Weather effect and high prices swell marts
It is indeed a major driver — but the cattle trade is never that simple, with Denis Kirby in Kilmallock observing, “The weather is driving cattle either indoors or to the marts, but the prices in the marts are also pulling them in, anyway”.
It is with Kilmallock that I start this week, and their sale on Monday last. Denis said they had 1,092 animals on show, including 355 calves, with prices well maintained. He said an analysis of the figures from this week versus the same week last year showed two things very clearly.
