{"id":255483,"date":"2025-12-28T10:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T10:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/255483\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T10:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T10:39:13","slug":"i-could-be-selling-dry-cows-on-a-saturday-morning-after-selling-a-farm-for-e3m-on-a-friday-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/255483\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I could be selling dry cows on a Saturday morning after selling a farm for \u20ac3m on a Friday afternoon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Auctioneer and Carnew mart owner David Quinn explains why he\u2019s confident beef prices will stay high \u2013 and discusses selling 50,000 cattle and 100,000 sheep annually, and navigating challenges, price swings, disease outbreaks, restrictions, shifting regulations and controlling credit\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Quinn is the owner of Carnew Mart and Quinn Property. Photos by Patrick Browne\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/7615b513-fa46-44da-a101-b2d540d9d830.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">David Quinn is the owner of Carnew Mart and Quinn Property. Photos by Patrick Browne<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Standing behind his counter this time last year, auctioneer David Quinn couldn\u2019t have imagined beef prices reaching \u20ac7.00\/kg or even \u20ac8.00\/kg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Carnew mart owner recalls telling a customer last Christmas that a rise was coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Auctioneer and Carnew mart owner David Quinn explains why he\u2019s confident beef prices will stay high \u2013 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[132415,79,30655,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-255483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-beef-farm-profiles","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-catherina-cunnane","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115796768883739380","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}