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.
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.
From my experience feeding extra meal when grass is scarce or gone too strong does nothing to increase milk yields.
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 🤣
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.
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 .
Okayyyyyy cross bred or suckered which are you milking
It would sound like a complete lack of moisture in the ground or a deficit in p and k especially p
Bf x Holstein
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
I see the IFA are shocked that teagasc are influenced by dept at ag. Talk about gullibility and naivety like.
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.
Who are the ifa now? Never hear anything of them anymore
Would they prefer a solely industry driven organisation I wonder?
I doubt it seeing as their point is that they believed it to be independent of interference all along.
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?
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?
I'd say a few nice cosy positions will become available on various co-op boards and other avenues for higher up ifa men like Rushe who could potentially help get the dairy farm reduction scheme took of the table like they helped do with the suckler one....
Lots of shiny stainless especially in the case of Glanbia who now don't our won't have the milk supply going forward to run their plants to optimally capacity, it's going to get very interesting I reckon between co-ops when they start to try and take other suppliers from each other it had always be a closed shop but now a declining milk pool will force them to try and take on existing suppliers from other co-ops
I was wrong on Teagasc going into the Dept every month. Gerry Boyle claimed they have an “annual review” but admitted Teagasc are “expected to support Govt policy”.
He also said in the interview that the Dept are “very demanding” which seems odd if he only goes in to them once a year.
Link to interview: https://www.farmersjournal.ie/teagasc-the-irish-farmer-s-best-asset-or-a-costly-monster-652102
In some ways, I think this is normal. Teagasc are a state body so it’s only to be expected they should support Govt policy.
No idea why IFA would be surprised by this.
Rushe would be a great addition to any board etc ….Gerry Boyle is a non exec on Arrabawn board
That was my point. The IFA only realised this now.
There is some shi.. on here about IFA. It's incredible (according to you lot anyway) that Irish farmers are so sad that they will finance a huge organisation with a good business infrastructure and then they're too lazy to get of their backsides to steer it.
No wonder we broke three beef factories in the seventies
Is criticism of this "huge organisation with a good business infrastructure" not allowed.
The ifa are a puppet at this stage…some of the higher up members in the past year on twitter when big issues were making mainstream headlines they were putting up posts condemning the issues. Would be more in their line to actually try and influence the outcomes of these issues.
Who can honestly say they remember the last time the ifa secured anything for the farmers on the ground.
Harsh ….IFA ha major flaws …still has but current president and vice president have been a huge step forward and brought credibility back to the organisation …..it’s a great pity Brian rushe isn’t running for head job ….but I understand his reasons why
Don’t mean to offend anyone but if rushe is as good as you say he is, could you name 2/3 issues which he has had a hand in addressing that has directly benefited farmers on the ground. As I myself and I’m sure many would also agree would be at a loss to do so.
I think ifa need to get a decent pr person to combat falsehoods and anti farming lies in the media. iv said it before. I think Ciaran Fitzgerald would be a great performer and well able to stand his ground and defend his position
2.5 litres of a lift per cow after going all maize as the buffer, where on beet/oat hulls/silage 1kg ration, never had maize left over for the summer before it would open your eyes to the feed value of it
The surprise is "press release" description of being pissed and disgusted that government should instruct teagasc to withold a paper containing information that would be benificial to farmers, prior to a new regulation being imposed.
This "instruction" would have bypassed the board of the organisation, but should be incumbant on the board to take the issue to task in a proper manner.
It was a sick move by government, in the full knkwledge of the financial impact relative to the gain, and will in essence work against the regulators pussing further obsceneties across the line.
You do need to get out more..
