Cattle marts report: Steady sales as marts drive on, at a safe remove from global economic upheavals

The mad cow, the rain, the thunder, even the Greeks voting no, nothing it seems can put the breaks on the runaway train that is the high flying cattle trade.

Cattle in general, from the calf to the store, are €100 a head up on last year’s prices. And while all this buoyancy, confidence and stability in the marts might sound just dandy, you have to ask yourself, well I do anyway, what’s going to be the story come next year?

With so many expensively purchased cattle staying put on home turf, could the cattle trade slip south in 2016 leading us once more back to the land of tears and sorrow.