{"id":481396,"date":"2026-05-12T20:07:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/481396\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:07:21","slug":"hammered-continental-cattle-prices-slide-sharply-in-marts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/481396\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hammered\u2019: Continental cattle prices slide sharply in marts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Continentals took a hit at the mart. Photo: Roger Jones\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/903b3c8a-beaf-4d74-8bbe-b4b76e19d94c.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)\">Continentals took a hit at the mart. 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)\">While much of the talk among those in the cattle sector was dominated by what was going on with factory pricing last week, ie falling prices, the effect on the mart trade could best be described as variable.<\/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 other notable thing about the trade last week was that numbers were stronger than anticipated in some marts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Continentals took a hit at the mart. Photo: Roger Jones While much of the talk among those in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[30654,9,10,46655,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-481396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-beef-prices","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-cattle-mart-trade","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116563414977182872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481396","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=481396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}