Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

But sure theres farmers on the boards of all these co ops who approve all that goes on so whats the story there.

You havent a clue of cost of production two costs alone silage and meal alone would be well above 20 cents per ltr.Then youve all ur other costs.1 tonne of meal 400 euro per cow .silage say two round bales a month at 40 euro x 6mth winter 480 .1000 euro per cow now esb labour running parlour tractors machinery slurry list goes on and on and on and on.

I enjoy coming on to the dairy thread here. Plenty going on when other threads are quite. Also makes me feel like a dairy farmer without the bean of cows!!

Bawn

Dairy must be going OK 2.6 million for a dairy farm locally 180 acres at auction best of luck to the purchaser

If it had residence and fully equipped parlour and sheds, I'd say it was good value if land was anyway decent quality. Building costs now are astronomical.

Bare in mind any new semi d across the country are starting in or around 500k now. I know where is rather spend that money if I had it.

any ideas who the purchaser is ? north kerry farmer ??

Hes a sneering prick at the back of it, raving about his kiwi cows, when not giving the actual story, he done a video of the new owners of his kiwi farm ensiling maize on it, and the lunacy of it...

When previous season he spent a fortune on bought-in feed as he was droughted out

I’d be hoping to do a property deal with the non farming side of the family tree, it would have me fairly tied up for a good few years. Tbh with you, as a farm labourer myself I don’t have much of an incentive to buy land. I’d have to rent it out or probably lose money with dry cattle that I’d have to go out and buy 😂

Will be in Tenerife when the meeting is going on, would go to it for curiosity sake otherwise. Have a few friends that are involved in it and I wish them the best but I think myself they’re flogging a dead horse. All I’ve to do is look at Newtownsandes next door to me. Nowhere to go with their milk now basically, have issued notice to terminate their contracts with North Cork, they’re looking to join Kerry

As far as I know they’re staying with North Cork? I haven’t been following it as much lately tbh. I did hear that Feale’s Bridge guys had handed over an average of €10,000 each to North Cork as a sort of “buy in”. Newtownsandes handed over €3.5m in cash to North Cork when they joined up, gave them whatever land they owned, gave them their co-op store. And bear in mind, Newtownsandes only had 60 milk suppliers — the €3.5m they gave away to North Cork was €60,000 each on average. Gone up in smoke