Beef price tracker 2

Have a breeding bull. Non q.a 850kgs. His feet are gone. Not suitable anymore for breeding. Would I get a quote for him or is it a case of land him in and hope for the best. He is 10 years old. Based in the south of the country

i cant understand beef farmers moaning all the time ,its your choice to be in a industry that produces a product and when its ready you phone a factory and ask how much are you now going to give me for it or do you want it,if you guys that are beef farmers were at the mart looking for lets just say 10 aa bullocks around 400kg and there was 2 pens of what you wanted ,the owners of said cattle were standing beside them and 1 man said he wanted 1000euros and the other said he wanted 1150 please dont tell me you would buy the dear cattle because you would not ,so your no different than the factories in your own little way …..rant over

dairy and enjoying myself

You are also a beef farmer aswell all the dairy farmers seem to not be able to understand this point

I do agree with your point about fellas just taking whatever the factory throws them because lads are in a panic to sell because they need the money or want to buy replacements etc instead of demanding a price but the dairy farmers are probably a bigger culprit than beef finishers at this

Seriously ill judged posts that I don't agree with and I'm a dairy farmer too.

There's a strong whiff of I'm alright jack, you should be too. That's never a good look and there's no point to it than inflame relations pointlessly.

If a beef farmer buys a cheaper pen of cattle. They are in a sale with should be at least twenty other buyers that they saw value and the other buyers did not. They bought the cattle they directly effected one seller.

We've a monopoly on buying cattle in this country from a small cohort of factory owners. Their cutting prices only leaves export as the other market. Their cutting prices effects thousands of farmers across the country and the wider national economy. It doesn't benefit the country if factory owners make record profits and put their toes into the private health industry or whatever else money making schemes while the raw product producers that got them there are languishing.

And to round the circle the beef farmer buying the cheap pen of cattle would be forced to pay more to their comrade beef farmer from competition based on a good beef factory price that they do all end up in bar export.

I was about to comment but previous two covered it but fcuk it I'll go at it again for one particular dairy farmer colleague posting on the thread

As a beef farmer of course I try buy as cheap as I can but I have to complete with other buyers or do a deal direct...maybe some buyers can leverage unfair advantage in this situation but I'd say its held to a minimum

As a factory it looks a lot like I get to collude with the other factories in the country and indeed other factories outside the country I own (with what looks like the express purpose of controlling the trade here) to artificially depress the price of cattle to what I judge I can get away with....I get to do this in a number of ways and make sure profits aren't shared in a fair way with open and transparent competition for the product I buy (and not necessarily open and transpatent methods of grading/valuing etc...

To compare a lad buying animals at a mart to a sophisticated operation like meat processors operating in unison is almost laughably childlike reasoning.

I agree. I'm carry my stock to beef of my own accord . Nobody putting a gun to my head to kill them. Ive to accept beef price and if I don't I'm free to leave and get a job in tesco.

Factories screwing us but we're free to leave.

very sorry dont mean to be smug ,i was in suckling gave it up ,no point sums were not adding up,why stay at it nothing was going to change,now i did love it but i had to make a choice got out, if dairy changes guess what i am gone too,if that what society wants so be it ,you wont hear me complaining just get on with life,…..

That's it in a nutshell.

Everyone making money out of beef except the producer. Beef barons, hauliers, marts, factory employees, vets, FARM UNIONS, the security lad at the gate ect.

I can't remember ever reading, but was a coop style beef factory ever set up in Ireland. is the type of profits that we think they make real. I thought a Chinese company was going to set one up?

In your opinion what will the price settle at? For everyone’s sake it would be better to settle at something and at least people would have a figure to work off