Beef markets: 5c/kg uplift as finishers call for more

Typically, it will add €15-€20/head to payments.
Beef markets: 5c/kg uplift as finishers call for more

An Angus heifer born April '20 weighing 475 kilos sold for €1,000 in Cashel Mart. Picture: O'Gorman Photography. See Marts for more.

The anger of beef finishers at their returns from the factories over the past couple of months has been responded to by the processors, saying that hopefully there are better times on the way.

As of now, they have added another five cents per kilo to the base prices this week to mute the rising anger that was shown to them at the IFA beef meeting in Co Laois just over a week ago.

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