Monday Next Brexit show with George Lee.

Bleating Lamb

Love him or loath him George Lee has a show on next Monday night at 9:35pm about Brexit and how it may affect Irish Agriculture.
Should be an interesting programme,saw a survey in Sunday Times a few weeks back that showed that over 80% of Irish Business firms who trade into Britain have made no contingency plans whatsoever for trade with Britain post Brexit which is a bit mad!
If that were said about farmers we would be lambasted!

Mac Taylor

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Love him or loath him George Lee has a show on next Monday night at 9:35pm about Brexit and how it may affect Irish Agriculture.
Should be an interesting programme,saw a survey in Sunday Times a few weeks back that showed that over 80% of Irish Business firms who trade into Britain have made no contingency plans whatsoever for trade with Britain post Brexit which is a bit mad!
If that were said about farmers we would be lambasted!

Looking forward to it.....should be interesting......Hopefully it won't concentrate on the big guys who should have a plan in place but rather some of the smaller guys out there.

Willfarman

Entertaining it should be but god he's an awful plonker.. remember a documentary about Irish doing well in abroad. "Everyone in Abu Dhabi had a house keeper" says George..

Do the ffing house keepers have house keepers george?

wrangler

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Love him or loath him George Lee has a show on next Monday night at 9:35pm about Brexit and how it may affect Irish Agriculture.
Should be an interesting programme,saw a survey in Sunday Times a few weeks back that showed that over 80% of Irish Business firms who trade into Britain have made no contingency plans whatsoever for trade with Britain post Brexit which is a bit mad!
If that were said about farmers we would be lambasted!

Whatever the british claim, Brexit is still a moving target, You couldn't plan for it at the moment, there's no guarantee of a soft border signed up yet......would you even guarantee a brexit yet.
I doubt any farmer has made any plans for brexit yet either, meat processors sold more than ever this year suposedly because they are opening up new markets so I suppose you could say they have contingency plans

http://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/if-the-brexit-vote-happened-today-uk-agriculture-would-vote-remain/

ganmo

wrangler wrote: »

Whatever the british claim, Brexit is still a moving target, You couldn't plan for it at the moment, there's no guarantee of a soft border signed up yet......would you even guarantee a brexit yet.
I doubt any farmer has made any plans for brexit yet either, meat processors sold more than ever this year suposedly because they are opening up new markets so I suppose you could say they have contingency plans

http://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/if-the-brexit-vote-happened-today-uk-agriculture-would-vote-remain/

the only thing thats certain is uncertainty

wrangler

Good article in the Sunday Business Post this week....aptly named Farmegeddon.
Basically telling us it'd be wise to learn from Newzealanders how to farm without subsidies.
probably wise to heed it, like the electorate, the EU is no longer depending on the support of agriculture, except maybe as a sacrifice.
Also mentioned our inablilty to compete on grain price, I don't know where farmers think they're going with sugar beet.
Worrying stuff and hard to refute......I don't think even george lee will be able to talk up small farmers

TITANIUM.

wrangler wrote: »

Good article in the Sunday Business Post this week....aptly named Farmegeddon.
Basically telling us it'd be wise to learn from Newzealanders how to farm without subsidies.
probably wise to heed it, like the electorate, the EU is no longer depending on the support of agriculture, except maybe as a sacrifice.
Also mentioned our inablilty to compete on grain price, I don't know where farmers think they're going with sugar beet.
Worrying stuff and hard to refute......I don't think even george lee will be able to talk up small farmers

Positive as ever wrangler. How do you always remain so upbeat and optimistic?

Gawddawggonnit

wrangler wrote: »

Good article in the Sunday Business Post this week....aptly named Farmegeddon.
Basically telling us it'd be wise to learn from Newzealanders how to farm without subsidies.
probably wise to heed it, like the electorate, the EU is no longer depending on the support of agriculture, except maybe as a sacrifice.
Also mentioned our inablilty to compete on grain price, I don't know where farmers think they're going with sugar beet.
Worrying stuff and hard to refute......I don't think even george lee will be able to talk up small farmers

You could be right Wrangler.
The ‘agreement’ on the soft border is as loose as it gets...just a collection of words really.

