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Beef
Weanlings break €5/kg barrier
Adam Woods
Adam Woods has the latest on this week’s mart trade including news of record prices.
12 March 2025 Markets
€20/hogget taken from farmers’ pockets
IFA sheep Chair Adrian Gallagher has criticised the actions of factories and stated that it will have serious long term implications for the sheep sector.
12 March 2025 Markets
Sheep Trends: factories pull hoggets by 20c/kg
Further pressure has been inflicted on the trade, with base quotes in most plants reducing by 20c/kg on last week’s level.
Agri-exports still look mostly eastwards
Ireland's dependence on exports to the US is a trend that agri-food bucks. It might matter soon if a trade and tariff war breaks out.
19 February 2025 Dealer
Sheep kill is running 45,000 head behind 2024
The sharp tightness in supply is reflected in throughput running almost 30% lower.
22 January 2025 Markets
Heydon is poised to take top agriculture role
A farmer all his life, a TD since 2011, and a Minister of State in Agriculture House for the last five years, it's been a lifelong apprenticeship for biggest job in Irish farming for Martin Heydon.
22 January 2025 News
Trump trade fears may be overstated
Ireland remains very well placed in its main export markets.
22 January 2025 News
Mixed story for Irish agrifood exports
Irish agrifood exports to September 2024 reveal several changes compared with same period last year.
23 December 2024 News
Joskin- from Agri contractor to manufacturer with 130,000 machines in 41 years
Building 3,500-4,000 machines each year, Peter Thomas Keaveney travelled to Soumagne in Belgium to meet the Joskin family and visit some of the Joskin factories.
23 December 2024 Farm machinery
Beef price gap stuck above €1/kg
Relatively strong beef price takes the focus off the gap that has developed with UK.
6 November 2024 News
Factories ‘failing to reflect’ strong beef export market - IFA
The latest Bord Bia prime export benchmark price has strengthened again and has now opened a gap of 50c/kg with the prime Irish composite price.
6 November 2024 News
Irish pigmeat sold around the world
There may be just a few hundred commercial pig farmers but they underpin the third most valuable category of Irish agri-food exports.
3 November 2024 Pigs