Marts: Producers with R grade cattle to sell are strongly resisting factory price cuts and processors are paying significantly more than the quoted prices for their supplies.

Marts: Beef prices made further gains at the factories as the supply of cattle slaughtered reached the seasonal peak with a throughput in excess of 40,000 head.

Marts: Cull cow prices were steadier at the factories for last week’s kill and the scale of decline in prices for bullocks and heifers has eased.

Marts: A hard sell by producers of beef animals maintained the average price at the factories, while individual factories paid up to 1p/lb more for R grade bullocks in a tight supply situation for the post-Easter trade.