Peadar Tóibín
Question:2439. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a monthly catalogue of beef prices from 2010 to 2020. [18128/21]
View answerWednesday, 21 April 2021
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The Department publishes a range of beef data including current prices, historical prices and trends.
The Beef PriceWatch App, published by the Department provides users with up-to-date information on the average price paid for animals in 24 DAFM approved meat factories throughout the country. Behind these representative prices, the user is one click away from detailed information, at factory level, for prices across the entire 15 x 15 beef carcass classification grid. The app is available here: https://publicapps.agriculture.gov.ie/bpw-ui/#/
The Department also publishes beef prices on the DAFM website on a weekly basis. All beef price information on a weekly basis since 1st November 2020 is available here: https://www.gov.ie/en/collection/f4a71-beef-average-prices-including-vat-for-steers-cows-heifers-young-bulls-and-bulls/
The Department publishes a weekly meat market report with price, production and trade data for beef and other meats which is available here: https://www.gov.ie/en/collection/b8452-meat-market-report/
In line with a recommendation in the Beef Stakeholder Agreement reached in September 2019 Bord Bia now publishes a detailed weekly "Beef Market Tracking" update which presents data on a range of indicators in an accessible format. This includes price comparisons, a comparison of Irish composite prices (for all product, and for prime cattle) with an 'export benchmark price', which reflects the relative importance of key markets for Irish beef; an index of wholesale and retail prices; and a by-product market indicator. This analysis is available at: https://www.bordbia.ie/farmers-growers/prices-markets/cattle-trade-prices/beef-market-tracking/
Additionally, monthly prices by category are available from the CSO at: https://data.cso.ie/table/AJM01
At a wider EU level, price and production information, both current and historical, is available for all member states in the EU meat market observatory at https://ec.europa.eu/info/food-farming-fisheries/farming/facts-and-figures/markets/overviews/market-observatories/meat_en
National data prior to 1 November 2020 has been archived but is still available for the period 2017 - 2020 here:
https://wayback.archive-it.org/org-1444/20201125105133/https://www.agriculture.gov.ie/farmingsectors/beef/.
Further historical data requested is not available online. However, my Department will forward the relevant information from 2010 - 2016 inclusive by category to the Deputy.