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sixmilbridge mart and ear to ground

  • 20-01-2012 11:06pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 97 ✭✭


    i hear ear to the ground are going to be at sixmilebridge mart 2moro the mart was closed for 20 months and reopened by the local farmers seems all is going very well sold a lot of cattle since opening in august


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    its great to hear good news,the best of luck to them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707


    some top quality stock going there too


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    It's great to see it back open. It's booming too by all acounts. Being a Saturday Mart helps it big time with all the part-time farmers in the area.
    Ennis Mart, huge in comparison, is less than 10 miles, as the crow flies, so it's always going to be in it's shadow to some extinct.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    pakalasa wrote: »
    It's great to see it back open. It's booming too by all acounts. Being a Saturday Mart helps it big time with all the part-time farmers in the area.
    Ennis Mart, huge in comparison, is less than 10 miles, as the crow flies, so it's always going to be in it's shadow to some extinct.

    Ya I heard its supposed to be doing very well alright pak. Its in a good site though which stands to it, very near limerick and only a few miles from the dual carrigeway aswell which would suit buyers from the south and east better, I would have thought it was further than ten miles from ennis, spent 3 months working with Pat O Reilly beside it and it always seemed like a long spin from ennis. Had anyone else heard the time it was opening that clare marts were going to stop giving credit to the regulars if they started going to sixmilebridge??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15 mayowillie


    Do they have suck calves in sixmilebridge on a Saturday anyone know - how many would they have if any?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭mikeoh


    mayowillie wrote: »
    Do they have suck calves in sixmilebridge on a Saturday anyone know - how many would they have if any?

    none there today anyway


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 97 ✭✭dealerman




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭MfMan


    When is the ETTG segment going to be aired?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭SillyMangoX


    Being someone who lives beside the mart, its great to see it open again. The place was getting too quiet! The day it opened I had never seen so many cars in my life, parking all the way up and down the road (even in my driveway!). I take a walk down most saturdays to go to the fruit and veg stand and I have to say it was never as busy as it is now before it closed. I hope they do well, great seeing some business in the area!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 97 ✭✭dealerman


    i was told in a few weeks time on the tv


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    It's great to see this, a community coming together for then common good. Amazing what can be achieved.

    Abbeyknockmoy in Co. Galway had a co-op that closed down too for a while. Think it was run by arrabawn. A group of local farmers came in and got it up and running again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭MfMan


    Muckit wrote: »
    It's great to see this, a community coming together for then common good. Amazing what can be achieved.

    Abbeyknockmoy in Co. Galway had a co-op that closed down too for a while. Think it was run by arrabawn. A group of local farmers came in and got it up and running again.

    Not entirely correct, Muckit. When the Arrabawn co-op in Abbey burned down, they moved to a temporary location for a few months while top management 'examined all options' relating to it's reopening in the area. Eventually they moved it to Mountbellew (15 miles away) to the chagrin of it's local (and loyal) customers who were led to believe that they were intent to stay in the locality. A couple of local lads then opened their own store in the area and are doing a steady trade. Not a great move by Arrabwan; they were doing a great trade where they were and had a fair catchment radius. Not they're in a location where the competition is stiff to say the least.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,385 ✭✭✭red bull


    dealerman wrote: »

    Well we have heard before that paper does not refuse ink ! All other marts must be very rich in that case. To me it seems to be overstaffed for 300+ cattle per sale. Weanling price nothing extradinary, commission rates must be very high to give a profit like that. Somehow I think those figures dont stack up. Must have a chat with my local mart manager to see where he has gone wrong ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    The 'bridge mart is only on a Saturday, so most of those staff would be local guys getting a few quid at the weekend. Because so many local farmers coughed up the 500 Euro, they are all now commited to bringing their cattle to the bridge instead of Ennis. This has brought the numbers and so in turn, the buyers.
    The problem it has, as was pointed out in one of the meetings, is it is just sitting there for 6 days of the week, not doing anything. There was talk of opening a Farmers Market type thing for maybe another day, to help increase income.
    There's a good bunch of lads over it at the moment, so it's well run. I know a lot of them spent a good bit of time , at their own expense calling around to farmers houses etc. There's a good feeling about the whole thing. The farmers are now back in control again. They're no longer at the mercy of some guy sitting in a boardroom, not liking the profit margins for the last quarter.
    It just goes to show what a community can do when they roll up their sleeves together.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 97 ✭✭dealerman


    the mart is on ear to the ground to nite 8 30


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    dealerman wrote: »
    the mart is on ear to the ground to nite 8 30

    will you be seen ringside dealerman? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    €6,000 for a wedding :eek: must be his daughter that is getting married, unless he is getting married himself.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    €6,000 for a wedding :eek: must be his daughter that is getting married, unless he is getting married himself.
    Tis himself ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    MfMan wrote: »
    Not entirely correct, Muckit. When the Arrabawn co-op in Abbey burned down, they moved to a temporary location for a few months while top management 'examined all options' relating to it's reopening in the area. Eventually they moved it to Mountbellew (15 miles away) to the chagrin of it's local (and loyal) customers who were led to believe that they were intent to stay in the locality. A couple of local lads then opened their own store in the area and are doing a steady trade. Not a great move by Arrabwan; they were doing a great trade where they were and had a fair catchment radius. Not they're in a location where the competition is stiff to say the least.

    Yes this would indeed be the 'full story' :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Tis himself ;)

    Is that lad one of the 'better' farmers? So is he marrying that girl that was helping him load the cattle?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    €6,000 for a wedding :eek: must be his daughter that is getting married, unless he is getting married himself.

    Where are you getting the €6000 from? The sale of that load of cattle?

    Getting married later on this year myself and I can tell ya he'd want to have another couple of loads to sell !! :D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Muckit wrote: »
    Where are you getting the €6000 from? The sale of that load of cattle?

    Getting married later on this year myself and I can tell ya he'd want to have another couple of loads to sell !! :D:D
    He sold 5 cull cows at an average of €1200 = €6000. You can get married for as little as a few hundred and as much as a million ;) Also if his daughter was getting married he could be part funding it. The way he said it was as if he was invited to a wedding and he needed the money for that instead of going on a holiday with it.


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