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Muckit · 10-10-2019 2:12pm

Also harder fatten

tellmeabit · 10-10-2019 3:01pm

Gortalea
Lm 265kg April €590
Lm 325kg April €645
Ch 385kg Dec €855
Ch 350kg Mar €855
Lm 300kg Mar €635
Lm 305kg Feb €675
Lm 285kg Mar €655
Lm 260kg Mar €650
Lm 295kg Mar €815
Lm 280kg Mar €600
Ch 310kg Mar €675
Ch 300kg Mar 745
Ch 287kg €560
Lm 260kg Jan
Ch 320kg may €745
Lm 327kg Mar €710

Lm 290kg may €670
Lm 225kg may €520
Lm 193kg may €505
Lm 221kg may 540
Ch 353kg Jan €830
Ch 286kg €790
Ch 235kg Mar € 600
Ch 315kg Mar €715

Lm 265kg April €640
Lm 296kg Mar €705
Lm 305kg April €645
Ch 298kg Mar €760
Ch 355kg feb €800
Ch 342kg Feb € 780

Cg 345kg Mar 750
Lm 260kg April €455
Lm 350kg Mar 820

TooOldBoots · 10-10-2019 6:29pm

ffs them aren't great prices. wtf has happened in the space of a week?

Danzy · 10-10-2019 6:34pm

TooOldBoots wrote: »

ffs them aren't great prices. wtf has happened in the space of a week?

Grass being driven in to the ground where it's fed, falling back where it's next and drowning where they left it.

And everything else on top.

tellmeabit · 10-10-2019 7:07pm

I was thinking same or maybe come to realise my 6month olds aren't as big as some going through mart. Anyways hoping the payments next week will burn a hole in some fellas pocket cos I'm moving them next week.

older by the day · 10-10-2019 7:38pm

TooOldBoots wrote: »

Yeah they were nice quality all right. Charolais X limX cows.
They were bought for a farmer in north Co Dublin, not the shipper. Same lad bought a full truck load. I didn't think there was any land in Dublin

He must have sold sites in the city to give that price

Muckit · 10-10-2019 8:47pm

tellmeabit wrote: »

I was thinking same or maybe come to realise my 6month olds aren't as big as some going through mart. Anyways hoping the payments next week will burn a hole in some fellas pocket cos I'm moving them next week.

Were they heifers or bulls?

Lady Haywire · 10-10-2019 9:31pm

TooOldBoots wrote: »

ffs them aren't great prices. wtf has happened in the space of a week?

Very hard to tell the quality of a beast through numbers :pac:

dohc turbo2 · 10-10-2019 9:36pm

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Very hard to tell the quality of a beast through numbers :pac:

Yes , but the last two weeks there a good bit back there , cull cows were well back last week there too ,

tellmeabit · 10-10-2019 10:02pm

Muckit wrote: »

Were they heifers or bulls?

all bulls, didn't wait for the heifers, left it at 10.30pm

tellmeabit · 10-10-2019 10:06pm

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Very hard to tell the quality of a beast through numbers :pac:

suppose the higher € means better quality. to be fair I didn't really make note of them this time as I was more looking at what I have at home myself.
wondering if the extra journey and hassle back there was worth it over the trip to listowel.

john mayo 10 · 15-10-2019 12:34pm

Sold a few yesterday in Ballina
Ch heifer 388kgs 820 born late feb
Lm heifer 275kgs 760 born early April
Ch bull 295gs 720 born early April
Ch bull 450gs 1000 born late January

Happy enough with the prices

Keep Sluicing · 15-10-2019 3:55pm

About half the weanlings in Skibb mart last Friday were unsold. A friend of mine said prices were chronic.... i told him they were realistic.

TooOldBoots · 15-10-2019 5:03pm

Keep Sluicing wrote: »

About half the weanlings in Skibb mart last Friday were unsold. A friend of mine said prices were chronic.... i told him they were realistic.

