Farming Chit Chat II

freedominacup

whelan1 wrote: »

we must live in a different country altogether

I was thinking the same thing when I read your post.

freedominacup

reilig wrote: »

- but no sign of snow yet.

WTF do you mean no sign of snow yet? Is snow an option? F**K:eek:. I saw nothing in the forecast for here.

hugo29

freedominacup wrote: »

WTF do you mean no sign of snow yet? Is snow an option? F**K:eek:. I saw nothing in the forecast for here.

Lovely day here too, land still wet though, got some mulching done sat but had to leave some fields

hoseman

Lovly day here,s.w.,spent the day getting alot of little jobs done,cleaned a couple of ballcocks ,replaced the split pin in them as well with an "R" pin,hopefully will be easier the next time to take apart.

micky mouse

reilig wrote: »

Had a farmer bend my ear today with his theory as to why beef prices have gone up lately. He recons that there were thousands of tonnes of beef being brought in here from eastern europe every week for the last several years and it was being mixed with irish beef and labelled as irish beef and exported again. Since the horse meat scare, factories aren't doing this and they are far short of the amount of meat that they need to meet export contracts - so they are forced to pay higher prices to get the cattle in.

He recons that we should all be lobbying ministers to make sure that these factories can't bring in beef from eastern europe again and label it as Irish meat.

Interesting theory. Wonder how much of it is true?

Was told last year from a lad that worked in a MAJOR beef factory in the west that he seen imported meat been sent back out labelled as irish:mad:

Bizzum

hoseman wrote: »

Lovly day here,s.w.,spent the day getting alot of little jobs done,cleaned a couple of ball cocks.

Vital that one's ballcocks are immaculate!:-)

micky mouse

td5man wrote: »

Had a similar response from vet re tb test.
Test was listed for Oct rang him several times eventually got a call from dvo a week before Christmas threatening 5% cut to sfp .
Rang vet again still too busy (6 vet practice ) so contacted another vet and signed test over to him. Rang dept man back he wasn't happy that the other vet lost the test ?????
The same practice had been doing our work for 35+ years

So what has changed,is it a next generation that has taken over and that does not give two damns about there loyal(35 years) customers.I know ofa practice ,son has now taken over from father and just not care,losing customers left right and centre.All he can do is going around bad mouthing the loyal customers that he lost

delaval

There was a guy around her who was always full of drink and his nickname was Ballcock

Bizzum

delaval wrote: »

There was a guy around her who was always full of drink and his nickname was Ballcock

One of the local drunks to me used to 'feel' his way home along the shopfronts on the main street. He got the nickname 'Spiderman' for his troubles! :^)

td5man

micky mouse wrote: »

So what has changed,is it a next generation that has taken over and that does not give two damns about there loyal(35 years) customers.I know ofa practice ,son has now taken over from father and just not care,losing customers left right and centre.All he can do is going around bad mouthing the loyal customers that he lost

Original vets have retired ,theres an a***hole there that most farmers have told him they never want to see him on their farm again .
Theres a good vet there but he seems only interested in farms with a couple of hundred milkers.
And the rest of them do what they're told.
One of the original vets is working as a consulting vet for an agri supplier hes very good if you have a problem he'll get to the bottom of it.

mf240

Have a good relationship with my vet theres more than one in the practise but I get him if at all possible. Its the one area where mutual respect is required, he doesent save them all but he always give it his best shot and I always follow his directions to the letter.

micky mouse

mf240 wrote: »

Have a good relationship with my vet theres more than one in the practise but I get him if at all possible. Its the one area where mutual respect is required, he doesent save them all but he always give it his best shot and I always follow his directions to the letter.

Bingo mf240.Them two words sum it all up..mutual respect

bob charles

reilig wrote: »

Had a farmer bend my ear today with his theory as to why beef prices have gone up lately. He recons that there were thousands of tonnes of beef being brought in here from eastern europe every week for the last several years and it was being mixed with irish beef and labelled as irish beef and exported again. Since the horse meat scare, factories aren't doing this and they are far short of the amount of meat that they need to meet export contracts - so they are forced to pay higher prices to get the cattle in.

He recons that we should all be lobbying ministers to make sure that these factories can't bring in beef from eastern europe again and label it as Irish meat.

Interesting theory. Wonder how much of it is true?

Not allot, we are only importing for the last few years around 50k tons (30k tons from UK and NI) so 20k from elsewhere.

whelan1

snowing here now:mad:

freedominacup

whelan1 wrote: »

snowing here now:mad:

Stop saying "snowing".

whelan1

freedominacup wrote: »

Stop saying "snowing".

cant help it, its really annoying me now, weather was "supposed" to improve from today, now that has changed

Dublin Red Devil

My Uncle and I lost a calf last week, about 12 hours after a difficult birth which required all my strength and a calving jack to get out. The calf seemed ok at first but it later became clear that it was probably damaged in the birth a was going to die.

whelan1

lovely morning , picture is crappy sorry

blue5000

You just didn't want us to see the reg on anything;)

No snow here yet, but feckall grass growing either.

td5man

whelan1 wrote: »

snowing here now:mad:

You can keep it,a few flakes falling here now.

Kovu

td5man wrote: »

You can keep it,a few flakes falling here now.

And here. But it's not sticking at least.

kevthegaff

its giving it bad for the next 10 days, really cold. dont know how there is still fodder around, i have about 10 days of silage

whelan1

kevthegaff wrote: »

its giving it bad for the next 10 days, really cold. dont know how there is still fodder around, i have about 10 days of silage

ah its a fooking joke, think i might have to start posting on the depression thread:mad::mad: its been raining or crap weather for 10 months now

reilig

freedominacup wrote: »

WTF do you mean no sign of snow yet? Is snow an option? F**K:eek:. I saw nothing in the forecast for here.

Cool the jets. MT Cranium in the weather forum has been talking about snow for the next 7 days for the last 7 days. How much notice do you want? :eek:

bbam

whelan1 wrote: »

lovely morning , picture is crappy sorry

White out here thismorning too.
Seems like the week will be full of frost or winters showers.

dzer2

whelan1 wrote: »

ah its a fooking joke, think i might have to start posting on the depression thread:mad::mad: its been raining or crap weather for 10 months now

After a week in sunny spain :eek:

freedominacup

reilig wrote: »

Cool the jets. MT Cranium in the weather forum has been talking about snow for the next 7 days for the last 7 days. How much notice do you want? :eek:

I should pay more attention. We turned calves out yesterday without any hesitation. Local forecast looked good and weather was mild.

vanderbadger

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/tayto-park-banned-from-bringing-in-new-animals-to-zoo-for-five-months-29138398.html

Kovu

We have fodder til April 15th. Only because we had 20 bales left over from the previous year though!

Kovu

vanderbadger wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/tayto-park-banned-from-bringing-in-new-animals-to-zoo-for-five-months-29138398.html

Jaysus.

And yet us farmers have *50 billion different certs to get before we qualify for any sort of payments.

*I may exaggerate just a tad.