Mart Price Tracker

Hi Lads have a few weanlings bulls only 4 and I'm feeding for sale 3 ch and one BB. Two of the ch bulls are 450-500 and the other 2 are prob 280-320Kgs I was planning on keeping these until end of march early April but with the trade hopping and the journal saying 4euro a kg is it time to move them or will this trade hold up until April?

No need to get so narky , that person is right then cattle had teriible kill outs, should have went to mart with them.

As long as you’re happy that’s all that matters. What age were them heifers? And would they have being roughly 550 live weight when slaughtered ?

No i dont finish cattle, I keep cows and sell my calves as wealings. I ment no offence to any1, just seemed extremely bad weights, hard to see how you could make money at them weights but if he is happy with them fair play to him

They might not have been finished to what you or @1848 taught. However they achieved both the AA and QA bonus. When he sold them its unlikely he would have done any better in the mart.

For nine months of the year you are as well or better off going to the factory than the mart if you are QA and in the scheme with AA or HE cattle. There are short periods in between when you ate better off in the mart. When at that you need to know your killout off the mart you go to..

The reason I asked @Siamsa Sessions fir the grades and FS was to see if he should send the ones he had now to the factory. I presume now he is judging them off the previous bunch so ya he should go to the mart but he should be prepared to take them home unless he is getting 2.65-2.75/kg minimum off fresh weight at home

God only knows how a mart scales works

Where you hope with slightly underfinished AA/HE stock is that butchers will push the feedlots and lads around the ring to a better than factory price or that a factory buyer will pay finished price for them. Even with all the hype about price I still see semi finished and finished cattle ( mostly cows) making less than factory price.

As well lads forget that if you are working you need to take a day's holidays and hang around the mart for 4-6 hours. If you ate paying for transport it's another 10+ to bring them home and you then have to go to the factory

Thanks i have u grade yellow ch prob make somewhere between 3-4 a kg if I’m lucky. But what I was wondering is have they peaked or will they be still good in mid March?

I’d chance them until mid March/April Grass buyers will be out and are a great customer. The current wet weather will put off a lot of buyers at the minute.

It will stop raining at some stage, rain is the difference between this and last year. Last winter was dry and mild plenty of grass that was able to be grazed this time last year, I was starting to let cattle out, it will be 2-3 weeks more at least this year, plenty of grass but ground conditions too poor.

They would not be the type I would buy this time of year but I would expect them to hold whether they rise further is questionable

According to the rag this week Turkey is looking for 600k weanlings...that's some amount... cattle won't be cheap for a while yet.

@Siamsa Sessions fair play on those cattle...you would have got less in the marts... every person should know their margin and people's circumstances differ fodder/housing etc.

Yeah I was debating about finished them as well but don't have enough of the heavier ones so probably better to sell them

That's good great to see a trade for quality cattle, have they started buying yet?