Beef markets: Processors turn online to meet supply shortfall
A March '20 born Hereford cross and Limousin cross bullock averaging 737kg made €2,170 each at Corrin Mart, Fermoy. Picture: O'Gorman Photography.
Beef production is not a sector of farming widely identified with an abundance of confidence at the farm level in normal times when even getting a survival margin can be challenging for many.
But the environment for the sector in 2022 could not be described as "normal times" and it now appears that confidence in beef finishing has hit a peak rarely before experienced by those involved.
