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Exceptional prices and a big appetite for calves both home and abroad has seen the calf throughout grow year on year in Cork Marts over the last five years. Tommy Moyles reports.
A new action plan published last week sets a target timeline of 2028 to phase out live imports of calves from Ireland.
The difference in price between bull and heifer calf price is continuing to grow, as strong demand from shippers is pushing on prices for bull calves.
Plans to stop the import of Irish calves to the Netherlands appear to have been halted as the regulations governing it are a European matter not a national one writes Tommy Moyles.
Export volumes have been positive in recent weeks but still remain almost 36,000 lower than the corresponding period in 2025
While shippers have been busy in March and April, the loss of the Polish market to calves for most of the early part of 2026 means it's proving difficult for numbers to reach the heights of last year.
Still behind the record levels set in 2025, there has been an improvement in the sale of calves to markets outside the state. This comes as heifer calf prices continue to fall.
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