Carnew: Cattle prices up €50-€70/hd on pre-Christmas trade – Quinn

Carnew Mart – Cattle Prices – 07-01-2023

According to David Quinn, some 750 cattle and 100 calves crossed the scales at Carnew Mart’s opening cattle sale of 2023 on Saturday, January 7^th.

According to the mart manager, an “excellent” trade prevailed for all classes and prices were up by €50/€70/head on pre-Christmas levels.

Prices reached €2,400 in the bullock ring, €2,180 in the heifer category, €2,380 in the cull cow ring and bulls soared to €1,600.

Heifers

• Continental beef/forward – €1700-€2180;
• Continental stores – €930-€1710;
• Heavy AA/HD -€1440-€1960;
• Store AA/HD – €750-€1380.

Prices:

• CHX – 718kg at €2040;
• LMX – 622kg at €1880;
• CHX – 604kg at €1840;
• AUX – 626kg at €1840;
• SI – 657kg at €1810;
• CHX – 598kg at €1700;
• CHX – 472kg at €1370.

Cull cows:

• Heavy continental cows – €1750-€2380;
• Continental store cows – €1150-€1810;
• Heavy FR cows – €1450-€1920;
• Store FR cows – €750-€1300.

Prices:

• LM – 786kg at €2230;
• SI – 834kg at €2150;
• LM – 828kg at €2150;
• LM – 760kg at €1970;
• MOX – 814kg €1810;
• FR – 570kg at €990.

Bullocks:

• Continental beef/forward – €1850-€2400;
• Continental store – €1100-€1780;
• Heavy AA/HD – €1600-€2120;
• Store AA/HD – €850-€1570;
• Light FR – €680-€1150;
• Heavy FR – €1300-€2000.

Prices:

• LMX 795kg at €2300;
• LMX 748kg at €2300;
• CHX 706kg at €2240;
• SAX 725kg at €2170;
• LMX 676kg at €1960;
• SIX 514kg at €1360;
• LMX 396kg at €1100.

Bull prices

• CHX – 564kg at €1600;
• LMX – 305kg at €1350;
• LMX – 412kg at €1200;
• LMX – 398kg at €1200;
• LMX – 404kg at €1180;
• BAX – 374kg at €1140.

Interview with David Quinn

In 1997, David Quinn, from Carnew, County Wicklow, took over the running and management of Carnew Mart, a family-run business.

He farms a small beef enterprise on the Wicklow/Wexford border and is married to Eilish with their four children: Jack (25), Julie (22), Adam (19), and Robert (15).

“My grandparents would have started it as a sheep mart in the 1950s and the existing mart site in the mid-1960s. I would have started auctioneering when I was eighteen in 1988”, David Quinn told That’s Farming.

“During the 1970s and 1980s, we had marts every day of the week in different locations; we had a mart in Kilkenny and Wexford.”

“My grandfather started selling sheep in the grain yard in the 1950s. I think there were two marts in Carnew operating for a couple of years, which would be unusual in one small town.” he added.

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