You are 110% wrong
the brexiteer rot of lying to get your way is as usual parrodied by the paddy come latelys who are making all the noise now
That's not an answer. If it was it'd still add up to 100%. Even putting the small numbers into the agriculture figure it still doesn't balance.
The integrity of that whole slide and information provided and way it's shown is very suspect.
And this is not school yard stuff. This is a government agency presenting this information to environmentalists to tweet on and bash farmers. Not withstanding the headlines on radio. There should be legal implications of presenting this info that way and investigate how it was put together.
Amazing that somebody who cant manage their own affairs get to influence the lives of the rest of us. The world is f,,,,d
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I was looking at the same map as you. Would u consider a couple a sucklers, some ponies and sheep intensive farming. Its well known from barna out that the ground is poor, rocks coming up through the ground, can't be tilled, in some places, there is elements of bogs and streams.
I don't know what map you were reading, but on the north shore of Galway bay it's mostly sucklers, ponies and sheep in that order. Hill sheep country is well north and inland relative to Galway bay. What's horrific ground when it's at home?
When did your Dad take over?? Water quality has been going downhill since the 70's, which corresponded with the change from hay to silage pits, introduction of slatted sheds, Chem fert etc. All this accelerated into the 80s with headage payments via the old CAP. Its only in the last 20 years that Governments here have paid any attention to it after pressure from the EU and more public awareness/concern for the environment in general
That graph is for the % of water bodies influenced by each activity. A river can be influenced by more than 1.
There's housing there alright, along with outdoor cubicles, his winter would be the guts of 2 months on that ground though.
Don’t know the farmer or farm personally but you’re in the right spot, parlour is set away from those cubicles
Is that a yard with a lot of outdoor cubicles I see on it. That won’t go down well with some on here!!
I'd imagine the man renting it houses the cows on his home farm but I dunno for sure, rotary parlour put it on the farm in Bennettbridge.
I'm going to spend the night looking at farms on Google earth now! While looking at that one came across 2 smashing ones in a place called Loughsollis, some land around there I'd say
It's hard to understand when my dad was farming before I took over. It was all ring feeders beside the river. Hardly anyone bothered with water troughs. The cattle could go into the streams for their drink. And silage pits beside a watercourse. No problem. If you got heavy rain on the yard it might go in to an open slurry pit and might run out as fast again down a drain some where. So where are things going wrong now
Is that the place with the big house? Couple of yards there but don't see much slurry storage.
No, he wanted it sold years ago when his father died to clear his debts he incurred from an analog tv business he had that went bust but his mother refused and put it in a 25 year lease
she was 80 at the time I’m nearly sure, super well developed farm in the meantime, bounding bennetsbridge quarry if anyone wants a sky eye view
The report is fair enough in terms of its catchment by catchment analysis eg. many of the upland catchments are going downhill due to overgrazing(sheep and deer cited), invasive plant species(Rhodendron etc.), peat extraction, windfarm construction and conifer forestry. Earlier this year the EPA also cited the activities of BNM in the midlands in terms of peat silt loss impacting on water quality in North Mayo and the Mid Shannon Region due to ongoing pumping of peat laden water off their cut-over bogs .
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Now's his chance. 😂😂
Talks of the farm John gibbons grew up on going for sale, the guts of 500 acres.
it looks like villages and town get a free pass as usual
i actually looked at the map and in galway bay north there is 1 maybe 2 dairy farmers and very little beef farming as the ground is horrific all mountain sheep.
There is f**k all intensive farming going on in galway bay north but the treatment plants are atrocious so hence no mention of it on the radio as it doesn't meet the narrative.
How do you read that graph? Is it based on the number of samples taken or something?
Southeast and the Slaney was mentioned on the radio but the stats paint a better picture for the Slaney.
Seems to be the thing the more sampling sites can make a report better or worse looking.
Galway Bay and sligo up at the top and the Shannon but not mentioned on the radio.
Fairly bleeding obvious there's a vegan climate change message now from the epa to make the headlines look whatever way they want it looking.
That graph is from the EPA report. Most people will just see the big blue circle, the tractor and automatically think it's accurate. Ya could have any words or numbers ya like in the other circles and the majority wouldn't even see it
I don't know. I blame the vegan diet.😂
These so called experts seem to pull figure out of their a,,e to suit their agenda. The media go along with whatever they say, never questioning their qualifications or agendas.
Did gibbons do the graph or the epa
Agriculture is responsible for 63% of the 174% of emissions into waterways.
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