{"id":58642,"date":"2025-10-03T05:11:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/58642\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T05:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:11:18","slug":"cattle-prices-in-uk-could-be-impacted-by-wavering-consumer-demand-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/58642\/","title":{"rendered":"Cattle prices in UK could be impacted by &#8216;wavering&#8217; consumer demand &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"CoreParagraph\" class=\"\" data-v-4e9e6c5d=\"\">Wavering consumer demand in response to steep price inflation &#8216;may limit upward movement&#8217; in UK cattle prices, according to the Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB).<\/p>\n<p data-component=\"CoreParagraph\" class=\"\" data-v-4e9e6c5d=\"\">Latest market analysis by AHDB suggests that despite some growth in young stock populations, the supply tightness that has characterised the UK&#8217;s beef market throughout 2025 &#8220;is likely to continue for the near future&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p data-component=\"CoreParagraph\" class=\"\" data-v-4e9e6c5d=\"\">It has highlighted that in particular there is &#8220;ongoing tightness in the immediate pipeline of cattle aged 12-30 months&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p data-component=\"CoreParagraph\" class=\"\" data-v-4e9e6c5d=\"\">Recent figures show that by July 1 of this year, the GB beef breeding herd &#8211; females over 30 months-of-age &#8211; had declined by 3% year-on-year to 1.2 million head.<\/p>\n<p data-component=\"CoreParagraph\" class=\"\" data-v-4e9e6c5d=\"\">The number of cattle available for beef production aged 12-30 months was down by 3% year-on-year, indicating that supply tightness will continue into the medium-term.<\/p>\n<p data-component=\"CoreParagraph\" class=\"\" data-v-4e9e6c5d=\"\">This, according to AHDB, is &#8220;consistent with the long-term contraction&#8221; that has been evident over the past decade.<\/p>\n<p data-component=\"CoreParagraph\" class=\"\" data-v-4e9e6c5d=\"\">However, at the same time the GB dairy breeding herd stood unchanged on the year at 1.4 million head.<\/p>\n<p data-component=\"CoreParagraph\" class=\"\" data-v-4e9e6c5d=\"\">This is primarily attributed to strong milk prices and a favourable feed to milk price ratio which is &#8220;encouraging producers to maintain cow numbers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.agriland.ie\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-19.png\" data-v-82c3c447=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-19.png\" alt=\"Year-on-year change in number of cattle in GB available for beef production, July 1 2024\/2025 - includes dairy male, beef males, females. Source: British Cattle Movement Service (BCMS), AHDB calculations\"\/><\/a>Year-on-year change in number of cattle in GB available for beef production, July 1 2024\/2025 &#8211; includes dairy male, beef males, females. Source: British Cattle Movement Service (BCMS), AHDB calculations<\/p>\n<p data-component=\"CoreParagraph\" class=\"\" data-v-4e9e6c5d=\"\">According to AHDB, there have been year-on-year increases in the number of cattle destined for the beef production system under 12 months-of-age.<\/p>\n<p data-component=\"CoreParagraph\" class=\"\" data-v-4e9e6c5d=\"\">Its figures suggest there has been a 1.6% increase (19,000 head) in cattle from 0-6 months-of-age and a 3.7% (25,000 head) increase in cattle from 6-12 months-of-age.<\/p>\n<p data-component=\"CoreParagraph\" class=\"\" data-v-4e9e6c5d=\"\">However this comparison is based against a smaller year in 2024. <\/p>\n<p data-component=\"CoreParagraph\" class=\"\" data-v-4e9e6c5d=\"\">Compared back to the herd profile of July 2023, the number of cattle for beef from 0-6 months-of-age is actually down by 2% in 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-component=\"CoreParagraph\" class=\"\" data-v-4e9e6c5d=\"\">But AHDB believes that recent record high beef prices, and lower feed costs may have encouraged greater calf registrations causing a rise in numbers in the 0\u201312-months-of-age category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wavering consumer demand in response to steep price inflation &#8216;may limit upward movement&#8217; in UK cattle prices, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-58642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58642","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=58642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}