rangler1 wrote: » Kinda reinforces my last comment to you, many times you've said that IFA now is different than twenty years ago. Well I put it to you now that farmers weren't as prepared to lie down and be screwed twenty years ago as they are now. Unfortunately part of my income from now on will depend on milk price and farmers avoiding challenging serious issues because the cat at home is having kittens doesn't exactly fill me with confidence. Have to say I wouldn't represent farmers now for less than a TDs salary, glad to be out of it
Keepgrowing wrote: » Those who do stand up to be counted should get support or debate them if you feel they're wrong. Sitting behind a screen or phone won't change 1 thing. We need more to get involved and stop making excuses, put up or shut up!!
rangler1 wrote: » Kinda reinforces my last comment to you, many times you've said that IFA now is different than twenty years ago. Well I put it to you now that farmers weren't as prepared to lie down and be screwed twenty years ago as they are now.
whelan2 wrote: » You dont give up do you. I was on holidays when the vote was on. Booked before the vote was announced. Holding meetings at 11 am in early april is a bit ****.tomorrow is the first night this week with no training etc. My kids will come before a glanbia meeting any day
mahoney_j wrote: » Fully agree Whelan ,holding meetings at times of year and day is a bit much ,much easier if a farmer has employed Labour on farm to take guts of a day off at busy time than a traditional 1 man /woman show
George Sunsnow wrote: » Some of that is down to age profile The older people get,the less fond they get of change and a lot of the farmers at the May Glanbia meeting would have been around in the 60’s spilling churns of milk during the milk strike In farming,the name on the cheque book or the milk docket is still mostly north of 55
George Sunsnow wrote: » Some of that is down to age profile The older people get,the less fond they get of change and a lot of the farmers at the May Glanbia meeting would have been around in the 60’s spilling churns of milk during the milk strikeIn farming,the name on the cheque book or the milk docket is still mostly north of 55
Keepgrowing wrote: » Meetings were at various venues and both night and day. Ever meet your bank manager on business at 8pm?
whelan2 wrote: » I am so happy I didnt sign up to another 5 years of this crap
Keepgrowing wrote: » A very good point and worse shares are held by parents no longer running their farm.
wats the craic wrote: » when and where are you moving whelan
George Sunsnow wrote: » https://twitter.com/darakavanagh/status/918777203839655936
alps wrote: » George Sunsnow wrote: » https://twitter.com/darakavanagh/status/918777203839655936 But they are not competitors.......there are no competitors
Keepgrowing wrote: » Mods, can this IFA chat be removed to its proper place
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » Mod Note: I've removed most of the IFA posts for the time being until we decide what to do with them. I'm reminding everybody posting on this thread that it is the MILK PRICE thread. A certain leeway will be allowed but we will delete any further posts that are off topic. If anyone wishes to debate the IFA, please start a thread on the subject, this thread is NOT the place for that debate. Unless it has a bearing on milk price, it will be deleted. Thanking you in advance, Buford.
atlantic mist wrote: » ah dwag dont you no at this stage the eu is a project, like any it will have losses in places and some overspending....can you tell me how much the eu project has costed to date no one in the eu could....you cant put a price on it:) france and germany doing ok out of it so far im sure they'll find a home for yere skim somewhere might be in our dairy feed:) i do think well off load most of ours ourselves and quite happy with milk price considering half our product is going into skim, cant understand how they come up with price really must be some serious algorithm coop meetings could take a leap into the 21st century and go digital and stream meeting to all farmers/members, funny thinking back to meetings no one told me you had to address the board before speaking felt a little award when everyone else spoke: yes mr chairman sir
Gawddawggonnit wrote: » +1. Can't disagree with anything in your post....but I'd like to comment that your first paragraph is almost Faragesque. Paragraph 2 just says "not us!!..it's the French and Germans!!"... Doesn't matter one jot who filled the stores with product that nobody wants, it matters that we (dairy farmers) are so feckin special that it's expected that the Eu runs to the rescue. Downright financially and morally wrong to chose one farm type over another...
Keepgrowing wrote: » A very good point and worse shares are held by paretnts no longer running their farm.
rangler1 wrote: » I'd like to see the reference to IFA in my last post , from memory it was an objection to using EU funds to support milk price and no other sector. Another one for the useless competition authority I suppose
mf240 wrote: » Would you not be better off in the sheep forum. Your only upsetting yourself in here.
rangler1 wrote: » Take more than that to upset me, it's only a discussion forum,ffs does anyone take it serious,
mahoney_j wrote: » Arrabawn up 1 cent ......