Quotes are generally €6.50/kg for bullocks and €6.70/kg for heifers – a drop of 10-15c/kg. Photo: Mark Condren
When I was in secondary school my history books referred to the failing Turkish Empire around the year 1900 as “The sick man of Europe”.
Irish beef finishers can now identify as the current sick man of Europe as falling prices, and with another possible backlog in getting stock killed emerging sees finishers demoralised.