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Sheep
Sheep prices fall by over €10/head
Darren Carty
Both lambs and hoggets have been hit with price cuts in the region of 50c/kg when compared with last week.
21 April 2025 Farmer Writes
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.
19 March 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.
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
Discarded batteries among reasons for 18 cattle deaths from lead poisoning
Animals usually present with clinical signs of acute lead poisoning such as sudden death or blindness, staggering, head pressing and convulsions.
13 December 2024 News
Regulator publishes beef factory prices
Agri-Food Regulator publishes indicative prices factories receive for a combination of hindquarter and forequarter beef cuts.
11 December 2024 News