A lot of lads fed up of the icbf 5 star dairy cross not producing the top end selling calves in the marts, at present nearly 200 euros between a black lim and a red lim of the same weight in the east coast marts.
I've heard it's yourself. If your a dairy farmer ........... quit taking the piss ...... but your not theres holes in your yarns that you could drive a double decker through
Who is sitting on the committee i mean names of inividual all we hear is teagasc no actual name of whos advising ad what there qualification is to advise
Im a dairy farmer so im just finished milking going for a few pints later why wud u think im tired
That would be pretty fair, at 170 when derogation goes and only land within 3km counted you could have an effective stocking rate of 1.85 on milking platform…
3.3 per Ha the last time they attempted it. I thought it was fair enough tbh
What is the mooted stocking rate that the nitrate action committee are recommending for the grazing platform? The 3km distance will wioe me out anyway as I take in a lot of feed from an outblock. I draw the slurry back out to it but that doesn’t seem like it will be taken into account. I drew out 2500 gallons per cow last year to that outside land.
My comment refers to awaywithyou
I didn't see any mention of business people anywhere. Farmers were also buying to lease
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😴😴😴😴😴😴your tired go off to bed or back to whatever you do for a living cos it's not dairy farming
Id say a tanker of dairy washings spread before the rain we had wud cause more harm thank any septic tank.
Not to m3ntion all the septic tanks that are seeping into waterways .....
And a lot of them just piped direct
Not really an issue. I was at one of the acres courses ran by Teagasc. They have a lads that deals in pollution and he stayed that pollution from septic tanks is minimal.
Nitrates pollute by going down through free draining soils( very soluble in water)and phosphate's by overflow ( they are not really soluble).
In areas of heavy land where water drains( flows) off the land you see phosphate pollution, Nitrates go into the ground and drain down through through the bedrock.
If you think about septic tanks many were originally designed for double the amount of people in the houses they service.
Look at what beef suckler culls are making most heifers 700kg are making 2k incalf id see them as cheap there going to be always worth 16 1700.Those 6k one are some luneyboys or a show man
What's the cost of maize/acer this year, very little been grown around here
My take on it gd is that its a ponzi scheme the same as the pedigree breeding game. Everyone sees the heifer at €6,100 and thinks if they buy her they will be into that bracket with her offspring. A bull calf is worth €4 a kilo at best. They will all die in debt unless the buyer gets a huge slice of luck with stylish heifers and the genetics really click with their chosen bulls.
I honestly believe it is lunacy. Best suckler I ever had I bought her for €900.
I took them a while to kop on how many years was the old rules in place
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/raw-sewage-entering-irelands-waterways-daily-could-fill-three-olympic-size-swimming-pools-warns-epa/a835545400.html
some light reading for ya Dawg
A big help would be we stopped planting houses in every field in the country.
For refinancing a loan from another provider though? The list is;
"New Bulk Tank and Cooling Equipment, Repay Co-op Trading Debt, Land Purchase, Farm Development, Machinery and Stock Purchases. Retrospective Funding for Farm Development ex Cash Flow"
What's the reasoning behind the prices paid for sucker in calf heifer and cow's...Maybe gruller cos of your experience could answer 🤔....I'm aware this Is probably not the corner for it
Not to mention the grain crops list this year ....... been a hard year for all types of farming ....
I would it's completely mental in this country... the whole lot of it
Same here.
Me actually Dawg. I would far rather have the opportunity to create a viable business rather than operating in the sh1tshow that we do here re land availability.
Zero issue in my local branch ….told them what it was for was approved within a week
Seen loads of fields like that ….question has to be asked why in a field like so ….lots of crops drilled late too which means late harvest and the risks it brings
Re financing: the Credit Union have a limit of €75k for agri loans but they also have leeway to go above that in certain cases. Interest rate is 6.5%
Serious crops last few years. Grown this year at 130m in our area and seems like a good result.
Gobsmacked at the cost of growing though and wonder if something is out of kilter here regarding seed, fert, sprays etc.
Expensive land of course, but no irrigation required..
It suits armchair farmers and I investors not working farmers
