Mart Price Tracker

3.85 is about a base price of 7.6/ kg for overage friesians grading g O-.

After that you have to balance Mart and slaughter fees and differences in haulage

This is it. Every situation/farm is different. Like anything else in life, it is rarely black or white. Each situation requires careful consideration to ensure that the best decision is being made. I know that I could only dream about some of the K/O that some lads here are achieving but also accept that my land would not have the power of good land elsewhere in the country.

Twist

If you are OK stocking wise cash in now.

You can take your time between here & grazing 26 to pick up a bit of value if you have to restock

At present we are the highest priced beef in Europe. We are an exsporting market both live and carcasse. The market that drives our market is the UK market we are on par with it for a few weeks no. Our kill is sub 25k a week. We are eating the gap in deficit fast.

IMO and it is just an opinion not a wish the numbers are saying that the kill from mid September will be as strong or within a couple K of last years. The main difference will be less cull dairy cows. Last year from mid September to Mid December we averaged 37/38k.

Now unless 100k finished cattle went North or on a boat extra compared to last year during the summer that would change the data. However there is nothing to suggest that happened.

TThe last factor to worry about is what effect Brazibeef imports will have on the UK market from now to Christmas

You are constantly on about suckler farmer bashing, it you are attacking the poster not debating the post.

Friend sold cattle flat last Monday at 8/ kg. Factory made a mistake and priced them flat it was 7.67/ kg. It was over 100 per head. If flat prices dissappear to ordinary small producer where they can get them⁹ and if the base dropped 50c/ kg then that price would be 7.17/ kg. That is a collapse IMO and it might be worse. 80c/ kg on a finished 330kg carcasse is 265 euro.

It really opened my friends eyes he sold 10. He has 10 more "that are not finished". He finishes to FS 4-/4= as a good few of his cattle come up from O+ to R-. They all would be FS 3. If I had been him I would ⁹have killed the lot at that price. He has 3-4 more that were 3+ or within a shade of it that he is now sorry he did not kill.

Ye seem to make things very complicated when it comes to selling cattle in your part of the world. He has no need to be sorry he didn’t sell the 3-4 more he has near fit, all he has to do is ring his agent and they’ll be booked in for next week at the same €8 a kilo flat price he got last Monday, no dramas, no need to have 10 at a time or a full load, just a simple phone call!