Farming predictions for 2014

Mac Taylor

Rights lads & lassies, what do you think will be making the news in 2014?

Lower/higher weanling prices.
Lamb prices.
Milk
CAP
Delaval/Stanfit/Jersey moving to France to set up a mega dairy partnership!
Bob and Pudsey setting up a dairy partnership in Ireland!

Galvium Irredentum

Govt. abandons (through omerta) 2020 targets; volcanic eruption dims global temperatures, cuts production, raises prices, famine looms for many poor regions; EU embraces Genetic Engineering. Scotland votes for independence; British army refuse to leave nuclear submarine base. World suffers economic meltdown with global cooling and evacuation of Tokyo due to radiation of Fukushima - in short be careful what you ask for?

moy83

Prices for beef are going to sky rocket .

hugo29

Bob to get married

I hope ur right moy

Mac Taylor

Galvium Irredentum wrote: »

Govt. abandons (through omerta) 2020 targets; volcanic eruption dims global temperatures, cuts production, raises prices, famine looms for many poor regions; EU embraces Genetic Engineering. Scotland votes for independence; British army refuse to leave nuclear submarine base. World suffers economic meltdown with global cooling and evacuation of Tokyo due to radiation of Fukushima - in short be careful what you ask for?

Fair dues...wasn't thinking quite such apocalyptic outcomes for 2014, was thinking more along the lines of a cut in cap etc etc but each to there own.

Marooned75

Galvium Irredentum wrote: »

Govt. abandons (through omerta) 2020 targets; volcanic eruption dims global temperatures, cuts production, raises prices, famine looms for many poor regions; EU embraces Genetic Engineering. Scotland votes for independence; British army refuse to leave nuclear submarine base. World suffers economic meltdown with global cooling and evacuation of Tokyo due to radiation of Fukushima - in short be careful what you ask for?

Must be some craic at your Xmas party

Mac Taylor

Marooned75 wrote: »

Must be some craic at your Xmas party

I say the way he is thinking, he didn't Plan one.

Rho b

I heard over the weekend that there is going to be a food safety scandal revealed in the poultry industry in Jan/Feb. Might bode well for the beef sector and lift prices.
Other than that the weather is going to be brilliant next year, just the right mix of sun and rain

bob charles

Rho b wrote: »

I heard over the weekend that there is going to be a food safety scandal revealed in the poultry industry in Jan/Feb. Might bode well for the beef sector and lift prices.
Other than that the weather is going to be brilliant next year, just the right mix of sun and rain

hopefully not, , then again so of the chicken is fair rubbish

Rho b

bob charles wrote: »

hopefully not, , then again so of the chicken is fair rubbish

From what I heard it has to do with processed chicken rather than whole chicken. As you said most of the processed stuff is muck.
I should have added a personal note to my 2014 predictions - Iam going to pass the C theory test in the end of Jan and Iam also going to pass my C driving test (plus CPC). Then proceed to my CE license. I should have done it years ago but I still have a few years left in me.
Hopefully it will be one more achievement off my bucket list

onyerbikepat

I heard it was processed pigeon.:D

biddy2013

going to be a very hot summer

reilig

biddy2013 wrote: »

going to be a very hot summer

Yea, it's earmarked for the 21st of July!
Temps to hit 24 degrees
One day only

Conmaicne Mara

moy83 wrote: »

Do you know what , I think they actually have good meat

Supervalu is better for quality, IMO.

biddy2013

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Supervalu is better for quality, IMO.

dunnes have the best pork

simx

reilig wrote: »

Yea, it's earmarked for the 21st of July!
Temps to hit 24 degrees
One day only

Take that back!

biddy2013

simx wrote: »

Take that back!

in fairness the summer of 2013 was fantastic if we got a fraction of that next year i will be happy

simx

biddy2013 wrote: »

in fairness the summer of 2013 was fantastic if we got a fraction of that next year i will be happy

I'd be looking for a good fraction as 2012 summers don't suit my fields ha

biddy2013

simx wrote: »

I'd be looking for a good fraction as 2012 summers don't suit my fields ha

or the spring of 2013....

moy83

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Supervalu is better for quality, IMO.

I cant say they have bad quality either , but the hereford meat in lidl is tasty as hell

tabby aspreme

I predict the farming mods will have a busy year:D

Rovi

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Miname

Beef prices to be mental dear mid summer and couldnt give them away by the end of the year. Suckler cows and bulling heifers will go silly money next year. rental prices for ground will drop.

hugo29

biddy2013 wrote: »

going to be a very hot summer

Barbecue time

Galvium Irredentum

Nothing bizzare 'bout my predictions - not being pessimistic either, just imaginative. So for good measure here's some optimistic ones - in a post-apocolyptic society; social connectedness increases, people actually look out for each other! A search party is sent to scour the fields of Limerick for worthless currency to burn in a bonfire. the price of poitín rockets; with distillers having both the spare time and the purchasing power to produce top-quality hooch. This speeds the descent of society once again however as rival poitín pedalling gangs wage vicious warfare for their addicts... and so history repeats itself... exciting year ahead so!

Sharpshooter82

biddy2013 wrote: »

going to be a very hot summer

Yeah great, I'll be flat out with the square baler again

slippy wicket

This time next year the lads in Wexford milk producers are still going to be arguing over selling to Glanbia.

Marooned75

Milk will drop to 15cent a litre so the creameries will have the diary farmers ready to pay them to take there milk in 2015 and beef farmers will contract rear stores for polish finishers

Farmer

Something we do will be banned
Something we don't do will become compulsory
Something we sell will become dirt cheap
Something we buy will get dear
Someone we hate will be buying the cheap stuff and selling the dear stuff
We will be required to keep records of it all

What's another year

Farmer Pudsey

Beef Industry is hit by scandal as whole sale slaughtering of Jersey cross and extreme Holstein bull calves take place as no viable market for them.

keep going

Who will still be on f+f boards in 12 months and who will be gone

bogman_bass

High grain stocks will see milk price come down as america opens the taps.

beef price will be slower to come down because of the cull in America

kevthegaff

reckon lease prices will rise, hungry dairy farmers expanding
some fertilliser will drop as new potasium plant
Dairy bull calves will be hard to flog
And wel all work harder!

Mac Taylor

Resurrected this old thread, wonder what 2015 will bring😳