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Bank holiday brings further stability to beef quotes 2021-10-25

Beef prices not reflecting market trends– IFA 2021-10-20

Favourable and strengthening market conditions should be coming through in higher beef prices, according to the Irish Farmers' Association (IFA). IFA

March 15, 2021 9:57 am The announcement by the UK government of a revised timetable for sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) checks and controls “removes uncertainty in our key export for the next number of months”, according to the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA). However, an “unacceptable price gap of 12c/kg” must now be closed between the latest Prime Export Benchmark price and the Irish Prime Composite price – indicators of prices being paid abroad and at home respectively. Comm...

Seldom have I received so many angry phone calls from the finishing community. Calls that in the main dwell on the lack of clarity coming from the processing sector as to why prices have been hit so hard, with the phrase "hatchet job" used by several to describe the current situation. All three main farming organisations are united in their condemnation of the processing sectors recent actions with Des Morrison ICMSAs livestock chair asking if this "No notice" decision to pull prices is connect...