Ennis Mart (Clare Marts) hosted its Annual Fatstock Show and Sale for cows and heifers on Thursday, February 10, 2022.
There was a good offering of cows and heifers at the sale with over 500 cattle on offer.
According to a statement from Clare Marts’ management following the sale, trade “could only be described as exceptional”.
Some of the top cow prices from the sale:
- Charolais-cross cow weighing 930kg made €2,340 or €2.51/kg;
- Limousin-cross cow weighing 860kg made €2,270 or €2.63/kg;
- Belgian Blue-cross cow weighing 700kg made €1,910 or €2.72/kg;
- Friesian-cross cow weighing 500kg made €1,070 or €2.12/kg;
- Friesian-cross cow weighing 785kgs made €1,440 or €1.83/kg;
- Limousin-cross cow weighing 645kg made €1,750 or €2.71/kg;
- Belgian Blue-cross cow weighing 715kg made €1,840 or €2.57/kg.
This Aberdeen Angus cow weighing 730kgs sold for €1,600 or €2.20/kg 
This Friesian-cross cow weighing 710kgs sold for €1,320 or €1.85/kg 
This Maine-Anjou-cross cow weighing 975kgs sold for €2,550 or €2.62/kg
Some of the top heifer prices from the sale:
- Belgian Blue-cross heifer weighing 740kg made €2,590 or €3.50/kg;
- Limousin heifer weighing 805kg made €2,450 or €3.04/kg;
- Limousin-cross heifer weighing 755kg made €2,220 or €2.94/kg;
- Limousin heifer weighing 670kg made €1,910 or €2.85/kg;
- Limousin-cross heifer weighing 525kg made €1,670 or €3.18/kg;
- Five Hereford-cross heifers weighing 600kg made €1,490 or €2.48/kg;
- Limousin heifer weighing 555kg made €1,660 or €3.00/kg.
This 2020 born Limousin-cross heifer weighing 755kg sold for €2,220, €2.94/kg 
This 2019 born Belgian Blue-cross heifer weighing 740kg sold for €2,590, €3.50/kg 
This 2018 born Limousin-cross heifer weighing 805kg sold for €2,450, €3.05/kg
As is the trend in many marts countrywide, the sale witnessed a strong demand from northern customers for the forward-type, heavy cattle.
A total of 10 cows and five heifers sold for an excess of €2,000 and a Belgian Blue cow weighing 890kg fetched the top price of the day selling for a respectable €3,300 or €3.71/kg.
Clare Marts’ management commended farmers who showed cattle on the day for “the quality of stock on offer”.
The sale report from Clare Marts outlined that aged bulls met a keen trade on the day also, with a top price of €2,170 for a 1,075kg Limousin bull.
Ennis Mart: Bullocks
The mart’s annual show and sale of bullocks took place the following day, Friday, February 11.
Demand was hot for bullocks on the day with a report from Clare Marts describing the sale as “a lightning trade”.
Over 550 bullocks were on offer at the sale which featured a large percentage of forward cattle.
The mart management’s statement noted the trade “was lit up” by three northern customers who were all bidding online and took 33% of the cattle offered across the border.
“It would be fair to say that a good deal of the beef cattle on offer would have made the equivalent of €5/kg deadweight,” according to the Ennis Mart’s sale report.
The top price of the day at the bullock sale was €2,520, however 50 bullocks made in excess of €2,000 on the day.
Concluding the report on the sale, Clare Marts outlined: “Stores were also a serious trade making as far as €3.25/kg.”