Beef prices

Cuts to beef quotes continue

Adam Woods has the latest on this week’s beef trade, including the latest quotes for finished cattle.

MARKETS 23 March 2026

Cuts to beef quotes continue

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Beef price cuts opportunistic and irresponsible – IFA

Beef price cuts opportunistic and irresponsible – IFA

NEWS 23 March 2026

New ICSA beef chair slams factories following price plunge

New ICSA beef chair slams factories following price plunge

NEWS 20 March 2026

Irish factory prices fall behind export benchmark

Irish factory prices fall behind export benchmark

Irish factory prices fall behind export benchmark

NEWS 20 March 2026

Beef prices slashed by €5m

Beef prices slashed by €5m

Beef prices slashed by €5m

NEWS 18 March 2026

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Camera at the Mart: grass buyers active in Raphoe Mart

Camera at the Mart: grass buyers active in Raphoe Mart

The presence of grass buyers helped to keep a floor under prices for lighter cattle, but slaughter-fit and forward stores were €30 to €50/head easier on price.

MARKETS 11 March 2026

Beef Trends: quotes slip again

Beef Trends: quotes slip again

Adam Woods has the latest on this week’s beef trade, including the latest quotes for finished cattle this week.

MARKETS 11 March 2026

Farmer Writes: what is going on with Ireland’s factory beef price?

Farmer Writes: what is going on with Ireland’s factory beef price?

What makes the situation difficult to understand is that the fall in price is happening at a time when the number of cattle being processed nationally is well back on previous years.

FARMER WRITES 11 March 2026

Irish beef quotes bottom of EU price league

Irish beef quotes bottom of EU price league

Adam Woods has the latest on this week’s beef trade, including the latest quotes for finished cattle this week.

MARKETS 11 March 2026

IFA calls out factories as Irish beef price falls behind EU

IFA calls out factories as Irish beef price falls behind EU

EU prices have now surged passed Irish price for the first time since 2024, according to IFA.

NEWS 11 March 2026

Dempsey at Large: questions as we drop below Poland

Dempsey at Large: questions as we drop below Poland

Does the competition and consumer protection body need to dust down its files on how to investigate suspected collusion and price fixing among processors?

VIEWPOINTS 11 March 2026

Home Farm: yellow crops and falling beef prices

Home Farm: yellow crops and falling beef prices

We put the lightest of the store cattle out for a few hours by day in a dry paddock with a full cover of grass.

VIEWPOINTS 11 March 2026

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Cutting clean in tough conditions: Conal Moore on running Krone EasyCut Mowers

Conal Moore an agri contractor and tillage framer from Ballygar Co Galway. “We do a lot of reseeding, slurry spreading and tillage work but baling would be our main enterprise”.

Cutting clean in tough conditions: Conal Moore on running Krone EasyCut Mowers

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