Eid al-Adha festival good for Kilkenny sheep sales
So, the experts are telling the Irish farmers that over a three year period they should reduce cattle numbers by 220,000 to help to reduce climate change.
This suggestion has been picked up worldwide with Australia and USA amazed at such a suggestion.
We have a population of a little over 5 million people and our livestock are predominantly grass based as opposed to the thousands of feed lots worldwide.
Leading figures such as Elon Musk suggest it is a ridiculous proposal and will have no bearing on the reduction of climate warming.
I would like to know who are these faceless experts who come up with these suggestions?
So we here in little Ireland will reduce numbers and the Brazilians, Indonesians etc will continue to cut down rain forests so they can build more feed lots for livestock to service the European market, that now is far from self-sufficient if these proposals are carried out.
The sooner we cop on and tell these so-called experts to go back to the drawing board the better.
I have often said it that I have lost faith with so call experts that ignore common sense to implement their proposals.
These people are well educated, I agree, but they do not get it right all the time.
I will go back to the new National Children’s Hospital now being built around James Hospital.
Who decided on this suggestion which has now over shot the proposed cost by billions rather than millions.
If a green field site was used the hospital would be up and running by now and would cost much less to the hard pressed tax payer.
This cash guzzler has caused no end of disruption and they hard working staff will have no parking places.
Not a clever move by our government ministers or planners.
Sheep Sector
The sheep sector has experienced some good news in the past few weeks with the upcoming Eid al Adha festival bringing live shippers to the marts trying to secure ram lambs.
If you have lambs to sell it could well be beneficial to keep ram lambs together as these are required for export.
This is a small window with the festival lasting from June 28th to early July.
Once this event has passed it will be back to the factories to dictate prices unless the export for lamb continues.
Butcher lambs on Monday ranged from €165 to €190 per head factory types €138 to €169 per head with cull ewes €80 to €205 per head.
Dairy Sale
In our dairy sale Calved Fr cows and heifers ranged from €1300 to €2100 per head with a lot of these calved in February and March.
If you have dairy stock to sell please contact Annie in the mart office on 056 7721407. This is also the number you use to enter cattle before 3.30pm on the Wednesday.
Thursday’s cattle sale proved better than expected, especially when you listen to the factories spreading their message of gloom and doom.
There was a good, solid trade for beef bullocks and heifers with prices ranging from €2.65 to €3.25 per kilo and cull cows also proved a better trade than expected with Friesian types ranging from €1.00 to €2.30 per kilo with continentals €1.50 to €2.80 per kilo.
Until next time, enjoy the sunshine but farmers would not mind if it rained at night for a week or so.
Do be careful on the farm and good buying, good selling and good luck.