{"id":387616,"date":"2026-04-08T06:09:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/387616\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T06:09:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:09:19","slug":"top-quality-bullock-heifer-base-price-hits-e6-75-kg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/387616\/","title":{"rendered":"Top quality bullock\/heifer base price hits \u20ac6.75\/kg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nSigns that prices may be getting slightly stronger for some sellers\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Niall Conaty from Coratober, Co Cavan, with his Angus bull Ellens Buddy, which sold for \u20ac8,800. Photo: Gerry Faughnan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IL Carrick_Print_02153.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)\">Niall Conaty from Coratober, Co Cavan, with his Angus bull Ellens Buddy, which sold for \u20ac8,800. 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)\">An assessment of quotes received for this coming week sees the general trend as being steady, with signs that prices may be getting a shade stronger for some sellers.<\/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)\">I mentioned last week that some plants were paying an extra 10c-20c\/kg to loyal suppliers whose stock ticked all the quality, carcass weight and age boxes, and that continues to be the case, especially in the south and south east.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Signs that prices may be getting slightly stronger for some sellers Niall Conaty from Coratober, Co Cavan, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,20498,61,60],"class_list":["post-387616","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\/387616","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=387616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}