Farming Chit Chat II

whelan1 wrote: »

just reading yesterdays farming indo, theres a serious amount of farmland for sale in meath, why is this?

Im going to get hammered for saying this - but no other county has such farmers that are living in the past with big notions as meath people. big estate farms and they doing F all with in and living in a big broken down gentry place. Im drawing my conclusions from friends I know and the finer sex I have being better friends with. now lynch me for my taughts.

nashmach wrote: »

NAMA land perhaps especially given the proximity to Dublin?

doubt some of the farms are. Farmland never comes up for sale locally to me and there have being two over a hundred acre farms in the last week and a couple of sale agreeds aswell in the last month with our neighbouring county men as usual very strong in the market. Coop shares are bankrolling land in my area

bob charles wrote: »

doubt some of the farms are. Farmland never comes up for sale locally to me and there have being two over a hundred acre farms in the last week and a couple of sale agreeds aswell in the last month with our neighbouring county men as usual very strong in the market. Coop shares are bankrolling land in my area

I may have been a bit general in my statement but I bet it applies in some of the cases plus large sale prices for some places like the one near Dowth may have driven some to sell?

We are also looking at further changes in CGT and CAT in the budget by the looks of things....

Oh and well wear Bob

rancher wrote: »

You've got it right there, age profile of farmers is like a ticking time bomb, supply of land will soon overtake demand....land is way overpriced at the moment and the price has to drop soon.
What does everyone else think, the non farmers/builders who bought land around here during the tiger years are well sick of it now.
Decision on CAP supposed to the end of next week, that'll introduce a dose of realism into the market as well.

Supply versus demand though will depend on the area you are in to be honest and in many areas what you say won't come to pass for a while.

No sign of those non-farmers selling out though!

Given the lack of a true relationship between land and its earning capability (unlike other assets), I don't necessarily see the current CAP negotitaions having a large impact on land values.

But I could be wrong...

quadboy wrote: »

The right job would be to take away a 12 foot stone wall where a machine went in years ago and put a gate there, 12 foot wide btw not 12 foot high

gear is only getting bigger.

we sold bales last year that went out on a 33-34 foot trailer, onto a road with grass down the middle! thankfully we'd planned on widening the gap anyway, it's now 28 feet wide, was 12 feet a few years ago.

no was would I put in less than 16 feet, and that'd be on a wide road where there's loads of room to swing in. If you're going at a gap do it for 20 years, not just this year.

whelan1 wrote: »

well for some, i'm off to mass

and I taught I had a hard evening ahead of me.

Damo810 wrote: »

"Experienced Driver For Hire"


Oh Deere.

quadboy is looking for someone to get a fusion thru a 9ft gap

Was bullied a fair bit in secondary school myself, and to be honest the solution came from within myself I learned how to give as good as I got and turn from the butt of a joke to turning the whole thing around on the bullys and making a fool out of them.

Easier said than done but once your fella realises that its the bullys that have the problem and not him they cant touch him.

whelan1 wrote: »

they wont be at the same school next year

you'll have to remind your boy of this in a year or two; he'll have forgotten the other lads name in half the time - even if it seems a big thing now.