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Doctors room ghost · 15-04-2020 08:07AM

The turf is cut.sad face.
That is all.

Parishlad · 15-04-2020 10:20AM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Can anyone tell me what the very bright light is in the low western sky for the last few weeks? It looks like 2 lights very close together.

Thanks patsy. You saved me having to ask! Was wondering what it was myself for the last couple of weeks.

longgonesilver · 15-04-2020 10:43AM

carrollsno1 wrote: »

Rang a local farmstore last week enquiring about seed potatos and was told none available i asked about other branches (different type of store same company) she said they cant sell it so i asked her is it a case of ye having it but not selling it as its not essential and she said thsts it exactly.

Try for these again or get someone with an account to try. They are for food production. Local garden centre never seemed to close.

Lime Tree Farm · 15-04-2020 11:38AM

_Brian wrote: »

My daughter has more than two years full stamps from work but is two months shy of 18 so can’t claim it, her peers at work are all receiving it.

Brian. Your daughter should appeal this.

There are some tweaks to eligibility being announced later on today, according to Richard Bruton

_Brian · 15-04-2020 03:29PM

Lime Tree Farm wrote: »

Brian. Your daughter should appeal this.

There are some tweaks to eligibility being announced later on today, according to Richard Bruton

I must look at that.

whelan2 · 15-04-2020 05:42PM

I'd love a pint of Heineken in a pub.

patsy_mccabe · 15-04-2020 06:38PM

whelan2 wrote: »

I'd love a pint of Heineken in a pub.

I have a pint of Guinness here the odd night. Very important to put the glass in the fridge for a while beforehand. Pouring has to be right too. Hhmmm !

bogman_bass · 16-04-2020 08:09AM

Nekarsulm wrote: »

8000 pigs? What age/weight?
That's some load considering an artic holds about 250 at factory weight...

That I don’t know but there were 3 levels of them. My guess is they were coming in for a breeding program. It’s the only way you could justify the cost

3 levels of them all individually crated and had to be loaded then into standard artics loose so there was hours of work to unload them.

longgonesilver · 16-04-2020 09:53AM

I would have thought that embryo or semen imports would be cheaper and safer. Especially with the rapid breeding turnaround attainable in pigs.

Hope they are vastly genetically superior.

Say my name · 16-04-2020 10:39AM

longgonesilver wrote: »

I would have thought that embryo or semen imports would be cheaper and safer. Especially with the rapid breeding turnaround attainable in pigs.

Hope they are vastly genetically superior.

Ah shur with all the checks on ports and airports now and normal transport disrupted. The Kinahans had to bring their drugs in some other way!..

That plane full of pigs makes zero sense to me.

ganmo · 16-04-2020 10:54AM

The only way it makes sense is if the breeding centre was depopulated for some reason.
8000 pigs is a lot of pigs for Irish farms

longgonesilver · 16-04-2020 10:55AM

Doesn't make much sense to me either. I would guess that you could get a much lower price now for air freight transport but with quarantine procedures there was a lead in time of months in that pig shipment, unless with the nature of pig housing and segregation that quarantine was applied retrospectively.

longgonesilver · 16-04-2020 11:06AM

There was a time we were supposed to be world leaders in pig genetics. Maybe we are falling behind.

With the big rise in pig prices to supply China and trade embargoes between USA and China, maybe the economics became attractive.

Base price · 16-04-2020 02:51PM

I posted it in the Glas thread but in case people miss it.

DAFM is issuing the balancing 15% payment (a month early) at the end of this week.

https://www.farmersjournal.ie/26m-in-glas-payments-brought-forward-540580

CHOPS01 · 16-04-2020 07:32PM

Have noticed an awful lot of black droppings on the back lawn here over the last week. Would it be from badgers ?
If it is, is it safe for the kids to be playing out there ?

Dinzee Conlee · 16-04-2020 08:21PM

Is everyone else having issues loading the page on the touch site today?

It’s doing that thing of loading the old threads for me, but even reloading the page doesn’t sort it... Takes a good few goes to load properly...

Birdnuts · 16-04-2020 09:19PM

CHOPS01 wrote: »

Have noticed an awful lot of black droppings on the back lawn here over the last week. Would it be from badgers ?
If it is, is it safe for the kids to be playing out there ?

Rabbits??

Water John · 16-04-2020 09:28PM

I had holes in the lawn this time last year. Wondering what was doing it until early one morning I see hares having fun. Lovely animal.
Wouldn't like if it was badgers, but they would only be there to eat slugs.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 16-04-2020 09:30PM

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

Is everyone else having issues loading the page on the touch site today?

It’s doing that thing of loading the old threads for me, but even reloading the page doesn’t sort it... Takes a good few goes to load properly...

Yeah, servers under pressure with the Coronavirus forum getting tonnes of views in the last few weeks.

Sorry about that but we'll have to put up with it for a while yet while the IT guys try to find out where the glitches are happening.

CHOPS01 · 16-04-2020 10:13PM

Birdnuts wrote: »

Rabbits??

Haven't seen any around

I says · 16-04-2020 10:40PM

Who is the name of Christ is mentioning turf at this time of the year

Lime Tree Farm · 16-04-2020 10:55PM

Glorious sunsets the past few evenings - I am surprised how far north they are on the horizon for April, usually see sunset in the south west sky not the north west at this time of the year.

Water John · 16-04-2020 11:11PM

You must have moved. Used you live on the Faroe Islands?

Lime Tree Farm · 17-04-2020 07:02AM

Water John wrote: »

You must have moved. Used you live on the Faroe Islands?

Maybe I am being transported back in time to "The Thirteen Towers solar observatory of Chankillo in Peru."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQnSqJ7jGmI

davidk1394 · 17-04-2020 08:31AM

I'm sure it's been mentioned, but whats the story with the old threads ?

whelan2 · 17-04-2020 09:31AM

Not sure if it has been mentioned in farming and forestry but the outcry over feelings bringing in the fruit pickers. Fruit picking is below alot of Irish people.

whelan2 · 17-04-2020 09:32AM

davidk1394 wrote: »

I'm sure it's been mentioned, but whats the story with the old threads ?

It's the gremlins in the background

_Brian · 17-04-2020 09:39AM

whelan2 wrote: »

Not sure if it has been mentioned in farming and forestry but the outcry over feelings bringing in the fruit pickers. Fruit picking is below alot of Irish people.

Saw a keelings statement online that these are workers who they have been working with for years.

These are likely minimum wage jobs with accommodation charged for meaning they are less than minimum wage jobs. Nobody in Ireland is going to do this work. I saw lots of comments about students being off etc but they have no transport where these workers will likely live onsite and work long hours when the crop is ready.

whelan2 · 17-04-2020 09:42AM

_Brian wrote: »

Saw a keelings statement online that these are workers who they have been working with for years.

These are likely minimum wage jobs with accommodation charged for meaning they are less than minimum wage jobs. Nobody in Ireland is going to do this work. I saw lots of comments about students being off etc but they have no transport where these workers will likely live onsite and work long hours when the crop is ready.

I dont think Irish students would do the work either tbh

_Brian · 17-04-2020 09:51AM

whelan2 wrote: »

I dont think Irish students would do the work either tbh

Not many would to be honest.
Lots of people up on their high horse over this but truth is irish people don’t want to do jobs that they see as beneath them.

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