You should be grand for the week. Temps are low and urea is slower to get into the plant than nitrate as it has to go though an extra change process.
Even with nitrate and peak you've about 3 days, I recall lads pushing for max growth or blanket spreading fertilising up to 3 days pre-grazing.
A quick question, I checked the maiden heifers this evening and they were running low in grass. The paddock next to them got urea Saturday for silage and I gave them a piece. Will it do them harm. A bit less than 2bags to the acre.
It would be good to see Lombard get in. He would be a speaker for agriculture
I expect mike collins will pull votes out of her the next time and then i think the geography and the fact shes done nothing will catch her the next time.but i ll add politics is not my game
Population has increased by a million in 10 years, the first 5 of those we were still recovering from recession.
Pre crash there was a large proportion went away for the year after education but would come back, post crash they went away still but stayed away for longer leading to skills shortages
Same problems are in alot of countries, but not all have had a the same population increase.
Same problems as always here, things are built for now or even 10 years previous when plans were first made and not for 10/ 20/30 years time. CUH was redeveloped too small, dunkettle was designed too small, even now is it one of councils in the counties around Dublin only allowing for a small amount of new builds as it's not in their development plans. In the meantime serial objectors and all those who want to stick their hand in the pie make it nigh on impossible to do things right
Too much talk and not enough doing
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I guess it depends on your circumstances - if i was young(20s/early 30s) and starting out in this country , there might be jobs, but not much good if the cost of housing, heating, etc. is out of reach. Things were bad in the 80's but the average teacher and guard could still get accommodation in Dublin. Now there r shortages of teachers, retail workers etc. around most big towns and cities cos the cost of living is driving them to emigrate again:(. Also this governments policy of relieing on vulture funds,speculators and developers to delver basic public services has become an expensive mess in terms of housing, energy, waste services etc. EG. Developers in Dublin alone r sitting on 40k building permissions while spinning BS about wanting looser regs on planning, fire safety, waste water etc. while this government has allowed those responsible for the Mica disaster etc. that is set to cost the taxpayers billions of euros to walk away scot free!!
No not inspiring on all fronts, but not doing bad either. The current government have many faults. But they have near fulll employment, have given support towards bills, cut taxes and guided us through a pandemic where we emerged in fine fettle. Too many eggs in the few big tech/pharma basket but what party is going to change that? Housing and health is the biggie each election. None of the parties have a solution. SF are great in opposition and just say no to everything (too much time spent observing the Unionists up North) but have not given any solution to the issues at hand. No party has because there is none. Look, if there was an easy, public supported, vote winning answer they'd all have suggested it.
SF are appealing to those who have nothing and expect everything. I can see why. And they probably deserve a chance as much as anyone. Can they do any worse? Can they do any better?
Grass isn't always greener.....
(I'm just home after 6 pints of delicious Smithwicks. Take my ramblings with that info on board)
Bit of a simplistic assessment - its not as if the current government r inspiring on all fronts so there will be plenty of votes up for grabs next election
Welcome but scarce,
Are ladies even welcome?
That's a fair analysis, time will tell whether there's substance behind the style, and whether the voters are interested.
No, all the people who frequent Aughadown branch are nothing but gentlemen
Purely because of cf wanting to have a monopoly on the UK market, they lobbied (payed off the right people) done "trials" showing how harmful urea was versus can, and now they are likely to mothball their operations their its farcical
See there banning the use of untreated urea in the UK. They started off with trying to ban all urea.
She got votes for 3 reasons last time.she was hot,she was female and she was new.men voted for because she was hot,women voted for her because she was a women and the people who wanted something different voted for her because she was new.
Land abandonment?
Once upon a time there was a lot more cows and a lot more votes behind them in West Cork, and West Linerick, and West Clare, many other places too, if we keep going as we are there won't be much left soon.
Mick Wallace when he was elected stated that he was not going to be a traditional politician. He stated he was not going to do anything for the local people that was for the other politicians to do so. He was going to follow national and international agendas. Of course he didn't say this before the election when he was looking for votes.
