{"id":482458,"date":"2026-05-13T11:11:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/482458\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T11:11:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:11:31","slug":"mounting-pressure-on-finishers-as-quotes-fall-and-uncertainty-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/482458\/","title":{"rendered":"Mounting pressure on finishers as quotes fall and uncertainty grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Quotes are generally \u20ac6.50\/kg for bullocks and \u20ac6.70\/kg for heifers - a drop of 10-15c\/kg. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/776b9605-6245-4ef9-b4b6-ad59baf8f5df.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)\">Quotes are generally \u20ac6.50\/kg for bullocks and \u20ac6.70\/kg for heifers &#8211; a drop of 10-15c\/kg. Photo: Mark Condren<\/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)\">When I was in secondary school my history books referred to the failing Turkish Empire around the year 1900 as \u201cThe sick man of Europe\u201d.<\/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)\">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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quotes are generally \u20ac6.50\/kg for bullocks and \u20ac6.70\/kg for heifers &#8211; a drop of 10-15c\/kg. Photo: Mark Condren&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482459,"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-482458","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\/116566969275658513","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482458","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=482458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}