{"id":330163,"date":"2026-02-10T16:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/330163\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T16:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:12:16","slug":"booking-delays-stretch-to-10-days-as-factories-hold-firm-on-cattle-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/330163\/","title":{"rendered":"Booking delays stretch to 10 days as factories hold firm on cattle prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u2018One way or the other factories appear to have the measure of the market at present\u2019  Photo: Roger Jones\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/il _DSC0041_resize.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)\">\u2018One way or the other factories appear to have the measure of the market at present\u2019  Photo: Roger Jones<\/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)\">A month ago, a factory agent in the south east told me that whatever he was buying was collected and processed the following day. Over the weekend the same man informed me it\u2019s now taking him up to 10 days to get to stock killed.<\/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)\">This sees agents in this part of the country continuing to quote \u20ac7.00\/kg for bullocks and \u20ac7.10\/kg for heifers. That being said actual prices when it comes to Hereford and Angus are around the \u20ac7.10\/kg mark, which when you add breed bonuses and quality assurance sees the top of the market on \u20ac7.50-7.60\/kg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018One way or the other factories appear to have the measure of the market at present\u2019 Photo: Roger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[30654,79,46655,18,19,17],"class_list":["post-330163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-beef-prices","tag-business","tag-cattle-mart-trade","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116047219510814586","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330163","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=330163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}