We were led to believe (by all kinds of industry experts) that beef price would drop a bit and never increase due to brexit. The opposite has happened. From 2020 to 2024 we were told the strengthening prices would soften in 24/25. The absolute opposite has happened. Why? Does anybody know? Have animal numbers dropped by so much in the uk? Have numbers dropped much in the EU?
The uk import beef tariff is around 12%.
Many is the time i had good R cattle going in to Larry only to see O+ on the killsheet....and then being penalised accordingly...
Its funny though...ive never had an animal grade higher than i expected...strange that...
stone mad for cattle but chancing there arm by trying to pull them I hear some factories are only killing four days this week because they can’t get the numbers
shop around
price still rising in uk
hold tough
I see a fat fr cow weighing 710 sold for 2140. Surly she would make more at factory
Anyone getting quotes for the comming week?.being told price is levelling out
For AAX Heifers offered €7.80 plus €0.20 bord bia plus €0.30 bonus if R grade.
Are many selling on the grid?
While I think these are R grade cattle I would prefer flat as I would be afraid factory would drop the grade and I could lose the €0.30.
Most of what are being killed now will have been intensively fed for the past 6 / 8 weeks …and the mountain lambs will only go into 60kgs if left as ram lambs. Mountain weather lambs will go start to go fat once they hit 45kgs LW
Very hard to get good lamb anywhere this early in the year
Are they now starting to give out? I was talking to an agent last week and he said there’s not a word out of them, he never saw them so happy
I don't have quotes as everyone is getting a different price. Factories are starving for cattle but giving out about having to pay for them.
Any quotes for next week, are we looking at another jump like previous weeks?
These were big framy stores I bought for grass this spring so the are taking more then the fleshier type I'd usually fatten indoors.
I'd be expecting these to hang into 320kg carcass average now in a fortnight,..possibly hold them and go another 10 day after that if the price is still going up either,But that will be the longest I'll keep them regardless
Fair play they look well. Will they get the 6kg for the 90 days ?? Would you find that HEx would be very fleshy with that amount of feed ? Would.normally feed 4-5kg for approx 50-60 days with that kind of animal.
And it's the nicest lamb you can buying its finished off mostly grass. It's mainly mountain lamb, loads of flavour. The best ones are tge o especially left go to 55-60kgs LW a really decent fleshy chop or leg
They're in great shape
It's more hoggets than lambs being killed at this time of year and (crazily) they are almost a par with beef prices now. Mad stuff altogether.
And you can’t bet a lovely leg of lamb or a few chops
A lot of butchers shop now sell a lot of ready to cook meats and with different deals for say 3 for €10 or for €20 what a lot of house wife’s buy a mix and match, few butchers are killing for the shop and buy in vac pack of certain popular cuts and few doing whole lamb, a lot of house holds don’t eat lamb nowadays.
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Lump
8.50 flat going for AA bullocks this evening a couple of factories finding it impossible to get cattle I’d say 9 euro will come faster than we think
I wonder are the butchers buying beef for easter instead of lamb because lamb is too expensive?
These lads will be on meal 90 days in 2 weeks,..we're getting tender on the feet on the slats. Still on the same diet as indoors..(adlib 73dmd silage and 6kg of meal) but just out in a sheltered bare paddock with the sun on there backs.
Should be nicely ready for factory in 14 days
an Angus cow made 3940 in Delvin this morning. Whoever sold her went home happy
We got offered €8.05 flat for 17 continental bullocks from two factories in the North East
Wherever price ends, it’ll all seem obvious and inevitable in hindsight 😂
Sure beef has being crazy in the states the last few years and it hasn't gone bust yet year or year it was being better than the previous year
Good question. Who knows?!
Lehmann Brothers going bust was the trigger for the 2008 global financial crash. Some economists predicted that crash would come but no one knew what would be the trigger before it happened.
When and where will the beef market peak is another unknown question too.
In a year or twos time, hindsight will be a great thing, but if anyone knew these answers now they could stand to make a lot of money. It's all speculation until after it happens.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
it doesn’t take much to create n economic shock wave that’s starts a spiral.
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