Was inside in Ennis mart for a while today, (just looking)
Huge mart, full of Weanlings must be over 1200 on offer. Oki-sh prices for the top stuff. Best price I saw was for a pair of lovely Charolais 325kg €890
Some chronic bad prices too, many unsold. I saw good limousine Weanling bulls fail to make €600 :eek: I don't think the heifers were any better.
I remember seeing dairy cross bull calves making over €500 last spring!!

I don't see a future in producing a €600 Weanling, they are not even covering the cost of the cow now. If that's a realistic price then realistically theirs no future in Suckler farming

MIKEKC · 15-10-2019 7:33pm

Keep Sluicing wrote: »

About half the weanlings in Skibb mart last Friday were unsold. A friend of mine said prices were chronic.... i told him they were realistic.

You were right but how long will the realism last?

MIKEKC · 15-10-2019 7:36pm

TooOldBoots wrote: »

Was inside in Ennis mart for a while today, (just looking)
Huge mart, full of Weanlings must be over 1200 on offer. Oki-sh prices for the top stuff. Best price I saw was for a pair of lovely Charolais 325kg €890
Some chronic bad prices too, many unsold. I saw good limousine Weanling bulls fail to make €600 :eek: I don't think the heifers were any better.
I remember seeing dairy cross bull calves making over €500 last spring!!

I don't see a future in producing a €600 Weanling, they are not even covering the cost of the cow now. If that's a realistic price then realistically theirs no future in Suckler farming

Hasn't been a future in suckling since decoupling

Keep Sluicing · 15-10-2019 8:44pm

TooOldBoots wrote: »

Was inside in Ennis mart for a while today, (just looking)
Huge mart, full of Weanlings must be over 1200 on offer. Oki-sh prices for the top stuff. Best price I saw was for a pair of lovely Charolais 325kg €890
Some chronic bad prices too, many unsold. I saw good limousine Weanling bulls fail to make €600 :eek: I don't think the heifers were any better.
I remember seeing dairy cross bull calves making over €500 last spring!!

I don't see a future in producing a €600 Weanling, they are not even covering the cost of the cow now. If that's a realistic price then realistically theirs no future in Suckler farming

Your last paragraph was what I was getting at. And to be more precise, your last sentence

orm0nd · 15-10-2019 10:20pm

TooOldBoots wrote: »

Was inside in Ennis mart for a while today, (just looking)
Huge mart, full of Weanlings must be over 1200 on offer. Oki-sh prices for the top stuff. Best price I saw was for a pair of lovely Charolais 325kg €890
Some chronic bad prices too, many unsold. I saw good limousine Weanling bulls fail to make €600 :eek: I don't think the heifers were any better.
I remember seeing dairy cross bull calves making over €500 last spring!!

I don't see a future in producing a €600 Weanling, they are not even covering the cost of the cow now. If that's a realistic price then realistically theirs no future in Suckler farming

they never post the poorer prices in their report

https://www.facebook.com/notes/clare-co-operative-marts/ennis-mart-tuesday-15th-october-2019/915479902153432/

Base price · 15-10-2019 11:39pm

Keep Sluicing wrote: »

About half the weanlings in Skibb mart last Friday were unsold. A friend of mine said prices were chronic.... i told him they were realistic.

This post reminds me of a similar post earlier on this year when dairy cross calves didn't sell.

Butcher Boy · 16-10-2019 12:18am

Base price wrote: »

This post reminds me of a similar post earlier on this year when dairy cross calves didn't sell.

They were good enough trade in macroom saturday any thing around the250 to 300 kgs that were nice were making from 230 to270 akg bulls and heifers ,anything plain or black were a poor trade.

High bike · 16-10-2019 10:33am

Butcher Boy wrote: »

They were good enough trade in macroom saturday any thing around the250 to 300 kgs that were nice were making from 230 to270 akg bulls and heifers ,anything plain or black were a poor trade.

don't get this black b.s. they'r all the same colour hanging up

memorystick · 16-10-2019 11:32am

What are handy HR heifers born last spring making?

