The site

About

farmprices.ie collects the sale reports Irish livestock marts publish after each sale and puts the figures side by side, week after week.

Most marts already tell you what the trade did. They post a PDF or a page on their website with the averages by weight, the top lots and a few lines on how the ring went. The trouble is that each mart does it in its own shape, on its own site, and last week's report is gone by the time you want to compare. This site reads those reports, files one record per sale, and keeps them.

There is no paid tier, no login and no advertising. It is a directory of 105 marts and a growing archive of reports from the 8 whose reports we can read automatically. The latest report on file is from 1 September 2026.

What it is not

It is not a price guarantee and not a valuation. A mart's average is the average of whatever went through its ring that day, and the ring prices quality, breed, weight, finish and the mood of the buyers. Two marts on the same day can be forty cent a kilo apart for good reasons. Use the figures to see the direction of the trade and to pick a mart; do not use them to argue with an auctioneer.

It is also not a substitute for the mart's own report. Every page links to the source document and you should read it, because the comment the mart writes often says more than the numbers.

Who runs it

One person, in Ireland, as a side project. If a figure is wrong, the fault is almost certainly in how we read the report rather than in the report itself, and we want to hear about it: contact.

How the figures are read and what "derived" means is on the methodology page.