Well I'm not campaigning for Organic, I'm just saying that there are other ways that are less dependent on fossil fuels and I'm willing to give them a try. Anyways as your man said, we are off topic now. (not that there's an awful lot to say about green diesel other than the price)
Yea, you'd grow the middling crops if you ploughed land that was grass, you'd use a lot of farmyard manure on the tillage. grass Land would be stocked lightly and sheep would fatten because worms wouldn't be a problem at a ewe to the acre. Worldpopulation has trebled since the sixties, work it out, Organic farming cannot feed the world, the good organic subsidies means that farmers needn't produce,
And on yer uncles farm, what was the yield like of that barley and the spuds? How many sheep had he? And could you make a living from that now?
(we're gone way off topic here talking about organic farming on a green diesel thread)
Well that's been the rhetoric I've been hearing about farming without fertilizer form every joe going the road, idk if any of them are talking from experience or are just stuck in there ways and cannot change. I have photos of my uncles place from the 1960s, he was able to grow Barley, spuds, and fattened sheep with no Bag fertilizer. Since I've been farming it all I could do is block stone drains from big machinery. Make the top skin of the soil soft and wet from all the fertilizer and there's rushers in fields that never had them before. So for me I'm going to try and get out of this "modern" way of farming
The problem s with organic farming doen't show themselves properly for 3 or 4 years as the fertility drops and weeds multiply. One year on its own won't be any different
The present organic conditions where you can take in slurry and straw from conventional farmers makes them non organic as far as I'm concerned.
We'll rue the day we've let public servants tell us how to farm, They live in an economically insulated world
idk, I'm going to keep an open mind. Half of my farm might as well be organic as it will not get any bag fertilizer this year. If anything it's a challenge I'm now looking forward to. A new challenge in farming for me rather than the same old ding dong
And more food shortages, poor organic crops won't feed the world
It was said on RTE that some members of the Irish Road Haulage association are not getting the supplies they're supposed to get. We may have supply backed up but if supply stops coming in then they'll start to ration it.
Ireland keeps several months fuel supply, we are in a better position than many other countries that tend to run just in time systems and have little buffer. The shortage of Green is more down to panic buying. I do see Oil spiking much higher this year, but it'll come crashing down again over the coming years. The barrel of Oil may see $300 but it we also return to $30. The end of the European dependence on Oil and Gas has just now been totally accelerated. The amount of investments in renewable tech will be mind boggling. And that doesn't mean insulation and solar panels, it'll be much more, it'll be a switch to more organic farming methods less reliant on fossil fuels.
I'd stockpile goods now if I could. If there's a shortage of diesel there'll be a shortage of everything.
Daughter said you have to give your name, area you're from, car reg , litres bought and phone number. This is for green and Kero, even drums. She said someone came in a few years ago looking to see the records of who was buying green etc and they had none
I paid 1.699/l on Tuesday, the next day the same garage had it up to 1.759, today it is 1.859 and it is going up again tonight by 10c. The owner told me that he will be out of diesel over the weekend and will not be getting anymore until Wednesday. He didn't know what price it was going to be.
Ukraine is one of the world's leading producer sunflower 🌻
willfull waste makes for woeful want.
Thing is with all this green bullshit they have cut back on exploring for the stuff.
The thing to remember is price either rises until supply increases enough or else price rises until demand is killed.
There isn't much scope for total supply to increase in the short term. So the only option is to keep rising until demand is killed off sufficiently.
Something has to give and we will soon find out what.
Jesus lads this is getting frightening
At least he got a quote, no one knows what next week's price is going to be. I ordered a barrel of lubricating oil, €600, told me not to dump the stuff I'm draining out......
Cooking oil will be next.
They've been saying that for a long long time. They keep finding more.
Read somewhere a few years back that experts estimate that crude oil supplies will get scare in 45-50 years. Then you'll have a crisis of major proportions.
Big contractor rang supplier. 1.15 for green diesel. Rang another place, 1.43. Said it's going to 1.80 next week. And in a couple of weeks it won't be got at all.
Make of that what you will!
I find it hard to believe supply will dry up
Must've been a big run of people trying to get in before the price rises. Their infrastructure can only cope with so much
Good job we're in March you'd be hoping we wouldn't need much heating oil anymore
There's something weird going on. Top oil have their website up again but only have kerosene,no gas oil. EMO have a limit of 500 litres of gas oil on their deliveries.
Corrib Oil are at 1.45. Odd.
Are they legally obliged to have the camera there?
Just speaking to a delivery driver, he was saying 1000l of green was about €1350.
mad stuff
Was talking to a rep yesterday, asked him was there any demand for clover seed. Not at all he says, if anything lads are spreading more fert than ever before...
Customs call into the station beside me n go through their cameras for the reg of cars on the green pump. This was pre covid dunno if they are back at it now, I was surprised tbh. The pump is one that is 24hr with the fuel card.
Local contractor who without naming name s should be good at accounts is supposed to be going up 40 euro an acre this year
But the past few days have made alot of us question how low input we really are.decreasing output to increase margin is not going to improve your profit overall
