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is there any schedule for special weanling sales or store sales in Ennis? (Or is every sale “special”)?

what are these stores worth in mart. Born March 24.
can’t get to any marts to gauge price.

At 8 euro a kilo he.l might make more in factory. He could kill at 58-60 percent of mart weight

(assuming he is a nice suckler AI bred limo)

You'd have no luck otherwise, fair play

There is different levels of high prices. Huge difference in cattle Vue if there is a euro a kg difference in slaughter price. Depending on dead weight it could be 250-450 euro. There is also a significant difference between where you are in the country and how big or small a producer you are.

Correct. My biggest fear is some smaller ones driving the trade going bust. They have been really underestimated these past 12 months beaten the big 3 on most occasions thus rising the price next day as the big three are losing out on cattle.

Tbh I'd say the margins are wafer thin atm. The big three have economy of scale etc to keep the doors open.

In reality now it wouldn’t be prudent for a factory to close. There workers would get jobs somewhere else and not return when they decide to open again. Training new workers into a meat factory methods is no easy task.

What I pay for cattle is reflected by what I receive for finished cattle sold in any one eyear. I look st animal going into the ring that I am Interested in and calculate how much he would have turned in the present year. If he makes more or less it's reflected in how much I pay the following year. I have my costs and my margin. Costs are gone up slightly because I am feeding longer.

I would be buying the lighter store around the 350 mark ideally. Depending on the breed the friesian is 13-1400 euro, coloured ones vary from 1400-1700.

I'm not seeing adequate returns from.those type of cattle so I am sitting on my hands.

All that silage and hay coukd be needed yet this year. Last year was an extremely short winter. A long winter would use up s lot of reserves.

Numbers of cattle have not come out yet of finished or stores. I fear for the price from.mid December unless there us significant numbers of finished cattle heading north every week. From a statistical point of view the 2024 excess has dropped to 35k and is still 7-8k per week eating into that excess