Finishers and processors are holding their ground on prices

Some mention of 430c/kg being paid for choice lots or larger supplies

Pictured at the sale in Cashel Mart are eight Friesian bullocks nine months old & average weight 318 kilos which sold for €540 each. Photo O'Gorman Photography

The steady trade for cattle at the factories has continued for this week, with both the producers and the processors holding their ground on prices.

The supply has slipped back to 35,652 head, which is 4,000 head less than the same week last year, which suggest some tightening in the number of cattle likely to be available to the plants for the final weeks of the year.