Beef price? Depends on who you ask ...

I took some time out, earlier this week, to research factory beef prices.

After a number of calls to various agents and other interested parties, I found the base prices for steers seem to be ranging from €3.90 a kilo to €4 this week, depending on whether you accept a factory at their word, or whether you dig in a bit.

My conversations were punctuated, every now and then, by sentences that could be considered little pearls of wisdom — or, more likely, “here’s the news we want broadcast”.