{"id":147909,"date":"2025-11-19T08:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/147909\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T08:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:13:14","slug":"quality-still-making-big-money-in-the-west-as-mart-prices-drop-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/147909\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality still making big money in the west as mart prices drop elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u2018When it comes to feed conversion and kill-out, the purer-bred continental is a better proposition for beef finishers in non-dairy areas\u2019. Photo: Gerry Faughnan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/951b8d33-8ed5-4081-b614-bafc2c20b2b7.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)\">\u2018When it comes to feed conversion and kill-out, the purer-bred continental is a better proposition for beef finishers in non-dairy areas\u2019. Photo: Gerry Faughnan<\/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)\">Overall mart averages were down across the country last week, but outside the dairy strongholds, the prices continue to reflect the quality of the breeding.<\/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)\">In Tuam, Balla, Roscommon and Ballinasloe, continental bullocks from \u20ac300-600kg made 35c\/kg more than the national average, with steers over 600kg better by 15-20c\/kg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018When it comes to feed conversion and kill-out, the purer-bred continental is a better proposition for beef finishers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20497,72,20498,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-147909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-beef-prices","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-cattle-mart-trade","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}