Beef price tracker 2

Mid November when the stores are bought and the last of the grass cattle hung

I say if the weather drys up it will slow cattle going into the factory's. The kill is dropping as well 1k lower for the last two weeks reported. Processors are more active at the ringside at present. Last year they were very tight for cattle from mid August to mid September

Did it though at 4.50 and meal at 400/ton best twist was made from mid December to early march

Another Factory blockade is needed. If you have cattle hold firm make the Factories pay for them. They see it's easy we ( the Factories) keep dropping the price yet Farmers queue up to offload. It is a no win situation. I can't believe the prices that I paid for cattle and thought they were value for money. They are not worth what I paid for them it is a no win situation. Farmers need to put manners on the Factories.

I can't see any location or grouping willing to take on the factories with a blockade. Last time you had a fledging beefplan which had gathered momentum. Unless the farm orgs are willing to group

The SRM is costing him. It's a controlled material. There is only one entity in charge of it in the Republic. Along with that there is a distance limit you can travel with it.

As you get nearer the border there is more competition

The big lads all got shafted in the end as well, they got 3.45/ kg like everyone else. Ya the processor were offering them more to break through the strike, but very few got through.

It's hard to say how many are getting extra and if much extra. Really good article in the FI saying that 26% of the kill so far this year was feedlot cattle. That is all contracted. This is all now allowed as feedlot beef. Get on to the minister because it not photos of feedlots that Boards via or Larry use on there brochure. There was an article about a ( was it a Dawn) feedlot in the Midlands gushing about its systems ( I think in Agriland ) nearly all the land was in tillage.

Look at the FJ and the campaign it ran to get U16 month bulls included in grass fed.

We need an organisation that will throw sh!t and keep throwing sh!t about issues like this until it sticks

A Factory Blockade is simple you just don't let the Factories have the Cattle that they have to pay for then if they want them. Then they see that the Farmers are setting the price. The Farmers always give in too easily.

Yes and rte will report on the news that the bad farmers are causing the factories to lay workers off

Something simple along the lines of over booking cattle and then sending them to the mart that day instead. Enough farmers doing that collectively accros the country would mess up lines and have them juggling for numbers.

The biggest issue for us as farmers is to have unity. Very hard and next to near impossible. It's dog eat dog

You must be a factory agent!? The cheapest place for factories to get cattle is the mart. If no farmer brought anything heavier than 400kgs to the mart factory prices would rise instantly as the factories would have to coax the heavy stock out.

Marts are full of runner calves under 140kg at the moment,farmers paying up to €450 for them, im no accountant but the minute the hammer fall the buyer has signed his contract to loose money..can't blame the feedlots or factory for that.

Worst animal you could buy to keep down grass,they need the best of grass not what's going/gone strong..the fr bullock is the lad to keep down grass..no worries about moves or QA..bit of value in them at the minute too