Beef price tracker 2

Timbetongue is easily enough cured. Vet Will give you an antibiotic for it. I think the short acting pen strep is only 14 day withdrawal. I had it on e and treated it like that. I put the bullocks in the shed And treated him each day. It was completely cleared in 5-6 days

Well according to the journal we are going to hit €5. Heard of 4.35 base for heifers this week up this country.

AA heifers are hitting 4.7-4.8/ kg as well inc bonuses. There seems to be a an extra 10c+ on the base if you have a single if them and more I'd you had 30-50. Saw a bunch 3 weeks a go make over 5/ kg DW in the mart

O/T slightly, but anyone ever have cattle who're fussy eating nuts? I've 2 feeding troughs left out, and feeding the same nuts into both. In the last few days, they've only picked from one trough but wolfed down the other. I've washed it (both) down but no difference. Very maddening when one has to gather uneaten nuts again after them.

The talk of €5 kg might be premature but cattle are holding sway unlike most years. Good weather helping too no doubt.

Another factor that may be helping is the processor's cards are marked over the price pull last February. Any concerted price pull in a strengthing market will bring questions. The old trick of using price pulls accross the board to flush out cattle would draw attention to the tactics.

It seems at the last few Beef taskforce meeting that that there are questions continually being raised about the February price drop. The excuse being used is excess product in UK chills due to Brexit. However it has out a spotlight on concerted price pulls by all processor's. If you look at the cow market there has been no concerted effort to pressurise there price which would normally be the case this time of year

There’s no one to hold a spotlight that can do anything.

24 months ago they were taking 5 cent off the base weekly, grading Angus and Hereford cattle as saanan goats, (which had the majority of prime under 30 month uk spec steer/heifer beef at €3.20/€3.30 all in at best at this point.

€1.30 difference to now.

€486 on a 360kg deadweight animal.

consumer beef price index in uk /europe show no corresponding graph I can decipher but I’d love to be corrected.

The torch bearers paid 200 million to farmers to compensate for this industry profiteering with Fine Gael and the ifa standing proudly chest out wanting their bellies rubbed “for fighting for it” “and getting it over the line”.

mii then got a further 100 million to help them through this traumatic time. All of this with no accounts shown.

Next year numbers will be in the cartels favour again and if with no preemptive action to be seen I can’t see how they won’t return to their usual ways.

Harder to get cows off here too this week.

E3.60 flat o/p

Nuts or ration?

Ration.

Anyone have an O’neills feeder? Looks like they’d be handy. Probably expensive but they save a lads back.

The calibrated ones I meant. Started Feeding 30 bullocks last week and more to start in a few week, I’d like to make the job a bit easier. Rent the place out I hear you say 😅

Any mart fat cow prices?

Have two I would like to get going. Not sure if value of continuing to feed and then price soften leading to a zero sum game.

3.5 years old. LM

7 yrs old. LM.

They both were 700 kg 3 weeks ago when weighted.

Both would take more flesh but could be killed now aswell.

Would they come into 1400 in Mart?