Booked in for the morning so I'm going to put my money where my mouth is now and predict how I think they'll do.
The smallest will only kill around 240kgs and will only be an O- at best, I won't be too shocked if I see a P on the docket.
The overage will be the heaviest at around 320-325kgs.
The rest will be from 250-285/290kgs and should be a mix of all the O grades.
Overall they should average 270-275kgs so if I avoid the P grade then at €5.55 they should average close to €1,500.
That's about right imo.
I’ve been quoted €5.55 flat price for hex from 3 different midlands factories for a rigid/tractor trailer load. 1 overage in the bunch.
Grid base price is €5.20 so a continental would have to be grading U= to be a better price than an O- whitehead at the minute.
Yea, definitely a contract they want to keep, I don't get any extra benefits from it unfortunately.
Might try push him for more money if he mentions China the next day, some chance of that
Friend of mine has supplied China spec stock to a factory since China market opened approx 5 or 6 years ago except when the market was shut for a couple of years. The factory always seem very anxious to get his stock to kill on china day and don't ever try to delay taking animals from him so it must be very profitable for the factory
Plus CCTV from moment cattle enter the premises and inspection of the cattle lorry/trailers ... alot of hoops
I dropped off a good few for China.
Have to be kept separated from when they're unloaded and be in spec as above.
The best cattle I had all year went to China.
Wonder what they're paying for the Irish beef over there
Was asking about it last year in the lairage and they had to was down after. Keep only china spec cattle in the lairage and not allowed to mix with others. Serious amount of boxes to be ticked in the factories for this market.
Surely the wash down happens before the kill? Not much point washing after….
U30 months, tb free for 12 months and QA for life, essentially farmer cattle. All the china spec have to be slaughtered together and then the line and lairage washed down.only really suits to kill in larger plants on 1-2 days and kill first thing in the morning
They must be eager to move more than Offal or is it to be the first with a container
If I remember correctly the figure of 3200 tonnes exported to China in 2023 , was mentioned on the radio last week when the market was reopened
Britian has a population of 67 million in and area about 2.5 times the size of Ireland( 32 counties), it has a shorter growing season than us with less rain but more sunshine. England itself has a population of 56 million In an area 1.6 times the area of Ireland
They could never produce enough food on the island for there population, so they were always food importers. The vision the Brexiteers had was that they could access markets outside Europe to import cheap food but still export goods and mainly financial services to Europe.
They have ended up still importing food from the EU but there export market has tariffs added to it.
If food become too cheap in the UK there farmers will become bankrupt. The one agricultural product they had an excess of lamb is struggling bother here and in the uk
I think in all the talk that there has been about China over the last few years they have actually taken very little beef, only a small bit of offal. The UK is our market & once it stays strong then prices here will stay strong. One of the UKs biggest issues is they haven’t got workers in the factories to process slaughtered cattle. Nor do they have vets to oversee the process so they need to import beef from here.
Also with the red sea issue probably very little going to China so lads shouldn't get too carried away with the hype as the farmer never gets any money for the offal anyway
U30
Herd 12 months tb free
Not feedlot
They mainly taking offal so carcass weight not a major consideration.
Well you could be right. Can't remember what market Foyle meats were sending too tbh
Wouldn’t think weight is a factor for the Chinese job. More so tb and number of movements and all that craic coz they are fussy eaters!!!
They are not buying steaks or roasts so weight’s are hardly as important. I could be wrong though.
300 to 400 kg spec I imagine. Foyle donegal does give 10 cent bonus for them weights going out foreign
Forgive my ignorance, China spec ?
I actually squeezed 5.10 out of Larry last week for these 3....also 15c HEX breed bonus...
Ive another couple of loads going in a couple of weeks...so used that as abit of 'leverage'....
The agent no, but then I was surprised to hear the same from a farmer.
I’ll see when my own agents get back to me. My thinking is they’ll talk about a price drop to keep lads happy when it just remains the same.
Do you believe him ?
I’ve been told by 1 agent and another farmer today that there’s a 10 cent drop on the flat price quotes for hex and aa stock this week🤷♂️🤷♂️
I’ve a load to go myself this week so it’d be just my luck but I’m waiting for 2 agents to come back to me and I’ll know more then.
Base price for other breeds remaining the same.
Abp eager for china spec cattle
Any more improvement for the coming week?
That's not great... I'd kill the p and bring the herefords to the mart.
Larry was quoting me 5.05 for a few bullocks there...1 overage P shìte one....1 middling HEX and 1 decent HEX....
I havent a leg to stand on...
Looking at the prices cattle were making in Cahir mart today the factories have a lot more scope to increase prices. Got €5.15 base for continental bullocks in factory in Southern part of country earlier this week.
neighbour getting 5.60 flat Angus bullocks
Of course he will... my advice to everybody is take you time with the Chinese back in the game gives the factories great advantage with regards the firth quarter.
