Mart sales flying high, and hopes reopening of US market could further boost prices

Before I begin this week’s mart report, I feel I must remind those involved in the business of buying store cattle that we are in the month of February, it’s not May.

It’s not grass we have out in them fields, it’s frost.

The trade for store cattle in the marts at present is absolutely flying, there is a summer feel to the sales, the mood is upbeat. And all this positivity is fuelled, I suspect, by a belief that the winter is as good as over. And also there are high hopes that America will fall madly in love with Irish beef.