Yet another "good news for beef" press release

Willfarman

Our shiny minister for agriculture has told us that we at one step away from the big bucks selling beef to the Chinese.

Will it amount to anything or is it just a smokescreen??

We have had quite a few of of these good news stories about new markets opening iminently over the last few years, none of which came to fruition really.

simx

Willfarman wrote: »

Our shiny minister for agriculture has told us that we at one step away from the big bucks selling beef to the Chinese.

Will it amount to anything or is it just a smokescreen??

We have had quite a few of of these good news stories about new markets opening iminently over the last few years, none of which came to fruition really.

smokescreen i reckon, making things look good when prices are bad imo

Fuxake

Its a bit conveneinet that he timed the beef roundtable for the week before he fecked off to China with all the lads and left the minions and Mick Dowling to deal with the so-called two weeks intensive talks. Meanwhile back at the ranch, beef price is starting to edge up but I reckon that's an inevitable reflection of market shifts, cattle getting scarce. Hell, if Coveney could last another few weeks away he could come back to claim victory when price hits €4 even though everybody knows that €4 is on the cards in the not too distant future anyway.

Bullocks

I might be a bit green /naive / young but I'm hopeful that there is something good to come out of it . Any outlet extra will be great .
What is this 100 strong delegation that were out there I read in the indo this evening ? There was hardly 100 irish lads/ladies out there negotiating this was there ?

Fuxake

Bullocks wrote: »

I might be a bit green /naive / young but I'm hopeful that there is something good to come out of it . Any outlet extra will be great .
What is this 100 strong delegation that were out there I read in the indo this evening ? There was hardly 100 irish lads/ladies out there negotiating this was there ?

Errr there is....Includes various food companies, Bord Bia, Dept, meat baron reps etc

mf240

Better not send out horsemeat by mistake. At least not on the first load.

Willfarman

mf240 wrote: »

Better not send out horsemeat by mistake. At least not on the first load.

:D with a sharp mind like yours sir. You could do very well for yourself in the irish meat processing industry!!

sandydan

am i mistaken in remembering a past TD waiting to be reelected and becoming a minister for ag promising to have boats waiting off Mizen Hd to take beef to Russia if he got into power and what followed was demos outside factories and IFA being taken to court for obstruction shortly after. with some imports of NZ meat appearing in shops to boot, some owned by coops allegedly

blue5000

Anybody going to see their cattle being killed over the next few weeks better have clean wellies on;)

Willfarman

The new specs for cattle will require us to breed cattle with 2 heads and multiple hearts, livers, gall bladders and squishy bits..

Birdnuts

Australia, South America and soon the US will be selling into the Chinese market. It won't be as easy as we've been led to beleive I reckon.

simx

Willfarman wrote: »

The new specs for cattle will require us to breed cattle with 2 heads and multiple hearts, livers, gall bladders and squishy bits..

dont forget anything over 6 months will be classed as overage

Kovu

Willfarman wrote: »

The new specs for cattle will require us to breed cattle with 2 heads and multiple hearts, livers, gall bladders and squishy bits..

We'll have to breed them as big as 4 cats, with retractable legs so they can leap up to bite you, and they light up at night. They'll have 4 ears- 2 of them are for listening and the other 2 are sort of back up ears; with claws are as big as cups, and for some reason, they've all got a tremendous fear of stamps; magnets in their tail so if you’re made of metal it can attach itself to you, and they all have to have 4 arses; some of their ears are on the inside of his head, and when they yawns, it sounds like Liam Neeson chasing a load of hens around inside a barrel; And they can't have any eyebrows at all, except on Saturdays.......

simx

Kovu wrote: »

We'll have to breed them as big as 4 cats, with retractable legs so they can leap up to bite you, and they light up at night. They'll have 4 ears- 2 of them are for listening and the other 2 are sort of back up ears; with claws are as big as cups, and for some reason, they've all got a tremendous fear of stamps; magnets in their tail so if you’re made of metal it can attach itself to you, and they all have to have 4 arses; some of their ears are on the inside of his head, and when they yawns, it sounds like Liam Neeson chasing a load of hens around inside a barrel; And they can't have any eyebrows at all, except on Saturdays.......

sounds like typical leitrim cattle already so

rangler1

Hear John Shirley saying on Saturday morning that farmers owned 60% of the processing capacity in the Country in the early eighties....we've surely let things slip alright.
Even for china to increase its consumption/head would make some difference to the world beef and lamb trade

sandydan

Willfarman wrote: »

The new specs for cattle will require us to breed cattle with 2 heads and multiple hearts, livers, gall bladders and squishy bits..

wonder what definition of that will be? 10th quarter (5thx2) perfectly illogical :rolleyes:

oldsmokey

Willfarman wrote: »

Our shiny minister for agriculture has told us that we at one step away from the big bucks selling beef to the Chinese.

Will it amount to anything or is it just a smokescreen??

We have had quite a few of of these good news stories about new markets opening iminently over the last few years, none of which came to fruition really.

I wouldn't trust Coveney to tell me the right time - 'shiny' is the word for him, Ag is just a step up the ladder , twill be a war between him and Varadkar to head up the mess of a party left after Enda.
He speaks / looks well of course, it made me smile to see him in his lovely rolled-up sleeves piloting a shiny combine in the Journal in Sept...man at work indeed.

_Brian

Birdnuts wrote: »

Australia, South America and soon the US will be selling into the Chinese market. It won't be as easy as we've been led to beleive I reckon.

Dead right there..
I'd expect they are qualifying a number of different suppliers to play one off against the other.. I'm sure some beef will make it out there, but I doubt its the solution to the beef industry problems.