Feck I'm still working away from the farm, not so sure myself or the auld lad view the place entirely as a business, probably be taking in the 400/acre tax free if we did.
Whats wrong with feeding pk.
Red tape is red tape you just have to wade through it like giung for a swim on a beach. Sorted 80% of the tax info Sunday night.
Young lad trying to get a mortgage of 200ishK hoops are unimaginable. He has a decent job in the PS and will be earning 15-20k more in 5-7 years. Going with a lady 12ish months but it's a bit too soon for both to commit ( how times have changed) he is now down to one lender. Site and 50k in savings and build costs of 300ishK and a gift guarantee of 50k. 10+k spend between planning, engineers and elsewhere for a direct build.
Worked 20+ years before I got the chance to buy and it definitely gives you a business ethos. Took me another ten years to get the farming side of it right. But it gave me a good grounding
I don't know lads.had a discussion this evening with a fella that s in and out of good few yards on fellas that send a good few animals th o the factory.all had 1 similarity,buying ration in 20 Ton loads and tipping it out .west cork must make some fairly shite silage that they have to resort to that kinda practice.he finished up by saying you ll have nothing during the winter without feeding.
hello lads can a cow abort a calf from tb or could you blame tb for cows sliping calves ??
highly unlikely TB has anything to do with it
I was being kind 😂
It's more so the calving season that screws them up, slobbering around calving paddocks up to their knees in muck, trying to get cows and calves out of paddocks done it in australia, and it was torture
Unless there was a test done recently while they are heavy in calf it wouldn't cause abortions. Its the handling around testing is highest risk. Best to blood test the cows test have slipped calves and a few more and see if anything is up. Its prob late for salmonella if they are recent? Take the calves to the lab as well.
Keery's fixed price down another cent to 37.
Hard fathom that tbh
It would suggest that the markets don't expect this big lift in prices that is being predicted is not coming.
will the munster producer group starts discussions with other coops about moving supply?
That's the plan. But will they all close ranks. Milk will need to get very scarce before they will step on each other's toes.
Previously they thought tirlan would take them on… would probably be at least a 150 million litres don’t know would they be so keen
Not sure there’s honour among thieves 😂
Will the execs and middle managers in Tirlan forego their bonuses out of some sense of loyalty to their rivals in Kerry?
Not sure how many litres but there’s at least 12 suppliers here in deep Tirlan country who’ve switched to Arrabawn in the past few years
Load of Arrabawn suppliers around nenagh supplying Glanbia and Dairygold too ….madness when you think of it …tirlan hauling milk within pucking distance of Arrabawn plant and Areabawn hauling milk from deep into Dairygold and tirlan territory
Hi everyone. I was hoping to see what do you the rest of you think of this article about the future of kerry co-op. When I read it there was no paywall for the article but there seems to be one now.
Basically the founding CEO Denis Brosnan said the co op should be liquidated and funds returned to the investors and that it’s all wrong having dairy farmers running it when they don’t even own 1/3 of its shares anymore. He said the co op is wide open to a legal challenge with the way the dry shareholders have no representation
Something very interesting that Brosnan said is “Kerry Co-op had no business buying Kerry Group's milk processing assets.” It’s there in black and white plain and simple to understand.
Denis Brosnan also said "It's time milk suppliers faced up to the fact that Kerry Co-op exited milk processing in 1986.” And he again made it clear that the co op shouldn’t be buying kerry group’s dairy business and that it should be the farmers themselves
Personally I think he made great points in the article and I think the article was very well written. Personally I am starting to find it hard to imagine the farmers buying back the milk plants off Kerry in any shape or form but best of luck to all those involved with such a deal and I hope it works out
https://www.businesspost.ie/news/ex-kerry-boss-warns-that-co-op-farmers-must-find-way-to-fund-dairy-buyout-or-face-legal-action/
You will have a chance to express yourself tonight in Tralee if you go along to the Meadowlands.
A few clearance sales on today in Listowel and Gortatlea. They would make as much or more if they were not in calf.
The thing is the exec's are in denial, they think lads will keep pumping it out. Heard @ a Dairygold meeting recently a farmer asked them "what processing plant they were going to close". He said he has lost 60 cows due to banding and nitrates and lots of other suppliers in the same situation.
He was ridiculed by the manager.
Good holsteins heifers are still making savage money
Yes some nice heifers by one man making from 1500 to 2000 in Gortatlea
What’s going on there tonight? Just curious as to what the rest of you make of the article
The high ebi ones in now and their not clearing 700 euro, their tiny heifers in fairness
In calf?
Aib and Kerry seminar. The Kerry Agribusiness boss will be there.
Regarding the comments you refer to from Denis Brosnan, he has no more say in Co Op matters than you or I.
Anyway didn't they bring in a rule ring fencing the Co Op shareholding.
No that was defeated in 2019. Interesting article nonetheless
Yes, feb/March calving to Angus bull, they where 450kgs weight of a average, weren't a bad bunch of stock
For a lad looking to expand for a year or two before he had his own stock bred they are serious cheap.