Bass Reeves · 16-10-2019 12:28pm

memorystick wrote: »

What are handy HR heifers born last spring making?

Have not seen them at a mart but I imagine not more than 1.5/kg

Dozer1 · 16-10-2019 3:41pm

In castleisland today and it's very poor 10 nice CH bullocks 568 Kgs unsold at 900 euro as an example born June 2017.

Show cattle only sold average earlier.

tellmeabit · 16-10-2019 3:47pm

Listowel
Bull
Lm 355kg March €765
Black Lm 395kg Jan €700
Lm 345kg Mar €700
Black lm 410kg Jan €750
Ch 418kg Feb €850
Ch 275kg April € 500 not sold
Ch 295kg april €630
Ch 550kg may 18 €755
Ch 370kg Mar €700
Lm 380kg Feb € 810
Lm 368kg Jan €710
Lm 385kg Dec €775

Lm 200kg April €495
Lm 302kg Dec €620
Ch 408kg Mar €765
Lm 280kg may €535

Lm 355kg Mar €650
Lm 335kg Dec €560 not sold
Ch 370kg Feb € 690
Ch 310kg Mar €720
Lm 315kg Feb €640
Ch 420kg Feb €855

Lm 320kg may €
Lm 280kg may €700

Ch 270kg April €500 not sold

Ch feb 315kg €725
Lm 305kg Mar €755
Lm 260kg Mar €555
Lm 295kg Mar €745
Lm 235kg April €530

Albert Johnson · 16-10-2019 4:04pm

Dozer1 wrote: »

In castleisland today and it's very poor 10 nice CH bullocks 568 Kgs unsold at 900 euro as an example born June 2017.

Show cattle only sold average earlier.

There was a special bullock and bull weanling sale in our town yesterday. I was working in the mart as usual but have a job for a few bullocks atm so spent some time ringside. The general run of quality 2018 born stores was either side of €2 a kilo up to circa 550kg. Once you went above this weight or dropped back in quality the prices were back to €1.70-80 a kilo. Anything 2017 born or very plain wasn't wanted at all and €1.50 a kilo wouldn't have been uncommon, these would be all sucker bred stock. I bought 3 golden CHx bullocks, all April 18 born and only 2 movements,
400kg @ €850 (best bullock imo, weighing nothing off a bad place)
450kg @ €800 (tall hungry bullock)
520kg @ €900 (fleshy butt of a lad).

There standing €860 a piece including commission @ 455kg. As to whether they'll leave money I don't know but they can't be much good to the seller at those prices. They'd probably have made the guts of €700 a piece last April. I wasn't over at the weanlings for long as I hadn't any business there but a relation of my own bought 8 good golden farmers CHx calves all spring 19 born 365kg average @ €840. If he had stuck to the heavier calves they would probably be 420kg average at the same money. I saw a few 320kg lads @ circa €850 and the same types 420kg again @ €850.

bogman_bass · 16-10-2019 5:08pm

SFP came out today so be interesting to see if that has an impact on prices

kollegeknight · 16-10-2019 5:44pm

I’ve a few booked into Ennis for next week. Some a bit young but might make space in the shed. My driver said prices are awful bad there. I only noticed now that there are no Mart reports for Ennis since August. Bad sign.

I’ll see what my numbers are and decide to keep or not. I’ve a few empty cows to go in a month. They’ll make space.

High bike · 16-10-2019 6:16pm

kollegeknight wrote: »

I’ve a few booked into Ennis for next week. Some a bit young but might make space in the shed. My driver said prices are awful bad there. I only noticed now that there are no Mart reports for Ennis since August. Bad sign.

