The Larry Goodman-controlled firm Braganstown Farms Unlimited, has its Companies Registration Office (CRO) status changed to “strike-off listed”.
Readers might remember the firm was embroiled in the forced sale by a bank of a family farm in Co Louth to a so-called vulture fund last year.
I have it on good authority that the firm backed away from the sale once the family’s objections were made clear.
The firm’s principal activity is recorded as the “growing of crops combined with the farming of animals”.
Braganstown Farms Unlimited recorded an authorised share capital of €634,869 in its annual return submitted in 2016.
A “strike-off” can be voluntary or involuntary, according to the companies registration office. One of the reasons for a strike-off can be failure by a company to file annual returns.
Braganstown Farms Unlimited is listed as having 2018 accounts overdue since June 2018.
In contrast, the Goodman-owned Braganstown Farms Limited, received €219,776 in CAP direct payments in 2017.
Derry Girls agricultural spin off
With season two of Channel 4’s critically acclaimed sitcom Derry Girls finishing this week, The Dealer has some thoughts for a spin off that screen writer Lisa McGee may be interested in.
Set in southeast Ireland in the 1990s, four young dairy farmers enjoy their teenage years while milk quotas overhang the Irish dairy sector.
A female beef farmer from a neighbouring parish joins the friendship group, although she is somewhat misunderstood and is often the punchline of the joke.
The sitcom is essentially a fly on the wall view of a typical Irish farm house and includes all the adventures and misadventures of teenage life in rural Ireland.
The name of the show? You guessed it – Dairy Boys.
There is potential for a spin-off to Derry Girls. \ Lisa McGee Twitter.
New Irish Suffolk society formed
There is a new player in the pedigree sheep world.
The Irish Suffolk Sheep Society was formed in February by previously prominent members of the South of Ireland Suffolk Sheep Society, which is affiliated to the English-based Suffolk Sheep Society. Brexit is a factor, but the subject of an independent Irish organisation has been mooted for years. The new society has been registered with the Companies Registration Office (CRO), and the website and Facebook page will be online in the next few days. The society will hold its national championships in Kilkenny Mart on Saturday 9 June, followed by a Premier Show and Sale at Roscrea Mart on Saturday 4 August.
Pro-farmer billboard spotted in Offaly
Offaly feed merchant J Grennan & Sons has put up a billboard in Kilcormac, replacing a vegan poster that was there previously.
“I don’t want to get into a row with the vegans. We just want to show support for our customers,” John Grennan, managing director of the feed company said. “We were a bit annoyed at the negativity of the vegan posters.”
The billboard in Kilcormac costs €150/fortnight and John says he is planning more posters in areas where Grennans have a strong customer base.
ASA chief Abbott off to UCD
I see the manager of the Agricultural Science Association, Valerie Abbott, is off to take up a new role with the UCD School of Agricultural Science. Abbott takes up her job as agricultural science communications, marketing and student recruitment officer in the Ag Block after Easter. She is succeeded as ASA manager by Cheryl Hazenburg. Originally from Canada but married to a Westmeath dairy farmer, Hazenburg is a Nuffield Scholar.
ASA manager Valerie Abbott is taking up a new role in UCD.
Driving farm safety home in Tipperary
Fun for all the family is promised at a farm safety event on the Moran farm in Coorevin, Co Tipperary, next Wednesday. Farm safety will be driven home, with a tractor simulator aimed at showing children and teenagers safe machinery handling skills. The event is organised by the north Tipperary IFA chair Imelda Walsh in conjunction with Teagasc, Gurteen Agricultural College and Maxol. It’s KT-approved and free to attend.
Brexit boom for garden sheds
While Brexit is rarely described in positive terms, I’m told that it has become somewhat of a boon for the garden shed sector in the UK.
Those in the know say sales of the humble domestic shed have spiked as British householders prepare to leave the EU by stockpiling food in their gardens.
There’s no cloud without a silver lining.
