The Euromillions was won this week, with an Armagh couple taking home €127m. Conor Sampson and David Wilson take a look at what farmers could buy for that sort of money.
4.2m bales of silage at €30 each. Never have to worry about another fodder crisis.
95 anaerobic digester plants at €1.3m euro each.
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Teagasc's anaerobic digestor nearing completion in Grange, Co Meath. \ Thomas Hubert
1.5m rolls of standard silage wrap at €80 each. That’s 2.3m kilometres of silage wrap.
9.7m boxes of lambing gloves at €13 each. That’s 976m gloves.
Five Lambs born to a Suffolk ewe by a Charollais ram on John Mannion's farm in Abbeyknockmoy, Co Galway. \David Ruffles
10,500 acres of dairy farmland in New Zealand at €12,000/ac.
Almost 4% of Co Cavan. You could buy 18,630 acres of land at €6,817/ac, the 2016 average for this area. That works out at nearly 4% of the total area of Co Cavan.
1.5m tonnes of turf at €90/t. Never have to worry about the hardship of footing turf ever again, although finding room to store it could be a problem.
121,000 in-calf Jersey/Freisen heifers at €1,050/head. Hop on the dairy expansion bandwagon.
40.9m copies of the Irish Farmers Journal. This would buy a copy of each week’s paper for the next 787,000 years. Sorted.
Agricultural Science student at the Sacred Heart School Westport, fundraising with Christmas jumper Day for S.V.P Westport, taking break at lunchtime to read the Irish Farmers Journal.
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514 Fendt 724 Vario tractors at €246,000 each.
A 517hp Fendt Vario 1050.
4.2m bales of silage at €30 each. Never have to worry about another fodder crisis.
95 anaerobic digester plants at €1.3m euro each.
Teagasc's anaerobic digestor nearing completion in Grange, Co Meath. \ Thomas Hubert
1.5m rolls of standard silage wrap at €80 each. That’s 2.3m kilometres of silage wrap.
9.7m boxes of lambing gloves at €13 each. That’s 976m gloves.
Five Lambs born to a Suffolk ewe by a Charollais ram on John Mannion's farm in Abbeyknockmoy, Co Galway. \David Ruffles
10,500 acres of dairy farmland in New Zealand at €12,000/ac.
Almost 4% of Co Cavan. You could buy 18,630 acres of land at €6,817/ac, the 2016 average for this area. That works out at nearly 4% of the total area of Co Cavan.
1.5m tonnes of turf at €90/t. Never have to worry about the hardship of footing turf ever again, although finding room to store it could be a problem.
121,000 in-calf Jersey/Freisen heifers at €1,050/head. Hop on the dairy expansion bandwagon.
40.9m copies of the Irish Farmers Journal. This would buy a copy of each week’s paper for the next 787,000 years. Sorted.
Agricultural Science student at the Sacred Heart School Westport, fundraising with Christmas jumper Day for S.V.P Westport, taking break at lunchtime to read the Irish Farmers Journal.
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