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Climate change protest

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,386 ✭✭✭alps


    Blocking city folk would be the ultimate in stupidity.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭minerleague


    Have to agree with most on here, but begs the question how do farmers get their point across that won't be ignored??



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,736 ✭✭✭Finty Lemon


    That is an excellent idea. Sell prime beef at 50c a kilo. And milk for 8 cent a litre. How much for 1kg spuds?

    That would put a few people thinking.

    Definitely better than parking a Fendt Vario on Dawson Street!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 879 ✭✭✭Pinsnbushings


    Any produce not sold could be given to homeless charities etc in the lead up to Christmas.. agree that some positive pr is badly needed, lads sitting on 50k bps payments driving brand new tractors up the street is getting old and pisses off other farmers not to talk of the general public...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,264 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    the last few comments are bang on the money that sort of thing will get social media and joe public on board. IFA are a disaster



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,881 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    Very Idealistic, but I never saw a protest as a show to impress the public, they don't care about anyone only themselves. the lack of consideration with Covid proved that

    More so to spur the authorities into discussion, IFA have been trying to get a proper discussion for years

    Air travel will increase by 50%+ by 2030, why should we be the fall guy for that, Government and the lazy civil service have to give proper consideration to how much carbon is really fixed by Irisih Agriculture and not use makey up figures from years ago.

    Anyway if not enough farmers are bothered on the 21st then the pressure will be off the government....... and the IFA .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,881 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    There's actually a program on RTE1 that highlights my last post As usual the lazy civil service is late to the party



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 20,094 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Is it 30th Nov for this protest??



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,881 ✭✭✭✭wrangler




  • Posts: 15,801 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Asking for balance and fairness yet not willing to contribute a fair share of emission reduction

    You couldn't make it up



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 879 ✭✭✭Pinsnbushings


    I shouldnt bother biting, but you have a hell of a chip on your shoulder against farmers, you have poisoned the other thread now you are starting here..

    If you read the posts in this thread not every farmer is throwing there toys out of the pram. Farmers always have and always will make more than a fair contribution to society.



  • Posts: 15,801 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    you have poisoned the other thread

    I disagreed with the nonsense nothing more

    Here, I have pointed out the hypocrisy of the IFA, nothing more



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭cute geoge


    I agree 100 % with protest but with rising covid numbers ,I am not going !!Like I would have to spend 8 hours round trip on a bus and then mix with others the chances of catching covid is too high for me .Will it go ahead if we have high no.of cases all next week



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,759 ✭✭✭✭John_Rambo


    I'd be careful about blocking up Dublin City, or rather the roads in to the city. The only people harmed the last time was commuters travelling in and out of the city. I walked by the protest for a meeting at 7am the last time. The city was wide awake and on the move for over an hour at this stage, people were walking by the tractors with their coffees looking bemused at most of the farmers who were fast asleep with a tinge of booze in the air. The minister came out at 7.30 and there was a desparate scramble to meet him.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,386 ✭✭✭alps


    Won't be blocked. Sunday for that reason and looks like "farm experience" and irish food breakfast being put on for Dublin families



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,759 ✭✭✭✭John_Rambo


    Lol.. you'd swear you were visiting a foreign country. "Irish Food Breakfast"!! where there's more Irish people than anywhere else.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,235 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    Ah, I think he meant a breakfast made from Irish food. Rather than bacon with an Irish sounding name but is actually from Denmark, etc…



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭green daries


    Don't worry about the latest guest from what I see he's a crank it's going to be someone else's fault 🤣



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,759 ✭✭✭✭John_Rambo


    With the lack of punctuation I'm not sure what you're trying to say other than accusing me of being a crank. What makes you think that I'm a crank? And what are you trying to say about something being someone else's fault?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭green daries




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,759 ✭✭✭✭John_Rambo


    I honestly don't, can you explain your post properly please?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭green daries




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,676 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    You are on the Farming and Forestry forum. There is a few unwritten rules here. We do not complain about punctuation or grammer. We do not proof read posts to make sure they are technically correct. If you want to be insulted you have come to the right forum.

    Do not expect to just be able to tell people to give you links to back up there posts. Do not crib or cry and be asking for explainations. If you act the maggot you will get called a maggot or worse

    Slava Ukrainii



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭green daries


    Quote of the week should be copied and pasted 🤣



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭green daries


    Fair enough ....I'll have to admit I'm wrong if it turns out that it is so ( and lord I've been wrong enough times to recognise it)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,759 ✭✭✭✭John_Rambo


    I'm very surprised at this attitude, are you speaking as a moderator? I don't understand green dairies comment, I know it's a smart arse comment calling me a crank, but I don't get the "blame someone else" part and he's still not willing to explain.

    I always found the farming & forestry a friendly & helpful place, great for advice and knowledge and certainly not a "place to be insulted" as you claim it is now. I find that very unfortunate. For the record I didn't ask for links to back up any posts, I didn't crib or cry and I only asked for an explanation, so you can ease off on the name calling and the whole internet hard man act, your fooling no one.

    Feel free to nip over to the Dublin City forum for advice on your upcoming trip to the city (if you're actually going to travel) where you'll be met with friendly, helpful and excellent advice on where you can sample some of the best cooked food produced in Ireland and the other various places you can visit.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,676 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    With Criss and eco , it probably over 90% convergence. Even though I may lose slightly At least now when I am bidding on my few friesians I know the mist of the f@@ker up against me are no longer being subsdisied to ha g around there all day

    Slava Ukrainii



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,755 ✭✭✭Grueller


    I'm not sure I agree with all of your posts JJ. I do agree with an awful lot that you say, but whether I agree or not, I always find them more than entertaining. Fair play JJ.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,676 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    I actuall saw Jjam that the head of the ICSA that instead of CRISS he wanted a suckler cow premium of 300/head and a early slaughter premium of 100/head. The Toole from the farmers journal has suggested a package for older farmer and they get paid for there carbon profie which would either go as feedstock to bio plants or as extra grazing for larger farmers. When i was looking at some of these suggestions I looked at the calender to makes sure it was not the 1st April

    Slava Ukrainii



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,881 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    The joke started in 1982 with the milk quota. the subsidies that followed were only compensation for that f..k up, it was a gross inequity. If subsidies are still the way to go and 20000 farmers want them they might as well go for it. If the public service can get money for doing f..k all, then why not

    The begrudgery against dairy farmers that time was no different than entitlement begrudgery now and I have no conscience problem about maximising my entitlements due to trying to compete against dairy farmers in the eighties and nineties.



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