Have a lot of drained ground here too, I know recently all the talk is of drought but have had a hell of a lot more wet years than dry that have caused more bother than any dry spell
Tks for the Mg advise👍👍
Actually dont agree with you there. we would have a lot of intensively drained ground, gravel moles. Perfectly good in Spring and wont burn up in Summer. Would have cost 1500 to 2000 an acre to do.
No shortage of grass down here and after Saturdays 1 inch of rain will have to take out paddocks soon.
Of course, goes without saying
No problem at all. Fty here so cows getting between 4 and 8 kgs. Nut is made up for a 4 kg feed rate to cover low yielders, but some cows getting up to near double that. No issues, slow changes
I had 3 cows that went down from shortage of calcium in the spring so I throw a pinch of mag 12 (cal mag) in with the 3kgs of meal. And no problems so a bit extra in the diet won't do any harm
Have often fed it didn't see any issues. Increase over 2 days
Would take dry land over ground that needs draining any day of the week. 1500 plus an acre wouldn't be long going draining fields not including reseeding, much easier to feed extra in dry weather than house in a wet summer too!
Anyone know how cows would fare out getting 6kg of a 4kg feed rate ration? (2oz of Mg in 4kg)
Any kind of land can be rewilded. The kind of people that want to rewild don't care what the quality is like.
Alot of lads with dry farms now crying over a couple of dry weeks. I'd say a mixed farm is the way to go.
Anyone on here running a westfalia gea parlour , wouldnt see too many in ireland nice few in england/NZ looking at a second hand thinking of bringing it across
No growth of the sort in the last fortnight measured 30 on thursday and that was mainly the paddocks with covers bringing it up anything grazed in last fortnight is struggling
Had 40 week just gone, 65 week before that. Quality of grass poor tho. Drizzle all day but fcuk all falling after. Some places aren't as bad as others
Listening to the laois teagasc dairy specialist on their latest podcast, he reckoned the majority of farms where flying it, growing 70kgs/ha plus a day and raving about going into 1400kh/ha perfect covers....
2 weeks since this was last grazed,
Maybe growing 10kgs/ha since grazing, their on a different planet them boys
@straight Thanks for the advice. I'll try that 👍
15 k plus for anything decent
Anything decent in limerick is making up on 15k an acre freely now and can only see it staying that way once derogation goes to 220/ha next year…still an awful lot of lads sitting on shares down west
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?
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?
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.
Too many rich lads around your way you see. 😉 My land I bought in Limerick cost me 9k around Xmas time.
How much per acre would it cost ??
10 k won’t get much in this part of tipp …
I'd say if you approach a few local farmers they would be happy to work with you.
About 10 k an acre on average
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.
Looked pricey for the bit I saw
Anyone watch Tom Kelly's sale today?
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.
