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Farming Chitchat 10/10- Now VIRUS-FREE!

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    #9482
    have2flushtwice
    Registered Users Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭have2flushtwice


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    Imagine Seamus ORourke as John Dutton

    Ive a dodgubox and it's on it.


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    #9483
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,252 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Eir..We're all working from home to protect our workers and our customers from the Covid.
    Just report any faults online where your report will not be logged in over 5 days. Then call us on our phone number so you can wait 45 minutes to be answered by someone with broken English where eventually you may be told your fault has been logged in and to check your page on the website only to see that the fault has not been logged in.

    Virtual telephone pole and virtual phone and broadband line for me so..


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    #9484
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Bord na Mona pull out of peat bedding.
    https://twitter.com/farming_indo/status/1310950970776530946?s=19


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    #9485
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,635 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Bedding plants?:confused:

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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    #9486
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,252 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    blue5000 wrote: »
    Bedding plants?:confused:

    Is to continue and more lucrative.
    Think the stuff for cattle was just using up stockpiles that were for the boilers.

    It'd be bad PR if Mary was on the liveline complaining about no potting compost available for the hanging baskets. Imagine the depression.

    Today's announcement means some in farming and others at the desks can beat their chests and say well done.
    It really only became a thing anyway from BnM when there was surplus stock in the last few years.

    BnM is currently fundraising €1.6bn for climate action measures.

    Money is in the climate game...with appropriate PR.


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    #9487
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    blue5000 wrote: »
    Bedding plants?:confused:

    Probably that too but they're not supplying animal bedding any more according to that article. It's not paywalled, for me anyway?


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    #9488
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »
    Probably that too but they're not supplying animal bedding any more according to that article. It's not paywalled, for me anyway?

    Peat for animal bedding. Nothing said about horticulture / mushroom growing mediums yet.


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    #9489
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    NcdJd wrote: »
    Peat for animal bedding. Nothing said about horticulture / mushroom growing mediums yet.

    I'd say that can't be far away either, tbh. Is there any research done on any other mediums for bedding plants, I wonder?


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    #9490
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,252 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »
    I'd say that can't be far away either, tbh. Is there any research done on any other mediums for bedding plants, I wonder?

    Nothing about the peat briquette and fuel division either.

    Today's announcement was to get money over the line from the cattle haters.


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    #9491
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »
    I'd say that can't be far away either, tbh. Is there any research done on any other mediums for bedding plants, I wonder?

    There is research ongoing but more dilution of peat with other materials such as compost etc. It's going to be very hard to replace it. There's some info here. Read it last year but haven't heard anything since. Problem with the likes of compost is that you don't know what's in it. Its not consistant ph or nutrient wise whearas peat has a consistent ph and does not contain high levels of nutrients.

    Going to be very hard to replace it, peat is a perfect growing medium.

    https://www.chg.gov.ie/app/uploads/2019/10/correct-english-peat-in-horticulture.pdf


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    #9492
    ruwithme
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭ruwithme


    Is it peat that's commonly used now in broiler houses? Would be alot of it used in ayear around the country


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    #9493
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,252 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    These new fangled car bingo's are some craic.

    You could be jotting down your card from a mile away.


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    #9494
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    I think i've reached the end of the internet road this evening. Spent the last 20 minutes watching you tube videos of talking parrots. All because of a story on the rte news site of a group of five bad mouthed parrots that had to be seperated from each other over in some zoo in the UK for telling visitors to fq off.


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    #9495
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Say my name wrote: »
    These new fangled car bingo's are some craic.

    You could be jotting down your card from a mile away.

    Online bingo?


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    #9496
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,252 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    NcdJd wrote: »
    I think i've reached the end of the internet road this evening. Spent the last 20 minutes watching you tube videos of talking parrots. All because of a story on the rte news site of a group of five bad mouthed parrots that had to be seperated from each other over in some zoo in the UK for telling visitors to fq off.

    Look up the OffTheRanch youtube poster.


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    #9497
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,252 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    NcdJd wrote: »
    Online bingo?

    Local drive in bingo on the soccer pitch.
    It's done over a loud speaker and then anyone who was a full line or house blows the car horn.
    Yes or no questions are also answered via the car horn individually or collectively. :p


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    #9498
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Say my name wrote: »
    Local drive in bingo on the soccer pitch.
    It's done over a loud speaker and then anyone who was a full line or house blows the car horn.
    Yes or no questions are also answered via the car horn individually or collectively. :p

    Sounds like a good laugh.