I’ve an awful suspicion that there’s a bit of a shock coming down the line for farmers.
I was notified this am by a gov official that I must put in truck disinfecting systems in every yard where trucks enter/exit...before the end of March. No grant either.
By the end of ‘18 we must have holding tanks fitted for the waste from foot baths. There are special waste disposal companies that will come and collect, for a fee. No grant either.

Why are the gov pushing so hard now to have a squeaky clean environment? Are they anticipating the drop in sfp to such an extent that farmers without subsidies will tell them to feck off, and do as they please like Nz?

wrangler

TITANIUM. wrote: »

Positive as ever wrangler. How do you always remain so upbeat and optimistic?

Positive!! upbeat!! optimistic??
Realistic, I think, is the word you're looking for.

I arrived late to a protest one frosty morning and everyone was perished.
I was told I'm alright I still had the heat of the car in me.....I'd say you still have the heat of the milk quota/intervention in you.

http://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/difficult-dairy-outlook-ahead-milk-price-will-struggle-to-average-30cl/

blue5000

wrangler wrote: »

Good article in the Sunday Business Post this week....aptly named Farmegeddon.
Basically telling us it'd be wise to learn from Newzealanders how to farm without subsidies.
probably wise to heed it, like the electorate, the EU is no longer depending on the support of agriculture, except maybe as a sacrifice.
Also mentioned our inablilty to compete on grain price, I don't know where farmers think they're going with sugar beet.
Worrying stuff and hard to refute......I don't think even george lee will be able to talk up small farmers

Have you a link to it? I'm a beef farmer and a sunday paper is a luxury in this house.:o

wrangler

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

You could be right Wrangler.
The ‘agreement’ on the soft border is as loose as it gets...just a collection of words really.

I’ve an awful suspicion that there’s a bit of a shock coming down the line for farmers.
I was notified this am by a gov official that I must put in truck disinfecting systems in every yard where trucks enter/exit...before the end of March. No grant either.
By the end of ‘18 we must have holding tanks fitted for the waste from foot baths. There are special waste disposal companies that will come and collect, for a fee. No grant either.

Why are the gov pushing so hard now to have a squeaky clean environment? Are they anticipating the drop in sfp to such an extent that farmers without subsidies will tell them to feck off, and do as they please like Nz?

I was on our environment commitee for a while about ten years ago,
I was asked to give my report at a meeting one night and keep it short.
I said I won't keep you too long, that it was the most ''boring commitee in House''
Unknown to me, Pat Smith walked in to the room behind me and reprimanded me saying that within ten years it'd be the most important committee in house.
He could very well be proved right

Say my name

wrangler wrote: »

I was on our environment commitee for a while about ten years ago,
I was asked to give my report at a meeting one night and keep it short.
I said I won't keep you too long, that it was the most ''boring commitee in House''
Unknown to me, Pat Smith walked in to the room behind me and reprimanded me saying that within ten years it'd be the most important committee in house.
He could very well be proved right

Well as Walter John says pat has become involved in the solar business.

Environmental, emissions or climate change is an up and coming goldmine for businesses that get in on the act early on.
Take Norman Crowley born into a farm in cork but became a welder and entrepreneur with hands in many pies.
He's just after opening up a climate change visitor centre in Powerscourt gardens co.Wicklow yesterday opened by Richard Branson. It's a complement to his business Crowley carbon.

http://crowleycarbon.com/

Irish people are never behind the curve.;)

davidk1394

I think your right. However the Irish government are the last to move as always. Got badly burned here before over renewable energies. The Irish market isn't big enough and you have to look at a European market.

I says

Time to get the tams grants and anything else you’re having