Beef price tracker 2

Countryfile every Sunday has been showing grass and crops growing better this year than the last couple of years and I was in the central UK recently and thought it was greener than it had been for many years, eastern UK has been in drought since I was a child so probably no change there, Google is not my god

I hear talk of some meat factories rent chills to put beef into. I am guessing the barons are expecting to see a rise in the price of beef and will use this stored beef to keep the price paid to the farmer down.

I am wondering is the origin of the beef going in to storage from outside the EU and they are hoping to be ahead of the game if its banded in September.

In Sligo for the weekend, you can see the changes on the ground, the amount of cattle you'd see is next to nothing and high grass in lots of fields.

Yes there are no field of beef cattle in the country that I see driving around. Big dairy farms but not beef or sucklers. I would travel a good bit from Meath to Cork & Limerick weekly and would go from Meath to Galway & Donegal every 6 weeks or so.

especially continental cattle are not visible in the country anymore. Very scarse

I know guys with every sort of cattle from overage bulls to prime aax that can't shift. They not even getting promises of few weeks.

I panicked about 3 weeks ago and let cattle off to anywhere that would take.

I advised a neighbor that was feeding shed of bulls to do same. He had it from good source they would be €8 in June no cattle out there. This was in the presence of another lad that had refused 670flat for plain over 36 months hfrs and blks few weeks earlier. They both agreed he was lucky not to be listening to me or he would be robbed.

Have you some to sell at the moment or did you shift a lot 3 weeks ago that will finish you selling for a while?

There is stocking at such a low rate that it is fair to call it abandonment, been regular to Sligo for 20 years and by God you notice it this year, there might still be numbers in the country but the change is stark in many places now and people need to pull together because everyone is up next.

Agents know nothing more than yourself.

They are just nice people that the factory use to humor farmers while robbing them. The agents days are also numbered as farmers become bigger and more educated. Why people still go through them has me baffled. If they knew anything they would be in different job

He is the same wanker the agent deals with. Except the agent gets paid by the him/processor to take the time to make it palatable for farmers.

The guy killing 300 is putting 2500 of cost for no added value on his enterprise unless this agent is acting like a sales group dealing with a number of processors.

The majority of agents I would know have loyalty to one processor or at least loyalty for certain types to one processor.