The moderator should be on top of that willie-waving stuff. Sounds more like a school-teacher back in the day comparing everyone to the supposed best boy in class than a group of professionals trying to learn from each other.
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/italian-cabinet-approves-draft-bill-to-ban-synthetic-food/
i think as a farmers, we should go after our government for items like this, making sure our premium products will be future proofed and ensuring that our milk, cheese, beef, lamb,chicken and pork will always have a place in the market place and somehow written into the constitution. I know it sounds a bit daft but i just wouldn't trust them.
Ballontosig herd is selling there now in Corrin mart
very dear. take it easy straight
lot 5 €7400 wow
Just listened in to the ifj tillage podcast there. Head of the grain growers was on. Himself and the host were on a big push to against dairy farmers taking land and they also wanted wholesale deals for farmers to export slurry to tillage farmers. Funk both of them. Standing in a hole morning and evening to have cows shite down on top of me so that I can give away the slurry? Just no, no way. If these boys want slurry let them get out of their tractor seat themselves.
They weren't too concerned about unfair competition in the market when they had entitlements of 2/3 times the dairy man and were able to blow everyone else out of the water.
It gets worse..
The same people campaigning for money to rent land are leasing out the home farms to solar companies for €1000 / acre.
Blood is smelt and the opportunity is there to take advantage.
I keep banging on about tilled land releasing nitrates to waterways. Riles some right up. 100% true though. Some outrageous greenwashing going on. And farmers won't be one way or the environment better off.
There really needs some home truths be told of the tillage industry in this country.
The reply is we can't all milk cows but we can't have one side raked over the coals and the other getting away with blue murder. The same standards and reporting has to apply to all.
Looking at that Ballintosig sale on Fermoy, it's hard to justify the prices being paid for commercial cows. There's tens of thousands of cows with much the same breeding around the country, and a lot of their performance is down to the farm and the farmer.
I wouldn't like the look of them anyway, and I wouldn't say they'd put up with me too long either!
Money burning a hole in the pocket of some lads after last year?
Doing the sums on selling my own herd. 🤔
Have eight AWB milking and another three heifers and calves. All came from end of season breedings when we would be out of our own straws and would use whatever the AI man recommend. He’s obviously a big fan and still carries him. Fine strong cows when used on big holsteins. Glad to see he’s getting rewarded well in his sale.
Had her and lot 15 picked out as likely to be too prices, it's fair to say I wouldnt have got a look in haha..mental money but not surprised.
wow, them prices are crazy, obviously ai companies were looking for them in conjunction with a farmer. It would be very hard to justify that kind of money
I don't know a whole lot about it but would they be bought to be flushed? Would say likes of Dovea buy her for that purpose, like you say in conjunction with a pedigree breeder on the condition they got the bull calves? Just guessing, milk alone wouldn't justify it.
She’s very anti dairy. You can sense it in a lot if her podcasts
And what was so special about them other than the fact they had high EBI bulls stacked on top of each other and were well cared for. Didnt look like film stars to me.
Very pro tillage I'd say. The dairy farmer just has a big target on them because they had one good year. She makes a good point about getting back to something like the mixed farming we had in the past
I guess they just weren't your type.
If tobacco was still grown in this country she'd be extolling the benefits of tobacco to the tillage farmer.
Yer man would be ahead of her though in lobbying the government for importing Colombian pickers and subs for drying houses.
Then poor Charlie would be presenting the US president with cigars instead of Guinness during his visit.
And John Gibbons would be on the Last Word extolling the benefits of chewing tobacco to help climate change.
No but I nice herd of cows all the same, I wouldn't be paying 8000 for one of them though..
Was talking to a friend who bought a cow in fermoy today for 4500, he'd usually buy one or two like her each year. Said his father in law bought a horse for 60k that broke its leg at its first race so he thinks the cows are great value😄
Depends on your definition of "Premium"?? 30K broiler houses and industrial Pig units would be stretching that phrase
To maximise his ROI he could buy back a herd of Jersey crossbreds now.
Stock them up at 4/Ha. What could possibly go wrong....
U do know that they are other farmers selling free range chicken and eggs and free range pork but sure that doesn't suit your agenda
He's a bit of a dose 🙃🫠😉😆
I'd say if you took directly sold free range pig or poultry as a percentage of the national output you'd be in the low decimal places.
But on your original point, all such genuine artisan premium foods should get every help.
I had a heifer that had a huge calf today. A fresian bull off my own bull. Don't know why he came so big. I was thinking of getting a jersey or jersey cross to run with the heifers.
It's so nice to see heifers have an easy time calving.
Nothing worse ro have to deal with and the heifer will be under real pressure to return to the herd for next year..Spoil her with comforts.
Think carefully about the Jersey bull for your heifers. You will ahve a problem getting rid of the calves. The market won't take them and the slaughter route will be cut off from you by your milk processor.
You will have to rear them for 8 weeks pre slaughter. That's going to be a huge cost in time, feed, straw and probably new facilities.
If you want your heifers to calve to Jersey, you will have to AI them with sexed semen.
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