Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

Personally, I’ve no problem with anyone defecting. My one golden rule for them is that once they’re gone, there’s no coming back. Let them peddle their own canoe when the going gets rough in their new abode.

We had a few slow learners (for the want of a charitable description) in my locality that were crying back around December 2024 that they were going to defect to North Cork. It’s an awful pity that they didn’t do it 😂😂

I suppose I'm wondering why they jumped? has kerry a future? listowel plant worn out they say? kerry could incur huge debt buying out facilities. I'm just wondering what has kerry going for it now or is there a way forward? you hear so many stories its better to ask someone who knows for sure.

Kerry has a bright future for certain. See the man they’ve running it? Pat Murphy. If Pat was told to land a man on Mars by this time next month he’d get it done. He’s a great man. It’s a great business too.

If anything Kerry Group sold the dairy business too cheap. We only agreed to pay €270m up front and we got €50m back again as a top up payment for our milk.

And we can do what we like as regards buying out the remaining 40%. That 40% is worth nothing to Kerry Group, they wouldn’t get €1m for that on the open market.

And I know what you’ve heard about the Listowel plant. We had a truck driver that used pick up our milk, he was closing the plant every day himself 😂😂 he couldn’t wait for it to be closed, the same fella had enough of his own business to mind in the end

wouldn’t be looking down or wishing bad on anyone moving coop …I know lads that left Arrabawn to go to Dairygold and tirlan …and lads tgat moved opposite direction …they all had there reasons ..in Arrabawn it certainly put rockets under our board and management and was catalyst for our price improving and other changes within the coop …it was a form of madness tho when you see suppliers within 10 miles of nenagh sending milk to cork and Kilkenny/Wexford etc ….and we’re now hauling milk from Carlow Wexford Kilkenny and cork back to nenagh …for a small country you could argue we have far too many coops

Is that the same pat murphy who said that dairy farmers should be making money at 30 cent a litre.

iI wonder will there be competition now for suppliers.? I was surprised dairygold made this move. aren't they now open to suppliers leaving them?

gentleman's agreement looks gone for now

When a td is this clueless and a dairy farmer at that supplying the co-op that where/are in a agreement re curd supply to this plant you'd be left scrathing your head, tirlain will obviously divert the curd into its cheese plants etc so how does willie reckon the plant is a runner when it has no contractual supply of product which it had in the Tirlain aggrement

Coops will only take a farmer out of contract from another coop. If a dairygold farmer was to give notice today, it would be Jan 1st 2029 before they would be out of contract.

In glanbia, youre not entitled to bonuses and top ups while waiting out your notice period.

Not that easy to get away from some.

Cheers grueller,I got a very competitive quote from dairymaster for a basic second hand 12 unit fitted and think ill give them the go ahead

I have a mate with the same make parlour and the acrs are too slow coming off so he justs works them manual.

To be honest I just want something basic with a bit of back up and keep funding for decent stock

Easy knacker me. But I'm knackered!!

Milkbar teats all pushed back in and out with a screwdriver. And peach teats put in their stead. The black peach teats weren't in stock in the merchant where I bought the feeder. 20 perfect brand new milk bar teats free to a good home..

Have a few lads that i know that will be selling the the type of incalf heifers im after.Will also be looking for some young ho/fr cows doing 500kg solids from 1-1.5 tons of nuts