If he makes a few pound on them he will be back to you next year and hopefully willing to give you a few extra pound for the quality. The cost of doing business nowadays is crazy. everytime an animal passes trough a mart its taking €50 of the animals total output. assuming €15 for haulage both ways, €20 for fees and €15 for lack of thrive/sickness. Animals cant carry such costs when the average animal is killing circa €1,100
Agreed, but every farmers costs are different
Yes they are but every time a beast changes hands everyone involved takes a slice.
I suggested that here a few weeks back and I felt that a few people were disgruntled with me for saying it. Wasn't trying to be offensive but instead was suggesting that because of the low factory prices, the margins weren't in it for to have more than one owner of an animal or 2 at the very most.
Fully agree with this. Someone along the line is going to take a hit and they will need either a good bps or an off farm income to sustain the loss .
Hear helen wasnt letting some in sat in the local mart.was a buck here to buy sucks sat night and he had a tale of woe about it
Yeah if they were mine Is be selling away, trade is very good at the minute if people get nervous about finishing cattle after Christmas it won't be long dropping 10-20 c/kg and the trade is very unlikely to rise from where it is.
I saw 500kg bullocks make over 2.60 per kg in ennis last Friday, now they were lovely bullocks but that was crazy to be honest. Winter finishing is a tough game at the best of times, but some people just don't help themselves either. Those bullocks will die in debt regardless of how well they do after unless someone knows something that I don't somewhere along the line.
Skipton is one of the biggest for store lambs,Longtown will do 7k per week this time of year.
Where are stores easily making those prices?
2.30 per kg will buy you top U grade store heifers at present, but it would not by you top U grade store bullocks from what I could see last week. And yes, I am talking about the best of charolais cattle, as that is what I was looking at in the main. There are plenty continentals trading at around the 2 euro per kg mark also, but they are not U grades!
I got 100 at 80 avg, they were 76 avg last year. I was expecting them to be dearer.
I usually pay around the £40 mark,sell late March,historically get £75-£105.