Green cert - distance edu course

wildcatares22

Anyone here doing the green cert online/distance education course this year?

Zr105

wildcatares22 wrote: »

Anyone here doing the green cert online/distance education course this year?

Yeah think there's a few of us starting in the various centres whenever they kick off

wildcatares22

we had day 1 in Mullingar today. lots of books, should be an interesting course.

Zr105

wildcatares22 wrote: »

we had day 1 in Mullingar today. lots of books, should be an interesting course.

Ah rite! First day is not for another 2 weeks down in kildalton,

leoch

How long does it last

wildcatares22

leoch wrote: »

How long does it last

About 18 months i think.

thegreatgonzo

wildcatares22 wrote: »

Anyone here doing the green cert online/distance education course this year?

Yes I started last night. Are you doing yours in Longford? I hear ye have exams after Christmas


Sorry just saw you are doing it in Mullingar.

dermey97

Information night in ballyhaise last night for January start. Seems good but you have to be available for roughly 1 Friday a month for practicals.... Boss will love that.

wildcatares22

thegreatgonzo wrote: »

Yes I started last night. Are you doing yours in Longford? I hear ye have exams after Christmas


Sorry just saw you are doing it in Mullingar.

Yep, we have day 2 tomorrow Friday. Also have 2 or 3 exams. So far it's just reading and filling out documents for safety and daily diary stuff. Hard getting back into the whole study thing but seems to be the way forward.

wildcatares22

dermey97 wrote: »

Information night in ballyhaise last night for January start. Seems good but you have to be available for roughly 1 Friday a month for practicals.... Boss will love that.

Are ye doing it at night time. We are 9 to 5.

wildcatares22

thegreatgonzo wrote: »

Yes I started last night. Are you doing yours in Longford? I hear ye have exams after Christmas


Sorry just saw you are doing it in Mullingar.

Yep, we have day 2 tomorrow Friday. Also have 2 or 3 exams. So far it's just reading and filling out documents for safety and daily diary stuff. Hard getting back into the whole study thing but seems to be the way forward.

thegreatgonzo

I'm doing mine in Mountbellew, nothing will get going until January but maybe it's because there are 120 doing it there and it's taking longer to make a timetable. What optional modules do you have?

wildcatares22

thegreatgonzo wrote: »

I'm doing mine in Mountbellew, nothing will get going until January but maybe it's because there are 120 doing it there and it's taking longer to make a timetable. What optional modules do you have?

Dairy beef tillage sheep, think that was it.

wildcatares22

thegreatgonzo wrote: »

I'm doing mine in Mountbellew, nothing will get going until January but maybe it's because there are 120 doing it there and it's taking longer to make a timetable. What optional modules do you have?

Dairy beef tillage sheep, think that was it.

TITANIUM.

Since everyone here seems to be starting or started tis properly to late for me at this stage. When was this advertised lads and when did ye apply?

Sam Kade

dermey97 wrote: »

Information night in ballyhaise last night for January start. Seems good but you have to be available for roughly 1 Friday a month for practicals.... Boss will love that.

Ballyhaise, that brings back memories

thegreatgonzo

I think the closing date was in July. I know it was advertised on the Teagasc website which was where I saw it.

Sam Kade

Do you need to do 3 months experience with a farmer with the online course or can you do it on the home farm?

Zr105

TITANIUM. wrote: »

Since everyone here seems to be starting or started tis properly to late for me at this stage. When was this advertised lads and when did ye apply?

Good while back now, think the applications were in around July, think you'll have to wait till next year, they have waiting lists for most of the colleges, even just from people that didn't get the college closest to them and want to change if a place comes available

thegreatgonzo

The home farm for keeping the farm diary etc for 6 months. There will be farm visits and practical days at the college too.

Zr105

Sam Kade wrote: »

Do you need to do 3 months experience with a farmer with the online course or can you do it on the home farm?

