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Dairy chit chat II
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Gawddawggonnit wrote: »Headscoops and dairy expansion pornography...
Tell us more.
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Back now to farmers learning from and helping each other.0 -
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Gawddawggonnit wrote: »You’re not growing 16t+ dm of grass on those units Chief...last time I looked 90-120 unitsN are for first cut....
Anyone that says they can grow 16t dm of monoculture grass on 100uN is a liar.
Spoke to Boss yesterday, as already mentioned, about fert. The Eu are putting pressure on Irish Gov to put pcs numbers on fert, so as to be able to account for exactly how much fert actually reaches the shores of Ireland...nobody knows! Porous border and zero accounting of fert will not be allowed to carry on. The dogs on the street know that any farmer can buy as much fert as they like and get it invoiced as...whatever.
Water quality is going the wrong way. Emissions likewise.
Whether official Ireland, through successive governments, continue to ignore (or even be complicit) in the state of the environment, won’t wash in the 21st century.
Example. The boss told me that there’s a pic of slurry almost overflowing on Thursdays IFJ. Land is saturated and can’t be spread...fair enough. We were allowed spread from the 10th Jan and this is now put back to 1st Feb. Next year this could changed again...if I need to build more storage, I’ve no recourse to Tams for these works.
Water quality is going the right way. Fert usage is in free fall due to législation etc., in France. Yields are still rising..
Eu bureaucrats are mostly French. Those boxtickers WILL wade into Ireland and fix your ‘issues’ if the Irish gov don’t.
Something tells me that it’ll take severe pressure from the Eu for some positive action to be taken. There’s no point in farmers, farm organizations and politicians putting their backs up and shouting about the perfect environment that exists atm. Greenwashing (potty mouth me) only fools people for a while...
Farmers/agriculture are NOT totally to blame in this mess. Gov/local authorities are every bit as culpable.
Farmers can continue with their head in the sand shouting silly soundbites from page x in the IFJ/Agriland etc, or get proactive and actually do something!
I’ve mentioned before how closely watched Ireland is now since dairy expansion has exploded, and this will get more demanding going forward. That is inevitable...
As I’ve said before about N, there is another way...funny nobody has asked.
There was something in the Farming Indo just before the holidays about teagasc looking to hire 20 water quality experts to help sort the problems you outline above. Late in the day I know but maybe finally the penny is starting to drop??
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There was something in the Farming Indo just before the holidays about teagasc looking to hire 20 water quality experts to help sort the problems you outline above. Late in the day I know but maybe finally the penny is starting to drop??
Holland is the test subject that we should be looking at, the EU pulled the rug out from under their dairy industry literally overnight, a fortune was spent by Dutch farmers in anticipation of quotas going on the assumption they could increases cow numbers at their will once they adhered to the current regulations at the time......
The grass mafia can blow about grazed grass and its green image till the cows come home the reality is further down the line your going to need 9000 litre/650kgs ms plus cows to make a living simply because nitrates/phosphorus limits our whatever other instrument Brussels thinks up simply won't allow high stocking rates, so production per cow will be vital0 -
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Gawddawggonnit wrote: »Virtual mars bar if anyone can guess what this fella was at yesterday (other than stirring sh1t)
Testing for fluke?0
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