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don’t worry about the begrudgery
The price of land in Ireland has been totally skewed by investors (non farmer). That’s a government decision. In a few months time the shinners will be absolutely delighted to reverse that..just bar all non farmers, and only allow active farmers to buy/rent land. It immediately throws the like of Coolmore etc out of the market and stops the avoidance of inheritance tax. That’s how land is so cheap here.
As of close of markets last night class 1 maize is €185.75 delivered to a French port. I get offers by text every day…eg 6 loads this month at €165.50 that I got yesterday. That class1 maize would be about €200 landed to an Irish port. How much for a hi-energy ration today?
Anyone here ever see Class1-4 maize before it gets milled?
The land around Quimper isn’t good. It’d be grand for grazing but not tillage land. They do get decent rainfall though. Travel about 70-80 miles north toward Brest or Roscoff and there’s some lovely land. Land you could do absolutely anything with. Would be mostly grade1 arable. But you’ll pay €20-25k per hectare.
Not that simple I'm afraid to tell you.
What would that place make?.we need a second farm.
I would have travelled all that area back years ago. The Finister region and Morbihan would be more like Irish countryside, very suited to the Irish dairy type farming but they still insist on tilling and growing crops to feed the cows. Further north in the West Cotes Darmour area would be more horticultural with lots of potatoes and market gardening and as you said much more expensive land.
Would imagine if you had 1 or 1.5 million in your pocket you could by a ready to go dairy farm debt free.
If you had 1.5 million in your pocket, debt/tax paid, I wonder would a person be better off doing something else, than going milking cows, seven days a week. In a country you don't know, and most of them don't even speak English
Was at the Local Teagasc tillage conference last night. Normally go there to get some tips on how to grow better crops and hopefully make some profit.
They have turned it into a PR job for the government agenda on how Irish farmers can save the planet.
Profit wasn't mentioned once on the night.
Coolmore are farmers too. They don't buy thousands of acres to run horses around.
Plus no matter who is in government, investors will still buy land because what's going on under the surface will be worth more than the farming practices above it.
Polls aren’t going the right way for that party lately so I wouldn’t be expecting much of a change anytime soon.
Load up with 5 to 600 hunderd cows and get dawg to give us cheap maize for the winter.plenty of places to dump the slurry government buildings,shops,the road is handy for it too
Tax free farmers. I have no problem with people competing for land as long as its a level playing field. We also can't have foreign funds buying land as it can effect the countries food security. Plenty of farms bought by other countries and the food produced on these farms gets shipped directly back to said country.
If you had accrued the 1.5 million through farming why wouldn’t stick at what you know
They have the same slurry opening date we have of 15th of January. They have a cover winter crop requirement seemingly mandatory. We don't have that. They still are using splashplates for slurry. We're being phased out on that.
They almost certainly didn't
Very little. You wouldn’t need a bob in your pocket to buy that. Anyone that’s well used to talking to banks etc would get 100% finance for that.
Be mad though..when you’re buying try to get grade2 arable at a minimum.
Grass, imho, is good for 3,500-4000L?
Happy with that? If not, grow maize. (Can’t buy a ‘dairy nut’ either.)
Historically there wasn’t any need for irrigation up there, but with the last 10yrs, cows are inside from around June to September.
Surely get 1000 cows on that..
Jesus wept.
Has the green thinking completely taken over?
Don’t respond ‘cos I already know the answer. Jesus where do they think their livelihood is financed.
paying 380 for 16% pr ration, .98ufl, around 25% soya, balance of maize, barley, distillers, can get off the shelf ration at 315
soya is at 530 currently hitting irish ports, down from 580 in last month, thats whats causing my price to stay high, tried irish beans and is a lower quality product and cows dont respond the same
do millers use different ulf/protein in calculations depending on grade of grain?? or is that a trick of the trade??
He follows me on X, he’s from Deep South France. If sbarley isn’t already overground there they won’t be planting. In 3-4 weeks they’ll be planting maize. I’m closed until February 20 for FYM, march10 for slurry and artificial fertilizer. And I’m 1000km south of you.
I can’t comment too much on this..but Irish millers do use the French system, but class3-4 maize is not class1, iykwim.
Likewise barley. I could give you barley that you wouldn’t give to the hens, not to mind a milking cow…but it’s still barley with the exact same ufl as top class barley (in the eyes of the miller).
You all should go on a day trip to Arkady etc and see what’s coming across the oceans to Irish ports. Be a good education.
Things must be in a bad way in France. The farmers are putting Paris under siege and they are going to starve them. Mad country.
At 25 soya your feeding a 24%ration......... now if its soya hulls and some soya bean that's a different story
…and the Germans, Poles, Belgians, Spanish, Dutch, Italians, Bulgarians, Lithuanians etc etc.
Irish farmers some of the happiest in Europe! Good on ye!
Viva la revolution. ......on a more serious note I may not agree with them bit I do admire them........
We're Zen. What's it all about? Haven't seen much about it on our news? Just that they're "right wing". 🤣
Drove around Paris today. Might have added an extra hour max. Bar a few diversions and the odd pile of plastic, you wouldn't know much was happening
