Fields with rotten bales in them

arctictree

I see this all around me here. Fields with rotten bales just sitting in the rain for months. One a few miles from me beside a river with the bales yesterday in 3 feet of water. Whats the craic with this, could they not be bothered bringing them in? Surley they are worthless now...

emaherx

Field of bales beside me the same, they are totally worthless now. Always some somewhere every year, can't understand it myself and they were hard enough made this year.

lmk123

Just people being bone idle

Lime Tree Farm

I see one beside me, a nephew inherited, ploughed up the meadow getting them out. Looking at the clip of the field, I'd say he had to seek assistance to pull him out of it.

893bet

See one lad caught local. Weather came bad the day or after he baled. Sitting there since. Needs a little run of good weather

Not everyone is full time farming sitting there with the bale handler to move them as Contractor bales. **** crows do some damage I fine of you don’t get them off the same day.

emaherx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121271278#Comment_121271278

The ones I seen, need the nets cut of them and allowed to compost fully at this stage. No run of good weather will save them. Would have been worth a few tracks in the fields to save them and I doubt they'd have marked too bad anyway.

Silverdream

Madness when you factoring the cost of making bales. I see it around me too, a stack of over 100 silage bales left in the corner of a neighbors field with 5 years. But its all down to the person, same fella his yard is like a tip with plastic thrown everywhere, broken down machinery not fixed etc, you get the picture. I'd say he has depression as he never has much will to do anything, then again the Devil makes work for the idle hand.

RockOrBog

The wildlife people here will buy any amount of rotten bales to create habitats

Say my name

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121287664#Comment_121287664

Forage and nutrients before it goes into a cow. Good.

Forage and nutrients after it goes through a cow. Bad.

Some joke. Isn't it. There is a spot here where I left half a bale of silage for stock in the summer and there's a foot of grass there now where the bale was.

Maybe we should start a campaign for derogation for such practices. What goes for the goose and all that.

RockOrBog

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121287747#Comment_121287747

The same people will wipe out fox populations in an area and try to trap crows and magpies. Because some wildlife are more important than others.

Say my name

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121287992#Comment_121287992

I'd kind of agree with that.

The nature and diversity they are trying to bring back are what was there in our youth. And that came around from humans being the apex predator and hunting and shooting those species out every weekend. When we stopped or took other pursuits the smaller species suffered or risked extinction when the fox, crow, magpies became more prolific again.

However by doing such intervention would need acknowledgement that the lessor species were only there years ago because of this hunting by humans. Nature based and wildlife advocacy groups don't really advertise they need these human boots and guns or traps on the ground.

grange mac

Trying to source some straw, extremely difficult to locate at present. 3 different hauliers who would normally have it saying cannot be got.

One guy now saying have to travel further this year so looking at 47 per round bale.

Soo guys leaving bales rotting in fields are losing out this year.

Siamsa Sessions

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121288209#Comment_121288209

The interventionistas in the environmental lobby are so removed from nature they think there's straight lines everywhere. No interconnections and no knock-on effects only whatever fluffy bunnies pics they imagine in their mind.

Similar to the bales good, bales bad example: Eamon Ryan told the IFJ months ago that grass would still be needed for anaerobic digesters when those farmers eventually got rid of their cows. So again, grass for AD = good, but grass for cows = bad.

The danger is civil servants, TDs, and the media are that far away from productive/real industries like agri-food, they start to believe there's something to what the likes of Eamon Ryan is saying.

wrangler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121289133#Comment_121289133

Anyone that baled after the combine this year just had a bale of wet straw, I paid €35/bale for really good straw, it was last years straw and really good,

Better to rot in the field than the shed

Aravo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121289881#Comment_121289881

True, it has been a very tough year on tillage farmers. Although, anyone that has barley/oats and or straw that was harvested first week in Sept would have pretty decent goods.

Wrangler I presume you paid e35 this year for the good quality bales from 2022. Last year those same bales would have been half the price. Just shows the weather impacts.

White Clover

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121290612#Comment_121290612

The quality of the straw may be ok but an awful lot of the grain this year was of average quality. We shouldn’t be expecting massive weight gains in stock from it.

wrangler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121290612#Comment_121290612

Yea, I paid €17 last year for good bales, Delivery was included at €35 this year,

DBK1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121290657#Comment_121290657

2 different men in the last few weeks have told me of ration they bought for finishing cattle heating and going mouldy in the trailer from 2 different suppliers. That doesn’t give much hope for weight gain from it.

green daries

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121289759#Comment_121289759

Thats the most sensible post on boards for quite a long time . The shame of it Is the message contained within, farming as a lively hood is in extreme danger of being wiped out in this country if they get there way.