That will be a **** feast .........literally
Whether you work in front of computer screen or in a milking parlour, it's the people you work with that make it good or bad. Or the people the job allows you to avoid!
It's a ireland/UK problem re low pay, done 2 years out in Australia milking cows and my average salary converted to euros was 50k a year after tax plus super annuation plus accommodation and a jeep....
That was in 2011/2012, if you asked a irish dairy farmer for the above wage package he'd likely have a stroke
Dried off the first of the autumn calvers today. Year doesn't be long going around
Ya, I agree with you. Start time and finish time, holidays essential. I wouldn't work for a farmer myself I don't think. But mostly enjoy doing it for myself.
Would never see myself working in front of the computer for the rest of my working life either but my point was really why would anyone work for a farmer for pittance when there is so much easier ways to make more money for a fraction of the hours involved and potentially significant benefits on top of that from your employer.
Once you leave the farming circle and get some real world experience in other fields it’s easy to see why there is a labour shortage in the dairy sector. I’m sure having worked off farm previously you could agree with that.
How's that going to help re labour and facilities to rear calves to a month old plus, instead of loading up the Bobby calves at 10-14 days for the Bobby job? Alot of these big units don't think it's needed to put a roof over the cows, so their hardly going to be building 5 star calf accommodation for the bull/beef calves, and taking on non-existent extra labour units to rear them....
The case on the majority of these units was always to front load dairy ai put all your attention into the first 4 weeks getting your replacement heifers reared healthy and after that Bobby the dairy bulls and flog the beef calves ASAP at 10-14 days old, as the season progresses, having to keep every single calf on farm next year for 4-6 weeks will create huge issues on alot of units that are compact calving and haven't invested heavily in calf accommodation
And some lads think working in front of a computer is hardship. At least that's the way I used to see it anyway.
The only way labour will work out is if you have students locally to milk on weekends or young fellas at ag college who are available in the evenings during the spring paid by the milking and a generous hourly rate outside of milking for general labour.
I worked for 3 months on placement at ag college when doing the green cert after I finished school on a big unit which now has several other units established under the one company. You’d want your head examined to work for them type of operations long hours for little pay. Then you have the classic option of becoming a share farmer to tie a noose around the workers neck so they can’t leave as have money invested into the business.
I went to university after that year completed an engineering degree and now work 3 days from home and 2 on site for a multinational. In a partnership at home with the parents so this working setup allows the best of both worlds until my time to take over happens.
Then again some fellas love hardship…
Ya it's a bit of a con to satisfy the criteria for getting non eu labour units 😉
Hes welllll burst by the talk of all of sligo three large sums from relations built the place and its all been squandered ........allegedly....🤔👀
Aren't those 30k adverts for lads a way to try loosen the visa rules to get some poor foreign lad in on even cheaper wages than they'd have to pay a local lad?
Agree with that ….4 station auto feeder be here next spring in expectation calves won’t be moving as they have been …..reality is tho money will be lost on most of these calves
getting staff for spring is a huge issue around these parts ….I see lots of bigger units looking for assistant managers or managers offering 30 k per annum …..won’t be much lads sticking there hands up at that sort of money for hours evolved weekends etc lots then aren’t set up with sheds etc to keep calves 4 weeks minimum most smaller operators are to some extent
Big units move faster, have financial capacity to put facilities in place quickly and have competency if working with staff so as to resource what's required here.
Gonna be tougher on single operator units. **** load of extra work.
I know plenty of big units that were the first to make changes to breeding policy
just because you mightn’t know any isn’t to say it isn’t happening on the ground
I hope you are right.
we're being stitched up by a rotton corrupt entity. they should be banned from ploughing etc
I don’t know what this programme is about but I hope they don’t have that farmer they pulled out on the news who has 800 cows and if he had to get rid of some of them he’d go burst speaking for the ordinary farmers of the country.
In fairness from 2024 on with new regulations re no bobbying under 8 weeks 4 week old rule re distance traveled etc, null and void the hit piece by rte, the co-ops are out ahead of it for once, don't think it's dawned on the big units the extra workload their in for next year though
Lads no point giving that oxygen ….
sting of a nasty dying wasp
Probably the best week that piece could be aired all the same.
RTE 0% credibility, 100% spin
Co-ops/department have implemented the framework from next year on that theirs going to be no more "messing" so to speak re calf welfare at least in the public eye, it's been on the back-burner the last 3 years anyways covid saved it from been aired in 2020....
I see fran mcnulty and the discredited national broadcaster he works for are going to do hatchet job on dairy next Monday night. shower of c.u.n.t.s
Brilliant
Anyone ever put astroturf on cow roads? Any good?
People that listen to him don't live in the countryside, and those that do are there by birth/necessity, not choice
He's a lying phuq. How are people still believing what he's saying..
100 + VAT here from a local supplier
Our GP leader has let the cat out of the bag and has put the reduction scheme that's coming down as something that processors, farmers and the like want
I'd like to hear what Tírlan and the other processors logic is there to reduce the milk they get
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