Mart Report: Time to give your mart Manager a break
Pictured at the Munster Branch Irish Angus bull sale in Kilmallock Mart, Co Limerick are John Appelbe, Clonakilty with ‘Carrigroe Sea Salt’ that sold for the top price of €3,100. Photo O’Gorman Photography.
After a year now of warring online for cattle, I've little doubt that almost all would dearly love to return to the old ways, and indeed the old days.
It cannot be easy for mart managers. The 'new normal' as it is called, is anything but normal. The online system has opened mart sales to the whole country. A good news story in so many ways. It has possibly saved many marts from going under.
