Beef price tracker 2

This leads to believe lads would be in a strong negotiating position especially for very big cattle.

What are lads getting for Angus heifers grading O+/R-?

According to the agriland article it's approx 51c/ kg. Hide is 12c/ kg, red offal is 20 c/ kg and white offal is 19c/ kg

I presume the quality of the hide determines the price. The hide of a 16month old bull should be softer than that of a 36month old bullock? - calf skin gloves are far more expensive than cow hide gloves.

Calf skin would be velum, it would come from veal production or from calves slaughtered sub on month for Kebab's.

The rest would depend on quality, as in damage done from needles, horns and general pucking it would be much the same accross the board IMO.

However you have to factor in that the hide only makes up 23% of the 5th quarter value, the offal makes up the rest. This is more dependent on animal size relative to carcase weight the lower the killout% the more the offal will impact the price.

The most important part is a muscle in the third Stomach( omasum) that is larger in cattle that graze as opposed to feedlot cattle. It's a Japanese delicacy. This is why the white offal is more valuable at present than red offal of which there would be more demand you would think ( liver, heart, lungs, Kidneys, tongue and oxtail).

Cows would have the biggest Omasum flowed by steers finished off mainly grass.

4.20 was hard got a few weeks ago. 4.15 was more the norm.

Have things changed in the last week or so?

I'd have a half a load ready.

Ye poor craturs. Ye may hire in diggers to pull out more hedgerow so ye have more room to spread slurry with your single farm payments. Not a fish to be got in the rivers with ye.

I remember fondly my youth and bonding with my father's and relations blocking burrows and flooding them with thick slurry to poison the vermin that are rabbits

What are u on about there's plenty fish in the rivers,you should ask Santa for a net and a bag of lime

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For anyone that remembers this discussion from August, got these 10 killed Tuesday. Average age 32 months old. 4 were O+, 3 R-, 2 R= and 1 R+. Average fat score 4. Average dead weight 438kgs.

9 of them weighed from 389kgs to 459 kgs and then there was 1 major outlier to the group, a big framey Charlaois and he weighed a whopping 567.6 kgs dead weight. He was the R+.

They’d have about half a ton of meal per head ate to finish them.

As I said previously they wouldn’t be my style of cattle but they definitely left money after them with the way prices are this year.

Yea they should have been moved a few weeks earlier alright. Only one 5, he was an O+5-. They’re non QA and the agreement is they’re paying €4.05 for the R’s and €3.90 for the O’s regardless of fat score or weight so I think it’s not a bad deal. On the grid that O+5 would be down to €3.74.

Don’t worry Bass, I know how to do all of them figures myself, I’ve done them all here before and I’d be saying the exact same thing as you about both the base price and being QA!

I am QA’d but them bullocks weren’t. I got €4.25 base for heifers earlier this week, R+ coming in at €4.51 per kg killing out just shy of 360kgs coming to €1,614. Got 3 kgs of meal a day for the last 3 weeks so about 60kgs per head.

The next of that batch of heifers are in the shed, they’re up to 5 kgs of meal now and they’ll be due to be hanging in early January, possibly some this side of Xmas, they’ll be 26 - 28 months old and I’ll be expecting around a 400kg carcass, mainly U grade and they’ll have max 350-400kgs per head of meal ate.

I went through them bullocks on here last August, (obviously I don’t expect you or anyone else here to remember that with it being so long ago) and they’re not my stock originally, they came through an older bachelor relative of mine. They’re not the type of stock I ever had before or would ever want to have again in future!

With the way prices are this year they left money after them but if base price was like this time last year at €3.65 they wouldn’t have been anywhere near even breaking even in my opinion. I said it at the time they were badly done IMO. They never saw a shed since they came off milk replacer and wouldn’t have ever seen much in the line of quality silage either, mainly hay in a round feeder for 5 - 6 months every winter and set stocking in the summers.

What’s the run of it for next week? Is 4.25 to be got for bullocks?

Could be for aa’s maybe