go to marts at the drop of a hat so when they’re buying they’ll buy what they want in a short enough time frame and it’s another job off the list.
If a lad has to take half days from work to be trying to get his stock bought in with smaller loads he won’t be long using half his holidays up and the few euro he’ll save on the price of the stock isn’t worth it then. And maybe a wife/partner at home giving out that he’s never there with them or the kids! It’s not all about money sometimes
Would that person ur talking about there that the wifes rearing up on dbk1 not be better getting a guy who goes to all the marts to do the buying for him if he let's him know wat he's after
I tried that a few years ago. Had one good man buying but they were coming too slow. Had a couple of other lads then that I just couldn’t trust.
The way forward for the man that doesn’t have time because of home life is to buy them online. If you are left with one or two most marts will get someone to drop them home.
Anyone that is that is getting someone else to buy for them isnt overly concerned about price or profit.
Margin is too tight to be cutting some luder into the deal that is too lazy to work and not smart enough to do anything else (like show cattle again or get job totally outside farming)
I get about 25% of my cattle bought for me and it's bigger job to watch the guys buying for me than to buy myself.
I always remember when I started first there was big fallout around the ring. One dealer/agent took everyone on and bought everysort of cattle 200 dearer than anywhere else all week.
After sale he was on phone around a corner in car park explaining how sale 'was on floor and he had 12 light cattle that would suit your job'. That was followed by 'i know you weren't going to buy for few weeks but I just thought of you and those will never be bought as cheep again'
Some poor sucker that worked hard all week or possibly all his life do the same dealer could pretend he had biggest mickey around ring.
Why would you let a lad buy cattle for you that you don’t trust,
