Market edging towards 'name your price' for beef finishers
Eleven 27-month-old Friesian bullocks with an average weight of 593kg sold for €1,620 each at Thurles Mart on Monday. Picture: O'Gorman Photography
As the seller's market for finished cattle continues to rule the trade, pressure is mounting on the processors to maintain intake to fill their orders for beef.
"We are not exactly in a 'name our price' situation — yet — for any producer with a good number of cattle ready for the factories, but the absolute hunger of the factories for cattle is going in that direction," said one finisher summing up the trade this week.
