upcomming farm walks thread

joeyboy12345

Might be a good idea to have a thread to notify other farmers of upcomming open farm walks, often kick myself when i hear about 1 i missed that would have been of interest to me.

einn32

joeyboy12345 wrote: »

Might be a good idea to have a thread to notify other farmers of upcomming open farm walks, often kick myself when i hear about 1 i missed that would have been of interest to me.

Good idea! I saw a sign for Moorepark open day today. 4th July.

Keepgrowing

21st June Irish Grassland Association Beef walk in Kells Co Meath

Dairy summer tour in Carlow and KK in July

blue5000

Thurs 22 and 29th of June in Cork, and 5th July Galway for anyone organic curious.

https://www.teagasc.ie/news--events/news/2016/organic-demo-farm-walks.php

Good idea for a thread BTW.

cacs

joeyboy12345 wrote: »

Might be a good idea to have a thread to notify other farmers of upcomming open farm walks, often kick myself when i hear about 1 i missed that would have been of interest to me.

Great idea

tractorporn

blue5000 wrote:

Thurs 22 and 29th of June in Cork, and 5th July Galway for anyone organic curious.

Are you going I will probably be at all of those. Was at the organic walk last week in Adare was a savage crowd at it

blue5000

tractorporn wrote: »

Are you going I will probably be at all of those. Was at the organic walk last week in Adare was a savage crowd at it

Was there as well, seemed like a simple enough system, except for all the buttercups.

_Brian

Never been on a farm walk in my life and have seen a few advertised I thought would be interesting.

So, is it open season for anyone to rock up or do you need to be a member of the association organising it.

Hard Knocks

_Brian wrote: »

Never been on a farm walk in my life and have seen a few advertised I thought would be interesting.

So, is it open season for anyone to rock up or do you need to be a member of the association organising it.

You can just show up

tractorporn

blue5000 wrote:

Was there as well, seemed like a simple enough system, except for all the buttercups.

Yeah simple system done well but he was on great ground. He was taking the low cost system to the extreme I thought and then he said he couldn't justify building extra cattle housing but spent 40k on a dung stead?

If you go organic you kinda have to get used to some weeds about the place.

Biscuitus

_Brian wrote: »

Never been on a farm walk in my life and have seen a few advertised I thought would be interesting.

Most I have went on have been very informative. A few times you will be scratching your head wondering why the farmer is doing something so odd but you'll get a ton of ideas for your home farm.

lakill Farm

all welcome to my farm walk any day in the next 2 weeks,

I have a bit of turf to foot and an acre of stones to pick

blue5000

lakill Farm wrote: »

all welcome to my farm walk any day in the next 2 weeks,

I have a bit of turf to foot and an acre of stones to pick

Have you a tent for the tae? Reggie will give you a hand with that;)

Username John

lakill Farm wrote: »

all welcome to my farm walk any day in the next 2 weeks,

I have a bit of turf to foot and an acre of stones to pick

I'd laugh if a load o lads showed up, looked at you picking the turf for an hour, all the while commenting on how tough a job it is, and how they don't do it anymore...

Then looked at you picking stones for an hour... again commenting on what a ****e job it is, and how they all min-till now...

And then all fcuked off

Kevhog1988

When is the sheep one on in tullamore?

patsy_mccabe

_Brian wrote: »

Never been on a farm walk in my life and have seen a few advertised I thought would be interesting.

So, is it open season for anyone to rock up or do you need to be a member of the association organising it.

It's bring your own beer though.

Username John

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

It's bring your own beer though.

Sometimes lads are funny about drinking on the walk...

Best to just horse a hape o cans into yourself right before you join the walk...

Edit : although sure isn't everyone happy with bottles of buckfast, isn't it made by monks... yeah, buckfast is what you need for the walk _Brian...
Let us know how it goes

joeyboy12345

Thursday july 6th teagasc calf to beef farm walk @2 and 6pm in tulsk co. Roscommon

tractorporn

Check out @teagasc's Tweet: https://twitter.com/teagasc/status/872442540007583744?s=09

Teagasc sheep walks around the country.

darragh_haven

Moorepark is on next week. Is there anything else of interest on in the next month

cacs

darragh_haven wrote: »

Moorepark is on next week. Is there anything else of interest on in the next month

Did anyone go to the irish grass land association day in kells last week i would have liked to have gone on the farm walk

Keepgrowing

darragh_haven wrote: »

Moorepark is on next week. Is there anything else of interest on in the next month

24th July IGA Dairy Summer tour. It's in Carlow and KK, meet Gowran Park. You'll need to book.

mf240

Keepgrowing wrote: »

24th July IGA Dairy Summer tour. It's in Carlow and KK, meet Gowran Park. You'll need to book.

Don't forget to bring your packed lunch and toilet roll.

Grassisgold

There is a really good walkcoming up on july 17th. Pure fresian open day near cashel

tractorporn

Heading to the Teagasc organic farm walk tomorrow in Cork. There's another one next week in Galway both hort places

Keepgrowing

mf240 wrote: »

Don't forget to bring your packed lunch and toilet roll.

???

Keepgrowing

https://twitter.com/irishgrassland/status/880909182593093632

RobinBanks

Calf to Beef Farm Walk

6 July 2017
Event Time 2pm & 6.30pm
Venue Farm of Christy Dowd, Tulsk, Co. Roscommon

A Calf to Beef Farm will take place on the farm of Christy Dowd, Tulsk, Co Roscommon on Thursday, 6th July as part of the Teagasc GreenAcres Programme. There will be a walk at 2pm and again at 6.30pm. Topics covered at the event will include Angus/Hereford Heifers and Friesian Steer Systems. We look forward to seeing you on the day.

bogman_bass

Anybody going to the IHFA field day tomorrow?

stanflt

bogman_bass wrote: »

Anybody going to the IHFA field day tomorrow?

Yeah I'm going

visatorro

stanflt wrote: »

Yeah I'm going

Always feckin working when these outings are on.

Farmer_3650

Farm walk on Farmers Journal Suckler Farm in Tullamore on Tuesday 25 July @ 1 pm and 7pm

It should be interesting and I am looking forward to it.

tractorporn

Lads does anyone know of any national event's for the knowledge transfer coming up? Wouldn't mind doing two this time around. I had a quick scout on Google but couldn't come up with a register of national event's.