Mixed reaction to farm auctions throughout county

IT’S no surprise in a week when the EU and IMF take over the country without firing a shot, that farm bidders have been quiet.

CCM Property Services had a poor auction response for a farm at Killacluig West, Mitchelstown, last Wednesday, and failed to sell the 78-acre holding, but agent Jim O’Brien says they are negotiating with two parties.

Auctioneer Charles McCarthy in Skibbereen had two good auction sales, with more than €10,000 per acre paid for parts of the lands sold.