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Falklands' farmers urged to prepare for declining wool prices forced by currencies' distortions
Falkland Islands farmers are being urged to plan for income reductions in the order of 15 to 25% for the season's wool production with the potential for more reductions, MLA Phyl Rendell announced in Legislative Assembly last week. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesIt is a conspiracy by the sheep.
Feb 07th, 2014 - 09:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 01 ElaineB
Feb 07th, 2014 - 09:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Are they argentine sheep?
is that why there is a reduction in the money coming in?
Does their wool devaluate on their bodies even before it's cut?
Notice how if the Falkland farmers suffer a financial crisis, they weather the storm thanks to FIG help whereas if they were Argentinian farmers they would be told, sorry amigos, you go bust.
Feb 07th, 2014 - 10:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina: still wonder why the Islanders don't want to belong to your country, where your farmers have to go on strike?
Argentina does not talk to you. Assaulting grace is stupid. Are you prepared for the reality?
Feb 07th, 2014 - 11:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYWO84GUIg8
4Brasileiro
Feb 08th, 2014 - 12:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0I'll tell you what though. Brazil, like Uruguay, is starting to talk to us more and more and I am talking about both the public and private sectors. So much for solidarity with TMBOA.
Chuckle chuckle
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Feb 08th, 2014 - 12:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Brazilian?
Feb 08th, 2014 - 12:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sorry to hear that our softening dollar is causing pain elsewhere, however it is exactly what our economy needs. Though no balance of paymens crisis here, just an economic shock-absorber doing as it should.
Feb 08th, 2014 - 03:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0As this thread seems empty of trolls, here's a good read. Perhaps if Argentina had more leaders like this then they wouldn't be facing yet ANOTHER train wreck.
http://theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott--a-man-of-fire-and-water-20140207-3278y.html
Are the sheep Brazilian after they've been sheared?
Feb 08th, 2014 - 08:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0Depends on where you shear them!
Feb 08th, 2014 - 08:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0@4
Feb 08th, 2014 - 10:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0The stone runs don't look like that.-you've got the wrong part of the world....
@5 & 17 I have been looking up production statistics such as they are and they are all estimates.
Feb 08th, 2014 - 02:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Would it be too much to ask your farmers to submit an annual census as to their stock numbers? Sheep are mustered at least once a year for shearing so it shouldn't be too difficult.
It would also give your abattoir some idea of what their kill might be and therefore be able to engage in forward contracts.
I appreciate most land is acidic and of low fertility and there is the climatic factor, rather different fro Uruguay, though we also have problems you do not.
You export 1,600 tons of wool or around one kilo per hectare and that's in the grease. Perhaps that's too small a volume to set up a processing plant but to consider, the clean yield is around 60% of that! even though the by products such as lanolin do have value. The best way to encourage farmers to reduce the micro age is on price.
I have been out of sheep (Polwarths) for some years,but I seem to remember some FI wool was processed by a farmers coop in Uruguay, CLU.
Your average farms are big in area but with stocking rates of a sheep to every two hectares, that's a flock of 5,000 sheep which shouldn't be to difficult to manage
MLA Randall talks about retaining shearling capones (wethers), a categoria that ceased to exist in Uruguay a decade ago. It is symptomatic of a very low lambing percentage which with modern technology even under extensive range conditions can be fixed.
I'm not trying to put your farmers down but perhaps they should change their attitude a bit
The old adage of the Falklands living off the back of the sheep and the front of the stamp hopefully is history
It is my impression or people in F@ckland have the same face as the sad sheep?????
Feb 08th, 2014 - 02:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Uggh! I guess its not contagious ....
@13 no dumburger . Look in the mirror. The double bagger is you!
Feb 08th, 2014 - 02:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Whwoaarr.... She's tidy, - The one stood with that bloke in the green jacket I mean.
Feb 08th, 2014 - 03:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 14
Feb 08th, 2014 - 03:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Dumburger wishes he looked like a Falkland sheep, instead of an argie. :o)
@ Mr redp0ll
Feb 08th, 2014 - 03:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I saw the same faces in Scotland and Wales and my fellow English friend told me that they are parents of the Sheep.
Do you thing they were lying me?
I hope to not have become a victim of my English friends...
What do you think?
Baaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!
Genetic improver perhaps? Dumburging the sheep? Woolly thinking dumbo, theyre too quick for you whatever trick you try
Feb 08th, 2014 - 03:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(12) redp0ll
Feb 08th, 2014 - 03:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You say...:
“I'm not trying to put your farmers down but perhaps they should change their attitude a bit”
I say...:
Are you asking the Kelpers to change, you Pom?
The old joke...:
“- How many Kelpers do you need to change a lightbulb?”
“- CHANGE ???... Who the hell needs CHANGE !!!”
is still very true...
I'm not trying to put your farmers down but If “Sound Economic Principles” should prevail, the Kelpers should have a single constituency, evacuate Gran Malvina making it into a wildlife reserve and convert Lafonia into an Open Air Museum where tourist could be served peat oven baked cakes made and served by the likes of dear Isolde & Monty96....
In another words, stop spending 50% of their budget in 10% of the people.
Mr Think,
Feb 08th, 2014 - 03:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You seem to be obsessed with turnips so a warning.
Sheep thrive on turnips and swedes in the Falklands
Would hate you to get eaten
@redp0ll
Feb 08th, 2014 - 03:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0can now you try to translate that into plain English?
Thank you.
I told you guys my dad only could afford to send me to learn some English in England...
