Beef
A farm organisation has claimed that a "narrative" from beef processors on prices is "at odds with the market".
Prices for cattle offered by beef processors in the last week have appeared to hold steady or increase in the last week.
Kilkenny Mart hosted its weekly general cattle sale on Thursday (October 1), with approximately 1,310 cattle on offer.
Farmgate and retail beef prices are linked - but falls in farmgate prices can take time to appear on supermarket shelves.
Beef News
The ICSA has called on beef factories to explain why prices are around €1.10/kg behind this time last year.
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Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Martin Heydon has been called on to "get involved" to address the recent fall in beef prices.
The ICSA has claimed that a new repot showing a decline in Irish beef production makes the drop in cattle prices "impossible to explain".
The price that beef farmers are currently getting paid suggests there is "huge price-gouging going on, according to one senator.
Representatives of MII will attend a meeting of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food this week on beef prices.
ICMSA Livestock chair Michael O'Connell has slammed a decision by factories to cut beef prices by 10c/kg this week.
This week's factory quotes sees beef price offers looking more firm to positive, with some of last week's low price offers back up this week.
This week's factory quotes have seen the first signs of the beef trade steadying after three weeks of price cuts across the board.
IFA national livestock chairperson Declan Hanrahan has slammed what he called "relentless" beef price cuts.
Agri Politics
Beef farmers are facing a "crisis of confidence" due to falling factory prices, the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers' Association (ICSA) said.
Beef processors have been called on to cease reducing cattle prices, with the IFA saying the behaviour of processors is 'unacceptable'.
The national livestock chairperson of the Irish Farmers' Association (IFA) has said there is "no justification for undermining beef prices".
The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers' Association (ICSA) has said that winter beef finishers are facing "massive losses".
Beef prices may have steadied in recent weeks but they remain off the level needed to 'keep beef farmers viable' according to the ICSA.
The ICSA has claimed the recent drop-off in beef prices is "disgraceful" and that processors are "deliberately" keeping prices down.
The Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers' Association (ICMSA) has accused factories of trying to "bluff prices downwards” again.
Tightening supplies of cattle in export markets and higher demand for beef should "underpin" prices to farmers, according to the IFA.
This week's factory quotes sees the beef trade remain on firm footing into the final week of August...
