Farmer Pudsey wrote: » Hard to see a price rise kill way too high. We are also entering white meat season beef will not be in demand for being killed until Christmas week. Always found next 16-20 days bad time to be selling.
restive wrote: » I have a few cattle heavy enough to kill out. The will be under age until February. Is it worth hanging onto them until after Christmas? Eating Meal & Silage.
royaler83 wrote: » Those ads are some load of PR horsesh@*te :mad:
I said wrote: » Anyone know why the much vaunted app hasn't updated since the 16th November?
Cavanjack wrote: » Because the whole beef forum was/is a sham to try and keep farmers quiet.
rangler1 wrote: » Farmers are price takers, nothing gonna change that. Supply and demand is the only thing that's going to influence prices. I've never heard such a variance in prices as at the moment, no wonder the new app can't keep up
Farmer Pudsey wrote: » The new app is supposed to give the average R price for cattle for each factory. It is not Rocket science. The Dept gets it returns from factory's every Monday morning along with weekly kill. it is pretty easy to using an excel to give Factory averages. However it is not in the Industry's interest for this to be published.
rangler1 wrote: » Farmers are price takers, nothing gonna change that. Supply and demand is the only thing that's going to influence prices.
rangler1 wrote: » Price there up to 23rdhttp://www.bordbia.ie/industry/farmers/pricetracking/cattle/pages/eucountries.aspx
just do it wrote: » There all there on the Department website already. A weekly excel with national averages and individual factory priceshttp://www.agriculture.gov.ie/farmingsectors/beef/beeffactorypricesweeklyreports/2014/meatmarketreport-averagepricesincludingvatforsteerscowsheifersyoungbullsandbulls/
Farmer Pudsey wrote: » Neither of these are the app prices. The advantage of the app was you could compare different factory base prices fairly fast for cattle. Bord bia gives national prices the dept averages to a certain extent are all over the place you have to open different sheets for different stock and factory's.
simx wrote: » Anyone kill cows this week?
whelan2 wrote: » no was going to ask the same
Cavanjack wrote: » Yeah 3.30 for o's dumbia
simx wrote: » would ya get 3.30 flat for o&ps do ya think? ya hear anything about rs?
Cavanjack wrote: » I'd have no reason to know that Don't think id have got that for p's. Only had 7. Maybe you'd get it seeing you kill a lot of cows.
simx wrote: » haha, i can only afford to buy the odd O here and there, got 3.25 flat for o&ps last week but only had 7, 3 os and 4 ps, will have 12 or 14 to go in a couple of weeks will be hoping for 3.30 ... dont know about a lot of cows now, lad up the road from me must kill 250-300 culls/annum. hes getting 3.30 flat for the last month/6 weeks
Cavanjack wrote: » He must have some craic with mastitis in July with that no.
onyerbikepat wrote: » I always reckoned there was good money to be made in fattening cull cows - say he, having never ever done it, apart from my own.
darragh_haven wrote: » Shhh! ffs, now everyone will know. The lads at it are minted, next thing the dairy guys will be at it!:p:p
orm0nd wrote: » dropped a load of heifers to the factory to day for a neighbour, plenty of cattle in the lairage & a queue for unloading, all i saw were clean (grass cattle) , thought some of them could have done with further feeding
jaymla627 wrote: » Going to fatten the culls here and see how it goes, if anything will at least help cash flow going with them in early spring
