That was to do with the property crash.
It's a fine farm, you could drive a combine in most of it any month of the year.
Well there was a fair lack of investment there for years too I guess. Fine place back in it's day with the rotary and all. I was at the clearance sale.
Funnily enough I was walking there this morning.
Looks like its used for dairy heifers now, looks like it is run low input.
Barrett's were leasing it at that time for their heifer rearing as far as I know. You know the Pedigree breeders over around togher I think. Nice place for a stroll.
nothing to do with a property crash. it was a court case. longest running court case in Irish history I heard.
Ok. I was 2+2=5'ing it.
Where is that walk around Togher?
Barrett's are around togher I meant
Another large dairy farmer who lost his own farm not to far away has been renting it for a few years now.
I saw a harvester bogged to the axles there last year trying to harvest maize.
It's very flat like. Prone to waterlogging I'd say.
Yeah parts of it are flood plain
Thought he had it rented for years. I believe his father use to be farm manager there years ago before buying Nohoval.
3rd cut grass. How quick after baling could you feed it out
I didn't think he was in there before the trouble with his own place. Last I heard this year was he was trying to get the parlour there up and running.
If it's bales with no preservatives. Straight away.
Is umbilical spreading still allowed next year
Yes..
Is there talk of banning it or something?
All depends on what is on the end of the umbilical pipe. It is allowed through a trailing shoe or dribble bar, but the splash plate is gone the same as on a tanker.
Talking to contractor yday, next year with the Oct 1st deadline will put fierce pressure on em to get thru to everyone
We need more people like this back again.
It’s hard make sense of them pulling back closing date in October and leaving opening date in January same ….
6 months is too short of a window to get all the slurry out, really...
It's compacting their work into shorter periods, if harvest and baling runs late, autumn reseeds and then maize harvests starting. This year was fine as harvest went off very well. They are essentially going around emptying the last of tanks for lads and doing the same amount of traveling to different farms in a short space of time. Also more customers due to LESS rules.
Not everyone has a tanker to do their own work along with varying other circumstances...
The way it's going is you'll want/need a years worth of slurry storage and obviously your own equipment to spread.
If you haven't got either of those you'll be pushed out of the livestock business.
You'll want all that slurry anyway during the year for the price of fert and any cut backs in artificial N. The slurry can be made go further with additions of bugs, humics, thinning out with rainwater.
Their thinking is soil nitrates are higher at this time of year than the spring. They arrived at this decision by testing the waterways.
From the farmers point of view though it makes less sense when ground conditions are good in the autumn and grass is growing better than the spring. But that's their reasoning for the decision.
Have you ever buried an underpants in your place? I wonder does it have to be a clean one...
No I buried it in your place Straight. 😎
How the phuk has that got to do slurry storage?🤣
If you've timber stakes rotting at the butt you've biological action. The faster they're rotting the better it is.
The farmers journal were promoting the burying of underpants at the ploughing I heard. Easy way to check bacterial activity in the soil.
Yea white cottons. If you are left with the elastic strap you can start doing cartwheels.
It's really just to an easy imaginative way to get people's thoughts on the job that there is actually life and mouths down there. More life. More nitrogen made. Less bought needed.
