Factories call halt to beef price rises after months of increases
From the later days of last week, the signals were emerging from the processors of 'no more increases', which was applied across the country for this week's kill, with the processors reducing their slaughtering days.
After months of week-on-week price increases for beef animals at the factories, the processors have, in unison, called the end of the run of upwards-only record-breaking returns for the producers this week.
Since last autumn, the weekly rise in beef prices, across all categories, had become the norm of the trade, and the timing of any stalling, originally speculated upon for early this year, had become nothing more than a guessing game.
