Mart Price Tracker

IMO the majority of beef is being minced at present. Most restaurants now do fancy burgers costing 15-20 euro. Other restaurants are doing steak sandwiches @12++ euro. Steaks are 39 euro++. Another restaurant beef dish is slow braised beef.

A SuperValu/ McDonalds burger meal deal is 9-10 euro. Very little roast carvery's any longer. 300 grams if mince is 350-4 euro, 250 grams X 2 is 5 euro+. Roast beef is minimum 15 euro/ kg. Two AA/ HE steaks are 10 euro or more for striploin, fillet it ribeye. Sirloin is a couple of euro cheaper. That would be 400-450 grams fir two steaks.

Even though beef has gone upon price it's still good value. Chicken has absolutely rocketed up. Two breaded brest fillets are a fiver, whole chickens are 7-8 euro while three chicken breasts are 5-6 euro.

Butchers and supermarkets are adding value and charging for it. Ready to cook dishes for two people are 5+ each, while side veg dishes are 3 euro each. This is giving people a cheap option instead of a restaurant or a chipper.

Because of this the beef market is changing. However there is s premium being paid for AA and HE in the market. As most cow beef goes to the Continent it completing there. Beef prices all accross the Continent except for Italy are powering ahead. We are 20 cent/ kg below the EU average prime beef price and that is most bull beef.

What do you mean anytime you mean everytime

Like that I’ve eaten in restaurants 3 or 4 times in the last few weeks for various different reasons. Beef is always on the menu and is always what I order. There definitely has been an improvement in the quality of beef in restaurants too.

Ah @whelan2 that's sad to hear, I seen some of the photos of the cattle on Carnaross Snap Chat, some lovely outfits I hope it goes well for them.

Yes some serious prices lots of them made north of €4,000, the were good cattle if fairness to the people...

You’d want to be getting the gates and all from the pen!

Nothing is overage or overweight this year. They just want kilos of beef

Prices are so good now I wouldn't push it.

What grade do you think that bullock would have made? If he was a well fed U grade he’d kill out 62-64% of his mart weight so he’d hang at around 530kgs. That’d be €5.66 per kg which is exactly what they’re making in the factory now.

I’d a 720kg yard weight Charlaois heifer kill out U= and 432.4kgs last week, she made €2,456. Had I brought her to the mart I wouldn’t have expected her to be any more than 680kgs on the scales. She’d have had to make over €3.62per kg live weight to better the factory price. Her dw would have been around 63.5% of her mart weight at that.

If brought to the right factory it would be. The better the confirmation the higher the KO will be. Also with age and weight like that they really come into their own. If he made a U+ I wouldn’t be surprised to hear he made €3,200 - €3,300 in the factory.

Based on yard weights over the last 8-10 years I’d be seeing the following KO%

O-/O= 49-52%

O+/R- 50-54%

R=/R+ 53-57%

U’s 56-60% with the very best KO I had being 2 U+ heifers about 3 years ago making 62% but they were exceptional.

Mart weight, depending on travel time and standing time in the mart, could be anything from 4 - 8% less than yard weight so KO based on mart weights would be 2-3% higher.

That would all be factory dependant too. There’s a private abbatoir in the midlands where you’ll easily get 5-10cent/kg more than the main factories are paying but killouts would be way back. You’d do well to get a U grade to kill out 55% there so the extra 5/10cent is the most expensive 5-10 cent you’ll get on that animal.

The reduced killout could knock 30kgs of meat off the animal, worth about €170 at the minute, whereas even at 10cent extra on the remaining meat, the extra value is only €35 so you’re down €135 on a 650kg U grade for the sake of chasing the few cent extra.

Might depend on the agent in donegal, no complaints around here with donegal , they were lenient enough with fat scores.

The Jex's should probably have gone to the factory. Allowing for mart weight they would surely have averaged 250 kgs. At a bad P price of 4.5/ kg they would have come into over 1100 euro each.

Them Fr bullocks in kepak are doing two jobs the trade and supplying their burger factories with the poorest cuts, a big Kilkenny dealer/ feeder left a factory in the west to go to kepak with these Fr cattle for extra rewards with two doubles drawing out of the south each week for this job.