No it's just you have to keep a diary and work on the home farm, it's designed that you could do it while working a job. But you'd need a fairly understanding boss, need a day off every 3weeks...

have2flushtwice

Zr105 wrote: »

No it's just you have to keep a diary and work on the home farm, it's designed that you could do it while working a job. But you'd need a fairly understanding boss, need a day off every 3weeks...

feck that, had to beg for one day off over xmas...
time to do the sums....
quit the job and do the green cert, to avoid an inheritance tax bill - will one loss outweigh the other!!

Zr105

have2flushtwice wrote: »

feck that, had to beg for one day off over xmas...
time to do the sums....
quit the job and do the green cert, to avoid an inheritance tax bill - will one loss outweigh the other!!

Works out at 28days between now and July 2016, but you have all the dates in advance. Still it'd be a bit of an ask alright, and would leave you with no days off for holidays or getting extra jobs done at home if you were working full time alright.

Working on farm so it's handy enough anyways, I've my 4 years in college done so no way I'd be going back to sit another 2 years full time... Had enough of that craic, even though I'd say the green cert course would be a bit easier done with the amount of practical bits.

There's more to it than just the inheritance tax tho to, qualifies you for the young farmer scheme and the likes, and no doubt will be put as a stipulation on various other bits and pieces over the next couple of years...

Irishmale

When they said distance they were not joking. doing it in Gurteen, 2.5 hours drive. When i asked about moving they said not so much. great

FarmerDougal

Irishmale wrote: »

When they said distance they were not joking. doing it in Gurteen, 2.5 hours drive. When i asked about moving they said not so much. great

I got gurteen 2 hr drive but they switched me to local town after a few calls

Irishmale

ill try again so. Thanks FarmerDougal for the heads up.

C0N0R

Zr105 wrote: »

Works out at 28days between now and July 2016, but you have all the dates in advance. Still it'd be a bit of an ask alright, and would leave you with no days off for holidays or getting extra jobs done at home if you were working full time alright.

Working on farm so it's handy enough anyways, I've my 4 years in college done so no way I'd be going back to sit another 2 years full time... Had enough of that craic, even though I'd say the green cert course would be a bit easier done with the amount of practical bits.

There's more to it than just the inheritance tax tho to, qualifies you for the young farmer scheme and the likes, and no doubt will be put as a stipulation on various other bits and pieces over the next couple of years...

The full time course isn't that taxing, September to February then two weeks in may and second year is alot less. And if you were missing a few days it's no big deal as long as your there for certain days for practical assessments.

Zr105

C0N0R wrote: »

The full time course isn't that taxing, September to February then two weeks in may and second year is alot less. And if you were missing a few days it's no big deal as long as your there for certain days for practical assessments.

Yeah but then you also have the placement to do ontop of that, and September to feb would add up to a lot more than 28days Id guess?

C0N0R

Zr105 wrote: »

Yeah but then you also have the placement to do ontop of that, and September to feb would add up to a lot more than 28days Id guess?

Over 23 have no placement. Your right it is a lot more than 28 days but if you happen to be in between jobs or something it's a handy way of doing it, and as said you don't have to be there five days a week either.

Zr105

C0N0R wrote: »

Over 23 have no placement. Your right it is a lot more than 28 days but if you happen to be in between jobs or something it's a handy way of doing it, and as said you don't have to be there five days a week either.

Yeah wouldn't be to bad that way alright if you had the time to do it. They were offering a course through local office there last year, rang up about it and they said yeah one night a week sept-March or something like that, was failing to say that that was for 3years until I asked for the second time... That would be fair drawn out now...

dermey97

wildcatares22 wrote: »

Are ye doing it at night time. We are 9 to 5.

No it's one Friday a month 9am to 5pm.

wildcatares22

anybody get on to that cost control planner thing yet. am havin fierce trouble getting the head around all that number crunching stuff.

Irishmale

Anyone heard anything from gurteen yet? Has the email with groups etc been sent out yet?

thegreatgonzo

wildcatares22 wrote: »

anybody get on to that cost control planner thing yet. am havin fierce trouble getting the head around all that number crunching stuff.

Had my first day today so just got all the books. Not liking the look of that farm accounts book.