Summer beef price battle lines set at €4 per kg

Both sides in the beef trade are playing hard ball, with supply and demand varying across the country, helping to determine what price farmers and processors settle on.

There was very little change in the overall supply to factories last week, with the intakes of both steers and heifers remaining strong, at around 12,500 steers and some 9,000 heifers in the overall supply of almost 33,700 head, marginally lower than the previous week.