I think it will be back to school time in September usually stops the drop.
Well if that’s the case. We are in for a long summer, if they held around €7 for the end of August it wouldn’t be too bad
Cows are back this week at 6.50 ,they are talking about bringing them back to 6
I was quoted 6.50/6.60 and 6.60/6.70 today. Only kill small numbers
Great price are they contentials
P3/p4s. Odd 03
I see very few heavy cattle in Kilkenny today, maybe are things starting to get tight?
There was only 3 bullocks over 600Kg in Ballinasloe yesterday. And I think it was 5 bullocks over 600 Kg in Portumna. According to martbids. Hopefully it is enough to stop the weekly 10 cent drops from the greedy folk in the factories.
That’s one way of stopping it, or maybe the heavy cattle aren’t in it
Local kepak plant would not take cattle from a regular supplier this last week and he ended up killing them in other rival plant he never dealt with before .Would be killing approx 130 annually.Never had this problem before,some thing strange goin on.
how many days were the factory working?
Regular tactics at a local ABP plant. Will not take cattle from a.aller producers that do not supply on a regular basis ( weekly/ monthly). They will allow you to book cattle in for a week or ten days time but will not quote until the week of supply. They use weekly suppliers and feedlots to supply cattle to back up smaller producer cattle.
Very few in Listowel either today and quite enough in Castleisland yesterday. However prices are at or below factory price without the extra hit on fees
Hi Bass. What do you reckon a lot of 4 AAX bullocks weighting 654KG in the mart today, would reach for in the factory today? They were 28/29 months. All out of a FR/FRX cow.
So do you think people just aren’t going to the mart or are cattle scarce?
654 kgs mart weight is about 684 fresh weight. At that weight 50-51% KO probably an R grade AA as well. Haven't sold this week . From the Indo last Tuesday processors quoting 7.2 base 20c/ kg AA bonus and I presume U 30 months add another 20c/ kg. So 7.6/ kg@ 51% KO app 349kgs DW 2650. Deductions 15 euro approx. Approx 40 less if O+.
There may be more available depending on numbers and where you go. That what I would expect out of Gortnalea. If elsewhere if no water available in pens another bit of weight loss
Marts up the country may be paying more but down here even Continental cattle are mostly back to factory price.
I say cattle are scarce but processors are showing little interest at present. Last week they killed 28.5k cattle. It's only now the increase in beef price is being passed on to consumers it may be effecting demand
You are very close. Lot 212 in Kilkenny. 654 KG made €2,700.
I am always the pessimist though. I had them down as O= but I agreed with your estimated weight. I went with 340KG. That would be €2,523 in the factory this week.
I agree that mart prices were well back the last 2 week but I detect a slight increase since yesterday. Fingers crossed.
I had cattle booked in for Friday. Rang Tuesday evening looking for them for Wednesday morning.
I think that answers my question about cattle been scarce
Yeah I definitely think that they are gone up in the marts the past few days compared to last week or two
If the price in the factory could stay at 7.20 bullocks I think we would all be happy.
Killing 4 days.
Why where do you think they could finish up?
I haven't a clue. Just going on the usual media outlets the last number of weeks, they kept mentioning 7.00 as a target base price to get to. Looking at my spreadsheet here, of weekly prices back to January 2021, the increases/decreases often go in blocks of a few weeks at a time. This is the third week of drops from 7.50 to 7.20. So hopefully they stop now. Or dare I hope, even edge back up??
Unlike LSL I cannot see the video of them retrospectively. Never liked martbid or Mart eye for that and no details before going into the ring.
I had two NRX heifers a week ago crack 2k each. One an O= & the other a O-. If the likes of them were crossed with an AA they should easily grade R at 650kgs plus LW. Had nice FRX bullocks two years ago grading O=/O- at 300-320 DW. I generally find AA are O+ at 580kgs+ LW and are into R's by 650 depending on FS
Was there many store cattle in there today?
Out of your spreadsheets what’s the longest they dropped consecutively and risen?
I wasn’t in there I just saw the entries this morning, as of this morning there was only 33 pens of bullocks entered
Newport today 5 lots of bullocks, 4 lots of heifers, 4 cull cows, a single calf and a suckler cow with her calf was the total sale.
Listowel Less than 30 cows 3 lots of bullocks, 3 single heifers 4 years olds , a weanling bull and a stock bull.
While those marts can be quite they ate seldom that quite.
I would say take no sh!t from Indians next week
Well the shortage of numbers had to hit sometime! Only 27 pens of bullocks in Thurles Monday and 8 pens of heifers, only 21 bullocks over 600 kgs
