Factory prices increased by up to 10 cents/kg over the past week
Dairy beef calves can now get a €20/head payment under the new Dairy Calf Beef scheme.
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.
