Beef price tracker 2

Some longer most shorter. Average is 14-16 months at present. 60% will be gone between 9 and 12 months of purchase. Trying to build up numbers to fully stock new farm. No farm payment now for the second year running but we have been able to buy slightly better this year than last year. Why are you fixated by lenght if time they are on the farm

Demand is at an all time high...…but so are prices some seem unable to accept that. Numbers on the processors side at present. Christmass kill ending now so demand for beef will be limited allowing processors go build up stock. First of the shed cattle appearing out of shed along the west of Ireland that were housed in September.

When numbers are on there side processors will always pull prices, its always been that way, we do not call them the cartel for no reason

Processors have dropped contracts because of numbers available. Ya they can sell all the beef they get, but there contracts are all they are worried about.

Two really good articles in the FI today well worth a read for anyone that is in the beef game. As well prices report and outlook on the usual prices article.

7.50 base this week

Kill is 32k within a kill of 50 head of last week. Processors are rationing supply to contracts not killing much more than they need Processors know there is a limited supply abd are budgeting accordingly.

According to the FI the processors are afraid if they pull prices too much farmers will throw too many cattle at them. Bigger feeders with contracts are p!ssed off the store price has dropped but processors are holding there cattle in reserve.

Yes our tonage and percentage of the UK dropped. Brazilian, Australian and New Zealand beef has replaced it according to the FI yesterday

Fair play attack the poster do not try to come up with a counter argument and debate the points I raise......either becase you do not understand the business or you are incapable of debating the point. I gave an analysis of what I think is happening and the reasons behind it. I am in this game 20+ years it took me 10+ years to understand the way it works. I believed the BS from the rag about soft sellers and looked at the average prices in it that I seldom reach becase I am at the edge of the processing industry. Held cattle and lost 5c a week for 3-4 weeks often before I would sell.

On demand and supply I said a few weeks ago that numbers woukd be 30k plus out into the spring I say I will be right it's how far over 30k will decide what happens

Get him to contact his usual agent to see what base a factory will give preferably one he usually deals with. If he is getting anything over 7/ kg base I be going to the factory. It quite possible if he has a decent relationship witha processors/agent he will get a decent base up towards or even at what is going locally. Other than that if he was near me I would tell him to try to get a price off Gortalea or Castleisland but mart weight will be back 50-60 kgs.

With that sort of weight processors will want them to fill contracts and some are not requiring QA. But he will need a firm price beforehand. I would not spend too long shopping around I be getting them.gone next week. I would be ringing a mart manager today to see if they will look at them basically he needs to get the finger out