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
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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.
And you can’t bet a lovely leg of lamb or a few chops
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.
They're in great shape
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
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.
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
Any quotes for next week, are we looking at another jump like previous weeks?
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.
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
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
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.
Anyone getting quotes for the comming week?.being told price is levelling out
I see a fat fr cow weighing 710 sold for 2140. Surly she would make more at factory
shop around
price still rising in uk
hold tough
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
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...
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%.
Excellent types well done.
Farmers have taken a complete hammering the last two decades the only sector to keep up a little bit on cost of living was the dairy side but that has turned out to be indentured slavery (im a dairy farmer myself). As a result people have kept less and lesser stock. The diary beef animal in Ireland is also tiny in comparison to a proper beef animal
I would consider any talk of a price "leveling out" as factory propaganda to aid a potential flush of cattle....
Im waiting for €10 by June.
I would say it's a bit of a ploy by factories to get some control. We are heading into 2 4day weeks. Will be interesting to see how things play out as the week progresses
The best stats I can find are from 2015 to 2024 uk cattle population fell from 9.8 million to 9.4 million. With a larger fall respective to beef cattle.
Yet beef consumption per capita has fallen 10% in uk since 2015.
has total consumption increased or decreased
And population has increased by 4 million to 69 million
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