The Larry Goodman-controlled firm Braganstown Farms Unlimited, has its Companies Registration Office (CRO) status changed to “strike-off listed”.
Readers might remember the firm was embroiled in the forced sale by a bank of a family farm in Co Louth to a so-called vulture fund last year.
I have it on good authority that the firm backed away from the sale once the family’s objections were made clear.
The firm’s principal activity is recorded as the “growing of crops combined with the farming of animals”.
Braganstown Farms Unlimited recorded an authorised share capital of €634,869 in its annual return submitted in 2016.
A “strike-off” can be voluntary or involuntary, according to the companies registration office. One of the reasons for a strike-off can be failure by a company to file annual returns.
Braganstown Farms Unlimited is listed as having 2018 accounts overdue since June 2018.
In contrast, the Goodman-owned Braganstown Farms Limited, received €219,776 in CAP direct payments in 2017.
Derry Girls agricultural spin off
With season two of Channel 4’s critically acclaimed sitcom Derry Girls finishing this week, The Dealer has some thoughts for a spin off that screen writer Lisa McGee may be interested in.
Set in southeast Ireland in the 1990s, four young dairy farmers enjoy their teenage years while milk quotas overhang the Irish dairy sector.
A female beef farmer from a neighbouring parish joins the friendship group, although she is somewhat misunderstood and is often the punchline of the joke.
The sitcom is essentially a fly on the wall view of a typical Irish farm house and includes all the adventures and misadventures of teenage life in rural Ireland.
The name of the show? You guessed it – Dairy Boys.
There is potential for a spin-off to Derry Girls. \ Lisa McGee Twitter.
New Irish Suffolk society formed
There is a new player in the pedigree sheep world.
The Irish Suffolk Sheep Society was formed in February by previously prominent members of the South of Ireland Suffolk Sheep Society, which is affiliated to the English-based Suffolk Sheep Society. Brexit is a factor, but the subject of an independent Irish organisation has been mooted for years. The new society has been registered with the Companies Registration Office (CRO), and the website and Facebook page will be online in the next few days. The society will hold its national championships in Kilkenny Mart on Saturday 9 June, followed by a Premier Show and Sale at Roscrea Mart on Saturday 4 August.
Pro-farmer billboard spotted in Offaly
Offaly feed merchant J Grennan & Sons has put up a billboard in Kilcormac, replacing a vegan poster that was there previously.
“I don’t want to get into a row with the vegans. We just want to show support for our customers,” John Grennan, managing director of the feed company said. “We were a bit annoyed at the negativity of the vegan posters.”
The billboard in Kilcormac costs €150/fortnight and John says he is planning more posters in areas where Grennans have a strong customer base.
ASA chief Abbott off to UCD
I see the manager of the Agricultural Science Association, Valerie Abbott, is off to take up a new role with the UCD School of Agricultural Science. Abbott takes up her job as agricultural science communications, marketing and student recruitment officer in the Ag Block after Easter. She is succeeded as ASA manager by Cheryl Hazenburg. Originally from Canada but married to a Westmeath dairy farmer, Hazenburg is a Nuffield Scholar.
ASA manager Valerie Abbott is taking up a new role in UCD.
Driving farm safety home in Tipperary
Fun for all the family is promised at a farm safety event on the Moran farm in Coorevin, Co Tipperary, next Wednesday. Farm safety will be driven home, with a tractor simulator aimed at showing children and teenagers safe machinery handling skills. The event is organised by the north Tipperary IFA chair Imelda Walsh in conjunction with Teagasc, Gurteen Agricultural College and Maxol. It’s KT-approved and free to attend.
Brexit boom for garden sheds
While Brexit is rarely described in positive terms, I’m told that it has become somewhat of a boon for the garden shed sector in the UK.
Those in the know say sales of the humble domestic shed have spiked as British householders prepare to leave the EU by stockpiling food in their gardens.
There’s no cloud without a silver lining.
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