Beef
With the autumn weanling sales just around the corner, prices are running at record highs with the...
While the calf trade has seen a significant uplift this year, prices reached a new high at a sale in Co. Donegal at the weekend.
GVM Carrigallen Mart in Co. Leitrim hosted a special sale of 39 in-calf heifers and 11 calved heifers on Saturday, August 31.
Dairy Technical
Calving season is well underway across the country, and reports suggest that numbers for the calf trade are down on previous years...
Carrigallen Mart hosted its weekly calf sale on Saturday, February 10 with a total of 90 calves and runners on offer at the Co. Leitrim...
Carrigallen Mart in Co. Leitrim hosted a special suckler sale of 30 in-calf and calved heifers on Monday evening, July 31.
Agri-Business
Crowds of farmers gathered at GVM Carrigallen Mart in Co. Leitrim for the annual heifer sale of...
There was over 700 cattle on offer at Carrigallen Mart's weekly sale of calves, weanlings and runners on Saturday, April 23.
Carrigallen Mart held its weekly calf sale on Saturday, April 23, where almost 400 calves were on offer at the Co. Leitrim mart.
There was a full house around the suckler-cow ring at Carrigallen Mart on Monday evening, March 28, as a special suckler sale got underway.
Carrigallen Mart held its weekly calf sale on Saturday, February 19, where over 250 calves were expected to go on offer.
Beef News
There was strong demand for quality breeding stock at Carrigallen Mart's suckler sale on Monday, January 17.
Dairy
Carrigallen Mart held it's weekly calf sale on Saturday, January 8, with 111 calves presented for sale at the Co. Leitrim mart.
Rural Life
The big day has arrived for a major agricultural fundraiser - the Hooves 4 Hospice sale - which gets underway today (Saturday, May 22)
Charity agri fundraiser Hooves 4 Hospice will be holding its much-anticipated sale this weekend to raise funds for a midlands hospice.
Taaffe auctions hosted the on farm dispersal sale of the Lisfort herd, on Saturday for the herds owner Martin Larkin, Co. Galway.
Calf trade: With the simple rule of demand and supply, Friesian bull calf prices experienced a positive rise as a result of low numbers.
The prices for quality animals are still holding firm, with the sought after Angus and Hereford calf proving to be difficult to buy.
The prices for the aged calves are holding steady this week, with the lighter calves seeing a slight blip in prices paid over the recent days.
Sheep
Helen Kells, the mart manager of Carrigallen Mart, reported an improved trade for hoggets at Monday's sale (February 15).
The latest figures from the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) show an increase in dairy calf births in comparison to this time to last year.
