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Agribusiness
New factory beef price tracker
Phelim O'Neill
An explainer of the composite factory hind quarter and forequarter sales prices published by the Agri-Food Regulator.
11 May 2025 News
Lamb dies of copper poisoning from cattle feed
Before its death, the lamb had been noticed with drooping ears and had access to poorly conserved silage and cattle concentrate.
23 April 2025 News
Sheep prices fall by over €10/head
Both lambs and hoggets have been hit with price cuts in the region of 50c/kg when compared with last week.
Farmer Writes: strong beef price can only be seen as a good thing
I would like to see the people who put in the hard work of breeding and calving cows getting well paid for it, because God knows we’ve done it long enough for nothing.
21 April 2025 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: I’m not losing any sleep over ICBF indices
Tommy Moyles looks at the ICBF stars and the abolishing of milk quotas.
19 March 2025 Farmer Writes
Sheep farmers taking €32/head hit as processors profit - ICSA
Processors have cynically moved the goalposts by cutting both the price and the paid carcase weight in one fell swoop, according to ICSA sheep chair Willie Shaw.
14 March 2025 News
NI factories play on overfat hoggets
Factories in Northern Ireland are complaining about overweight hoggets being presented for slaughter.
12 March 2025 Northern Ireland
Coughlan defends ICBF performance in Wexford
The lack of quality beef cattle is due to the drop in suckler cow numbers, not the SCEP star system, Sean Coughlan told Wexford farmers
12 March 2025 News
Anger over weight cuts to hogget carcases
Farmers have described the cuts as a backdoor move to reduce the value of hoggets.
5 March 2025 News
€8/kg in sight for beef quotes
Adam Woods has the latest on this week’s beef trade including news of another price rise.
5 March 2025 Markets
Low supply and High demand positive news for world beef markets
Adam Woods reports from the Bord Bia Meat Marketing seminar which was held in Naas, Co. Kildare last week.
22 January 2025 Markets
Weighing up the pros and cons of meeting BCRS age limits
The slaughter age limits set out under the Beef Carbon Reduction Scheme have seen more cattle being finished that are underfleshed. Kieran Mailey reports.
15 January 2025 Northern Ireland