Dairy News
The trade for calves this year has started strong, with good numbers and prices being seen at Bandon Mart for this weeks calf sale.
Dairy Technical
Enniscorthy Mart held its weekly calf sale on Wednesday (January 25), with 175 calves on offer at the Model county based mart.
The calf sale at Enniscorthy Mart, which took place on Wednesday (November 30), had 130 entries this week.
Ballyjamesduff mart held its weekly calf sale on Wednesday, May 4, with 107 lots on offer at the Co. Cavan-based mart.
Enniscorthy Mart held its weekly calf sale on Wednesday, March 23. with over 600 calves on offer at Co. Wexford-based mart.
On Wednesday, March 9, Agriland took a trip to Co. Cavan for Ballyjamesduff Mart's weekly calf sale, where a 100% clearance was achieved.
Improving your calves' saleability should be something you consider, as the numbers of calves presenting at marts for sale has increased.
Waterford Ross Mart held it's weekly calf sale on Saturday, February 26 with over 700 calves on offer at the Co. Wexford mart.
Carrigallen Mart held its weekly calf sale on Saturday, February 19, where over 250 calves were expected to go on offer.
On Wednesday, February 2, Enniscorthy mart held it's weekly calf sale which saw over 350 calves present at the Co. Wexford mart for sale.
Dairy
Carnaross Mart held its weekly calf sale on Monday, January 17, with the mart's manager describing the trade as 'on fire'.
Spring dairy sales have kicked off at marts, with Enniscorthy Mart holding its first sale of the year this week.
Carrigallen Mart held it's weekly calf sale on Saturday, January 8, with 111 calves presented for sale at the Co. Leitrim mart.
Ballyjamesduff mart held its first sales of the new year this week, with sales returning on Tuesday, January 4 to the Co. Cavan based mart.
The weeks leading up to Christmas have seen a good trade for calves from farmers and agents, with that trend continuing at Bandon's calf sale.
Enniscorthy mart held it weekly calf sale on Wednesday, as we head towards Christmas many farmers seem keen to move stock off their farms.
Agriland spoke with two mart managers this week to obtain some insight into the autumn calf trade, as marts wind down for the Christmas break.
Enniscorthy Mart saw a bigger entry of calves this week with over 100 on offer at the Wexford marts weekly calf sale on Wednesday.
This week saw a decline in the numbers entered at Ballyjamesduff Mart’s weekly calf sale, which took place on Wednesday (November 17).
The autumn-calving season has kicked off on farms, which means autumn calf sales are beginning to kick-off at marts.
On Wednesday (June 23) Enniscorthy Mart held it's weekly calf sale with 124 calves on offer at the Co. Wexford based marts sale.
Beef Technical
Agriland made the trip down to to observe the trade at the Blessington Mart - as the Co. Wicklow based mart held it's weekly calf and cattle sales.
Enniscorthy Mart held it's weekly calf sale on Wednesday (May 26), with 200 lots on offer on the day - containing a mix of both young and reared calves.
