The various different journalists in the journal from their respective camps, dairy, beef, tillage, do be sniping at each other. The negative especially gets the free to read to kick it against the other side.
The lairages in France were shown to be too loose before with the potential for bad faith actors to be employed to do a job on the trade. It's more than likely the same again this time. Lairages should have had only competent Irish sons or daughters of livestock farmers manning them but the unions in France would probably kick up over so. The lairages at the ports in france and potentially militant undercover french animal rights employees are the weakest link.
Planes from Shannon may be looked at realistically again. International planes carry no carbon footprint nor are attributed to any country. If you can't beat them join them.
The flying of calves was looked at but cost was a big issue in comparasion
They have very little on the free to view. If I remember right I have only ever seen other stories like this about calves and SFP information on Irish farmers. If Irish farmers would stop paying their wages for a week or two by not buying it would serve them right.
Sales pays their wages.
Attracting readers is how they pay thier wages.
Sales of hardcopies and sales of on line access pays their wages.
Irish farmers who get thrown a free article now and again don't pay thier wages.
Adverts pay their wages, don't buy it anymore but most pages will have ads on them
https://www.ouest-france.fr/societe/l214/reportage-l214-et-deux-eurodeputees-alertent-sur-les-conditions-de-transport-des-veaux-a-cherbourg-88c1e1b2-c8fa-11ed-a412-5cbed970d9f5
Behind paywall but easy enough to get the drift with google translate.
Ainmal welfare caused by French incompetence disrupts export of Irish calves thru Cherbourg ……
10 sq feet for 3 calves sounds comfortable to me. Probably more space than the protesters have in their own box rooms. Sucking bars and roaring for attention is normal calf behaviour.
Lol.
Google translate set to French - Swahili Mahoney?
Calves were on transport for 27hrs…19hrs is the limit.
Two MEPs there to greet them. One French Green Party, the other Dutch animal welfare party. Easily organised…just keep an eye on weather forecast.
French wouldn’t be a speciality 😜….Agri land article here over weekend suggesting ainmal welfare issues in Cherbourg caused the disruption
Nicest herd I've seen coming up for sale in a long time.... 600kgMs from 1 ton...
***Ballintosig Herd Clearance Sale***
Location: Corrin Mart
Date: 31/03/2023
Complete clearance of the Ballintosig Herd
For Mr Anthony Flavin, Ballintosig, Killeagh, Co Cork
Consisting of 50 Head of dairy stock,
Fully pedigree herd, All AI breed, Milk recorded for 40 years.
One of the top EBI herds in the country,
Herd average EBI €252 with a cow up to €333.
Fully genotyped and classifies included Ex and VG –
Herd ave. 7547kgs milk (1612 gallons) 4.25 BF, 3.79 Pr SCC 99.
Milk solids 607kg.
Produced on a grass-based system feeding 1 tonne of ration per year on average.
89% 6 week calving interval
Renowned herd with numerous bulls in AI stations including AWB, OTS, REAL MC COY, MISTER MAN, STAR TREK
Follow link to view catalogue
http://www.corkmarts.com/contentFiles/newsImages/Dairy%20Sale%20Corrin%20Friday%2031st%20March%202023.pdf
Enquiries to Corrin Mart on 025-31611 or
Sean Leahy on 086-3821846
Smashing have the catalogue printed, would love a couple of them, but getting time to go down to it will probably rule me out. What kinda money do you think they'll make?
Don't know, dairy stock is selling well. Didn't realise that herd was so small.
I think Dovea have 4 bulls from his herd in there catalogue, some achievement...from the photos I've seen there lovely strong cows. Great figures..hard to know if I could justify the outlay for a couple,they will be very little under 3-4k I'd imagine...but I'll never have a big herd so I'd love a herd like that man built up.
Wonder where or if the young stock were sold.?
OTS is a great bull too.
Anybody know what the story on the young stock is ??
None for sale on the day, maybe they are already sold? Like I say theres cow families there anybody would love to have in there herd.
None in the catalogue except a dry 2yr old heifer. Lovely herd of cows a credit to the man
Absolutely, lifetimes work..pity to see it dispersed
Im hoping to buy 8 -10 springing or freshly calved cross bred heifers or 2nd calvers. What money are they making. I would travel for the right stock.
Im based in Meath.
There’s 18 freshly calved heifers for sale in Carnaross mart tomorrow (Wednesday), pics on Carnaross Facebook page.
You would be lucky to see anything under E1800 more likely 2k up and you could end up with a few duds trown in at that
Some output alright on the 1 tonne. That said I've seen it done alright, and was laughed out of it on twitter a few years back by a few heavier feeding lads, when I highlighted an example.
Early calvers were 1700 last September so you'd be looking at over 2k now I'd imagine
Keep an eye on donedeal. I picked up some late calving cows from a herd in meath for handy money
Dry land is a great help
They’re not making that down here in south east
only pedigree stock fetching that money
I was chatting to a lad lately who was telling me his cows were doing 28L and only getting 3kg meal in parlour. He ommitted to mention the maize, beet, and 3 way mix going into the diet feeder!
Alot of liars out there too. I was very impressed with my discussion group and I was hoping to get up to their level of milk. My milk results are always near the bottom where as in my last group I was always near the top. Now that I have visited all of their farms and seen all of their co op reports I can see that they are not as great as they say. It's so disappointing I didn't bother going to the last 2 meetings to be listening to more lies.
True, the farm I'm thinking of is on limestone in the heart of the Golden Vale, very well run too of course.
