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beef price tracker

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any interest in having a factory beef price tracker on here?

got 4 hiefers to go, 3rs and 1o

got the following quotes for base price on Mon 23 Jan

4.10e/kg aibp bandon
4.15e/kg aibp cahir

quotes including bord bia
am holding tough as hoping for 4.25e/kg

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primary 2

did he say what price the steers were making this week?

Jb1989

Couple of r grade aa/sm cross heifers 28 month old
Quoted at 4.00 base + 12 c QA
Kepak for going away Monday or Tuesday

orm0nd

Farmer Pudsey wrote: »

Were the grass cattle young ( sub 2 year old) or cattle that were 3 years or older.

seemed to be mostly young stock ,

just my thoughts on finishing cull cows (mostly BR Fr )

time and a cheap 3 or 4 mix, no minerals necessary ..

trying to pump large amount of meal in a short space of time you are only working for the feed merchant

just my opinion, no doubt others will differ

simx

poor farmer wrote: »

Dried them off in oct, left them out on good grass.Brought them in febuary.
I fed them a hi maize finisher ration along with good silage.I built them up to 8-10 kg /head/day. The ate about 600 kg ration each.

Were they Holstein types poor farmer?

simx

whelan2 wrote: »

what do you do with them? How long do you feed them for?

Usually let them get as near as possible off grass, some get no meal, then later in summer when best thrive is gone I throw maybe 1.5/2kg meal/hd but wouldn't generally be feeding any meal for that long

poor farmer

whelan2 wrote: »

what do you do with them? How long do you feed them for?

Dried them off in oct, left them out on good grass.Brought them in febuary.
I fed them a hi maize finisher ration along with good silage.I built them up to 8-10 kg /head/day. The ate about 600 kg ration each.

Cavanjack

In my experience the only thing that'll fatten dairy cows is time. Never bothered with suckler lassies.

whelan2

simx wrote: »

10 weeks feeding? How much per head/day?

what do you do with them? How long do you feed them for?

simx

poor farmer wrote: »

I fed some of my own dairy culls last spring after selling some to dealers and in the marts.
Sold them to the factory in may june after 10 weeks feeding .
Never again ,complete waste of time.
Lesson learned ,those cow dealers are very nice people.

10 weeks feeding? How much per head/day?

onyerbikepat

poor farmer wrote: »

I fed some of my own dairy culls last spring after selling some to dealers and in the marts.
Sold them to the factory in may june after 10 weeks feeding .
Never again ,complete waste of time.
Lesson learned ,those cow dealers are very nice people.

In a normal year, it might be a different story though.

poor farmer

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

I fed some of my own dairy culls last spring after selling some to dealers and in the marts.
Sold them to the factory in may june after 10 weeks feeding .
Never again ,complete waste of time.
Lesson learned ,those cow dealers are very nice people.

jaymla627

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

whelan2

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

Might be a runner if the milk price plummets

Farmer Pudsey

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

Were the grass cattle young ( sub 2 year old) or cattle that were 3 years or older.

orm0nd

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

simx

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

I welcome anyone to buy a bunch of them and see can they give up the day job

darragh_haven

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.

Shhh! ffs, now everyone will know. The lads at it are minted, next thing the dairy guys will be at it!:p:p

onyerbikepat

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.

simx

Cavanjack wrote: »

He must have some craic with mastitis in July with that no.

Yeah Betamox would be a common sight on. Remidies list lol

Cavanjack

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

He must have some craic with mastitis in July with that no.

simx

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.

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

simx wrote: »

would ya get 3.30 flat for o&ps do ya think? ya hear anything about rs?

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

Cavanjack wrote: »

Yeah 3.30 for o's dumbia

would ya get 3.30 flat for o&ps do ya think? ya hear anything about rs?

Cavanjack

whelan2 wrote: »

no was going to ask the same

Yeah 3.30 for o's dumbia

whelan2

simx wrote: »

Anyone kill cows this week?

no was going to ask the same

Nettleman

apparently €4 base for QA heifers over and under age in west this week

simx

Anyone kill cows this week?

Brass Tag

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.

The fact that the app is no longer being updated shows how much the words and promises of Coveney can be believed.

Meanwhile Teagasc beef outlook not good http://www.agriland.ie/news/13-beef-farmers-make-profit-teagasc/

Farmer Pudsey

rangler1 wrote: »

Price there up to 23rd

http://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 prices
http://www.agriculture.gov.ie/farmingsectors/beef/beeffactorypricesweeklyreports/2014/meatmarketreport-averagepricesincludingvatforsteerscowsheifersyoungbullsandbulls/

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.

just do it

rangler1 wrote: »

Farmers are price takers, nothing gonna change that.
Supply and demand is the only thing that's going to influence prices.