Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

the lad your referring to is trevor Lockhart… he bred Ballyelly Chilli bull that is sold by Munster AI.. i think he said he paid 4k for the cow… great value considering what Kellys cows are making

It turns out there was a mix up 😂😂

My friend on here that told me it sold for €960,000 — he was reading an article about a farm the same size in the same village (Croagh) that was sold in 2017 😂

Found out since the farm I was actually enquiring about sold for €31,000/acre. Nothing in it except the bare land. A wreck of a hay shed and a bigger wreck of a house 😂

Hard to explain how it made that money. If someone had a pot of money they wanted to invest, they could buy regular houses or apartments and put it in their will that they want the houses to be sold on their death and land bought with the proceeds, that would circumvent any CAT bill for the inheritors. €2.6m would buy 5 good apartments in South Dublin, in total they’d make €200,000/year in rent. You could hire a property management agency to look after them for you.

The farm made about €2.6m apparently, would take another €1.5m to set up a dairy farm, a herd of cattle, machinery, a regular bungalow to live in… and with the way it’s all going with nitrates — how many cows would a person be allowed milk on an 88 acre block in 10 years. It would take over €4m to live like a pauper potentially.

Best of luck to whoever bought it of course. I imagine they’re going to put all the road frontage to some use or something.

she would want to do 700 kgs me to justify her size

zero point in having a bigger cow if she can’t produce more imo

She would want 2 t along with grazed grass. She wouldn’t maintain herself on any less

If anyone wants a heifer that roars like a bull then don't be shy.

Got her scanned and not in calf. But normal inside seemingly. But still very bull like in physique. I was told it could be a cyst that is making her that way. She'll be off with her bags packed now.

no one has a cost of production under 30c. Straw is twice the price it was 5 years ago ffs. Can could be got for under 300€/t 5 years ago. It’ll be 500 next year

What opertiunities, the minute you go renting land/labour/upgrading parlours/sheds extra machinery etc, your unicorn farmer under 30 cent a litres business plan dosent transfer over, our maybe hes going to chain the young lads to the milking parlour and milk a couple of 100 through a 40 year six unit...

Agree with you 100% that a lot of farmers have no interest in investing in anything besides more land. Back in the early or mid 90’s my own father said to a friend of his that he felt Kerry Co-op shares were a decent investment, the friend was a very established farmer, a great farmer too at that.

Long story short he never bought the shares and he’s still talking about it to this day 😂 the man probably had enough financial firepower at the time to have become the biggest shareholder in the co-op if he had actually gone about buying the shares 😂 he got on great without them anyway to be fair

Personally my own guess is the Kerry shares have very little to do with the price of land in Limerick or anywhere outside North East Kerry… Generally one fella gets the farm, at that he’s very well looked after and most farming families are at the pin of their collar then to try and give the other kids a bit of a deposit for a house