Ryan Tubridy
I couldn’t give two fiddlers if they ban ‘liquid sunshine’.
I used to buy glyphosate by ibc container, now I only use a few 20L drums. I’m not a lover of it’s effect on the soil biome.
On your other post pointing the finger at tillage for being polluters. The power of the fert industry has slanted fert use to continue at the current level, and then plant cover crops to ‘mop up’ the excess…the complete opposite to what I’m doing here. You couldn’t make it up.
Indeed.
Apeing after the NZ production model was/is a big mistake.
European production costs are now some of the highest in the world. Lactalis have come out saying that they want to reduce their milk intake by 22-25% by 2025. They are setting up processing facilities in Brazil because they can produce milk so much more cheaply that European farmers. Lactalis are a family owned Co and are no slouches.
that's what I think too
The tubridy sh1te show
Is it still going down
which is?
I'm all for fragmented farms seeing as I have one myself now too. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best is my motto.
Confusing 😔
There will only be one thing on peoples minds on Tuesday morning
There's not many lads think they're following that syst but there costs are pretty much the same or higher in some cases 🤔 😉
What about indoor systems? Permanently in at night? Bullshit definition
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I looked up the maps for the place here locally and the surroundings areas and it's grade one perfect, zero issues, in the above scenario what powers would they have to go after farms in my area where water quality is passing all the metrics they require, with no pollution issues
It’s not …and with respect most of us are farming a fraction of the land you are ….if dero goes in morning my farm ain’t viable
That's the inspection regime that is being sought by the various orgs.
Farmer org will fight it to the last . But anyway.
I'm not disputing that - in the case of Dairy related pressures I think the issue could be dealt with by properly clamping down on the the minority of rogue operators who consistently flout good practice and regs in this area. We all know the type locally and it obviously p*sses off the the compliant majority who then get tainted and burdened by the outcomes of these chancers actions.
Difference is the nitrates in waterways.
Pasture has now been proven to release less nutrients to waterways than tilled crops.
Greens in this country are a bit slow on the uptake though being blinded by all things non pasture.
Its a target the state has to meet by 2030 - applies across the board to all potential water quality pressures. In the case of Ag it will be enforced by a combination of CCs, EPA and possibly also come under a specialized unit in DAFM
Don't think the industry here is helping itself either by claiming on the one hand the virtues of "Grass to milk", yet insisting on a derogation regime that indoor producers on the continent can only dream of.🤨
What's the rules and regulations re water directive, who enforces it?
Water Directive applies to all farms too
Glyphosate is under derogation too.
Could easily swap in glyphosate for organic manure in that post.
It's defined as land adjacent to the milking parlour.
Utter cowsh1t more like. I seem to be the only one preparing to farm at 170. Time will tell who the fools are I guess.
Farmers don’t seem to have any comprehension of the meaning of the word Derogation. It’s certainly not an entitlement to create and spread as much organic manure on their land as they wish.
My twitter timeline is poisoned by Irish farmers crying about how they’ll go to the wall if the derogation is dropped to 220. What utter bullsh1t.
But what is a milking platform. A zero grazer means anything within a 10 mile radius can be part of one.
At 3.6/ha here and have mown enough out of it to carry up to 4/ha if I wasn't too lazy to buffer feed it back.
It wouldn't matter to 99% of mainland European herds, its a uniquely Irish problem, theirs no derogation in most eu counties their all farming under 170kg/ha bar one our two exceptions...
Agree with you there that’s kind of what I was getting at it would be the end of dairy production across a lot of the continent we are unique here in Ireland at the fact we predominantly graze our milking herds.
