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If I worked for a meat factory!!!

  • 28-08-2015 1:05pm
    #1
    locky76
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 867 ✭✭✭


    If I worked for a meat factory and I wanted to et the inside line on how farmers are feeling about prices, finishing, outlook etc. etc. I would set up an account in boards, build up a nice profile of posting, schmooze valued contributors to boards and then I would start to turn the screw as regards gathering info and also creating another sphere whereby I could influence the general outlook in farming. This could be done at little or no cost within a three month period and would be of enormous economic benefit to the factories and by default cost the producers shillings.
    It may be worthwhile bearing this in mind with some of our newer members and what looks to me to be a biased view... :-)
    (That's my conspiracy theory for this week out of the way)


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  • #2
    LivInt20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 491 ✭✭LivInt20


    locky76 wrote: »
    If I worked for a meat factory and I wanted to et the inside line on how farmers are feeling about prices, finishing, outlook etc. etc. I would set up an account in boards, build up a nice profile of posting, schmooze valued contributors to boards and then I would start to turn the screw as regards gathering info and also creating another sphere whereby I could influence the general outlook in farming. This could be done at little or no cost within a three month period and would be of enormous economic benefit to the factories and by default cost the producers shillings.
    It may be worthwhile bearing this in mind with some of our newer members and what looks to me to be a biased view... :-)
    (That's my conspiracy theory for this week out of the way)

    Think you're over estimating the power of boards!


  • #3
    locky76
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 867 ✭✭✭locky76


    LivInt20 wrote: »
    Think you're over estimating the power of boards!

    Not really, I find it's a cheap and easy way to float ideas and get responses, I see no reason why the factories can't use it likewise.


  • #4
    CloughCasey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,741 ✭✭✭CloughCasey1


    locky76 wrote: »
    Not really, I find it's a cheap and easy way to float ideas and get responses, I see no reason why the factories can't use it likewise.

    What way do ya reckon?


  • #5
    locky76
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 867 ✭✭✭locky76


    CloughCasey1 wrote: »
    What way do ya reckon?

    Just after reading six or seven pages of the beef thread and there are some very skewed views in there from newish members....
    While it's a very informative thread I don't think it's a great idea to name specific factories, agents(even by their capitals) and specific prices from factories on there, a few newish posters are advocating this.


  • #6
    Willfarman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭Willfarman


    While there would be no point in naming agents the factory would have to be named. The devil is in the detail. Now my current username is in use over a year and I had another before that. Willfarmerman. And I would take a job in a factory doing as you describe in a heartbeat given the chance. Be some Feckin number!


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  • #7
    Jb1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭Jb1989


    One idea to bash into the insiders...
    €5.00 base....
    Like our British counterparts...


  • #8
    Willfarman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭Willfarman


    Jb1989 wrote: »
    One idea to bash into the insiders...
    €5.00 base....
    Like our British counterparts...

    And that's even with our cheap imports being horsed over there! Is that the base on a grid lik here?


  • #9
    Jb1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭Jb1989


    Willfarman wrote: »
    And that's even with our cheap imports being horsed over there! Is that the base on a grid lik here?

    From post in farmers journal,

    Take for example an R4 steer carcase weighing 360kg. Bord Bia analysis shows the UK farmer is being paid €369, or €1.03/kg more than the Irish farmer.


  • #10
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    Do you put any weight on those new posters' negative opinions? In comparison to the likes of pudsy?

    Boards is not the place for factory propaganda where we have easy access to independant (?bord bia) throughput figures and opinions from every corner of the country.


  • #11
    kowtow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,135 ✭✭✭kowtow


    Willfarman wrote: »
    And that's even with our cheap imports being horsed over there!

    I thought we'd cleared up that little misunderstanding last year?


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  • #12
    locky76
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 867 ✭✭✭locky76


    Pudsey is the man, I place a lot of store in his opinions...
    The tone of some of the comments directed at him were completely over the top and would lead lesser members of this fine forum to jack it in, fair play to him to still keep posting!
    I finish 60-65 cattle per year and I find his advice to be top drawer and really beneficial.
    ganmo wrote: »
    Do you put any weight on those new posters' negative opinions? In comparison to the likes of pudsy?

    Boards is not the place for factory propaganda where we have easy access to independant (?bord bia) throughput figures and opinions from every corner of the country.


  • #13
    Willfarman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭Willfarman


    A bit of robust debating and contrasting points of view make interesting an interesting forum. We're all big boys! And nobody is right 100 per cent all the time.

    In the mart for example there would be 100 farmers between buyers and sellers. All with there own system and tweaks and tricks. No one the same. All hamsters pedalling differant hamster wheels for peanuts really!! Get over it man.


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