Welcome to the newly formed Dawn Meats Save Our Sucklers (SOS) Club.  This initiative is designed to help improve returns for the Irish Beef Producer through increased productivity from the Suckler herd.

Dawn Meats hope that this initiative – which has been made possible as a result of Dawn’s successful negotiations with a number of its European customers – will deliver many benefits to the industry including:

• Improved livestock output.
• Improved financial returns from the Suckler herd.
• Earlier cow culls – resulting in improved herd vigour and fitter slaughter cows.
• Proven heifer replacements.
• Swing to higher bonus grades on the QPS.
• Additional value to national beef exports.

In keeping with the current legislation, best practice and current customer requirements the main requirements which the SOS Club Members must abide by are as follows:

• Farm must be certified under the Bord Bia Farm Quality Assurance Scheme.
• Heifer for bulling must be ¾’s bred continental, crossed with easy calving pedigree registered beef bull.
• Minimum age of impregnation is 15 months and a minimum weight of 360 kgs.
• Maximum age of once bred heifer for slaughter is 36 months; Under 30 months will attract BQAS Bonus.
• Deadweight Carcase weight range is to be between 300 and 380 kgs.
• The CMMS will be used to determine validity of animal. This will be final.
• Payment Grid:
o Base price is quoted steer price as quoted on the week.
o BQAS bonus will be paid on those eligible.

Click HERE to download the application form in PDF format*. Just fill it out and return to:

Save Our Sucklers Club, Dawn Meats Group, Grannagh, Waterford.

Alternatively Click HERE fill in our online form.

Contact Names & Region Details: 

Peter Quinn - Meadow Meats  Tel 0505 48500 Mobile 086 261 1816
Anthony Dowd - Dawn Ballyhaunis Tel 094 963 2400 Mobile 087 262 5090
Paul Mullaney - Dawn Charleville Tel 063 30400 Mobile 087 961 4323
Sean Behan - Dawn Waterford  Tel 051 309 200 Mobile 087 256 1836
John Neville - Dawn Cork  Tel 063 30400 Mobile 087 223 2469

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Pictured at the launch: Paul Nolan, Group Development Manager - Dawn Meats Group, Michael Lynch, CEO - Kilkenny Mart, Nuala Hourihane - General Secretary, Irish Charolais Society.