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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: If one works out the figures, compared with what the witnesses have told us about extra calves born fro 0.8% to 0.87%, we have gained nothing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That is if we have 1 million born.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What does the ICBF anticipate the figure will be this year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I asked a question earlier seeking an answer in percentage terms. Of all beef calves born in Ireland each year, what percentage are there from beginning to end in Ireland in total about which the ICBF knows everything? Mr. Doran was correcting some of the things said here earlier. Perhaps I misheard him. I thought I heard references to the IFA and the ICMSA. Is that right? Why is there...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Going from the figures provided by the witness the killing price would be €1,500, based on €4 per kilo.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The witness gave a figure of 374 kg for the carcass weight.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: A price of €4 a kilo means a carcass costs €1,500. At the minute, if one has a good Charolais or Limousin bullock one can get €2,000 or €2,200 for it. That is a fair difference.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Sweet Jesus.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: One can get that for a cow.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I am confused. A figure of €1,100 is given for the weanling. I do not know what age the weanling is. The witness showed us the chart.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The price is €1,100, and the carcass weight we were provided with, when the animal is killed, is 374 kg.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: If they are killed at the average price - €4 per kilo - it works out at €1,500. A person buying that animal after 250 days is going to keep the animal and kill it at 374 kg and will get €1,500 for it. That is €400 more. A tonne of meal will also be put into that animal, and it will have to be held and given grass.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Are we all agreed that the weanling was at 311 kg? From what the witness said, 311 kg at 250 days on the five-star cattle-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I am asking, from the data, if the five-star weanlings were 311 kg at 250 days.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: They were 411 kg at 250 days.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That animal made €1,100.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: At 250 days that is two thirds of a year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That is fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: If the weanling did that well and was 450 kg at 250 days. I thought it was 311 kg at 250 days, but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: That is even better for the person buying it. Is the witness saying that the slaughter, on average, was 370 kg?