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Prices for heifer calves on the up

Prices for heifer calves have improved over the last week while demand from shippers continues to see prices hold above 2025 levels for bull calves.

MARKETS 20 May 2026

Prices for heifer calves on the up

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Brazil pledges compliance to avoid beef ban

Brazil pledges compliance to avoid beef ban

NEWS 20 May 2026

Beef Management: nitrate poisoning, breeding and summer scour

Beef Management: nitrate poisoning, breeding and summer scour

MANAGEMENT 20 May 2026

Grass+ Beef: rainfall welcome in the east while heat needed in the west

Grass+ Beef: rainfall welcome in the east while heat needed in the west

Grass+ Beef: rainfall welcome in the east while heat needed in the west

GRASS & FEEDING 20 May 2026

Vector impresses on Italian beef farms

Vector impresses on Italian beef farms

Vector impresses on Italian beef farms

BUILDINGS 20 May 2026

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Limousin leave it all on the line in Balmoral

Limousin leave it all on the line in Balmoral

Balmoral Show 2026 proved an incredible one for the Limousin breed, claiming the supreme beef interbreed and junior beef interbreed championships, writes Nevan McKiernan.

PEDIGREE 20 May 2026

Parthenaise Cattle Society to host second online sale

Parthenaise Cattle Society to host second online sale

Taking place over the June bank holiday weekend will be the second online timed auction from the Irish Parthenaise Cattle Society.

PEDIGREE 20 May 2026

Livestock Express changes hands

Livestock Express changes hands

Livestock Express a subsidiary of Netherlands-based shipping company, Vroon is to be sold to an Australian company with a substantial beef portfolio.

MARKETS 20 May 2026

Prevention is always better than cure

Prevention is always better than cure

There are numerous competing demands on spending for a farm health plan, so it is worth sitting down and prioritising what are the must-have elements.

ANIMAL HEALTH 20 May 2026

MartBids analysis: further price cuts across the board

MartBids analysis: further price cuts across the board

Weanlings have taken a drastic hit this week, with store and finished cattle also feeling the effects of a fall in factory prices, but how do they compare to 2025 prices?

MARKETS 20 May 2026

Calf price update: prices falling in line with 2025 levels

Calf price update: prices falling in line with 2025 levels

Heifer calf prices looks to have improved over the last week but overall, fewer categories of calves are continuing to sell for prices over the same time in 2025.

MARKETS 20 May 2026

Finishers face further quote cuts

Finishers face further quote cuts

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

MARKETS 20 May 2026

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New Zealand dairy tech open day to take place on Laois farm

Irish dairy farmers will have the opportunity to see the latest technologies from New Zealand at an on-farm open day at Camcloon Dairy, Ballyfin, Co Laois, on Tuesday 19 May 2026 from 10am.

New Zealand dairy tech open day to take place on Laois farm

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