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Watch: suckler calf registrations drop by record 60,000 head in 2023 - 19 January 2024

A number of worrying trends in the kill-out performance of Irish beef cattle were highlighted at the Bord Bia Meat Marketing Seminar...

Irish cattle supplies are forecast to decline by 2% in 2024, according to Bord Bia's beef sector manager Maek Zieg.

The drop in beef price over the past few months is reflective of consumers buying less meat for economical reasons, and as a result less demand. That's

"You don't just get this on the basis of a good story." Those are the words of beef sector manager with Bord Bia, Mark Zieg, speaking about the PGI application for Irish Grass Fed Beef'

There is a growing awareness about the benefits of grass-fed beef among consumers in the Chinese market, according to Bord Bia's beef sector manager Mark

Beef throughput estimated to drop 60,000 head in 2023 2023-01-16

The value of livestock exported in 2022 was €230 million or 6% of the total of €4 billion in meat and livestock exports from Ireland in 2022.

The supply of finished cattle in Ireland has been forecast to fall by 50-60,000 head this year, according to Bord Bia projections. Speaking at the Bord

The beef market outlook for 2023 remains broadly optimistic but this optimism is "surrounded by a fair degree of uncertainty," according to Mark Zieg, beef sector manager at Irelands Bord Bia.