Cattle marts report: A bad day at the office for some of us, but 500kg animal is still fetching good money

“The days of the plain animal are well over,” cattleman Gene Daly said to me in Bandon mart on Monday.

And Gene, as usual, was talking sense. In Bandon on Monday, the plain light bullock was about as desirable as a jail cell in Rio de Janeiro.

I got caught myself on Monday, as I attempted to wave bye-bye to a few plain bullocks who had been residing on this farm for the past year.