Beef price tracker 2

Bit strange that, only one agent I'm dealing with currently is waiting on me to give go ahead.

30c on off beef and lads still paying over €500 for 3 week old tradional breed calves and over €4/kg for the same stock as yearlings.

Im told we will be looking at €6.50/kg soon

yes but the pull in beef price is not being reflected in the mart anyone with he and aa just needs to avoid the factory gangster cartel scumbags and there is 3.80 to 4 a kg available in the mart which I make it to be roughy 7.50 a kg in the factory.

U may finish all ur weanlings then so tanko

U might get urs eyes opened too

@leoch the most profitable is to produce your own and bring them to factory fit... or U grade bull weanlings for export. Until last year you were better off going the whole way to the hook that way you were fully in control of everything & not leaving anything for the vultures around the ring.

But currently you would be best to bring all to the mart.

but the stock bought today won’t be sold for 2years. I will be buying later in the year an I will have to give the going rate for them regardless off the beef price at that time. I need to have them cattle to sell in spring 27 to keep myself afloat, even if the profit on the is low I still need the turnover

You should know better so then. When cattle bought in Summer 24 for €1200 were being sold for €3000 12 months later and the finisher made far more profit than they expected, did they go back to the seller and share the windfall with them , did they fcuk.

There was no problem with the price of calves, weanlings and stores then of course, but when the shoe is on the other foot finishers think that the farmer producing the cattle for them should accept a sh1te price so they are guaranteed a healthy profit margin, just the usual hypocrisy i suppose.

Your original point was that calves and yearlings are too expensive, you think they should be cheaper so that farmers calving cows make a loss and you pocket all the profit when the cattle are slaughtered.
You want farmers calving cows to for go any profit to keep you in a job.
The problem at the moment isn’t the price of calves or yearlings it’s the factory price but you chose to ignore that for some reason

the problem is the factory’s are gangsters that’s the real problem. Beef should be at 7.30 base price in line or slightly behind the uk. The tramps here are trying to back up the cattle so they can control the flow off cattle all year to keep the price down. Michael fitzmorrise done a video yesterday where he calls out the cartel and is going to get the government to go investigate but they won’t do it.

You completely out by the side of it regarding my first post.My point was regarding dairy beef be it suck calves or dairy x yearlings.Maybe im no good at my system but a 3 week old angus or hereford calf costing over €500 at the current beef price doesn't leave a worthwhile margin in my opinion.Thats not a dig or a remark towards people breeding cattle.