There's a pile of extra work to it anyway,but saying that it's a good feed. At that money it's borderline
At that money its not borderline its crazy.
Was there a Green party TD or MEP trying to get banks to stop lending to farmers a year or two ago. Don't be surprised of someone was put in on the board or something to help that along
Green MEP Ciarán Cuffe. All our eggs are being put in the large multi national companies now.
Combination of nitrates going putting the s**ts up them and maybe their is some of their more heavily borrowed dairy clients starting to get into serious difficulty re loan repayments etc and they're now hitting the kill switch on all dairy lending
Rabobank now have an environmental scoring system that plays into interest rates.
Banks seem to have unlimited access to funds for lending to green projects (on farms also).
They're certainly covering themselves with any risks associated with SR and compliance.
POI...Irish dairy farmers are less borrowed per cow than they were at the end of quotas..
Is that maize or beet?
Seems worse by the road.
I see an irish company got 250k in pre carbon credits and seem to have gotten millions now in lending towards the end of this year.
Their idea is to crush concrete into dust and apply it to United states farmland. They call it enchanced weathering technology. There's no technology. But the process of applying it to soil. But it sounds cool to the desk nerds where they are looking for funding. It's the very same thing as I did applying the basalt dust except there's minerals missing that would be in the basalt and not in the concrete. To counter that they've named the company Silicate. That's the mineral most associated with basalt that the concrete wouldn't have much of but it's the company name and product now.
They've it wrapped up for the eejits to finance this. However what they probably don't know or maybe do but won't let on. Is enchanced weathering basalts in it breaking down in soil uses some of the soil carbon in it's transition to carbonates in water. This is sold as stone dust to weathering to carbonates to washing out to sea eventually. But when it uses some of the soil carbon it leaves that land more suseptible to drought for a year or two. So now they have a product that they sell as carbon and environment good but food risk bad.
An awful lot of bs being pedaled for the environment.
Is €75/t fresh weight or /tDM?
Best offer I’ve got so far is €100/tDM for 33%DM maize @ 40% Starch. That’s a price from a digester so the most you’d get from farmers is €90/tDM. Maize would be a lot easier to feed out than beet.
Beet, Fodder beet is 80% water, sugar beet is 75% water but at lease has more energy than fodder beet.
At that price it would nearly pay to ship it across to Ireland if farmers wern't nearly broke after the year. Lads here asking 70 a ton fresh weight.
It’s not worth much more. Dried maize is €180/t.
It's fresh weight.
We're going badly out of kilter with costs.
Just looking at the published costs of growing fodder maize and we're twice as expensive as UK.....how can that be?
Yes but they have way more cows so total borrowing is higher and facilities are poorer eg outdoor cubicles which many will struggle to ever cover with steel and labour costs
Someone of your scale should be able to appreciate the nuances of higher borrowings and higher repayment capacity..
Direct inputs shouldn’t be any more than €250/ha…seed, starter, herbicide. That’s an absolute max spend.
Tilling, planting, spraying and pitting would be the biggest costs.
This little country is fucked costs wise
But but but, ye’re 20x more profitable than my handful of cows.
I’d want 2000cows to compete with 100 Irish cows.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/farming/arid-41257186.html
400€ an acre for seed, plastic and spray here this year
Crazy money.
Plastic is €260/ha + vat here.
from the bible.
https://www.farmersjournal.ie/focus/marts/how-much-does-it-cost-to-grow-maize-and-beet-753793
Old type of new bio degradable …..tgeres a big difference bio degradable far superior 470 /acre seed ,spray and plastic here
How much for contractor and fertiliser on top of that,
95/acre to so….no invoice for contractor yet but at a guess 160/170….feetliser 7 k slurry (2 splits 3500 each ….2 0 7 30 ….2 urea
when I started growing it was told pick a good dry field ….throw the sink at it pre sowing ….don’t chance sowing in open ….early maturing variety …..on pit measurement 24.5/25 tonne crop ….got cover crop in after it too
field soil tested yearly and indexes holding
paper never refuses ink
Maize craze
17'' in 7 weeks meant to have left alot of maize in the field and root/veg crops in a state with yee?
Yeah spuds are poor this year
small and rain is making them rot
A few miles outside Middleton that outfit. Some hardship.
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