Beef price tracker 2

Thanks Morphy87 for reply

After seeing a 380kg ch bullock go through the ring in carnaross €2050

Whats people’s opinions here on the restaurants saying that they are considering taking beef off the menus as it’s getting too expensive,allegedly people are not buying it as it’s getting too exspensive. I was at a gathering lately and we went for a meal, around 20 of us and the majority all got steak. How would that restaurant have managed if we all sat down and placed our order and then be told sorry but we don’t have steak. Personally I think it’s the hospitality sector playing the poor mouth again.I haven’t noticed it gone up much in the butcher or supermarket or have these increases been passed on yet?

I think it poor mouthing tbh.The price is driven by demand always has been.Hard see what will pull the price off beef back either.Seems to be a shortage across the globe for beef.With less and less land for production off beef available each year.The kill is well up at the minute purely down to people feeding and killing anything they can with the good price instead of storing for grass.

Very hard see what's going pull it all back now.Even the avrages price of the past 3 years beef has been on a steady rise year on year

I was in London the end of last October. We ate a lot around Greenwich and the Isle of Dogs. It was quite expensive over there dearer than Dublin even but that is one of the most expensive parts of London.

I was in Omagh at the Kerry Tyrone match and a burger in a restaurant was 20 sterling or 24 euro abd the portion was not big.

Best value places I ate lately was Matt the Thrasher in Birdhill and fir Sunday Lunch Morrisonson the old Tipp road at the back of Ballysimon for Sunday lunch

I only eat out twice year maybe,so it doesn’t bother me. But if steak wasn’t on the menu we wouldn’t have dined there, we spent nearly €2000 between between food and drinks,they can say what they want but if they haven’t it on the menu people won’t go in. I purchased 2 7oz sirloin steaks over the week for a little along with €7,I wouldn’t call that expensive.Restaurants saying beef is been priced off the menu I think it’s more that restaurants are pricing themselves out of the market. It’s gouging full stop.

It’s gouging full stop. First it was energy,gas, sick pay then the hike in the minimum wage and now it’s beef. We had two good steaks Saturday, chips peas and onions for around 15 euro I’d say

your talents are wasted milking!!!

Do any of you kill your own animals for the freezer?

We kill a Dexter bullock or heifer every year or two and get great feeding out of it spread over a few households.

They would be close to organic, never have them in the shed and only dose would be pour on unless they're lame or something.

We always try and do a 280 to 300kg dead weight Angus or Hereford every 12 to 18 months ish. We are out of beef for the last 6 weeks or so and finding it difficult to do one with the current factor/mart prices.

All depends on what you're selling. If they are pointy Friesians and are Os and Ps you'd go with a flat price. U grade Ch and Lms would be a different story. I thought there was more on offer currently.

What type of cattle are you selling?

Same here, with a Striploin roast cut into decent size steaks.

Feed them for another 6 weeks and then go to the Mart.

Where is it all going to end and what benefit will these crazy prices be to the farmers. What are the factories playing at and how can they justify these prices hikes. A few year ago we were getting €3.40/kg and now the sky is the limit.