Price stampede feared as beef market braces for 80,000 extra cattle in 2016

Reports from last week’s Bord Bia Meat Prospects seminar indicate mixed prospects for each sector

A good year for grass led to beef cattle finishing younger in 2015.

However, the annual supply to processors was still 5%, or 82,600 head behind 2014 — despite average carcass weights increasing by 5kg in 2015.