Beef price tracker 2

mine are out 8 weeks and I will only start this weeks or next. even at that I had 24 out that ong and we will only feed 19 of what is out. will probablly add back in the 5& 3-5 more in 4-5 weeks time or start a second bunch. A lot depends on there weigh and condition. I really need to get my scales back working.

What age and breed are they. If continental cattle I’d be letting them at grass only till about first week of June and then start feeding them for 6-7 weeks and killing under 30 months at end of July.

I’m a firm believer in letting cattle age before killing. I leave my cattle right up 29.5 months and would only start feeding 7 weeks before. . Younger cattle don’t kill out as well. Not to mention the cheap weight gain on grass over the summer months. Margins are tight in beef so you need to make every pound a prisoner.

But I’m not the expert on friesian so will leave it to the resident expert Bass to answer

Unless you are gone in early June with them and hold towards end of August. Last few years August has been as high as mid late June.

Good quality U grading Continental killed too early often have a habit of grading back as R=/+ and often can be FS 2-/=. Carried for 8-12 weeks longer on good summer grass and a bit of ration for eight weeks you have a bullock capable if pulling down the scales and U grading.

I always pick through my Friesian's and try to pick out ones that have developed enough so that when I start to feed they will grade O=/- and be FS3.

I like to start moving on a bunch in mid late June. If I can squeeze out 6-8 in late May I will. If they are P ish type cattle unless they have weight on them I will let them there.

As I am finishing up in 60 cattle off grass during the summer There is only so many I can feed especially early on the year. I run my cattle as two bunches stores( on grass) and finishing bunch.

I have cattle out since then as well and will not start to feed any of them until June. First off I have a bunch out since mid February and I am feeding them, Secondly cattle out 4-5 weeks are only starting to move they will need another 4 weeks before they are really start get weight and fat cover.

If you are in an area where you can get decent flat prices then ya if processors are short of cattle you may get them away at a decent flat prices but I would have to travel for a flat prices and that eats into any flat prices

I wouldn’t use last years example of pricing as a model to base this years decisions on.

when did you ever see prices go up in August before last year? It was a unicorn year and I don’t see it happening again for a long long time unfortunately

Foyle donegal. Bullocks 5.25. Heifers 5.30

Add in cattle that are 30-40 kgDW heavier will grade at least a point higher on the grid. Therefore a P+ animal will be at least O- and that is worth 14c/ kg on the grid, it worth 18c between O-/O= on the grid

If an animal goes from P+2+ to O=4- it 38c/kg. Even if he goes into an O=4= it worth 32c/kg.

It's a long time since I saw a 40-50c/kg drop between even early June and jaye August. Last time there was a strike

Drop of 5 to 10 cent was roumered to be happening this week, so I shipped out last week.

The got caught with contracts last spring. They have contracted for too many cattle. The strong supply during Jan/ Feb and strong price probably made processors wary of over committing to supply to retailers. Retailers would have contracted in Chicken and pork in it's place.

There will be no flush of grass cattle until probably mid late June. It's costing a fortune to feed cattle so they are slaughtering there own feedlots first. It the reason I have up winter finishing any change in demand you were left carrying the can and given a sh!t price as well as paying through the nose for replacements to go to grass

Supply is probably +30k they have contracts for 28ish so they will let the winter finisher trickle in supply to keep figures at 30 ish K until end of June. No 5.5-6/kg this year it seems. No flat prices

Our own factory here have lads hearts broke putting off cattle.

Your first mistake was opening the letter

A good dose and plenty of grass and water, heat and sunshine will do the rest for them till the end of the growing season is my advise. A mineral lick be no harm for them either.