Gawddawggonnit wrote: » An elderly man and his nephew turned up last night. He owns 10.1ha piece of a field that I’ve rented rented off him on an 18yr revolving lease. The nephew obviously wanted it sold so I obliged and bought it. Good deep land and now I own the field in total. Any guess on price?
MF290 wrote: » 60000?
yewtree wrote: » cumulative cash flow is the net cash flow combined over a number of years. net cash flow relates only to one year. that is how I understand it anyway.
Icelandicseige wrote: » What is the difference between net cash flow and cumulative net cash flow?
kevthegaff wrote: » Anyone have an office in the farm, one thing I'd like in the long run, have an attic above the dairy I'm thinking of going at in the future, kettle, paperwork, wifi etc
Henwin wrote: » we have an ice bank for cooling the milk and as the water froze in the well, the ice bank burnt out, now id say its fair pricy to replace so we rang up fbd today and the said they only cover in the event of fire, flood or storm and this wont be insured, anyone else have experience of anything similar? could i say that it was a snow storm that was the cause of it breaking down
kevthegaff wrote: » I'm in a v rural area where if electricity goes it will be days to return, while mahoney is located in a more populated area. If I were him I'd be less in a rush for a Genny as power will be restored v quickly. Buying one myself when funds alloy as the other one blew up during the last storm
Gawddawggonnit wrote: » Jeep, quad, ski holiday...etc etc.
mahoney_j wrote: » Agree but all these 2/3/4 k spends all add up on a typical Irish dairy farm where scale may not be there for a spend on something used only now and again
Gawddawggonnit wrote: » +1000 . Any half decent genny €3-4K Space heater for parlor €2/3K Thinking that extreme weather events are only once every 30-40yrs is not facing reality. It’s the events that come out of left field that always get you.
darragh_haven wrote: » Its hard to put a price on something to reduce stress. People would be going on about a generator costing 3 grand, and the money could be used buying in-calf heifers (or anything). But its worth 10 times that if it reduces stress when the time comes that its needed.
wrangler wrote: » I built a new shed in the eighties for 90 calves and went by all the advice, same thing as you a whole lot perished. an adviser came from kerry Coop as we were using bloom at the time, told us to put canopies around the wall about 4ft high and 4ft out from the wall and solved the whole lot.....why couldn't Teagasc or whatever they were called at the time have told us that, all they said was ventilation, ventilation and more ventilation. It was so obvious after, they'd lie out away from the canopy on the warm days and go in under the canopies on the cold nights. Water under the bridge now, but I know what you're going through. Look after yourself anyway
Keepgrowing wrote: » whelan2 wrote: » Cow euthanized. Womb ruptured when vet calving her. Didn't get calf out either Whelan, it's been a tough week a real bastard for man and beast. The best of run places had losses this week that they wouldn't normally encounter. We have top notch facilities and have a shed of 45 bull calves get a serious chill the night before the snow despite our best efforts. All calves got 4 litres of beastings at birth were on adlib milk in a brand new shed and 2-3 weeks old. Wind just chilled them. We've been keeping the worst of them under lights and in our little hospital since. The lads who take care of them are gone home till 3.30 so I made a call, rang knacker and he's just left with the nine of them. It fookin killed me, I'm sitting in our little farm canteen not able to go home for a bit of grub I'm so upset. The other side is that the time they were taking was compromising the attention to the others. Since the warning was issued nobody has called to collect calves as they normally would do we're chocka and I'm concerned that this could have a knock on effect. I've guys coming in the morning to collect calves. Bvds I've posted I've no doubt haven't made Enfer or if they did they're closed till Monday ensuring a further delay. We've had 63 calvings up to midnight last night since this shyte began and this is testing us. I have to say we have great staff with one guy travelling 15 miles every morning and collecting a colleague on the way. Despite this they both have been here 1 hour early every morning since Wed to keep the wheels turning. Lift you head everyone we're all in the same boat and things will improve sooner than later. Just for perspective the morning after the storm we had to dig a track with the loading shovel for an ambulance to collect a little 11 yo boy whose a class mate of my second lad to get him to hospital. Thankfully all is well. So Fook the calves, cows and frozen pipes for an hour and have a sit down at the fire. I feel better now, rant over
whelan2 wrote: » Cow euthanized. Womb ruptured when vet calving her. Didn't get calf out either
K.G. wrote: » Lorry driver was telling me this morning he had to back out two lanes as lads had done nothing to clear the snow.
