Beef
There is more movement on the live export front this week; a consignment of bulls is expected to be loaded at Waterford port.
Exporters are preparing to ship 5,000 cattle to Turkey. Purcell Brothers currently has 3,000 weanling bulls in quarantine for the market.
Two separate consignments of Irish cattle - totalling almost 5,000 head - left Irish shores for Turkey late last week.
Approximately 3,000 Irish bulls left Irish shores for Turkey in the early hours of Friday morning.
Approximately 2,000 Irish stores will be exported to a non-EU market in the coming weeks, after an agreement was reached with an Irish exporter.
The Atlantic M - a Panama-registered livestock carrier - is en route to Co. Waterford to load a consignment of 3,000 Irish bulls for Turkey.
A delegation of ICSA senior representatives met with the Turkish Ambassador at the Turkish Embassy in Dublin last Friday, May 5.
The news that a contract has been agreed upon to export a reported 20,000 head of young bulls to Turkey has been welcomed by the IFA.
