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It's the same as a house, not enough room when everyone's living there and when all the kids have moved on there's too much room

Not many being traded in KK mart yesterday, apparently a lot of lads locked up with TB so not as many replacements around.

very true. I hope you told him you were very much in need of it.

THe above talk reminds me of a conversation with a local small farmer/ tradesman that was surrounded by avery wealthy developer, a huge tillage farmer and a 400 cow dairy farmer.

He told me Pat doesn't have enough money, Bob doesn't have enough money and even Mick (property developer) doesn't have enough money. But I have enough money.

All comes back to the saying "Happiness comes not from having more,but from being satisfied with less".

Or the definition of consumerism I heard recently - "Using other people's money, to buy things you don't need, to impress people you don't even like."

Buying yearlings out of a field.

What percentage of reduction on price should you allow for fresh weight vs mart weight?

Paying per kg

..… wrong thread

There shouldn't be any reason why a Mart wouldn't allow you bring your own Calibration 20kg Weight, to check their scales before sale.

https://ie.lifting365.com/products/calibrated-hand-test-weight-20kg

Because lads selling outdoor a yard that wants to weight cattle usually want the top mart prices. Now they are using an uncalibrated scales as well. My own scales was out 2% it weighted lighter but it could just be 2% higher.

Back to mart weight. Cattle lose around 10% travelling to and standing in the mart.

That means an animal going through the ring at 315 kgs woukd weight 350 fresh in the owners yard. In the mart at 2.5/ kg it makes 780- 790 euro. In his yard he is looking for 875 euro.

He has no transport or waiting around a mart ya maybe a few buyers call before he finds a victim. Generally I no longer buy out of yards. LSL solved that for us

Ya most scales weight in 5kg increments. If it was out ( underweighting) by 2.4 % it would not show up. That is 14.5kgs on a 600 kg animal. Add that accross a bunch of 4-6.

That's it 100%.

He weighs the truck, load them up and weigh it again and pay the Kg difference.

Stuff them with nuts weigh them near his yard, few extra quid for him.

An hour's travel in the truck what would the weight difference be by the time I'm unloading them?

Great price - €1880 for 480 Kg, Nov 2023. Ennis mart, A red type BB bull.

There was a pen of them. All good quality. I'd say then went for export. Hard to know. A mistake on his price below. It was 1880.

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Ennis Mart
Tuesday 20th August 2024
Our annual weanling show & sale was held today, with some super stock on offer. Shippers and farmers battled it out in the bull ring, as shippers bought 42% of these. Bulls were 30c/kg dearer than the same day last year and weights were up 8 kgs on average. Heifers were a similar weight and up 20c/kg on last years sale. The stock on offer were a credit to the farmers producing them. Small entry of sucklers stock met a fine trade and made to €1,490. In the organic section heifers were more a strong trade but bulls were mixed. Better quality heifers than bulls in this section.
WEANLING BULLS:
1 BBX 435kgs - €2,000 - €4.60/kg1 ..CHX 430Kgs - €1,660 - €3.86/kg
1 BBX 480kgs - €2,000 - €4.17/kg1 ..BBX 390kgs - €1,600 - €4.10/kg
1 BBX 440kgs - €1,770 - €4.02/kg2 ..CHX 342kgs - €1,460 - €4.26/kg
1 LMX 525kgs - €1,900 - €3.62/kg1 ..LMX 330kgs - €1,460 - €4.42/kg
1 BBX 500kgs - €1,900 - €3.80/kg3 ..CHX 265kgs - €1,110 - €4.19/kg
4 LMX 294kgs - €1,130 - €3.84/kg1 ..CHX 365kgs - €1,370 - €3.75/kg
WEANLING HEIFERS:
1 CHX 285kgs - €1,100 - €3.86/kg1 ..CHX 320Kgs - €1,510 - €4.72/kg
1 CHX 255kgs - €1,060 - €4.15/kg1 ..CHX 355Kgs - €1,490 - €4.20/kg
1 BBX 375kgs - €1,400 - €3.73/kg1 ..LMX 400kgs - €1,550 - €3.87/kg
1 LMX 330kgs - €1,350 - €4.09/kg1 ..CHX 305kgs - €1,250 - €4.10/kg
1 LMX 360kgs - €1,430 - €3.97/kg
2 CHX 325kgs - €1,190 - €3.66/kg

I also saw year old HE xFr bullocks make around €500 to €600. Value there.

I think it was these I saw selling. Right at the end of the weanling sale. Last pen.

Why would a fella do dairy calf to beef when these are available. I find the 3 moves puts off buyers which works for me as they will not move again with me. Most HEx cattle will only grade o anyway. I had a fella here and was sure he was a r- but the factory thought otherwise, you have to accept that. I think factories have went hard on dairy cross since they have entered the system in recent years.

Nothing wrong with the second lot. They are only a bit with yearlings. Badly done but I have seen worse weights. They are all out of Frx's. The first lot it would depend if the older one was significantly heavier than the other but still the seoand lot were way better value full QA until end of next year.

Not necessarily, if the second lot hung 270kgs DW this time next year you are looking at a near enough 1k gross margin assuming a base if 4.8 grading O=.

The numbers on the other lot is totally different. You would need the 300K/O to get an 8-900 euro margin next year.

Great prices. What age?

That's some plaster.

saw 2 year old limo bullocks in Kingscourt today making not much more than what you got