Beef price tracker 2

Also have that extra bit of size and bone to carry weight. Always found Charolais out of a Sim / Lim Cross cow make great cattle to feed into big weight… often would see heifers killing over 450kg carcass with that cross at 30 months

the sim breed a great feeding type animal but you need to cross with a lim to bring a bit more style if your selling weanlings. The cows are good mothers but they are very soft feet wise and can sometimes throw a bellyish type calf. They are a breed that was going well as a maternal type bull and I’ve a few cows here with curaheen Earp in them that are great mothers but I got caught with curaheen apostle breeding that looked like super animals but weren’t to calve anything of any size. I know here any of the calves of those cows were brutal calvers too and I hung the last one up last year.

Same everywhere with weanlings, as 2yo colour isn’t as important

age gone out the window and moves always was a way to bring down the price they’ll make 6.50 all day long and if he sent them to a mart a lot more if they are the real ones

If he doesn't get it this week he'll definitely get it next week.

if they are real ones they could make up to 3.70 a kg in the mart and give it two or three weeks more maybe more

There was a time were on a load of cattle overall you would better if fit sending them to the factory. But they needed to tick all boxes, movements, age, grades ect.

At the minute the worst mart price you get would beat the factory price & if you have something that doesn't tick all the boxes then the mart price would hammer any factory price.

Do you know who got them??

I saw them selling. Some price.

As well when numbers start to come on stream it allows them along with withdrawing flat pricing to rapidly drop prices without officially dropping the base price much.

I suspect that may be there tactic this time.e as well. It will depend on the volume for the contracts they have

There's always one !

I don’t agree Anto, yes at €2,000 for 550kg they’re well ahead of factory price but even by todays abnormal prices that’s still the exception.

€6.40 flat price is freely available for Angus countrywide now. Depending on the mart that’s somewhere between €3.35-€3.45 per kg live weight. I’ve just looked down through Bandon mart where they were sold today. Them heifers made €3.64, a great price. Looking at around the 550kg and upwards Angus that were sold, and leaving out that 1 exceptional lot, there were 17 more cattle sold in 9 lots from around that weight up today. The prices ranged from €2.88 to €3.41. 5 of the 17 cattle made their factory price, the other 12 made below it and over €100 a head below factory price for some of the lots.

If it was the one factory man that bought them all, even with paying well over the odds for 1 lot he still has a good days work done getting cheap stock for the factory.

I've said it here before the consumer felt this coming 2 years ago.

The retailer/processor is only getting around to giving the farmer his share now.

6.40 flat for aa heifers off dairy cows is approx 3.22 to 3.32 mart equivalent suckler bred Angus would have far better ko