2024: A year like never before for Irish beef producers
The actual prices paid to producers, as compiled by the Department of Agriculture from the factory pay sheets, including all quality assurance and breed bonuses, showed 2024 was a positive year overall for producers.
For beef producers, the year ending this week will be remembered as one that turned out to be like never before on prices, although with production difficulties for the finishers of cattle.
A very late spring was followed by harsh weather and poor thriving conditions for the early months of summer, the result of retarded grass growth. But the loss of performance during the first half of the year was more than compensated for on many of the farms with an excellent autumn for finishing cattle.
