{"id":291980,"date":"2026-02-11T07:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/291980\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T07:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:35:17","slug":"mart-prices-fall-for-lighter-cattle-as-confidence-weakens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/291980\/","title":{"rendered":"Mart prices fall for lighter cattle as confidence weakens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The biggest fall in prices on the bullock side came among the Friesians under 500kg'. Photo: Roger Jones\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4c85b0f1-7f35-441c-9b2b-ffa3dd164dc1.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)\">The biggest fall in prices on the bullock side came among the Friesians under 500kg&#8217;. Photo: Roger Jones<\/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)\">Mart numbers eased in some areas last week with the constant rain creating an element of depression among those in the trade which in turn added to feelings of scepticism around prospects.<\/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)\">All of which caused the trade overall to slip back ringside returns show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The biggest fall in prices on the bullock side came among the Friesians under 500kg&#8217;. Photo: Roger Jones&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,20498,61,60],"class_list":["post-291980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cattle-mart-trade","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291980","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=291980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}