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.
They almost certainly didn't
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.
If you had accrued the 1.5 million through farming why wouldn’t stick at what you know
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.
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
Polls aren’t going the right way for that party lately so I wouldn’t be expecting much of a change anytime soon.
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.
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.
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
Would imagine if you had 1 or 1.5 million in your pocket you could by a ready to go dairy farm debt free.
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.
What would that place make?.we need a second farm.
Not that simple I'm afraid to tell you.
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.
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 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.
I know who you are and you know who I am😀
don’t worry about the begrudgery
It has to be standardised alright but there wouldn't be much stripping to fresh milk. Especially in winter time the fat and protein would be fairly low .....stale milk would be a different story . Its the homogenisation makes the difference in the taste ....I think anyway
And do you get a premium over South American stuff.
Would be a great opportunity to a young fellow with some get up and go.
Can you imagine what could be done with that French place if it was ran properly
What's coming from the cow is well 'stripped' before it enters the bottle/carton. No comparison to the real thing.
This is an anonymous forum. You certainly don’t know me, and I certainly don’t know you. Let’s keep it like that please.
French maize is solely used in Ireland for distilling. French maize is class 1, imported is class 3-4. When I load a truck with any produce I must have a full record of date of planting and harvesting, variety, and the phytosanitary certificate.
Phytosanitary certification involves all chemicals that were used, and when..along with a date and time of treatment, the humidity, temperature, wind speed, and time of day it was sprayed etc etc. That’s why distilleries want a good product. Millions of tons are coming into the EU with zero provenance and phytocertification.
Irish farmers are some of the best wheat growers on the planet..Odlums decided they could get a better margin by importing British flour and they closed the flour mills. That was a commercial decision by Odlums, not farmers.
https://www.farmersjournal.ie/tillage/news/feed-imports-into-ireland-rise-in-2022-752234
It is as they are net exporters of excess grains hence the protest as its affecting their lively hood.
From the south east of Ireland, my understanding was he was just a guy moved to France to farm and milking cows.
The protests are in relation to cheaper products not up to eu spec coming into the single market and driving prices down
Look I know someone may and its only may make money on this farm by leasing it but for God's sake wouldn't a nice job with no responsibility or worry be a better option
Hence its blocking the streets 🙄....
Possibly.
