You’re assuming Govt interests differ from industry interests?
Back to IFA and their shock: doesn’t the vice-president of IFA sit on the Teagasc board? Is he claiming he slept thru every meeting for the past 4 years?
Independent? You're joking?
Look at the make-up, board of directors, the sponsorship, the joint partnerships. Do you think that they are all participating in a great philanthropic organisation for Irish peasants?
I doubt it seeing as their point is that they believed it to be independent of interference all along.
Would they prefer a solely industry driven organisation I wonder?
Who are the ifa now? Never hear anything of them anymore
More cynical than naive I’d say.
Sure didn’t Gerry Boyle say in an interview with IFJ last year that he had to go in to the Dept every month to report on what they were doing to support Govt policy.
To quote Keano, “That’s their job”.
Rings very hollow if anyone claims to be shocked by that.
I see the IFA are shocked that teagasc are influenced by dept at ag. Talk about gullibility and naivety like.
Milky cows would have to be near to starvation before you would get no response from meal in my opinion if they were really short they would need silage and maize included in a buffer
Bf x Holstein
It would sound like a complete lack of moisture in the ground or a deficit in p and k especially p
Okayyyyyy cross bred or suckered which are you milking
I've found a pound of soya is better than a kilo of nuts if grass is stemmy, lifts the yield and solids. Haven't done costings but short term waiting for quality grass should be cost effective .
probably true, guys that held milk yields were going in with silage + meal, stretching out better covers, while not letting them go to head like i did.
The old "when you're explaining you're loosing" adage is very true and whatever you think of Musk or Fox news, its quite amusing to see them put this poor eejit on the back foot 🤣
From my experience feeding extra meal when grass is scarce or gone too strong does nothing to increase milk yields.
Discussion group meeting in april most of got eaten alive for feeding too much meal. Possibly right advice at the time but people seem to have it in there heads not to buffer or increase meal until it was too late to rescue yields. Only people that milk held with are those who went in with a buffer early and stayed with in. Very hard to get it right but people have to take advice onboard but make decisions based on the farm and circumstances. All my grass is gone to stem even light covers. Yields are suffering badly now. Not the best grass manager in the country which doesnt help.
Jay where did you get the stimigrass. I used to use it years sgo when putting post emergence on reseeds. Savage stuff, but the guy I wad buying from is retired and closed. Conditions aside what's the price like.
Sprayed 2nd cut with stimgrass 12 days ago, done some job keeping it going and from shooting out,
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
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.
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?
They should.
Interested in the broker details too if you could share them, pm is fine, thanks
Could you share the brokers details?
PM if you like.
Thanks.
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
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/
I don't know wtf they're at . I ordered other stuff at the same time which came the next day. Total joke
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
With water power now …28cenf day 21 night ….plus vat …just thru today
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
