A spectacular coastal West Cork residential farm extending to 127ac is on the private treaty market and guided at €850,000. According to John Hodnett of Hodnett Forde auctioneers, it is currently under offer.
2020 has started brightly enough for sheep farmers as tightening supplies continue to push factory and mart prices higher.
It was a year of conflict and strife, dominated by the beef protests. Years of frustration over market returns to farmers finally came to a head, with the resulting farmer action being manipulated by the processing sector to the point where prices stagnated at the factory gate for the last three months of the year.
Before Christmas, it was apparent that the factories weren't quite sure how many fit cattle were in the system. Bullocks then were generally on a base of €3.50/kg, with a shake more in places as indications were that supplies were starting to tighten.
A century ago, as the Western world crawled exhausted out of the trenches of WWI, the Roaring Twenties came to be characterised by a lust and a thirst for life.
Most farmers employ contractors to carry out the major harvesting and cultivation work on their farms and they are probably wise to go that route as the scale of their farming operations would not justify investing in the equipment to do their own work.
As the mortars and rockets crashed in on British soldiers defending Basra Palace in early 2007, it became apparent that much of the ammunition in the hands of the Iraqi Shia militias who were attacking had originated from Iran - supplied by the late Major General Qasem Soleimani's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force.
