Unfortunately it is rare that we get everything the way we want it ourselves! Any amount of moaning wont change it!
Moaning is all that's left to us!
John Gibbons getting a bit of a hammering from Ewan McKenna over on twitter... Ewan rightly wants to know why doesn’t he let his big estate go wild rather than selling it.. Ewan has now been blocked.. . Mr. Gibbons is a con artist of the highest order and slowly been found out… pity Matt Cooper is too weak to ask him that question on radio
The proposed reduction scheme is after making global headlines too, Elon is even retweeting it, Charlie and Co are after kicking a hornets nest will be interesting to see how it plays out, sein fein could make a lot of Hay if they come out against it
We must be in the traditional “silly season” when a random bullet point in yet another academic report gets such coverage in the media.
It is daft to be paying farmers to reduce livestock on account of emmision targets ,I wont be complaining if they are going to pay farmers 3k per cow compensation but it is mad and makes no sense letting 100's of thousand migrants in to the country and reducing 200k cows per annum .How will our bigger population effect emission targets or are they not counted or the houses that need to be built to accomodate them not counted either?
Matt is nothing more than a tabloid journalist that always goes for the drama and the argument.
Gibbons is just a bitter angry little man with a chip on his shoulder and a clear agenda to destroy Irish livestock farming
has Matt copper every tackled him on his fine family estate and why he won’t put his money where his mouth is and purchase it and practice what he preaches
It's only a couple of weeks ago land was too wet....
Jeez he’s rattled lads 😂
So is he holding onto the farm to rewild it or taking the money and running??
“…intrusive scrutiny into private or family matters”
What does he think he’s doing when he criticises farmers???
I was on a panel with him last year at some food festival thing in Waterford. He lost everyone in the crowd after the first 10 seconds of his first long monologue. For someone who trades on controversy and dramatic statements, he was very boring and didn’t win over a single person that day.
The broadcast and print media like him coz he’s middle class, university educated, and has a D4 accent - like them. Most importantly (for them) he blames people they think are below them in the social order.
Anyone spreading fertiliser these days?
Plenty of lads at it out of hope rather then it been a good idea, the funny thing is the same lads lashing it out will be decrying the epa water reports in 2024 if we get a 2018 type scenario with alot of recently spread fertiliser ending up in watercourses, and with that it would be say goodbye to derogation from 2026 on
There is a meeting on foliar feeding with Joel Williams 19th June in Tipperary. Now I know he makes a big complicated deal about what is a simple task but might be of interest to lads thinking of dabbling.
Where in tipp ginger
Go www.integratedsoils.com/events/
Every time gibbons appears on the last word I keep texting in that same question on why gibbons won’t put his money where his mouth is and rewild his home place.
Same here
Sorry if this is the wrong place for my question but I wanted to ask any dairy farmers in the east of co Galway ( Ballymoe area ) if they sell milk direct from the farm.
I want it for making cheese, butter, and yoghurt etc so I'd be buying around 4 gallons at a time to pasteurise myself and would be happy to pay retail price. I don't mind a drive of, say, a 20 minute radius of Ballymoe for it.
Anyone watch Tom Kelly's sale today?
Looked pricey for the bit I saw
Anyone looking to add a few acres this summer? Curious as to what prices people are seeing in Tipp/Limerick area from recent or upcoming sales.
About 10 k an acre on average
I'd say if you approach a few local farmers they would be happy to work with you.
10 k won’t get much in this part of tipp …
How much per acre would it cost ??
Too many rich lads around your way you see. 😉 My land I bought in Limerick cost me 9k around Xmas time.
This time last year 10k would have bought most good land in Limerick, you could add another 5k now and plenty more for anything prime or with high local interest.
Land prices have often jumped like that back through the generations. They'd been on a plateau for the last decade or so.
Another consequence of taking productive land out of production is a rise in price of the remaining land, while the removed land drops in price.
What are the chances the self-appointed environment saviours have considered this imbalance and the 20 other unintended consequences of their rewetting and “nature restoration” ideas?
I dont think the next generation have any interest in farming the type of land that will go to rewilding but flying into Dublin airport lately and seeing the amount of solar farms on top quality tillage land was surprising. Is there an advantage in having them close to population centres, would it not be the same to use poorer quality land further away and just use the lines already in place to carry the power to the city?