I’ll see what my numbers are and decide to keep or not. I’ve a few empty cows to go in a month. They’ll make space.

what kind of trade are goodish empty cows at the minute 700 kg +

kollegeknight · 16-10-2019 7:47pm

High bike wrote: »

what kind of trade are goodish empty cows at the minute 700 kg +

No clue, sorry. I never get to the mart with work

Welding Rod · 16-10-2019 8:30pm

Now that there is probably a Brexit deal on the table, unless the demented 10 DUP MP’s have another hissy fit, things might get better in the cattle trade.

I’m filling the shed like never before in any case. Plenty farmers hanging back and not buying. When they see a flush of nice grass next April, they will kill one another bidding prices up at the ringside.
There’s no middle ground with the live trade. It’s either farmers talking it down or bidding it up. As sure as apples are apple, the bidding up follow the talking down.

Hard Knocks · 16-10-2019 8:34pm

"Albert wrote:

If he had stuck to the heavier calves they would probably be 420kg average at the same money. I saw a few 320kg lads @ circa €850 and the same types 420kg again @ €850.

Would 420kg not be too strong to squeeze?

Albert Johnson · 16-10-2019 8:48pm

High bike wrote: »

what kind of trade are goodish empty cows at the minute 700 kg +

Depends on the scope of the cow but circa €1.50 a kilo? Cows are a mine field and prices can vary from a euro a kilo up to near €2 a kilo for continental types depending on age, frame ect. From what I see of the general run of goodish cows that weight lately there from €1000-1200 a piece.

Albert Johnson · 16-10-2019 8:57pm

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Would 420kg not be too strong to squeeze?

In my experience no although it's important to remember there's legal protocol to follow regarding age limits and anesthetic. It would be preferable to squeeze them when younger and lighter but you have to work with what you have. Once you keep an eye on any swelling or associated problems it shouldn't be any more trouble than with lighter calves. Those weight's are better value atm and a good percentage of them will be squeezed, especially with bull beef falling out of popularity. Squeezing an 400kg calf that's 9 months old is no different imo to squeezing a 300kg 14 month old comrade. Yes they'll both suffer a temporary growth set back but it's not a major problem.

FarmerBrowne · 16-10-2019 9:13pm

The run of the store heifers in Elphin today were about €2 per kg, a bit more for real quality.

ruwithme · 16-10-2019 9:33pm

Welding Rod wrote: »

Now that there is probably a Brexit deal on the table, unless the demented 10 DUP MP’s have another hissy fit, things might get better in the cattle trade.

I’m filling the shed like never before in any case. Plenty farmers hanging back and not buying. When they see a flush of nice grass next April, they will kill one another bidding prices up at the ringside.
There’s no middle ground with the live trade. It’s either farmers talking it down or bidding it up. As sure as apples are apple, the bidding up follow the talking down.

That's the spirit

Fine Day · 16-10-2019 10:00pm

Welding Rod wrote: »

Now that there is probably a Brexit deal on the table, unless the demented 10 DUP MP’s have another hissy fit, things might get better in the cattle trade.

I’m filling the shed like never before in any case. Plenty farmers hanging back and not buying. When they see a flush of nice grass next April, they will kill one another bidding prices up at the ringside.
There’s no middle ground with the live trade. It’s either farmers talking it down or bidding it up. As sure as apples are apple, the bidding up follow the talking down.

I love the sound of that but cant see it happening. Beef farming isnd going to recover to what we were use to but I hope I am proofed wrong.

morphy87 · 16-10-2019 11:49pm

What kind of money are Charlois bullocks making,say 450 to 470 kgs April to May 18? And is there many of these type of cattle in the Mart’s?

Dozer1 · 17-10-2019 2:16pm

Sold 15 LMx & CHx Spring 18 heifers yesterday in Castleisland,
avg weight 457kgs avg price 893 euro so 1.95 p/kg
given the trade that was there was happy enough for the year that's in it

tellmeabit · 17-10-2019 2:57pm

Dozer1 wrote: »

Sold 15 LMx & CHx Spring 18 heifers yesterday in Castleisland,
avg weight 457kgs avg price 893 euro so 1.95 p/kg
given the trade that was there was happy enough for the year that's in it

Was it adult trade there yesterday? Time it start?

