Why do you think this government now appears to have an open door migrant policy for non-EU nationals?? Pretty clear the aim is to drive down wages and working conditions across the board. Same government doing FA to address any cost of living issues too in terms of price gouging, flawed energy/housing policies and cartels etc. Seems we are sliding back to some kind of state sanctioned feudalism😔
This is a programme where the creators pick a narrative and go find content to suit.
160 on 50 hectares not sustainable 🤔🤔🤔…..any sort of good land that’s a doddle
I'd say the same lad likes his kebabs....
Buys his silage off local lads and slurry is spread on that ground
works for him
he wanted a farm of his own and now he has it
I’m just gone 30 and near finished a 2500 square ft 2 storey with only a fraction of it borrowed. Never done anything only farm. I know no one my age that has done the same tbh. Delighted I’m a dairy farmer, Hard graft but offers great opportunities at the same time
Could we send him out to new zealand to do a expose on this chap, and highlight how irish dairying is light years ahead of the above, I've switched off a longtime ago from even trying to comply with the latest bulls**t redtape/stocking rates, lads just need to play the cute hoor and forget about the sfp, and farm away, it's not tenable anymore trying to comply with regulations that are now changing yearly no business can survive that
Let's see in a couple of years time. I wouldn't like to be borrowing based on those stocking rates.
Built my 4000 sq foot house from savings from my job. Have 2 houses in the city that I bought while working. Anything is possible if you put your mind to it.
I shouldn't laugh but the poor lad. Just when you think the clip couldn't get any worse. It does.
I think even out there it's tightening up. The trouble is all the data on dairy. All the bad data is coming from there and it's being automatically transferred to here.
So look there at those volcanic soils. The soils which are the best in the world for organic. The advice was and still is to load on the fertiliser. The microbiome is phucked so it can't access the natural nutrients locked there. It's full but it can't be accessed so the fert is loaded on. With those conditions above the free moving fert just leaches and washes off.
It's herd size too. Larger the mob. The more damage done when conditions are not favourable. No sheds either when things go south.
A Nuffield scholar was out in Prince Edward Island learning about potato growing and how it could be replicated here. Or learn from it anyway. They posted on Twitter about the visit. I asked about the nitrates on the Island. Never got a reply. Nitrates there are 10. Most of the well water is above the limit due to potato growing.
Some difference in approach..
https://www.ruralnewsgroup.co.nz/rural-news/rural-general-news/bobby-calves-processing-boost
If Fran brings up poor animal welfare we’ll just say Teagasc says we should only be doing 50 hours a week in spring time, that applies only to the best farmers apparently, reading agriland yesterday. I’d work 50 hours a day in springtime. Silly me I know, at least I get well paid for it lol.
You will get plenty lads singing from the hymn sheet. Teagasc will bring them up to the front of the class and they'll blow about all the win wins and the high profits.
it will be a one sided biased view designed to create maximum damage
Then what else would you expect from a rotton corrupt organisation like rte? some of them should get jail
Had the vet out last night with a cow with a rda she is flying it this morning. wonderful
Hours worked is your own choice. Size and efficiency of operation all within the farmers control.
We focus on overall profit, but give out about hourly return....if there's another €100 to be made, we go after it regardless of the time input.
Saw last year's hourly returns for a DG last week...€45 (all labour..paid+unpaid)..
That video was some laugh. He seems like a nice guy in fairness. He just doesn't know any better and plenty lads here could be accused of similar. Kiwis used to be known as the best farmers in the world - how far they've fallen.
What's the best strategy for dealing this pr wise.should we be looking at where this money in the rte"barter"account is coming from.i suppose in light of the upcoming calf expose would we find a contribution from a good man
We’re far superior here in our methods and how we treat the environment and our stock ….I couldn’t think of a worse place to learn about or work in dairy industry
We keep putting out the good work we’re doing …..rte are in the **** atm so won’t have the same affect ….Pity it isn’t this week
the usual ant ag brigade will have there field day
Can you translate this for me please 😁
I can't understand it either. I could not go in home if there was animals still to be fed or a animal down. Spring time if there is a cow down or sick, fencing, slurry, fertilizer, calving, calf feeding, lucky to have 14 hour days.
I used to wonder at those guys who can do everything anytime and run a dairy farm. But it almost always turns out that there is someone at home keeping the show going, a mother and father or some hunchback hanging around wether paid or not. It's when the help drys up that the **** hits the fan
Our problem is we need an articulate representative which we dont seem to have at the moment ,thinking out loud we could do with someone forcefull like the meat industry Ireland spokesman during thre beef plan strike was that Cormac Healy .It was just impossable to try and better him
Well said. also what is dg ??? Do you know
Agree 100%. And I think the right rep could be found.
But it won't come from IFA. Whether they were any good or not, all Presidents fancied themselves as good media performers. I might think I can sing but it doesn't mean I'm going to on telly and try to win X-factor.
The National Dairy Council have ads on the telly and radio at the moment, and they look/sound excellent. Very well put together, simple messages, no over-the-top greenwashing. I don't think Zoe Kavanagh from NDC is a great media performer, but they obviously recognise the value of doing PR right, so maybe they'll identify a good public speaker next.
Discussion Group?
Any mention of anything being done on the farm, I did this and that. Never a mention of anyone else. Really bugs me , as if a switch flicked when they home home and everything was wonderful due to them. Annoying when you know the true picture. Most of them wouldn't work to warm themselves and the poor fools at home doing all the work
Ahhhh silly me ......backwards farming. I must look for my discussion group 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔👀👀👀👀 thanks rooster
On my own here for 16 years, never any help from family. Luckily I've had lads from college etc who can help out on a sat morning or during their holidays, who I pay well and try to treat them well. Since I started increasing numbers here. I've moved away from rearing heifers and are now contract rearing stock(huge time saver). Slurry is contracted out in spring and spread by myself in summer. Fert, spraying, topping all done by myself as too hilly. Most repairs are done by myself as by the time u drive a tractor down to mechanic etc, ul have it fixed urself!! Facilities are very good but it's cost me in repayments etc but has saved alot on labour. Certain times of the year there is time on a dairy farm, last November and December myself and young lad erected 6 Bay calf shed, got a contractor in for concrete. It's all about time management and keeping off the road during the day
I said here a few weeks back that ciaran Fitzgerald who healy replaced would be a heavy hitter.
It's great going Kev ya you will have bits of time at certain stages .....ya couldn't agree more re staying off the road it's a huge time drain
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