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Organic farming

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  • #2
    Nettleman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 651 ✭✭✭Nettleman


    ring IOFGA and ask for copies of the presentations to be emailed to ya..or posted on their website, they might be ok to do that


  • #3
    patjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 313 ✭✭patjack


    Question for Organic Farmers:

    I know that you can elect to farm part of your farm organically. i.e. not all your land.

    Question is if you have organic cattle on the land designated for organic farming scheme can you keep non organic cattle on the land not designated for organic farming?

    Also, can you do this with one herd number or how does it work, if allowed?


  • #4
    Connemara Farmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,975 ✭✭✭Connemara Farmer


    patjack wrote: »
    Question for Organic Farmers:

    I know that you can elect to farm part of your farm organically. i.e. not all your land.

    Question is if you have organic cattle on the land designated for organic farming scheme can you keep non organic cattle on the land not designated for organic farming?

    Also, can you do this with one herd number or how does it work, if allowed?

    You will need completely separate facilities for organic and non organic parts of the farm.


  • #5
    Nettleman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 651 ✭✭✭Nettleman


    Connemara Farmer wrote: »
    You will need completely separate facilities for organic and non organic parts of the farm.
    Do you mean one crush for organic and one crush for conventional, can they not be housed together in organic conditions?


  • #6
    Connemara Farmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,975 ✭✭✭Connemara Farmer


    Nettleman wrote: »
    Do you mean one crush for organic and one crush for conventional, can they not be housed together in organic conditions?

    I don't know the full details, we had a Teagasc organics rep at our Options course and she said separate facilities would be needed. Since I have mostly commonage and it can't be got on commonage I wasn't listening as carefully as if I could apply myself.


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  • #7
    Feckthis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Feckthis


    how much meal would one be feeding a day per cow for winter milk and spring milk in organics. I know no one can be exact but say presuming silage quality was good and how much meal would be given with average quality silage?
    organic ration is anything from 500-600 a tonne depending on delivery etc..


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