Beef finishers are in unprecedented times with prices up by 10 cents/kg over the past week

There is a hunger for cattle at the plants
Beef finishers are in unprecedented times with prices up by 10 cents/kg over the past week

The competition between the processors has further fuelled the prices which they are being forced to pay to source sufficient supplies to meet the orders on hand.

Such is the demand for Irish beef on the export markets, that the challenge for the factories in sourcing sufficient stock has developed into a hunger for cattle at the plants.

Beef finishers are living through the most unprecedented times they've ever experienced on the demand for cattle at the processors and the prices which are being attained for supplies.

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