Re: The new Clearances?

On 2007-09-08, Jill <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
greymaus@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


Will you manage with high feed costs?.. my figures look bad, but hopes
are that prices will rise too..

Dunno whats going to happen around here.
It may make us rethink some stuff for a few years. With the birds it sort of
depends on what increases there are to other ingredients. I gather from
another grain merchant that feed maize is just about impossible to get hold
of for feed. But good rations are plenty of other things -- what is soya and
alfalfa doing?

One source told me that soya could actually fall in price, that the
valuable part now is the oil that is extracted, and the meal would
become a by-product. Oz may know more of that theory, I expect there
is a maximum part of a ration that can be soya.. Dunno anything about
alfalfa. Most by-products have risen, last I heard corn gluten went
from 110 to 180 euros.

Others are going out of livestock right and left around us. But then folks
around here have been rather used to striving against adversity.
At the moment pelleted ration is cheaper than straights which is taking a
day or two to get my head around!
B&B's are offering 30% down on previous years which have not been good and a
number have folded financially. Tourist Board on one of the islands
disuading people from entering the trade. Far too many on the market in the
middle of summer in the middle of town.

Generally here, the yobbo trade for drinking outings to Dublin up,
middleaged people who tour the country down. The country is expensive
for ordinary middle-class people.


We can no longer get decent delivery in or out so that affects other sorts
of diversification.
The population is increasingly the early retired rich who spend anywhere
else but locally.

The equivelent people here have good cars, and shop in the Dublin
Malls.


The councils and health boards are bankcrupt and the former thinks that a
few esteemed marine scientists are going to support a housing scheme of 750
houses, which are being built despite there being no water, no sewage, no
demand, and on bog!!

Its interesting times.


Really basic problem is that people are living too long, and those
extra years are expensive.


--
Greymaus
Just Another Grumpy Old man
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