Gradual readjustment in prices

Marts: A gradual readjustment of prices for both weanlings and calves - in the aftermath of the change over to the EU Single Payment - has commenced to show in the live trade at the marts.

After three months during which the trade held very strong at the mart sales for calves, with the sellers receiving prices which were on par - or very close to - the corresponding weeks in 2004, a gradual slippage in prices has become a pattern of the trade.

Prices for weanling bulls are also showing decline with the dairy breed bulls showing the biggest slip compared to last year.