I cannot understand, read or speak sheep language...
Sorry but even me have some limitation if you know what I mean...
(20) redp0ll
Feb 08th, 2014 - 04:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As an English farmer you should demonstrate much more respect and appreciation to them humble turnips...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Townshend,_2nd_Viscount_Townshend#.22Turnip.22_Townshend
Sheep language dumbo? You seem together with some of your “associates” to understand the cloning research done in Scotland on Dolly the sheep and put it to good use on these posts.
Feb 08th, 2014 - 04:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Can someone else explain to Dumbo what a double bagger is?
If I did my explanation would most likely be censored by Mercopress.
@redp0ll
Feb 08th, 2014 - 04:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Come on Rep0ll or RepSol don’t be afraid express your self freely none is going to report you, here in SA people is very democratic and even if they don’t agree with your statement none will press the sensor button as some people from little islands used to do...
Sorry but as sure you know in GB there is a lot of English dialects, English from the north are hardly understood by English from the south.
Not even mention people from New Castle or from Scotland...
As I say before my dad only have a budget to send me for a couple of years to England so I am able to understand some cockney, ethnic English with a lot of F@cks and even Pakinglish Sir.
But come one you cannot expect from me to understand countryside accents from Wales, Scotland and some part of England.
Tankeu very mooch, ha ha
@22 think you should really Think before you post a link. I am perfectly aware of Townsends political career but that's dead history
Feb 08th, 2014 - 05:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0His real legacy is the Norfolk four course crop rotation,invented by him long before we just chucked artificial fertilizer on our modern crops.
It worked then on the thin Breckland sandy soils of his estate at Raynham
Perhaps modern ecological farmers could learn a lot from his ideas
(25) redp0ll
Feb 08th, 2014 - 05:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You say...:
“His [Viscont ”Turnip“ Towshend] real legacy is the Norfolk four course crop rotation,invented by him....
I say...:
Here it is............, AGAIN.
English haughtiness, ignorance and brainwash beautifully combined.
”“Invented by him”“”, you say???
What about “”“ Introduced by him to England from H O L L A N D”“” ???
HUUUUUGE difference between “Inventing” and “Introducing” Laddie......, don't you “Think”?
@15
Feb 08th, 2014 - 06:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wonder if she has a sister!
Think,
Feb 08th, 2014 - 06:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As usual you are splitting Patagonian hares again
Well that's one of the few indigenous beasties you have down there.
The rest like Merino sheep, cattle and yes horses are European introductions.
Or were they invented by Argentina?
@27
Feb 08th, 2014 - 07:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I reckon that's her in the pen behind her!!!!!!!
OOhh....Suit you sir!
So we are back to flinging sheep dottle at each other and dear old Think splitting hairs as usual.
Feb 08th, 2014 - 08:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So in that vein, Falklanders you should know the stone chutes are ideal concealment for trolls living under rocks
Not very sure on their pins, as usually they Tumbledown the Mountain with their mistakes
Calm down guys,
Feb 08th, 2014 - 08:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0its only CFK AKA mutton dressed as lanb...lol
Briton it's not mutton. It's ancient nanny goat
Feb 08th, 2014 - 08:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Think says:
Feb 08th, 2014 - 10:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“- How many Kelpers do you need to change a lightbulb?”
“- CHANGE ???... Who the hell needs CHANGE !!!”
Ozzie Anglolatino says:
Well at least they have electricity.
Danny Burger is obviously an Idiot with nothing to contribute.
Feb 09th, 2014 - 04:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0Crux of the article is;
”World wool markets generally operate on what is happening in Australia and New Zealand (South Africa also important) as those countries dominate the export supply of finer type wools. Market reports are available every day of selling with the most comprehensive world market reporting in terms of prices in Australian dollar per kilogram clean (The US dollar is also a major terms of trade for wool).”
So, nothing to do with Argentina... except for when the lights go out soon and they will need some woolly sweaters to keep warm... oh, and some oil?
The Falklands are gonna get so rich!
Hurrah!
TWIMC
Feb 09th, 2014 - 08:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0They say…:
(15) Escoses Doido
Whwoaarr.... She's tidy, - The one stood with that bloke in the green jacket I mean.
(27) reality check
@15 Wonder if she has a sister!
(29) Escoses Doido
@27 I reckon that's her in the pen behind her!!!!!!!
OOhh....Suit you sir!
I say…:
Juppppp... That’s Jan’s pride..., a pretty looking Dolly all right…
Nice to see that male Anglo city slickers haven’t forgot the finer cultural aspects of sheep farming and pastoral life……;-)
Profits are higher with a Texel Sire...as they say around here....
Feb 09th, 2014 - 03:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and things like Texel Tup and Blackfaced Tup....
...it's really sad that I remember these terms...
All is revealed at last! Mr think is a Finnish Landrace tup-nip
Feb 09th, 2014 - 06:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0These are the perils when your economy is only dependent on primary resources such as the wool industry.
Feb 10th, 2014 - 12:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Or soy for that matter like Argentina.
Feb 11th, 2014 - 09:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0Lucky the Falkland Islands has diversified into fisheries and tourism.
And soon oil.
@38 Ross
Feb 13th, 2014 - 01:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“These are the perils when your economy is only dependent on primary resources such as the wool industry.”
Which was the case in the Islands up until the 1980s, since when the Islands have gradually diversified, unlike Argentina who rely as you say on a primary resource such as soy.
The islands will expand further this century with more production of energy-but multiple methods,the oil will just kickstart more industry, other methods of energy production.
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