Lock, Stock and Chitchat a Seacht

Whelan2 is that you powerwashin on the new Calor advert?☺

rangler1 wrote: »

You're spinning it now, you declared everyone that isn't making anymore than their subs should get out and stop expecting someone else to fund your hobby.
No more than dairy farmers protected sector, We are entitled to take advantage of a stupid system put in place by the EU.
If someone has enough to live on from subsidies they'd be a fool to change to busier enterprise to build net worth or some other reason because the next generation will tell you exactly where to stick the farm if as you say they're getting a substantial enough salary.

What spin, am i wrong to saying someone shouldn't waste their time farming if they can't generate a profit from farming activity only what subs can be created to fudge wto rules? These are being eroded further in the long term to even out with eastern europe etc,etc... It generates a little security from the pandering of someone in europe to what ever direction they go post brexit.
Circumstances dictate for most they are already unviable if Teagasc are to be listened too. Is there many farms in receipt of payments bringing them to the industrial wage? I would suspect there is only a fraction of total farms.

Username John wrote: »

On the 100km thing - how would you enforce that? Does such a rule exist anywhere else?

Doesn't exist anywhere that I know of but you'd just get the retailer / premises to do it. They collect VAT and have to deal with all kinds of oddities, hot food, takeout, coffee with food etc. - it's just part of self declaration.

They also have to have comprehensive traceability already, so I don't think it would be impossible to do. I'm not suggesting it would be easy either!

It wouldn't suit the big food aggregators / distributors who want freedom to buy anywhere at a given moment for lower prices while selling on a homogenous product.

And you are right, there would never be political will. But I don't think it's healthy to whinge all the time (as I am apt to do) without throwing the odd idiotic suggestion into the mix.

blue5000 wrote: »

Might be lelandi any chance of a close up of the leaves?

I didn't think of getting one. They'd be scale like.

A cow called Daisy wrote: »

Maybe this has been asked in the Trump posts (and I'm sorry if it has), but I was wondering if I could put up a fence along a mearning/boundary hedge and get my neighbour to pay for it.

Is your neighbour Mexican by any chance? :-)

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rangler1 wrote: »

Waffletraktor wrote: »

What spin, am i wrong to saying someone shouldn't waste their time farming if they can't generate a profit from farming activity only what subs can be created to fudge wto rules? These are being eroded further in the long term to even out with eastern europe etc,etc... It generates a little security from the pandering of someone in europe to what ever direction they go post brexit.
Circumstances dictate for most they are already unviable if Teagasc are to be listened too. Is there many farms in receipt of payments  bringing them to the industrial wage? I would suspect there is only a fraction of total farms.

That's why I say you're spinning, all that isn't the discussion, my point is it's up to the people themselves what they want, not for you to tell them to get out.
Huge proportion of farmers are over 55 and most, like myself have very little notion of retraining and working for someone,
 You all know I seriously question why young educated people are choosing farming,.... i'd say they do too. So I'm well aware of the future(or lack of) in farming
No point carrying this discussion on as we seem to be on different tracks

Im in UK 90% of the time working. Most of the lads on my gaa team are farmers sons etc who are over trying to earn a few pound to expand etc. The majority of their fathers are late fifties, early sixties and talk about succession etc is almost weekly amongst them. Most of them all want to rear children in a farming environment etc but are all saying they are going to struggle at home in a rural environment when they are earning decent money as engineers, construction managers etc.

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ganmo wrote: »

Milk no sugar

The same....Ta

_Brian wrote: »

Bullocks wrote: »

They are mad to go over earning money to expand a farm that wont give much financially back.
We have a reasonably sized farm here that always supported at least two families but can't keep mine alone going now. I could go farming fulltime but there would be huge cutbacks for the family
Partime farming and keeping a fulltime job aint easy either and family time suffers
I agree with rangler on this one

Maybe proper investment now would allow an efficient farm to be easily ran part time and still meet family commitments. Getting suitable work close to remote rural farms is also a challenge, that needs to be thought of when investing now.
If your only suitable work will be an hour away there would be no point setting up serious dairy or suckler facilities.

More and more farms are going to go part time, it's the only way they will exist and stay with family ownership. It's going from subs keeping farms afloat to subs AND lads working off farm to keep farms afloat.

A lot of the lads seem to say their parents have not invested enough during their time. poor fencing etc which they are slowly sorting as they go.

darragh_haven wrote: »

The flywheel on my Passat went kaput yesterday . Im in Northern Ireland so too far from hom to attempt to nurse it home.

walsh motors belfast, are vw specalists & very competitive price wise,

if suited might be an option if convenient,

(no connection personally but info from good source)