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- 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?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The witnesses are talking about the slaughter on average.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Are we talking about the slaughtering average of five-star animals?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I am looking at a table which shows 2,183 five-star animals; cows with a weanling weight of 311 kg; progeny carcass weight 374 kg-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Can the witnesses estimate their carcass weight when they are killed?