Top prices for choice weanling bulls
A stronger mix of young and lighter weight animals were among the entry.
Some exceptional prices were paid for the choice weanling bulls on offer - a 482-kg Belgian Blue sold for €1,240. There was plenty of demand from both the active shippers, buying heifers and quality bulls, and farmers who were buying bull weanlings, which kept a floor under the average R grade bulls.
With quality more variable, and more young stock than last week’s Show and Sale, the margin price also widened. The choice bulls made €350 - €500 over €/kg, with a few fancy prices reaching up to €760 over. A lot of two Charolais 333 kgs sold for €900, a Charolais 346 kgs made €840, and three Limousin 394 kgs selling for €765. At the other end of the scale prices edged back to €220 over.
Quality heifers were also in strong demand. A Belgian Blue weighing 266 kgs sold for €750. A Charolais 352 kgs sold for €780, a 328-kg Limousin made €662 and a 418-kg Limousin sold for €675.
More general prices ranged €120 over to €350 over.
Some weanlings on offer at Fermoy Mart yesterday - as part of the general cattle sale of 900 head - ranged €200 to €260 over for bulls and €120 over to €160 over for heifers. At the cattle sale there was a strong trade for the quality store bullocks which sold for up to €300 over, plainer stores selling back to €70 over. Both beef and store heifers were a good trade at prices ranging €90 over to €200 over.
Forward store bullocks ranged €170 - €260 over at Kanturk Mart, bullocks 400-500 kg making €120 - €225 over €/kg. Beef heifers made up to €150 over and stores sold for up to €170 over.