Holly is sounding more of the cut of this.
It's not being brave. It's not being radical or free thinking. It's two fingers to your electorate.
You've farmer led coops in West Cork. The envy of Ireland. I think Holly's mother was also part of the movement and supplied same. You've some of the lowest nitrates in the country in the waterways. That comes from grazing grass. It's reduced even in the last testing. And this is under a lot of the farmers in derogation in the region. The message and agenda is clear. It's not nitrates in waterways that are the stick to beat ye with. It's methane emissions from the number of stock and derogation is seen as a handy weapon to use against farmers to achieve spreadsheet targets in reducing numbers. Unfortunately Holly has been suckered in on this to follow the sheep and follow the "bigger picture" and achieve goals. Except for every cow being talked about there's a farmer behind it. And that farmer has a vote.
My advice if you have a vote use it. Simple as.
I've seen Michael Collins and others at many farm events and open days in west Cork. Never seen herself around apart from a few staged photo shoots.
Depending on the man and his approach, it might be understandable that she wouldn't.
As for sf6 gas, apart from whataboutery, what's the point? That we should also try and develop more sustainable energy infrastructure.
I can't see anyone disagreeing with that.
The local co op branch is less than 2 miles from her door she was in one day and a farmer had heard her on the radio about emission so he came over and ask how were the cows doing all the damage she would not engage to which the farmer said so is sf6 gas doing no damage every one deserves a lucky break next election is just around the corner she was top of the count in her parish last election which is Kilcoe and lisheen schools cannot see her been in the top 3 this time as people judge people on actions not words
Maybe you know better, but as far as I'm aware she joined SDs due to their social policies, and to get away from the FG/Tories on bikes approach, I'd say either ticket wouldn't be too hard to get on.
She's certainly a pro sustainability and pro environment candidate, and a rarity amongst those in that she's a farmer and pro-farming too.
Her only sin is that she is a small peasant farmer, and ad the British/capitalists figured out long ago, not many aspire to being a small farmer, and her very success as such might be challenging to other approaches.
She's probably too long term in her thinking and sees the need for our land use to develop and evolve beyond the old industrial systems for social, economic, and environmental reasons.
It's interesting that you chooses to attack her integrity, as I would say that it's probably her USP at the moment as a politician, and leaves her vulnerable too. The fact that she came straight out with her position on the N derogation is an example of that honesty and integrity, that most politicians would shirk.
Dairy cows can be cute out
we’ve no bother with first calvers but once they get that first year milking over them they get wise
we end up using the next cow to push the front cow into the gate
Not sure of the make of ours but it’s one where the animal walks forward and catches themselves. I always walk the cattle thru it first with the gates open just to give them a false sense of what’s happening. Very few are clever enough to stop then when the gate is set to catch them. Maybe older cows would get wise to it but no problem with bullocks and heifers
Bought the basic cattle master classic crush nearly twenty years ago, best thing i ever bought. It’s eight feet long and has a sliding gate at the back. There’s a handle at the back to open and close the head gate. Both sides top and bottom open out to suck a calf or do a section. Cattle always think they can get through the gate, just close it at the right time. A lot of cows stop at the right place and wait for it to be closed. The only problem i had was catching a cow with big horns, if she got her shoulders out she was gone and had to be put round again but that is rare. I use it for dehorning calves also.
i think you can buy the gate and handle on its own and fit to an existing crush.
Talking to a man today who took his put and out in a condon beef gate instead
hard catch an animal on your own was his reason, cows get cute after a while to the workings off it
she started out as a green but could not get on the ticket with them so jumped ship as she only does whats best for her career and she is anti farming which is ok as every body is entitled to have there views but she comes across to be a farming friend but her policy and actions are all the opposite i rather back somebody who follows through on what they set out in there political leaflet
she should b careful not to bite the hand that feeds her...
