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
I took them a while to kop on how many years was the old rules in place
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.
What's the cost of maize/acer this year, very little been grown around here
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
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.
Not to m3ntion all the septic tanks that are seeping into waterways .....
And a lot of them just piped direct
Id say a tanker of dairy washings spread before the rain we had wud cause more harm thank any septic tank.
😴😴😴😴😴😴your tired go off to bed or back to whatever you do for a living cos it's not dairy farming
I didn't see any mention of business people anywhere. Farmers were also buying to lease
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My comment refers to awaywithyou
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.
3.3 per Ha the last time they attempted it. I thought it was fair enough tbh
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…
Im a dairy farmer so im just finished milking going for a few pints later why wud u think im tired
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
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
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.
yes of course.. it isnt just business people buying land and the rule will apply to everyone i presume.... farming is a business so i suppose farmers are business people too... in fact i know of one man that milked cows who used to tell me he wasnt a dairy farmer but a business man... same fella has no cow now so not sure what he is.. i must ask him next time i see him...
Jaysus giving an average of €3600 for a suckler at that sale though is not the answer either. Thats 18 calves price difference.
I know its not that simple but if the bucket reared suck is within €200 of a suckler bred beast at similar age the bucket reared suck leaves more profit in my opinion. Costs €850 minimum to keep a suckler. €100 milk powder and €200 extra nuts plus €200 purchase price plus €200 selling differ is €700. Very basic but not 1 million miles off.
Would GPS dockets for any slurry over 3.3 cows/ha, out to out blocks not be as fair as lads exporting slurry.
You would have to get one of those cow toilets for the field too.
Price of beet in uk is very poor
think they get 35£ a t or something. I don’t know would it be any better here tbh
Ya fair enough the star craic is a joke as far as I'm concerned. Both for terminal sires for dairy and for the breeding of replacement animals in the beef herd but the price paid for beef suckers seems mad to me
How many tons per acre. The price of milk I'd **** poor at the moment both here and in England also there getting out in droves overthere
Be as good as here for tonnes I would say ? Lads tilling 40t an acre on fodder beet around here
I have!
I’d fire some of the crews I’ve seen. Must think they’re on farm simulator filling the trailers too much etc.
The point I was making was alps suggested the basic reason why Ireland was given the derogation in the first place..long growing season can devour 500kg easily. Maize, beet, spuds, sorghum etc etc. would consume even more if you wanted.
Seed €100-160/ha
Herbicide €24-30/ha
Starter fert €35/ha.
Irrigation €100/ha. Electricity has more than doubled.
Tillage & harvesting on top of that. Certainly not cheap but competes comfortably with hi-energy dairy nut.
Is that out your way?
Ive seen that video…scandalous! It’ll take years to repair that ground.
Luckily the EU will sort it out.
Funny how Irish Water is given plenty time to sort out their side and farmers must sort things overnight. Should be treated exactly the same..but IW is a known retirement instrument to maximize retiree’s pensions, sorting out actual issues is a poor second priority. Unfortunately it’s a lot easier to hammer farmers than faceless civil servants that are only marking time on their pensions.