Grueller · 17-10-2019 3:13pm

morphy87 wrote: »

What kind of money are Charlois bullocks making,say 450 to 470 kgs April to May 18? And is there many of these type of cattle in the Mart’s?

€2 a kg for good quality last week in Carnew. Work back from that then.

Lady Haywire · 17-10-2019 4:55pm

tellmeabit wrote: »

Was it adult trade there yesterday? Time it start?

Bejaysus. What are you buying!

tellmeabit · 17-10-2019 5:18pm

anything i can get my dirty mits on at the mo!! i spotted a thread on here where a lady looking to have a relationship with a farmer..... haven't sent the message yet!!!

no, have a couple of everything to move off to make space what whats staying and weighing up what best for me, nip out on me lunch break for a quickie!

kk.man · 17-10-2019 9:59pm

Dozer1 wrote: »

Sold 15 LMx & CHx Spring 18 heifers yesterday in Castleisland,
avg weight 457kgs avg price 893 euro so 1.95 p/kg
given the trade that was there was happy enough for the year that's in it

Was in kilkenny today and I saw simular prices that you got Dozer1. I saw fellas selling bullocks of the same age and no movements on the board. Some of the bullocks came into 1,000 euro. I was thinking to myself obvious you bred them and kept them over the 1st winter and a second season at grass. So here's what I was thinking,
Did it pay the farmer to keep his calves that length given that their mother's cost 700 to 800 to keep?
My second question are their brothers and sisters (2019 calves) still at home and if they are are these farmers making a living at all?

I'm not condemning you or the farmers I saw today but there huge questions about their enterprise. I know no one is making money at beef atm but keeping two crops of calves and the cow on the farm is really stretching it IMO.

Good loser · 18-10-2019 12:57am

In Dungarvan Monday Oct 14. All Friesians

8 540kg €750 No sale
1 600kg 795 Plain
1 490 kg 725
5 565 kg 810 No sale
4 452 kg 620
8 426 kg 550 Plain
3 491kg 730
3 478kg 725
2 477 kg 725
6 465 kg 700
6 445 kg 660
6 517 kg 735
8 548kg 775

Most born Spring 2018.

Sheep breeder · 18-10-2019 7:30am

Good loser wrote: »

In Dungarvan Monday Oct 14. All Friesians

8 540kg €750 No sale
1 600kg 795 Plain
1 490 kg 725
5 565 kg 810 No sale
4 452 kg 620
8 426 kg 550 Plain
3 491kg 730
3 478kg 725
2 477 kg 725
6 465 kg 700
6 445 kg 660
6 517 kg 735
8 548kg 775

Most born Spring 2018.

Wow was the boat not the place for them in 2018,
Neighbour got 10 lmx and char bulls not the very tops, but the second grade all u potentially, 312 kg @ 650 out of carnew Wednesday night delivered up to him on the mart docket and paid 20 a head for purchase and delivery.

patsy_mccabe · 19-10-2019 5:34pm

Things have picked up lads;

https://twitter.com/FJBeef/status/1185550035053895680

Mac Taylor · 19-10-2019 6:31pm

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Things have picked up lads;

https://twitter.com/FJBeef/status/1185550035053895680

Hi patsy, is she a limxshorthorn? Tks

patsy_mccabe · 19-10-2019 7:05pm

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Hi patsy, is she a limxshorthorn? Tks

To me, that looks like BB breeding bringing that colour. Crazy money. Is there that much money in showing?

Muckit · 19-10-2019 7:25pm

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

To me, that looks like BB breeding bringing that colour. Crazy money. Is there that much money in showing?

Sure tis a hobby. A friend of mine spent that on a road bike. I'm serious. No word of a lie.

He takes it out every Sunday with a group of lads. But l can tell you, no matter how much he rides it he'll never get a calf out of it.

Makes that girl seem cheap.

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