‘Promising’ outlook for cattle exports this year IFA predicts

The prospects for the live cattle export trade look much more promising for 2016, the Irish Farmers Association has predicted.

Livestock Committee chairman Henry Burns said the major reduction in milk replacer costs and higher prices in Holland for veal calves should strongly drive calf exports.

In addition, the slow recovery in the EU beef market and lower grain prices should boost demand for live exports of weanlings into the more intensive beef feeding systems in Italy and Spain.