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cash flow could be the issue. If farmers need money they will have to let cattle go. If not they can tell the factory to take a running jump. Time will tell which wins out.

Factories could just park the bus at 7 or 7.05 and Not move it up or down for the year and they would get all the cattle they wanted but they can’t not be at it

Northern buyers are not going to set the price on fire. In the UK Farmer weekly it gave R grades at 7.22/ kg . That a 7/ kg base for Continentals or 6.8/6.9 for AA/HE.

You will buy around the edges too in yearlings. We bought a couple of yearling 340ish kg HE heifers at 3.25/ kg. On hind sight that was even a bit strong the way the present market is. However you misunderstand my point to an extent. If you roll the dice 2-3 times a year you tend to have to buy one twist in the spring. Invariably these leave little enough margin over what is sold at the same time. Yes at present those AA look value but it depends on the price when selling. This is not a normal year, factory prices would normally be rising they are falling which means the lads that has sold a few weeks ago is making a profit as he replaces which is unusal in spring time.

Polish beef has been as or more expensive than ours for the last 12 months. The Polish and Dutch beef is benefiting most from the shortage as they have no high value contracts to mind. Do we give up the UK contracts and follow suit. They are the equivalent of Dairygold, when the price os strong they are better payers than anyone else whennthe tide goes out like Dairygold they suffer the most. That os the way markets work.

According tp Board Bia UK R grade steers averaged 7.33 week ending 28/2. Ky free rags have stopped so I cannot see the Irish average but at 6.8 base its a 7/kg for R grade steers andit was probably 6.9/7 per kg base that week.

https://www.bordbia.ie/farmers-growers/prices-markets/cattle-trade-prices/eu-world-cattle-prices/?country=UK

And what do you do the next time you want cattle killed. You could end up with marts as your only option

We are p!ssing against the wind with the cartel until the EU actually get involved. But they will not because it will lead to higher foid prices. Food prices are going to rise anyway and beef will rebound but its a matter of weathering what is happening at present.

TBH most lads could not be told last Autumn. I got dogs a use on this forum for pounting out the obiviius. When cattle prices are high kill the f@@kers and worry about tax and everything else afterwards. Somebody was always going to get burnt. But you are only burning if you bought too dear and got caught in the hype.

When a system is in place you sell cattle every year and replace them. Issue with sucklers is stocking and output level I can stock 2 stores to a suckler unit. After that the calf has to cover all costs fixed costs are higher and variable costs are higher. As well while sucklers are holding at present its not viable for any drystock man to buy a lot of them at present

I don't know about that Bass, the Bord Bia thing with the support of the county councils got a lot of traction. Speaking of labelling what happened to our PGI status? As far as I know Britain, Netherlands or Poland dont have it, we should be ahead of them on price. These labels and Bord Bia are of zero advantage to farmers if we can't command a premium price. So why should we bother attitude is awoke during the BB dispute.

We also have social media now which Larry M wasn't happy with.

On the back log, there were well able to hold the price of 3.60 pe kg for almost 5 months after the protest with multiple thousands of cattle backed up.

They can f"%<k off an buy their next blackrock clinic off someone else's back.

He said his resignation calls were fulled by social media.

I am doing the sums on finishing the animal mid August at 560kgs LW or 280 DW. A guess at a base of 6.40/ kg 20c QA and 2Oc, AA bonus.

I would expect them to be better weight wise than that

Thats vision, 👌

Ya you are right O+ average. AA nonus minimum is 15c/ kg. They were 428 so probably 450 field weight. They would probably average a lg a day so K/O woube nearer or above 300. I say thete would be a sprinkling of R's in them.

For grass cattle they were as goid as vale as I say withvthe exception of a few friesian heifers here and there.