Is the auld lad charging yo rent
I use those luffa gloves, great job, clears any muck
90 days for heifers
70 for second calvers
60 for remainder
I'd say this lads bank manager spit out his cornflakes this morning if he was browsing his phone
Charlie's latest statement that it's up to the EU, if derogation is scrapped altogether and they can't stop it, unless they go against the commission which they won't, is finna fail/geal washing their hands of the issue
All the lads that used him as a poster boy for years won't be long washing their hands of him....
It was a strange statement, remember him advertising last October for a farm manager on a newly developed 180 cow unit, so in reality whatever about the economics of farming at 170kg/n its a case of find a way to make it work our go bankrupt, if its all in the company structure just find it up and go insolvent maybe
Thing is how many cows do you need to justify paying a farm manager and them paying for leased or purchased land. Then we have extra investment required for new environmental rule that give no financial benefit to the business. The days of cheap milk are coming to an end. Either the milk price will have to increase substantially or lads will either go broke or get sick of it.
There’s a trickle of fellas hanging up the clusters after 2023. A combination of high input prices, bad weather, poor milk price, red tape and plenty of bullshit could see more joining them.
How many people can make a living off the herd? Such a model means cow owner, land owner,and labour are all drawing a cut, which is bound to be tight, esp when any cap ex repayments are off the top.
The noose is really starting to turn now for lots of us ….the reality of modern farming ..the workload ,red tape ,compliance costs of doing business ,credit ,labour etc etc is going to see a lot exit over next while and just prolong it for others
we’ve been mislead and driven in questionable ways by advisors and research bodies ….misleading returns and true cost of production put out there that drove some younger lads mad on what they thought was possible v what they were led to believe …..an afull lot now in such a hole due to unsustainable expansion burnout and lack of labour .unless any parents had a pretty sizeable block of land with ready to go modern facilities why would they encourage there kids to go farming when there’s much easier ways of making a living
Had few texts from Kerry in the last few days re "future proofing your farm" events. Would like to send them back a few texts of how I feel but it mighn't go down too well.
Alot of young people jumped at the chance to go dairying around 2014 the economy was in bad way lots of emmigration.Alot seen it as a nice alternative than the unknown abroad.Now the same buckos are whinging there working harder and making less than there buddies in jobs trades.
Remember Greenfield was set up to show us all how low the cost of production was.
A little bit of New Zealand in the middle of Kilkenny. Jesus wept…..
Constant reference to greenfield here but very little talk about shinagh on bandon.why so
I know very little about shinagh. I guess there was rarely anything rammed down people's throats as much as greenfield
Good god but that made me laugh out loud 🤣 Kevin is some man ....
Think that venture didn't last very long
I don't even know of that place would you mind filling me in
I would still be profitable at 170kg if the banding stayed at 85. 106 kg for high yielding cows is the real killer.
Very similar here ….at 106 and 220 I’ll improvise and survive …..106 and 170………….
Agree what your saying, but advisors and research fella’s hadn’t to put it into practice and still drew their wages regardless and didn’t matter that for example they forgot about the extra 300k calves that were going to be produced and where they were going to sold to. Also where was labour going to be sourced from with education of young people increasing the chances of better paid jobs else where.
Is 106 really that bad if you cows give 7.5k ltrs yours probably say 1.0k above 6.5.Over 100 cows thats 100k ltrs so cut from 100 to 85 youl have same milk less cows and less cost.
A fairly versatile man in fairness. All Irelands with Dublin, FA cups with Manchester United, played for the Irish national soccerball team and now lecturing Fine Gael on the viability of his dairy enterprise.
Outlook has been poor of late, but one thing I'm seeing lately around here is land isn't selling as quickly and the buyer seems to have been in a better bargaining positions. Also doesn't seem the same graw for guys to pay 4 and 500 an acre. I think there is a correction atm. What killed me this year was the price of meal, can't seem to get on top of it. I'll milk through the winter this year for a change due to higher than normal empty rates and bills to be payed
The immediate response to tightening up on nitrates is for people to think it will increase demand for land and drive up prices. There is merit to that view in the short term. But ultimately it reduces the amount that can be produced from that acre. Eventually things will have to come back around to being related to what the land can produce so in the long term it might have a depressing effect on prices.
Eventually you are going to run out of lads paying 500 an acre for the privilege of working it to make a loss on it.
So he was only going share-farming it? He hadn't actually leased/bought the place and spent a few million
In fairness any business that potentially produces waste or any other pollutant is subject to increasing regulations. I work in one atm and the amount of compliance needed to get an ISO certification dwarfs anything intensive Dairy has been asked to do till now.
What if, like dairying they are knowingly measuring emissions incorrectly like methane. The only thing worse than no information is false information.
Seems to be no let up in Dublin airport expansion either for one example.
The owner was a bollix from what it told. The farm was advertised in ifj a few months back
Id like to think that'd be the case, but if you read last week's journal..land was making 23k/acre and above from Limerick to Kilkenny. I'm in the south Leinster and land market is dictated by business interests as far as I can see..be it horses, mills, quarries, houses, with the odd big dairy farm as well.. And then you have coolmore not too far away
