Burning Tires wrote: » A lot of people over on twitter got very animated about this article, but it had some good points that some found was too close to the bone. . Agri lands response to question was very childish tho, and insulting.
carrollsno1 wrote: » Not on twitter, what was the response? The article contradicted itself at one point by saying "grass was the only way to profit" and went on to state immediately afterwards that dairy farmers couldnt grow grass this year lucky all the beef abd sheep farmers are able to on a year like this. Agriland is starting go down the road of thatsfarming by the looks of it.
trixi2011 wrote: » What price is straw over with you ? Bed 100 cows on straw here and looking like it's going to be very hard found
Burning Tires wrote: » I dont follow either of them anymore tbh, very little good content in either. There was a point made that they were championing dairying for the last few years and now berating it. Agriland said it was a news porthole and added some smarmy commets, even referenced one guys partner. Gutter responses from the "journalist"
mahoney_j wrote: » Christ I think some are blowing this out of all proportion ,it was a good article with some hard truths and content which some dairy farmers may not of liked was talking to a neighbour who read it and also some of the comments and he who is also a dairy farmer replied that a lot of is dairy farmers are turning into a very precious bunch .....
Reggie. wrote: » That I agree. A local dairy farmer fired a digging contractor for driving over tge grass in a paddock. The cattle were in the paddock grazing at the time and he went mental that he destroyed the grass. He was in his jeep at the time just driving over to his digger. Now that's riduclious behaviour. A few others are getting as bad. Someone is pushing the agenda of rolling is evil too. You wanna see the stones fly out of the topper yesterday on a farmers reseed as he refused to roll afterwards. The basics seem to be lost on some lads
K.G. wrote: » Milking cows dosnt makes a fella an asshole,he usally one before he starts
yewtree wrote: » Ah here dairy expansion has nothing to do with that. That lad is ignorant. Spent summers driving tractors and all sizes of farmers can be pig ignorant. There is no one saying don't roll, read anything written by teagasc after reseed and it will tell you to roll the fields.
Reggie. wrote: » This is true but I've met lads that became that way the more land they bought. Big man syndrome
whelan2 wrote: » It doesn't just apply to farmers though..
Gawddawggonnit wrote: » Gobshytes just left a freshly calved cow and her calf into a 29ha field of maize...the field is bordering a very busy national road with no fence whatsoever. IDEAS???? Would a drone find her? The maize is about 4m high.
jaymla627 wrote: » They’re are plenty of tillage farmers out their that are gold-digging, lovely one liner from the iga tour by one of the host farmers, bit ironic seen as how their blowing about how profitable their farms are, some lads need to get over themselves almost a sense of entitlement that tillage farmers shouldn’t be making a few quid out of wholecrop deals and straw sales
mahoney_j wrote: » I heard that comment and it just goes to show how precious some of us dairy farmers have really become and to hear a high profile farmer at a high profile event actually say it just proves it .there was lots here berating agriland yesterday for simillar antics yesterday ,what’s the response to this ??agriland had and made a great point
yewtree wrote: » What exactly was the great point Agriland were making?? The article I read was just looking for attention with no original thought. Summed up by the author stating that the government have done Notting to stop the decline in tillage. The author mustnt know they get the SFP and all the other grants just like the rest of us. I would say bad weather and low global grain prices have more to do with the decline in tillage area. If tillage lads can get €50 a round bale and €2000/acre for whole crop more power to them. It's up to every farmer to run their own business I don't know any dairy farmers looking for handouts from tillage farmers
Reggie. wrote: » I think the general stance out tgere the last while was that you have to be milking or your wasting your time. The bigger milking platform you have the more successful you are seemed to be the way of thinking. Every other type of farming was a side show
whelan2 wrote: » Who gives a fook though? I couldn't care less what the rest of them are at
Mooooo wrote: » What was actually said?
yewtree wrote: » Go on to the IGA twitter account there is a video there where the host farmer is talking about his winter feed. He must have a relationship set up with a tillage farmer where he bought wheat and is going to sow westerwolds. The main point being he would rather have the piece of mind if having feed even if it's on the dear side. The gold digging phrase is said in a spilt second it unsurprisingly has been taken way out of context by a few posters.
