Beef
Teagasc has published a series of budgets for different beef systems with guide costings and the breakeven beef price required for farmers.
Every autumn around the time of the Ploughing, Teagasc produces a set of financial budgets to assist farmers who are buying cattle...
The relocation of the Newford suckler demonstration farm to a new location in Co. Roscommon has been confirmed by Teagasc.
Winter finishers need the meat industry to come forward and support them with guaranteed minimum prices, the ICSA has said.
Agri-Business
The IBLA has said that forward contracts are a "fundamental requirement" to insulate beef and sheep farmers in the supply chain.
Beef farmers were reminded of the importance in getting airflow right in their slatted sheds at a...
Raymond and Richard Carter are mixed tillage and beef farmers based just outside Stradbally in Co....
Many farmers have installed rubber slat mats in their sheds, some have - for various reasons - decided not to. It begs the question...
Farmers in the business of purchasing cattle at this time of the year for winter finishing will...
Finishers will struggle to breakeven this winter due to low beef prices, recent figures presented by Teagasc's Pearse Kelly have shown.
Finishing cattle over the winter is expensive and weight gains made over this period may be the difference between making a profit or loss.
Although the outlook for winter finishing is challenging, finishing in full and farmers should ensure their animals are on the correct diet.
In this article, we will look at the break-even prices required when finishing Friesian and Hereford store bullocks over the winter period.
Going on spring 2018 R+3= steer prices - which averaged 407-425c/kg over the springtime - farmers finishing bullocks will be 'out of pocket'.
At current beef prices, the thoughts of finishing cattle over the winter period are - to put it mildly - uneconomical and unsustainable.
Although finishing cattle during the winter period is a costly process, this year, there is an increased demand for in spec stock.
Disillusioned and struggling to make a go of conventional beef finishing, Co. Monaghan farmer Mark Gillanders decided to make the switch to an organic farming system in 2008.
Beef finishers will struggle to breakeven this winter due to high store costs and low factory prices, recent figures from Teagasc have show.
