Week-long waiting lists for cattle at processors
The intake for last week slipped to 30,558 head - around 1,000 head less than the same week last year - which, for the shorter week allowing for the Monday bank holiday, was a slight enough difference from the previous week.
Beef processors are continuing to tighter their grip on the prices which they pay for 'farmers' cattle being supplied into their plants this week.
The prices have tightened further, and it has become more difficult for many suppliers to get cattle killed, with some being put on waiting lists for up to a week, amid the claims by many of them that processors are now prioritising intake from feed lots.
