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was in France about a mth ago... saw some serious crops of maize... was telling a lad bout em when i came home.. he said a buunch of kerry farmers went to france yrs ago on a farm tour and when they saw the crops of maize and the size of the cob on em.. they figured farmers in ireland were wasting their time growing maize as they could only get half the crop compared to the french farmers.....
What's ration coming in at for ye? 375 for a 14% nut here, staying stubbornly high
If you're gonna do maize would want to be good ground not heavy, it's costly enough without having poor crops.
A neighbour of mine sat it late this year and it struggled I'd say. It's hilly too. Looking forward to seeing the harvest soon.
You dont want to grow maize in in a cold muddy field.
A contractor told me before that 1 trailer equalled about one acre. I heard the ginger warrior today saying that one acre of maize is like 3 or 4 acres of grass silage.
I have a 6 acre field on the outfarm that I'm thinking about for it. Bit muddy and a heavy nature but not a swamp. About 300 to 350 feet over sea level. I suppose it would cost me 10 or 12k to grow and pit anyway. Finding somewhere to pot it would be the next problem then.
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Edit to say half the comment didn't load should have read (ya😃 I had that done previously and still faster
Top tip to speed up slurry spreading, cut the outlet hole on the rubber at the back bigger. More is able to get out and you can drive on a bit faster. Takes me less than 3 minutes to empty 2000g
Dribble bars empty the tanker almost twice as fast as splashplate .....huge saving in fuel ⛽️. Time and service costs if you can't spread it with a Dribble bar it's too thick to be spreading it anyways. Big coat of thick slurry sets grass back for days and days
No extra water drawn in here so no extra slurry to spread. Pipe onto the agitator and parlour washings pumped to slurry tanks is plenty. Have downpipes set up that I can divert them but havent had to do it yet. Extra diesel usage is small too, the macerator puts a little extra draw on the tractor but she still spreads at about 1200revs.
I am growing as much grass and am down almost 25% on fertiliser usage as I can follow cows with watery slurry. That for me is the real win.
All the water being drawn in to agitate the slurry and extra slurry to spread, that and the extra steel and production to make dribble bars. Compaction and higher use of diesel. I bet if the sums were calculated it wouldn't be much benefit for the environment
I have the old style steel feed augers in the parlour. About 4” in diameter. Currently have 30 year old home made fittings between the augers and the feeders, however these are no longer mouse proof.
What is the proper name for the connector between the feeder and auger? Are they still available for the old steel auger systems. Thanks folks
17 22 ft trailers came off 10 acres and there’s still 20 ft of space at the front
Why is the dribble bar bad for the soil?
How many acres would it take to fill that size?
Yeah layed a new small slab last year for it. Put earth banks on it during the summer
22ft x 100 ft
Do you put it in the pit?.
Now you can argue if it's good or bad but the reality is that the PLC environment tends to attract the most ambitious head people.
Why do ye thing the present top dogs are leaving to go on to bigger and better things.
Well I wouldn't know the in and outs of it but I suppose it would be similar to when Kerry went PLC. Released loads of equity while still continuing to trade.
Kerry Group are the only PLC with a share. I think the Ornua shareholding came back to Tirlan.
It has the way executive in these companies think it's they developed the brand. Originally Sir Dr Tony's brainchild. It was developed from there. It's a huge brand why would you sell it. Just go out and hire a few young ambitions executives to carry it on for another 15-20 years
Processors own Ornua.
If they can see a way of releasing equity, who knows what they'll do.
Similar to Hinchey selling the Dairygold silverware for short term gain……
Drift of a bad smell coming from this.
Farmers need to resist any notion of leaving go of their brand, a top world recognised brand...invaluable.
crazy stuff to be considering selling our premium brands......cant release equity in brand??......we dont need equity in brand we need the brand to pay higher than commodity prices....this plc mentality needs to stop at coop and processor level.....there only aim should be return the highest price to suppliers....
how they left 4 senior exec all leave at same time with no success planning....gone to private equity and then suddenly offer for kerrygold??? only in ireland!!!
Dont prople realise when marketing rights are sold the farmer becomes a price taker correct me if im wrong but have kerry and glanbia any obligation to pay a decent price i dont think so.Or have they any obligation to market irish milk .Dairy farmers are like beef farmers now
Yeah , no thanks
I don’t how that was possible. A lot of dealers around here nearly always have an extra tank in the yard
we went over the road here to a local guy who wouldnt be a big dealership but sells an awful lot of stuff and he had a well speced tank in the yard for sale
https://www.businesspost.ie/news/dairy-co-ops-revive-proposal-to-sell-iconic-e1bn-kerrygold-brand/
There were lads grant approved that couldn't buy a tank in the end because of the rush on tanks. Manufacturers couldn't be sure they could deliver even 6 months after the deadline at the time.
