10.6% increase in UK retail sales of primary beef helps Irish finishers

Summer finishers need every cent to break-even or make a small profit

Ollie Biggane gets his hands sanitised by Pat Quirke on arrival with his 25 white head hullocks at GVM Kilmallock Mart last Monday Picture: James Treacy

The good news for beef finishers is that prices on offer at the factories remain unchanged.

It is good news because the season is moving on, and cattle supplies are steadily moving off farms without price cuts by processors.