So do you hope to purchase all weanlings and no store cattle? So will you be grazing 180 animals for some part of the summer or what time of the year in 2025 do you hope to have your cattle finished?
I got the details today on 1 LM and 2 AA bullocks I sent to ABP on 21-Dec.
The AA were 275kg and 271kg DW and made €1,470 and €1,447 or €5.35/kg. That’s before deductions and includes QA and AA/ABP/Advantage/whatever bonus. If they were approx 540kg LW they’d have to make nearly €2.70/kg at the mart to match the factory.
LM was 282kg DW and came into €1,451 or €5.15/kg. If he was 560-570kg LW, he’d need €2.60/kg at the mart to match it.
Happy overall. They got 3-ish kg of Grennan’s bull nut (€400/ton) for around 6 weeks. Lying on stok board which I scrapped out every day. That was a bit of a pain but still easier and cleaner on them than trying to keep straw under them.
I’ll weigh the last 14 stores left now next week and hopefully pick out another 3-4 for the same finishing routine. After that, whatever’s left will stay in the shed til the middle or end of March and out to grass again then. Can’t leave them out before that as the weanlings will need whatever early grass is there.
Anyone kill this week?
If it was me I would priotise my finishing cattle with grass if I could. Evenbei grout 10-15 days earlier makes a significant difference to cattle like that.
The sooner they are out the sooner they are gone. Weanlings will have all summer long to catch up.
Would you believe I forgot to ask on the phone? I’ll get the cheque and all details in the post in the next day or 2 so I’ll post it then
That’s a fair point. I’ll see how grass is going. Another factor that will play out in the coming 2 months is how much of the fodder rape the weanlings get thru. It’s a much heavier crop this year and even thou I’ve extra weanlings on it, I don’t think they’ll have it finished by late Feb when I’d hope to turn them onto grass.
When did u sign up with the abp scheme?
About 2 weeks before they went
Did you have any issue with it. I enquired last September and unless the sire was on the card you cannot get the bonus
Sire was on the card for the 3 of them as far as I remember.
But not sure why the LM didn’t get the bonus. Maybe he was missing a sire on the card? Or wasn’t an AA? I’ll know more when I get the KO sheet with the cheque.
I’ll gladly take whatever “bonus” is given but I’m not convinced it’s something there’s hard rules for. One of the AA had JE as dam on his card which disqualifies him according to the rules but the agent said that was grand as he was blocky enough.
Others failed to get into the scheme in recent weeks despite putting much more animals thru abp plants for years ...something smells fishy ( not on your part).
I agree. It doesn’t add up. But I said from the start it didn’t make sense - how can they apparently pay 20c extra just because I sign a bit of paper?
Would like to have all the extras in pricing to compensate for the lengthy enough wait on cheque. If it doesn't come tomorrow it'll be Tuesdays post then. Not a big deal but any man stuck for money would've liked the cheque the day they were killed. Maybe you had that option if you needed it though.
I say it was the sire
If u go to apb factory they pay on the day..in fairness
His agent could collect on the day or go up and JK pay him on the day,
Yes I assumed that from abp, siama must been happy enough with that. I know around here we can get extra bonuses with foyle meats but it's anywhere around 10 days before payment.
Abp plants always paid on the day but that's not an issue.
I killed 4 this week.
€5 base, around 24 months.
Are they all your own suckler bred cattle? What breed were they? Great weights.
Any base quotes for next week?
Was told 5e bullocks for the ordinary man.
Bought at the mart, but the dams were AAX, BBX and HEX. They were all CHX.
All from the one farm so more than likely suckler bred.
I'd say he was a bit slow to tag them, they were good size for the age.
Last of the cattle my father bought. God rest him.
Hopefully my eye is as good
Any prices available this week.
Agents ringing around so must be in tight supply.
https://youtu.be/EfseLPykITA?si=7tzrbmUk3PPajmtr
saw two cattle trucks yesterday evening around Kilkenny, they were full. I never saw cattle move at that time of a Tuesday evening before. If they were full they were going to a factory and it would be early for that.
Very anxious for cattle. Had 2 agents onto me. Got a load of bullocks going at 5.05 base. I’m sure there is more going. The opening offer was 4.90.
Going in the right direction.
A neighbour got 5.50 flat yesterday for HEX Heifers. Coming up on 24 Mts.
