Beef prices: Variation among quotes for finished stock as processors attempt to rein in prices

Four Limousin cross bullocks born February '20 average weight 600 kilos sold for €1,660 each in Gortatlea Mart. Photo O'Gorman Photography.

The weather isn't the only change that farmers have experienced over the past week and cattle finishers are learning that to their cost with the factories.

The longest day of the year in 2022 has passed and the factory bosses would like to think that the highest prices of the year for finished cattle being delivered to their plants has gone with it into history.