Dairy Calves 2024

Smug is expecting a beef farmer to cover your costs. When an animal is brought to the factory can a beef farmer detail the costs and expect the factory to cover them? In a bad milk price year processors don’t care if the price is below the COP you take the price your given based on supply and demand. Unfortunately the supply of calves far outweighs the demand. Beef farmers have had enough of rearing poorly bred calves with rising costs and making a loss year after year and trying to live off the SFP. Beef farmers have more options now but ultimately these calves have to go somewhere and if live exports go it could collapse the price of beef with a glut of supply.

Currently I’d say 575, 775, 700 and you’d be going well, price of cattle gone well back last few weeks, if you can hold onto them for a bit longer and the weather turns some bit in the coming weeks there will be farmers out then looking to buy you’re at a hiding to nothing going to the mart at the moment very little farmers out understandably.

I see hex 305kg making 900 yesterday in Macroom bullocks

I was in Thurles last Monday and I saw some great fresians selling, 338 kgs made €820, 334kgs €800,270kgs €650, all bullocks, but Thurles is a good place to sell fresians

They would be way better value than the "free " calves.

Possibly 200 or more kg liveweight heavier when mature and with a good grading good enough to get qa.

Exactly you can pick holes in the value I mentioned but you’ve a years work out in them and if they’re well done that’s the least you should be expecting. Have 60/70 weanlings here will probably sell a shot of them in the next 6 weeks and finish the remainder nitrates might put a finish to that in the next 2 years. Nice to get a twist out of them when you have the grass to do so.

You will need to apply to the dept to reactivate the herd no, same as a new applicant, with an inspection to check for a crush and somewhere to house a sick animal, it will take 4 weeks minimum, I did it last year

Looking at it, prices are poor,kilmallock was meant to be similar today, what type of fresians would portumna usually get? British or cross breeds

What’s the story with calf slaughtering have been told by a few in the past week 8 week rule has been backtracked on none said it was scrapped but has it been reduced? Won’t do much to change public perspective of dairy if it has been backtracked on.

Saw plentybselling for 5 and 10 euros..