235-240c/kg base price offered for steers and heifers

Sold through Dowra mart in Co Cavan last Saturday,these four Charolais cross store heifers of 490kg sold for €1,100 each. (€2.24 per kg).

The challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic were the last thing the Irish beef industry needed, after its blockades in 2019, an autumn of low prices, and a very weak 2020 start to the beef trade at factories.