Dairy Calves 2024

Any one see Hereford and Angus calves selling recently what we're the prices like ??

Good stuff, I was wondering about suck calves 2 or 3 weeks old were making

Getting 150 out of yard at 10 days, whiteheads and Angus. Plenty of buyers. Could ask more but want them to come back for more

Agree spoke well albeit maby bit nervous ….she’s a big addition to the organisation knows her stuff well able to debate

From of the FJ reads like the steering group have been coming to this thread for ideas. There is no dates attached to it but the first and easy move that will be made is 21 days before movement for spring 24. And a timeline will give the appearance of action on the this front.

The big shocker has been the use of sexed only semen for jersey and kiwi straw. Is this in a round about way remove these types of bull from the testing programmes for ai companies,ebi figures etc. Less of these high figured bull calves will shuffle them out of the breeding systems

The biggest omission has been the lack of recognition from this group to the collapse of the beef sub index of the cow. All the back slapping with the coops , ICBF, teagasc,IFJ , IGA et al, is now 2 foot away from the current kick in the backside that the industry has to take over the calf issue

I bought 392kgs frx 22nd June avg 731...they killed to 1,111e per head up to two weeks ago.... never doubt the friesan.

265kgs...Good man...

Shite fat scores and grades

You need a frame to carry weight. Anything killing less than 300kgs is costing someone money. AAx or Frx that are killing out any less than that no good to a beef farmer as the they are also killing out "P" or poor "O" I ve had them. Will try and avoid in the future no matter how tempting the price looks. It's very disappointing seen your payment price at 56 cent less than a similar weight R- grad BB/Je x bullock.

@kk.man whoever you bought them cattle off lost on them. Especially if they were near 24 months when you bought them.

4700 on 21 cattle for small money in 4 months (no shed or black plastic) is not disappointing no matter how you access it.

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I had no room in the sheds I was banking on a mild autumn. The last field they were is very dry and sheltered.

I don't buy the argument these lads wont stay at the game. Firstly for as long as I've been farming there has been lads losing their shirts and keep at it. The meat processors could be/or are saying the same about the beef finisher, yet year after year they keep getting cattle. Its true some lads who have a clue will get out. I saw a mountain of second movement diary stock in Kilkenny yesterday and I doubt if a bob was made on any of them.

The were 2nd movement cattle in the most. I'd like to think it was calf rearers who needed a few quid to keep the thing going till the got properly set up.

It's only a proposal and hopefully doesn't get passed.

I can't understand your obsession with trying to impede exports from Ireland. IMO live exports/on the hoof is better for farmers than those same livestock being retained on our little island.