whelan2 wrote: » One of our Angus bulls had a pig tail post wrapped in his ring this morning
Talking to a few their bank balances were built up 3 years ago. Then costs went up. We all know the electricity and the rest. Milk price has gone down. But the costs have stayed there. Everyone is saying their bank balances have never been as low as this year.
There was a clearance sale in the local mart yesterday, another in another local mart next week 240 head.
If the processors increased the price to 50cent it might stem the exodus. But they haven't and people's accounts are low so they are getting out.
Milk futures are after hitting a nice blip the last month but you'd hope our own crowd having been the worst payers by 4-6 cent compared to European processors will at least put base price up to 43 plus cent for may/June peak milk, if they stall the rises their going to destroy already poor dairy farmers confidence
Not sure if this is indicative of whats being said above but there seems to be a hell of a lot of leases for big blocks of land being advertised over the past number of weeks. Im on the watch for a bit more grazing ground so have an alert on Daft and tbh i had to turn it off as i was sick of the email notifications coming through.
A haulier who'd normally be on 5 loads now are still at 3 loads and no night time collections. They must be starting to put two and two together or at least you'd hope so.
You'd have to wobder are all these processing facilties we're paying for ever going to be fully utilised..
Is the price of things ever goin to stabilise nevermind reduce
I see phone & broadband on the rise again
Servicing a car today, fuel filter was 98euro😱
A man was telling me today he failed his nct due to a back light, 1000 euro to replace the light. He got a lend of rhe light to get it through the test and returned it this evening
Paid 600 odd for a recent main dealer service. Additional diagnostic for recalibrating a system was an additional 240 per hour.
I was "lucky" it only took them half an hour so it was only 120… on top of the 600.
What in the hell has a €98 fuel filter? 😂. Just so as I never make the mistake and buy that car.
A 14 year old Mercedes, has to be a genuine part as the spurious parts won't fit right in the housing
He needs to have a good long walk in a few breakers yards
not to forget the excise on fuel going up on Monday
Tg4 9.30pm Contractors
What kind of farmer drives a Mercedes, what’s wrong with an Octavia or a Passat???
Not big enough for the sheep.
Ah ffs😁
Interesting too see the new owner of the brownstown estate in meath is pulling the pin aswell, some waste of a farm, but it shows the lack of returns/loss making enterprise when employing all hired in labor at current milk prices dairying is at the minute
I've been to numerous clearance sales where a lifetime has gone into creating the best of facilities, sheds, parlour, silage pits, roadways, fencing. And then the farm has gone completely different and ripped all those out to the bare bones again.
And then you've farmers at the other end of the scale who are struggling in facilities and putting everything into improving everything and you'll know it'd be 20 years down the road or may never get the facilities right with cost.
It's a complicated world that doesn't make sense.
I had my slurry/silage contractor in the other day and we were chatting. He said it’s unreal the amount getting out of it. Farmers will be rare around us in 10 years. We will forget how to produce food.
Call me a conspiracy theorist but I’ve been farming 10 years- including while my dad was sick and dying and I was lucky enough to not hate one missed payment from The department. Now countrywide payments are being delayed…. It’s one way to get people fed up and contemplate getting out.
Contractors are getting out too.
ThThe age profile is just getting higher
They certainly are out to get farmers
For every 10/20 farmers exiting you have a local store, AG contractor, mechanic, vet effected to name a few
Heifer we've been lifting 3 times a day for the last week was standing this morning
Good stuff. They are the wins that keep you going in the spring
I remember about 20 years ago, two neighbours were planting and the vet said to my dad that he was a dying breed- my father responded- do you not realise everytime trees go up, your client base goes down.
the same vet was doing the blood sampling for that scheme last year and my bill was €300 and all I was making was €320ish. I said the scheme was a pure waste- he replied Shur it will keep farmers going but he corrected himself and said vet. 😂
Ok it’s not a geared reel, but neat idea, free standing and all.
TThat's a big part of the problem now, too many fleas on the dog's back.
By enter linking vets and planners into different schemes the department are not beyond using it as control over them and by extension you.
That's not to say some ideas are things that need to be promoted.
The pressure with weather the past 18 months has to be wearing down contractors aswell, everyone screaming for you the one dry week, and not a hope of getting around to do 20% of the work
Then trying to get paid
God love them, I’m trying to pay a contractor for the last two years, too much money is the only problem they seem to have.