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    #9499
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Say my name wrote: »
    Look up the OffTheRanch youtube poster.

    Have done a couple of road trips over in the states over the years, often seen lovely properties advertised for very little money.


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    #9500
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,685 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    One for "Say my name"

    I'm watching the British Bake off, and one of the participants is using Edible Charcoal Dough.


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    #9501
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Haha this could be good. Looking online at that charcoal dough. Looks to be some new detox craze, if you could call it that. A friend of mine does all sorts of detoxes and juicing regimes. He was mad into the wheat grass at one stage. Now he's down picking up beetroot from me. I always give him the big old ones as i think its a waste of good beetroot if he's just going to bloody juice them. Wouldnt mind anytime I'm out for a few pints with him he goes and orders a big dirty chinese takeaway after the skinfull of pints. Then a couple of days later goes back on his juice detox. Can't make it out.


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    #9502
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,685 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Special-Ingredients-Activated-Charcoal-Coconut/dp/B072VHMVTF


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    #9503
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,252 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Lime Tree Farm wrote: »
    One for "Say my name"

    I'm watching the British Bake off, and one of the participants is using Edible Charcoal Dough.

    Just caught the very end of it.
    Was that the coffee one?

    Bread is made with charcoal now too. It looks completely abnormal though eating a black bread.


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    #9504
    _Brian
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    Don’t they use it in toothpaste too ??


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    #9505
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,522 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    American presidential debate was as expected last night. Bickering between two old men.
    Both sides will claim the cane out on top but neither really did.

    Probably ageist of me to say maybe they’re both too old to be running for a four year term in such a high profile job.

    Could see Trump had a deliberate process to constantly interrupt Biden to try and break his concentration. I’d say in some ways it worked.

    Think the presenter needs a button to mute speakers and actually allow the other get a point across.


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    #9506
    Odelay
    Registered Users Posts: 3,812 ✭✭✭Odelay


    _Brian wrote: »
    American presidential debate was as expected last night. Bickering between two old men.
    Both sides will claim the cane out on top but neither really did.

    Probably ageist of me to say maybe they’re both too old to be running for a four year term in such a high profile job.

    Could see Trump had a deliberate process to constantly interrupt Biden to try and break his concentration. I’d say in some ways it worked.

    Think the presenter needs a button to mute speakers and actually allow the other get a point across.


    I think they both came out of it badly. I’m amazed at Biden, is this the very best they could find to put up against Trump? No one better available??


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    #9507
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,199 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Odelay wrote: »
    I’m amazed at Biden, is this the very best they could find to put up against Trump? No one better available??

    No one better, younger, and still rich enough .....


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    #9508
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,522 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Odelay wrote: »
    I think they both came out of it badly. I’m amazed at Biden, is this the very best they could find to put up against Trump? No one better available??

    That’s what I thought.

    But then I’d say there are actually very few voters to be swayed by the campaign. Trump voters will vote trump, anti trump voters would vote for anyone put up against trump.


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    #9509
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,186 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    The stocking rate for dairy cows (2 to the hectare) is to be reduced to 1.91 or increased from 85kgs to 89kgs per cow. It is believed that the new rates will come into effect next year.
    https://www.farmersjournal.ie/minister-confirms-increase-of-dairy-cow-excretion-figure-574208


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    #9510
    Siamsa Sessions
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,698 Mod ✭✭✭✭Siamsa Sessions


    Base price wrote: »
    The stocking rate for dairy cows (2 to the hectare) is to be reduced to 1.91 or increased from 85kgs to 89kgs per cow. It is believed that the new rates will come into effect next year.
    https://www.farmersjournal.ie/minister-confirms-increase-of-dairy-cow-excretion-figure-574208

    "Minister McConalogue said farmers could comply with limits by reducing stock numbers, exporting slurry or renting extra land."

    Trading as Sullivan’s Farm on YouTube



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    #9511
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,388 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Siamsa Sessions wrote: »
    "Minister McConalogue said farmers could comply with limits by reducing stock numbers, exporting slurry or renting extra land."

    Savage agri minister there


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