What are your thoughts on the fertiliser price s for 2022

You come on with a generalising derogatory post like that about farmers and then want us to answer questions.

No real work in farming? Come down into the pit in my milking parlour at 5.30 some morning while training a batch of fresh calved heifers and see is there work in it.

If you really want to see "toys" as you call them, go to a veg growers yard and have a look at his gear. Do you think farmers should sit on outdated, man breaking machines for 12+ hour days or are we allowed to have a bit of comfort and safety in our work? Men that worked those older machines have the bottoms of their spines worn away from the hardship of all the hopping, jolting and banging from machines with no suspension systems.

What do you work at yourself that is "real" work?

Your post smells of begrudgery and I don't know you, but it makes you look like a sanctimonious prick tbh.

what do you wok at? not a lot it sounds like

usually the worst kind. begrudger. too lazy to do any real work

"Grants" aren't aimed at beef production. Decoupling occurred 2 decades ago so in actual fact most farmers would be better off to claim the basic payment scheme and supply no raw materials to industry who squeeze the life out of them for there own profits, or ungrateful consumers like yourself who put no value on there produce and clearly see them as scrounging a living.

Targeted grants such as tams are available to all sectors in farming.

That blind man wasn't a major donor to FF, the man who bought the land Bank that was Irish Sugar was.

I wrote in this thread how Fertilizer was an EU top level crisis months ago.

That wasn't very smart of me or showing great analysis. It was very fooking obvious and if anyone in politics, wider society etc gave even the smallest bit of care about Agriculture or food production in the western world it would never have ended up a problem or acted on immediately.

In fairness to McConalogue he is dealing with the reality of it but that is a lonely position in society now and especially in European politics.

I'll up production, I'll put in extra effort and I'd be willing to play a part in a war time effort to feed the world in my own little way as will nearly every farmer.

They can go fook themselves though if the cost and risk is all on my head, and when it's over being thrown out on the scrap heap again to maintain the purity of the free market.

Food production either has long term value or it does not. Food security energy security either matter or They do not.

Climate change is already have significant impact on global food supply and security.

Which is why Europe needs to step up and at least maintain food production.

Putin is banking on food and energy to win friends.

Food security is going to be a global crisis next year and maybe this year.

Mail on the head. And the lads he let it are cowboys.

easy play hurling from the ditch.

Ah sure we will all start growing crops so the housewife can buy her bord bia quality assured chicken for 4 euro and quality assured ham fillet for a fiver . Like fuk I will ,this bull **** by the loonies in government is a ploy ro keep down prices of basic foods ,there will be no shortage of food in this country but shoppers will have to fork out more for the essentials

The government have already proclaimed not too long ago 'it is not our job in this country to feed the world 'and how in the Lord God name with costs multiplying and margins wafer thin are we to even attempt to solve any global food shortages.

Small bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing they say. You like your freedom alright I'd say you idle backstard.

I did a grass walk there. The slurry I put out in January grew some grass and a beautiful colour on it. I have high fields that I couldn't travel and they grew 150kg Vs 350kg on the slurry fields over the last month.

Could you not piss-off and give out to your dog for the evening our unfortunate wife/partner if you have one, https://www.irishexaminer.com/farming/arid-40798965.html

that's the reality of veg growing in Ireland, you'll probably start waffling about he should of went organic/direct selling, what did he need a fancy tractor for, but the fact is no one is listening, Brussels has walked the EU into a energy and now food crisis because our elite have the exact same mindset as yourself....

Your statements re farmers having to change that's a given, you'll see the national herd decline by at least 10% come 2023 on account of the Ukraine/Russian conflict depending on the severity of it, and how badly fertilizer/wheat/maize production is affected by 2024 another 20% plus could be gone, your wildest dreams are about to come through with the destocking of the national herd, and the planet been saved, with the disclaimer in developing countries and food insecure countries like Egypt famine like scenarios are nearly certain

How does Putin control 25% of World Wheat exports?

I heard in a news report during the week that 25% of wheat comes from Russia and Ukraine together. So if they report is true, he doesn’t control it, but with the ongoing conflict then supply chains are weak