Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

Grow your own.

Is that the fella that used to work in the mart and CF?

You wouldn't know what other investments any bidders have up their sleeves.

That's two local farms have got away from you GtM.

We're all straight talkers on here anyway.

They'll be after your place next..😳

yeah his father would have alright. The other buyer is well established, they have a nice size block of ground to walk cows to now. Nice to see local farmers getting it,

😄 I’m travelling the road enough as it is without adding on more land away in a different direction

Agree 100% with you… there’s a bungalow being built in town, literally a bare 2 minute drive from me. I haven’t seen the plans of it but it’s definitely no bigger than 1,500 square foot. Site so small you could barely walk around the house. Very modest home by any standards. The builder that’s building it said he’s going to be putting it up for sale at €570,000. In my part of the country even during the height of the Celtic Tiger last time around, such a house wouldn’t have made the colour of that money. I wouldn’t say land is a bad investment at €20,000/acre - I do think it’s actually going to keep getting more expensive for a very long time but I can’t shake the feeling of “here we go again”. There’s rumblings of 100% mortgages coming back again as well. Next they’ll start loosening planning regulations 😂

Saw that farm advertised just there now. The photos for it are a bit vague & they don’t say how long the lease is. Looks to be the very best of land though. There’s 200 cubicles and ample slurry storage, as well as a house too. The house and yard would probably cost €1.5m if a person had to build their equivalent now so it’s easy enough to rationalise the €3.6m figure. You could say you’re getting the land for €16K/acre as such

Val du Marne, Paris Basin, 91ha with extensive water pumping rights, all in one block, excellent grain storage and grain drying facilities, made €1.15mln.

There’s something wrong somewhere.

that guide price is just for the land

Is there a knack for screwing these out of the black cap once the end is sheared off??

Those farmers on the continent are very slow to cotton onto anything!

A Kerryman said to me years ago that there’s so much good land in Kerry that they had to put it into heaps.

Taaffe sale in Carnaross

Heard this story some years ago from a Wexford man (sadly, no longer with us).

This farmer was selling a cow at a fair, she was a good milker but had only 3 teats (working). He got a likely buyer but your man kept coming back to the fact that she had 'only three teats'. The seller eventually got fed up with the whinging, blurting out: shure your own queen has only two teats and ye are stone mad about her!

The guide price for that farm surely includes buildings. What a time to be alive. We are truly in golden years for progressive Irish dairy farmers. Who would have thought it a decade on from quotas going.

Have any of ye heard about that new disease going around. Scour and milk yield drop?

Would it be an option now you know the score on OAD. To just have a flying herd and buy milking cows for replacements pre calving or just post calving in the winter/spring. Forget buying first calf heifers and let someone else clear their savings accounts buying them.