Is Larry the strongest man for cow's?
Especially good young ones?
how are exporters able to give so much for cattle factor in costs before they reach their destination then cost to bring them to slaughter I couldn’t even hazard a guess what price they need to get to make them even break even.Does anyone have any answers to this?
they are freely giving 7euro plus a kg now granted great animals but it don’t add up
factories pulling prices here and stores especially weanlings are going up up up there is something not adding up and it’s going to tell eventually
Weanling price has no relevance to today's factory price as weanlings are going for feeding to countries that cannot import cattle from other European countries because of bluetongue and foot and mouth so these weanlings have no correlation to factory price in Ireland
we could t import weanlings at these prices and make money so how can they
in fact these weanlings would lose fortunes at current prices
What's happening there is exporters are trying to preserve their own market while driving out the opposition. This can be pure dog eat dog and it was done effectively in the past when Purcells in the 1980s took over the trade by paying way over the odds for stock. Whoever has the most financial clout will win out but those farmers in the firing line are laughing. Ireland is the only bluetouge free country in Europe too.
Store cattle are pure mad price at the minute given the factories attitude, i just can't figure it out, somebody's knows something.
but the exporters still have to get paid over how can the people over pay for it though
store cattle at d mo are unsustainable at current prices especially the lighter ones and still the price of beef is being pulled I know beef farming was always unpredictable but never before was there so much money at stake
It's all about control. Often cattle dealers takes hits too. When an exporter has complete control their margins per animal are huge.
Two exporters at fisty cuffs outside a local mart recently.
Did they box
great better than them getting alone and dividing the cattle before the auction
They are being exported to customers that can’t get cattle -at any price. I don’t have a link to it but I saw a report recently that indicated that the UK won’t have the capacity to have even half of its food supply produced indigenously by 2031. The balance has to imported. The factories here can quote 1 euro per kilo and say they that they fully booked up for a month but farmers need to realise that the EU market is now substantially in deficit.
As countries become more affluent, the demand for higher quality foods such as beef and dairy grows too. South American beef which was long used by the EU to keep prices down here is being taken by Asia and now there is a net demand from many of those huge cities in Africa above all places.
The War in Ukraine has big contracts to supply food, hence the made demand we saw for Canner cows which has moved on to any type of cow or bull now.
I wonder does Larry have contracts to fill to feed the Russian soldiers also?
I doubt it because of the sanctions.
AAre we still buying fert off them
Yes I believe we are.
went for a good drive this evening and the Father said that he has never seen such less cattle, fields of grass going strong
good weather this week might put some pressure on the factories. BBQ weather will increase demand and farmers will be busy with silage so number being sold might be back
Any change in quote this week anyone know?
I heard €7.40 Heifers, €7.30 bullocks. They're pulling the prices hard with no justification. Every farmer around me that was feeding cattle indoors have their sheds completely emptied over the past 2 weeks. Factories killing 3 days a week and waiting for grass cattle to come. What's to stop the factories pulling back to €6 per kilo if €7 is broken in a few weeks??
What is more important is what’s being paid not what’s quoted does anyone know of flat prices for Angus bullocks I'd have some to sell
I'm hearing 20 cent less and don't want cattle.
Kill numbers locally are running less than 50% ATM.
Yeah I have heard of one factory only working two days a week, but how much grass cattle are around to come on stream? I know a few that would normally sell off the grass but fed the cattle out of the sheds because of the strong
These last two to three years factories started to drop prices heavy around the June bank Holiday weekend. I used to and know a few that buy forward stores in the Spring to hit that peak period. Its not for the faint hearted now when prices falling and kill being reduced.
How long will it take for the thing to stabilise?
My local mart fit cull cow's being sold well below 6.60/6.70 factory price. There getting them cheaper at mart
Got quoted 7:20 base for a few bullocks for the coming week over the weekend.
