Cormac McBreen

Was it driving home?

No, it's been playing on my mind for a while.

People doesn't understand.

This is not... The diesel is the straw that broke the camel's back.

Now, I'm not blaming the government on this next thing.

But I could buy a 200 horsepower Matthew Ferguson tractor.

So I could in 2019 for 95,000 plus the VAT.

That same tractor today is 175,000 plus VAT for one tractor.

I have 10.

It doesn't take a mathematician to work out the figures.

If fusion baler was 55,000, it is now 100,000 plus the VAT, 126,000 for one bloody baler.

It gets the same rates that we were nearly getting back in 2019.

I'm sorry, Cormac, why?

Do you know what?

I don't know and I don't care, but it has gone up and I didn't put it up, but it's gone up and I don't know what the, I don't know them figures and I don't get into them.

It's all I know when I go to my flipping dealer that he tells me the price of a tractor and I have to weigh it up.

And to be honest with you, I don't really have much of a choice.

I can't argue with him.

And usually the answer you get is, well, if you don't buy it now, it's going up 5,000 next week.

And I think everyone across the country would agree with us on that.