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Question for Dairy Farmers

  • 10-07-2020 12:07pm
    #1
    Icelandicseige
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 452 ✭✭


    Question mainly for Dairy Farmers.
    Would you be interested in paying a contractor to come in twice or three times a year to clip tails and freeze brands while you milk and could Spray all under electric fence and Roadways thereafter. Contractor would bring all equipment except spray Would it be of benefit to Large dairy farmers in particular? Cut down on labour needed? How much would be willing to pay for such an arrangement? Thanks.

    Could also work in this arrangement for vaccination


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  • #2
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,046 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Just my two cents on a part of that.

    I'd say you could knock that spraying under fences on the head. I actually think that's not allowed atm in legislation on field boundaries. It's just the authorities are not pursuing it.
    Also with increased testing of ground water I wouldn't be trying to base a business on it. Teagasc have groundwater borehole sites in Ballycarney and Kilmuckridge and traces of ag herbicides and pesticides are in these years from when they were applied.
    You'd be better looking at those fingerbar type hedgecutters for under wires and then you have the option of doing garden hedges if your tractor (a garden tractor would do) could have access.
    Now farmer buy in might be a bit different.


  • #3
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,046 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Say my name wrote: »
    Just my two cents on a part of that.

    I'd say you could knock that spraying under fences on the head. I actually think that's not allowed atm in legislation on field boundaries. It's just the authorities are not pursuing it.
    Also with increased testing of ground water I wouldn't be trying to base a business on it. Teagasc have groundwater borehole sites in Ballycarney and Kilmuckridge and traces of ag herbicides and pesticides are in these years from when they were applied.
    You'd be better looking at those fingerbar type hedgecutters for under wires and then you have the option of doing garden hedges if your tractor (a garden tractor would do) could have access.
    Now farmer buy in might be a bit different.

    I couldn't find this at the time to include with the post.

    https://twitter.com/TeagascEnviron/status/1281138717172871170?s=20


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