Cattle Prices

Martbids Database: price drops across the board

Very few stock types have been immune to price cuts over the last week, with light heifers, heavy bullocks and all weights and sexes of weanlings seeing a slashing of price.

MARKETS 18 March 2026

Martbids Database: price drops across the board

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Farmer uncertainty around mart rings amid rising input costs

Farmer uncertainty around mart rings amid rising input costs

NEWS 18 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?

FARMER WRITES 18 March 2026

Shoppers are spending more but getting less beef

Shoppers are spending more but getting less beef

Shoppers are spending more but getting less beef

NEWS 13 March 2026

MartBids analysis: bullock price recovers as heifers fall

MartBids analysis: bullock price recovers as heifers fall

MartBids analysis: bullock price recovers as heifers fall

MARKETS 11 March 2026

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Operating surplus for Irish agriculture hit €5.5bn in 2025

Operating surplus for Irish agriculture hit €5.5bn in 2025

Data release from CSO shows the value of agricultural output hit €14bn last year.

NEWS 24 January 2026

Huge losses on the cards for winter finishers

Huge losses on the cards for winter finishers

Losses could balloon to €300/hd if factories succeed in pulling base quotes further, the ICSA has warned.

NEWS 24 January 2026

Martbids Database: grass buyers shore up light cattle prices

Martbids Database: grass buyers shore up light cattle prices

Martin Merrick looks at where cattle prices are this week in marts, with a slippage seen in heavy cattle prices yet again.

MARKETS 24 January 2026

Irish factory prices have fallen behind competitors

Irish factory prices have fallen behind competitors

After a prolonged period in 2025 when Irish factories were outperforming the Bord Bia prime export benchmark price, they have now fallen below it.

NEWS 24 January 2026

Martbids Database: averages hold steady across the board

Martbids Database: averages hold steady across the board

Martin Merrick has the latest on where cattle prices are at, with trade steady across the board, with just some stock types seeing a minor slippage in price.

MARKETS 24 January 2026

Farmers must believe person at top of Bord Bia is committed to the cause – IFA

Farmers must believe person at top of Bord Bia is committed to the cause – IFA

Bord Bia is the police force for the QA scheme yet the man at the top is undermining it, the IFA has said.

NEWS 24 January 2026

Farmers in Carnew sanguine about bluetongue case

Farmers in Carnew sanguine about bluetongue case

There was no impact on cattle prices in Carnew Mart, as a strong trade pertained despite confirmation of a bluetongue case.

NEWS 24 January 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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