Farming Chit Chat sticks it to six.

whelan2 wrote: »

Is the icbf levy optional now?

Think on advice from here, I wrote to them asking to remove

Just re the raw milk and allergies.i was raised on raw milk until College and unfortunately have allergies .not really bad but would deff feel it when the pollen counts high. Had a couple of miserable boutsdeff didn't live in a overly sterilised environment either-my dads fav expression with not a hint of irony is that" that's clean dirt".I've yet to really figure out what dirty dirt is....
I would have been on a lot of antibiotics as a kid thou!!

Kovu wrote: »

It's a big thing in America to feed raw milk to kids if they have asthma. There are studies, one of which says
but I'd take some of those statistics with a pinch of salt, a lot appear to be published with a singular aim in mind.

That new European study is actually quite an interesting one - for the following reason..

Previously the raw milk brigade have held that raw milk reduces allergies, improves heart condition ('good cholesterol') and generally has a whole pile of health benefits. The dairy industry have been strongly against this, understandably, as they are the ones with the pasteuriser homogeniser units.

So while those who work with raw milk have sort of always 'known' that homogenising & heat denatures the milk and makes real changes, it's been very difficult to prove the effects. All the previous studies which show that raw milk drinkers have less allergies have been debunked by the dairy industry on the basis that the subjects were often farm children and as a result were a selective sample - they were already exposed to a much wider range of bacteria than urban kids and therefore had stronger immune systems.

But the study you refer to went a bit further - they used raw, boiled, and pasteurised milk and were able to be much more statistically robust. What they appear to have found are some real health benefits in raw milk which are partially present in boiled milk, and disappear entirely once the milk is pasteurised and homogenised.

I've only seen a summary of the report so far but will read it in detail in due course - but at the moment it seems to be the first solid statistical evidence for those hipsters among us who still like to drink it straight from the tank.

Or the cow, providing that the 'ould knees are still up to it.

Well done to Northern Ireland on beating Ukraine

Base price wrote: »

Yes.
However I always email myself a copy of the movement cert and keep them in a folder marked "compliance certs" on the laptop and back up onto a pen drive.

Thank you.

whelan2 wrote: »

German , tech graphics and wood work. How did you get on?

Ya everything went as expected . Irish \english alright ,maths /geography decent etc. French was really easy I have to say . happy enough now that its over. Glad I wasn't worrying like some people, it would of been a waste of time.