Do you still use a Teagasc Advisor

50HX

with advant of more and more technology and the ease of access to it i'm just wondering do you still pay for a Teagasc advisor

Personally after 2 years with them i'm pulling the pin

Last year was handy with ent transfers etc

This year is a joke

can't get anyone out to advise on buildings/stocking rates

even this week i can't get hold of them in the local office over the phone to discuss soil analysis results

i know for a fact that they are understaffed in the local office but this should be flagged and made public...leaving a side they are dealing with BPS for a lot of fellas at the moment

just wondering if anyone employs an advisor these days private or otherewise

can some one stick up a YES/NO poll on this - i can't

epfff

No no
Had horrific experience
They typify what is wrong with the civil service

alps

Can't speak highly enough of my experience with teagasc staff. Had the experience of a private company for 5 years due to a reps plan and they were money sucking thieves. ...only thing they could get right was the invoice...

Involved in a number of discussion groups with different teagasc facilitators and find them really good, accessible and helpful. So too are moorepark personnel...maybe just lucky

ruben37

No never again, very unhappy have been fobbed of with a temps in local office this past four years none of them had a clue on several planning matters I had all I got was "I will have to get back to you on that". The least said about soil samples the better! several lost and the last analysis I got from them was for a guy 18 miles away.

rangler1

No, I don't.

50HX wrote: »

with advant of more and more technology and the ease of access to it i'm just wondering do you still pay for a Teagasc advisor

Personally after 2 years with them i'm pulling the pin

Last year was handy with ent transfers etc

This year is a joke

can't get anyone out to advise on buildings/stocking rates

even this week i can't get hold of them in the local office over the phone to discuss soil analysis results

i know for a fact that they are understaffed in the local office but this should be flagged and made public...leaving a side they are dealing with BPS for a lot of fellas at the moment

just wondering if anyone employs an advisor these days private or otherewise

can some one stick up a YES/NO poll on this - i can't

This is a bad time of the year to look for an advisor to come out, for at least two mths these guys have back to back appointments for BPS, some are working saturdays at the moment, a lot of the officers don't have recptionists so just keep phoning .
We've good advisors and lucky enough to have one interested in sheep so can't complain

Sam Kade

Last time I had a teagasc advisor he was busy going around to all the dairy farms advising them to get out of milk, he even tried to get an 80 cow man out. He said they would have no trouble getting work, it was during the Celtic tiger years :rolleyes:

blue5000

No, I don't.

Still use teagasc here. I reckon we have a good advisor here anyway. I suppose it all depends where you are based.

Sam Kade

blue5000 wrote: »

Still use teagasc here. I reckon we have a good advisor here anyway. I suppose it all depends where you are based.

It all depends on the advisor, there was an excellent advisor in my local office doing a different area from me but he retired last year.

Buford T. Justice XIX

No, I don't.

50HX wrote: »

with advant of more and more technology and the ease of access to it i'm just wondering do you still pay for a Teagasc advisor

Personally after 2 years with them i'm pulling the pin

Last year was handy with ent transfers etc

This year is a joke

can't get anyone out to advise on buildings/stocking rates

even this week i can't get hold of them in the local office over the phone to discuss soil analysis results

i know for a fact that they are understaffed in the local office but this should be flagged and made public...leaving a side they are dealing with BPS for a lot of fellas at the moment

just wondering if anyone employs an advisor these days private or otherewise

can some one stick up a YES/NO poll on this - i can't

Still using one, find her very good on getting the answers to questions I ask her.

Teagasc are horrendously understaffed atm, loads of frontline staff gone gone and not replaced but there is a slight lifting of the embargo on recruitment this year so things should improve somewhat next year.

And +1 on alps post about the Moorepark staff, very approachable on any occasion I have come across them and will get you onto the right person to answer your question if they cannot themselves.

greysides

Poll added. Your vote will be public.

bogman_bass

The big problem is they spend too much time filling SPF forms for lads and dont have enough time to advise

liam7831

Most of em are giving their experience......which they learnt out of the book which is f all use to anyone. They spend most of the time running around a field measuring the grass with some sort of hollow square

Miname

liam7831 wrote: »

Most of em are giving their experience......which they learnt out of the book which is f all use to anyone. They spend most of the time running around a field measuring the grass with some sort of hollow square

I've an excellent Teagasc advisor but didn't rate the previous one. A lot of it though could of being me not being the most diplomatic. Most advisors are as good as what your wanting to do. No point if you don't have a plan or your only going to use them to fill out paperwork. They'll have to keep walking around as well with a hollowed square until it finally sinks in with people that grass measuring is actually extremely beneficial. There their to give advice it's down to us as individuals to take from it and implement.

f140

No, I don't.

biggest problem, I find is that they push you to spend too much.

thegreatgonzo

No, I don't.

Very happy with mine. I'm a bit sceptical about some of the stuff that comes out of Teagasc but my advisor has been great and have never had trouble getting an appointment with her.

50HX

great to hear the different experiences

thanks for the feedback

Bullocks

No , we switched to a private lad a few years ago because he was much cheaper and way more clued in than the dinosaur that Teagasc had in our area . I think it's all down to the individual rather than teagasc itself