Brennan has no credit for me as an advisor ….totally blinkered and biased ….beyond me some of the stuff he prints re feeding cows …remember that journal article few weeks back 🙄🙄🙄
They were talking about a farmer in north Cork feeding palm kernel in the latest podcast. Not a negative thing to say about it.
were u on a different planet in july/august 2020??? ploughing fellas around here did when trying to cut corn was a sight to behold...
Didn't suffer that fate. Same planet though
Do you still write articles for the journal? I don’t buy it every week but haven’t seen you on it for a while, find agriland great for info, don’t rate Irish indo farming section at all anymore and the journal, who has time to read it. I don’t like the way his seems to be the be all and end all of dairy knowledge in Ireland,Aidan, same as his predecessor jack. I think farmers having too many animals is a problem, speaking from someone who has too many animals but that’s a whole different story, outside of my control. Rain coming but climate is getting extreme in different ways.
I stopped writing the column a few months back. Combination of reasons - mostly a lack of time, but it just didn’t feel right any more either. Part of a column I wrote was questioned also and I guess that was the straw that broke the camel’s back. There was no falling out or row or anything like that. I’d been writing the column for the website and paper since 2015 and it was time to move on.
So maybe you are free to answer this question now, do contributors to journal get paid for writing those articles every week?
I was of the understanding that palm kernal was the wonder treatment for drought stricken area's from listening to some dairy farmers.
I can only answer for myself and say yes, I got paid. I'll PM you.
Ya, sure they feed it in NZ so a minority of hero dairy farmers are happy to blindly follow their example.
It seems to feed alot better than most sales men would lead you to believe. When grass is tight it is a great filler it's not going to put extra milk in the tank but cows won't lose milk either . Costing less than bales and reduces the work load of feeding out .
And serious stuff to dry up dungs.
It's the environmental impact that is the issue
Apparently if enough are feeding it there is a possibility it taints the milk as well but not sure on that.
Snap …..it dose feed better than we’d be led to believe tho ……but advising us to use it is like tasking out of both cheeks of our arse in current times
Flogas have what looks like good value in a fixed rate deal just switched over their when I seen it on another boards forum
My contract is up next weekend and priced a few . bord gais are a little cheaper than electric Ireland , 39.5 plus vat.. Would take a big price reduction to get down to where you're at . Was getting a 30% discount and now EI will only give 5% discount
Ordered detergents on glanbiaconnect.com or whatever it's called now on 31st of May. Still not delivered. Got a text of a massive tbc today. **** hit the fan. 2 weeks to deliver, bit of a joke
With water power now …28cenf day 21 night ….plus vat …just thru today
Dangerous game not washing machine right when, you can't go in with a chlorine based product to rectify it, jet blaster wasn't working properly on machine here, ended up with a tbc in the millions on a collection, took apart milkline and was caked with a inch of curd on top of pipe had to powerwash it out in sections, took most of the day to do it and 2 hours for parlour tech to join it back up after
I don't know wtf they're at . I ordered other stuff at the same time which came the next day. Total joke
Are they quoting a different rate over the phone or is this through a broker? The rates they are advertising online is not competitive.
https://www.waterpower.ie/current-electricity-rates/
Use broker here ….beats any rates I could get on bonkers etc …I don’t even bother looking anymore just le
ave it to him
Could you share the brokers details?
PM if you like.
Thanks.
Interested in the broker details too if you could share them, pm is fine, thanks
They should.
Have you heard the one about the hypocrite leasing his farm to enable the evil dairy industry.
Honestly how is this man never pulled up on his never ending bs?
He's part of the media jet-set. And part of the problem is the media jet-set. They can't pull him up on anything or they'd raise questions about themselves.
It's times like these that social media like Twitter is really useful as it allows farmers to get facts and opinions out there, in a way we never could thru the print and broadcast media.
Aidan is full on make them eat it and go be f**ked this week, could never get cows to milk of shoot out stressed seedhead grass but how and ever, his advice re palm kernel Jesus wept
Sprayed 2nd cut with stimgrass 12 days ago, done some job keeping it going and from shooting out,
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