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
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
Flogas have what looks like good value in a fixed rate deal just switched over their when I seen it on another boards forum
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
Apparently if enough are feeding it there is a possibility it taints the milk as well but not sure on that.
It's the environmental impact that is the issue
And serious stuff to dry up dungs.
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 .
Ya, sure they feed it in NZ so a minority of hero dairy farmers are happy to blindly follow their example.
I can only answer for myself and say yes, I got paid. I'll PM you.
I was of the understanding that palm kernal was the wonder treatment for drought stricken area's from listening to some dairy farmers.
So maybe you are free to answer this question now, do contributors to journal get paid for writing those articles every week?
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.
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.
Didn't suffer that fate. Same planet though
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...
They were talking about a farmer in north Cork feeding palm kernel in the latest podcast. Not a negative thing to say about it.
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 🙄🙄🙄
I see Aidan Brennan is talking about managing feed for cows in the current weather but stocking rate is a discussion "for another day".
If the zombie apocalypse happened tomorrow some lads would tell you drive on and just make sure your fertiliser applications are up to date.
Our local radio station 103fm would have the Carlow weather man on 24 hours a day. Met eirean would have all the colours of the rainbow warnings
We wouldn't cope with a drought like that now..
It was more the norm, the last 40 years have been the wettest in Ireland in centuries.
We have had quite a few multi year droughts, they are classified as most of the year dry but a few months wetter, though off the top of my head I think the drought in 1800 lasted 18 months.
Drought is nothing new..
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/analysis-historical-records-shows-ireland-prone-drought
https://www.facebook.com/reel/784696136605754?s=chYV2B&fs=e
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What age were you then?
It's the same amount of rain here in the north west every year 12 to 14 hundred mm.
In the early 1700's there was a dryish spell in Ireland that lasted about 30 years.
Two years went by in this time with little or no rain.
The fluidity is gone from the Atlantic in the last good few years. I think it was last year there was even an easterly wind from Ireland, UK over to Newfoundland. You'd never imagine that occurring.
2012 was the worst all right in terms of constant rain from may on but a few others with wet months. We are where the rain stops/ starts depending on whether you're travelling east or west. Annual difference of over 200mm in the one parish we're on the wetter side
Things are definitely getting drier though. 2012 is the last real wet summer.
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