Joining teagasc

DJ98

What are the benefits of joining teagasc?
How much does it cost annually?

anthony500_1

Costs 145e if your under 30ac afaik benefits they will do your bps application but if your on agfood you can do it yourself. If you get a good advisor they can be great but from my own experience, 4 different advisors in 3 years and none of them any good. One lad kept telling me to plant the place....... I've not resupscribed this year

whelan2

I find them great. Planning sheds here at the minute and couldn't do it without them

Cavanjack

whelan2 wrote: »

I find them great. Planning sheds here at the minute and couldn't do it without them

Will they draw up sheds and all for the yearly fee or is that extra?

I says

Diddering <snip> am I allowed say that

Mod note: No!

Buford T. Justice

whelan2

Cavanjack wrote: »

Will they draw up sheds and all for the yearly fee or is that extra?

No planner doing the drawings. It depends on your advisor. We have a good one

Siamsa Sessions

Was with them for two years starting off (2015 and 2016) but didn't re-new since then.

The advisor was a nice guy but we're small sheep farmers in a big dairy area, plus the advisor's background was in beef.

I didn't like the fact that other "services" were extra too, such as filling out a TAMS application which would have cost another 160 Euro. It was grand to have them when we started but couldn't justify the 145 Euro at this stage for what we'd be getting.

kowtow

I've just joined because i felt the adviser needed entertainment.

Going great so far... very bright young adviser, luckily looks as though he has the patience of a saint.

Timmaay

Siamsa Sessions wrote: »

Was with them for two years starting off (2015 and 2016) but didn't re-new since then.

The advisor was a nice guy but we're small sheep farmers in a big dairy area, plus the advisor's background was in beef.

I think this is a fair point, teagasc are great if your farm fits into one of the standard templates, ie grass based dairy, 500ewe sheep etc, and there are a reasonable few other local farmers involved to 1st form a dg, but also to allow the adviser gain experience of several farmers in the same boat. For me I'm a very standard grass based dairy farm, coming from ayr calving to all spring, and the local Teagasc advisor and dg group have been invaluable to me in helping keep me on the straight and narrow, and speed up the transition from what was a completely unsustainable system we were running to the system now that is alot more simpler, lower hours and much more profitable. Teagasc obviously can't take full credit for all that, and I have cherrypicked what I agreed and disagree with, but they certainly have put me 80% on the right path.

dar31

Timmaay wrote: »

I think this is a fair point, teagasc are great if your farm fits into one of the standard templates, ie grass based dairy, 500ewe sheep etc, and there are a reasonable few other local farmers involved to 1st form a dg, but also to allow the adviser gain experience of several farmers in the same boat. For me I'm a very standard grass based dairy farm, coming from ayr calving to all spring, and the local Teagasc advisor and dg group have been invaluable to me in helping keep me on the straight and narrow, and speed up the transition from what was a completely unsustainable system we were running to the system now that is alot more simpler, lower hours and much more profitable. Teagasc obviously can't take full credit for all that, and I have cherrypicked what I agreed and disagree with, but they certainly have put me 80% on the right path.

I think your discussion group needs a lot more credit;);):D

Buford T. Justice XIX

I joined a good few years back, mainly after meeting the guy who would be my advisor and agreeing what we would be focusing on. Had a great 6 months before his contract was let lapse, he really knew where to focus with me whereas his replacement was strictly by the book, grand but not an idea where I was coming from.

My advise is to go and meet the person you will be dealing with and see if you both agree and understand where you need to be focusing. Other than that, I think you are wasting your time and money.

yewtree

It's the relationship with the advisor that makes or breaks it.
If you have a different advisor every year it's probably not going to be a great experience.
With them since 09 and my dad has been involved with them in one form of another for 40 years.
Will always be with them as their core principles have make a big difference to the farm.
Also like the idea that they aren't trying to sell me anything

Timmaay

+1000 to the idea that they aren't selling you anything, had a chap who use to sell me decent bit of vet supplies who I'd built up a reasonable working relationship randomly come into me a yr after he left them, now a keelan rep, and my God did he try well to sell me the whole tmr idea, I'll give him credit he could talk the talk, but thankfully I'd enough skin in the game to read through him quick.