For the house wife price matters and with pork, chicken, turkey at lower price that beef, yesterday got a sirloin roast in Lidl for 22 euros for 4 people for Sunday dinner, Turkey @ 7.90, pork steak & 4 euros, for to suit four people also, which is better value. As for barbecue weather the super markets are doing deals for this trade with cheaper than beef main cuts.
Hi NHG. Small world. Would you mind telling us what price per kg you got last week?
And did you weight the cattle before bringing them to mart?
Would you reckon they were closer to O= than R grade? I'd expect so, seen as you say they are dairy calves.
i dont see where these cattle are coming from
the reason the price is dropping has more to do with the uk price freefalling
steaks up nearly a 5er in dunnes for a two pack of ribeyes
we will have to see where demand lands
The last 2 Lots in Kilkenny which sold around 12.30pm we ours…..
4 Number AAX - 654kg €2,700 €4.13kg 4 Number HEX - 606kg €2,500 €4.13 kg
They were finished but we reckoned holding them for another week or two wasn’t going to put much more weight on them. Will have another 8 in about 2 weeks again & possibly every week after that….. Last sale of HEX were 694kg & AAX were 658kg on 12.06.2025.
As I said here previously we’re a dairy calf to finished beef systems where we rear 80 calves a year & the mart suits us as we can pick out 8 at a time & deliver them to the mart and be home again by 9.30am
At present IMO the processors are trying to back up cattle to force them out at lower prices.However this week will not have helped as lads switched to farm work mainly making fodder. Next week could be no better for them. last weeks kill was less than 29k.
a lot will depend on what contracts are they defined or best effort are in play. If its best effort will retailers increase the price to get product over other outlets. it will not keep foing down at some stage we will hit the floor fairly shortly. just on the maths I think on 4kg + grass finishing cattle are averaging 1.5kgs per day or 10.5kgs a week. if 70% of that is flest its 50- 55 euro a week in gain. at 10c/kg loss in prices its 30-35 euro a week. feeding costs are 12ish a week allowing 50c/day for grass. that is why I say kill only fit cattle
Are we talking about supply tightening and prices rising again
Or is tightening = price reducing
I think October onwards will be crucial. Exporters cleaned the place and that's where the tightening will be felt. It's against the processors rules to rise at that time of year given the must take care of their own to fill the feedlots. I don't think they will have control then. It happened last year with more cattle in the system, it will be interesting what will this year.
No if it tightens it will be in the next few weeks. However processors may nit have big contract commitments this is what caught them from last December to April. I think cattle may free up from September on it getting cattle off grass for the next couple of months that may be the issue
Grass cattle are really thriving, but are grass cattle in short supply, I know of a few big lads that would always finish off the grass but they have them all gone now, like you they fed out of the shed because of the strong prices
So you think August, early September could be when the big squeeze comes?
Then grass cattle appear and given the good growth and sun on their backs it helps them but on the other hand barbecue time kicks in. Albeit it cheaper cuts but nonetheless requires numbers.
Well when the wheel turns don’t be afraid to bury the boot in them! I have often seen it they would know when I would have cattle coming fit and I might only get a few hours notice,
It depends on how .any they have to kill during any one week. If mart cattle have dried up then they are dependent on there own feedlots and tied suppliers. There is a 80k+ gap to fill aa well, however young bulls aa well as 18-20 month finishers could help this from September on.
If you have fit cattle hang them but do not throw underfinished cattle at them
You would imagine 6 or 7 weeks should see the end of their own cattle
I had cattle booked into 2 processors this week both kicked me out to next Tuesday the night before.
The answer is unknown to us minions. I remember trying to steal a look into the book for a days kill in a factory in the south years ago and they coped me at it. Needless to say the closed it fast!
Just on your last comment, I had this discussion with another man earlier in the spring when the trade was on fire, we were wondering how many of these exspensive cattle were been purchased to control the price when numbers got tight, well if this is what they are at now and I expect they are, how long will they be able to play this game before there cattle run out? What I mean is why many weeks cattle have they on stand by
Yeah very small in kilkenny today. It could be down to a few things;
The big three ordered their men to buy forwardish cattle in the late spring and promised to reward them no matter the quoted price on the day of killing. They were worried about supply but they needed them as a control measure to. They are now killing these and cattle further from their catchment area at better prices while the local paddy feels the pain if he is lucky to get them killed on the week that he makes the phone call.
very small for Kilkenny, I know the weather is good but a lot of work already done down that way which shouldn’t impact it too much
Jesus, I was hoping to start restocking from next week, could be slim pickings and expensive.
That could be part of it alright. I just had a look at the sales from Delvin today. That bullock was, as I expected, with that weight, way out of spec. He was 39 months. A smashing looking bullock, no doubt, but totally uneconomical by the seller. He would probably have gotten over 3k for him 3 months ago!
small number meets in Delvin too prices are t hectic either.. 835kg AA Bullock only made 2640
wouldn’t read too much into mart numbers this week though. Lots of people busy at hay and silage.
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
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
I wasn’t in there I just saw the entries this morning, as of this morning there was only 33 pens of bullocks entered
Out of your spreadsheets what’s the longest they dropped consecutively and risen?
Was there many store cattle in there today?
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
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??
Why where do you think they could finish up?
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