The dairy boom.Can we officially say its over

I hope you don't get the backlash I received when I posted something similar approx 9 years. Maybe some people have taken their heads outa their rear ends since.

Yes huge money has been make since quota was abolished, most of it didn’t stay with the farmer though, last year been the exception.

Amen to all that.

Had a few plasters here recently. Holy **** they earn some money. I’d say they are on the same as a hearth surgeon . I got 3 quotes and not allot in difference. In fairness the crowd I got were excellent. Turned up when they said they would and did a very good quality job so as my dad says a good job is never a dear job it’s only dear the day you pay for it.

no young lads doing the trades anymore. You’d wonder where they are going to get them for the future.

It's the wet trades that are in trouble. No young blood in it anymore. Heaps of young guys doing plumbing and wiring

Heard an older Electrican saying he thinks all the young lads doing the trade now will be jockeying for jobs as they qualify, therefore keeping the wage very competitive for the lad hiring.

I am not so sure. Certification not is big business. Many different sectors require electricians. At present technically all rental houses need an electric certificate every five year and every boiler needs certifications every 12 months. That will be enforced by insurance companies down the line.

Electricians and plumbers will remain in demand

Paid an excellent plasterer €120 a day cash in 2015/2016 to do my house. Probably 3 times that now.

Met him recently and he is after aging unreal. It’s a tough game.

Your spelling says a lot about your intelligence.

You obviously don't understand the point, either.

If a substitute replaces the original, the demand for the original has gone down. It does not matter if the substitute is not the same product as the original.

It's called evolution.

The legislation already exists it enforced for HAP housing. However I gave heard of cases where insurance companies mentioned it in holidays home group insurance schemes.

All I saying it only a matter if time before all rental's houses have to have the already legislated requirements in place for insurance purposes.

It’s a funny one as the price of the original rises the demand for the substitute goes up in theory not sure if that can be said for the oat/almond ‘drink’ alternatives…they have a tiny matket share and little nutritional values they are a substitute in name only, labeled as ‘milks’

During the last recession they did firesale prices. I had a top class carpenter working for €100 per day. That is firesale.

He want to start doing his sums as to what pays or will not pay. Passed a farm lately and it has 50++ unroofed cubicles. Is there not a requirement that all dairy cows must be houses this year or next ???

There is outfit out there that will be dependent on the dairy cow reduction scheme to reduce numbers

Does anyone know the breakdown cost of 1 litre of milk split between the farmer, processor and the supermarket? It's very easy to find the production costs at farm level as well as average incomes but processors and supermarkets share of the pie isn't as transparent. How much does it cost a processor to get that 1 litre of milk on the supermarket shelf?