Wide difference in price rises
However, farmer pay sheet returns from the factories show that regional factors are now costing producers up to 21c/kg (7p/lb) — a difference of around €1,300 in a load of finished cattle of similar grade — as the margin between the prices paid by factories in different areas of the country widens.
In general, producers selling to southern based factories are being paid the lower prices, although this is more pronounced for bullocks than heifers with a greater number of the higher paying factories for heifers based in the south than for the bullocks.
