Charolais0153
Well-Known Member
Per hectare is comparing like with like , if you had heifers making 50 a head and I had cows making 200 a head who’s better off? Put it per hectare and you knowThat's exactly what they want the take home message to be. There's obviously an agenda for Teagasc to show non-existent margins for every type of beef price. It's the same every year regardless of the price. If they showed lads how to make money they would be very unpopular with the IFA and most farmers as well.
- Why do they always bring their figures to per hectare, figures for beef farming should always be per head as that is the only thing that makes sense to farmers and the only way to compare like with like.
- Why only Fresian the only ones they looked at as bulls?
- Under 16 month bulls get on the grid at the bullock base, makes a big difference to final price/kg compared to over 16 mths.
- Realistic achievable averages would be 400kg for a 24mth continental bullock, 300kg for a 19mth HE heifer, 300kg for a Fresian bull, they don't seem to get that you need to feed the cattle before the finishing period as well.
- I would question the value of grazing animals in the finishing period, especially bulls.
300kg for a traditional heifer at 19 months is at the top end of the scale and I imagine that a big of that would be coming from the bag,