25 expressions you will hear buyers say at livestock marts
That’s Farming’s Catherina Cunnane’s list of expressions you will hear buyers say at livestock marts.
- ‘She is as long as a train’
- ‘She is weighing empty/feathers’
- ‘On the bridge’
- ‘Behind her now’
- ‘Stan on’
- ‘She has enough milk to supply the village’
- ‘She is a cracking store’
- ‘Beef was a rob today’
- ‘Some stores are 100% today’
- ‘She will bring down the factory scales’
- ‘She will get money to kill her’
- ‘She has hidden flesh and a dry bag’
- ‘I was getting the hammer and an online bidder got going’
- ‘Stores are too dear with the price of meal’
- ‘You won’t see a beast like her every day’
- ‘She is a rare sort of a heifer’
- ‘There is just something special to her’
- ‘The day you buy is the day you sell’
- ‘I saw her coming off the trailer this morning’
- ‘If she is at the price, I will handle her’
- ‘The trade was on fire today’
- ‘Cattle are starting to feel the weather – you can see it in them’
- ‘He got out and I put another €100 to her’
- ‘I got out and someone online put another €50 to her’
- ‘She will look very different off-camera – the online buyer will get some shock’
Going to the mart
Previous article on That’s Farming focused on things fathers/mothers don’t say to their farming sons and daughters when going to the mart:
- ‘We do not have enough of cattle’
- ‘Go to the mart for the day’
- ‘Bring the chequebook with you’
- ‘Bring the trailer with you’
- ‘Buy, even if they’re a rob’
- ‘Cattle aren’t going to become any cheaper – buy up!’
- ‘We have plenty of grass for the summer and fodder for the winter’
- ‘Go and buy me a load of cattle’
Read more on this article.
