Beef price tracker 2

With age comes acceptance. I now work to the serenity prayer

"O God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed, the courage to change what can be changed, and the wisdom to know the one from the other."

The courage is not gone. However until we get real change on the regulation and competition side.

Another contributor here has posted about me on another forum here and I quote:

"Don’t argue with this poster as you can’t win or make sense at times, over on the farming forum there is only one way let it fly by as being an expert is a specialty".

In general zI do not take what happens here to another forum or bring what happens there back here. There was one exception and that was to do with property

He was one of the experts that taught we would never see a poor day again and we be getting 10/kg now.

One of the easiest push backs to the processors and societies would be to insist on a 20c/kg minimum bonus on AA/HE and SH or any other breed. If it was not paid cattle go in as ordinary beef. No selling of AA, HE, SH or any other bonus cattle through marts.

Watch them suffer then, along with the socities if enough lads did it, especially May going into June. No accepting of flat pricess either. It would take the summer but it would hit them.and retailers hard

But how many would actually be willing to do it.

There was a contributor on here that I was close to. He got killed in a farm accident this time last year. The reason for farming accidents is its a low margin business. We do things that we shouldn't have to do to keep our business going. I am f@@ked if I am going to be killed by a suckler cow. I had a close one with a rig years ago. With Willfarmer it was from a shed roof he should not have had to be on.

ar dheis de go raibh a anam

The mountain sheep producers will be grand......well for the next 5-10 years anyway. They have discovered organics.…and as long as the government funds them they will eat the cherry. When you can collect 300/ HA up to 70 HA and 60/ HA after that along with your SFP…WGAF

Supervalu had fillet steaks at 50.99 a kg before this weekend (that's some killing in any man's calculations) so for the easter "offer" some baron decided to give them a loyalty bonus and now the offering is 34.16 per kg ... I think this game needs serous examination.

I was supposed to go but git delayed and it got too late.

The rag was getting together stakeholders in the beef industry and discussion about price forecasts and direction.

Got a call from Larrys Agent today...€8 flat offered for 20 HEX fat R- type heifers under 30months...Midlands...

I told him i would think about it....

Now thats the real playing us for fools...

Sickening.

I wonder will the weather effect beef supply from late May to mid July. Hard to see cattle coming off grass in any numbers before end of June. Personally we are a month behind. Ground conditios are worse now that late February start of March around here. Cannot see us being able to feed at grassfor another 3 weeks at least. Ground conditions will just not allow it.

Factories hav some sort of contracts in place. Supermarkets are not doing supy day to day. Sime contracts may have been dropped but some are in.place.

I wouldn't be expecting miricles. Maybe a base that creeped up to 7/kg. It would mean HE/AA at 7.2/7.3, plainer type Continentals 7.1/7.2 and my friesian heifers 6.7/6.8 for those I get out in that 6—8 week period. It would also mean 6.5-6.7 might be the floor to mid September.

Small things would make me happy