They probably do...
I doubt that you'd be at it to contribute.
Anyone with cows still out? I have full time but obviously they’re doing a lot of poaching, only thing helping me is milking once a day. I see a few farmers near me with cows out by day. I think my options will be limited in the next few days with the forecast.
No im not on the group but seeing as this group is coming up with new ideas every week surely they should be discussed with farm orgs and negotiated to something fair.The cow banding is a joke plenty of herds around 7 to 8k litres in high band these are our most efficent farms
You're doing very well.
We can only pull a 3 to 4 hour grazing every few days.
Good growth and very strong regrowths but running out of enough quality bales now to keep them in full milk.
Looking now that yields will have taken a hit by the time we get back out to any meaningful grazing.
Problem is ur overstocked if ud less cows ud have more high quality silage cus yud have less cows last spring u cud have ur cows milking away niw
I see they want to try and bring in the tractor testing again. Disaster for lads like myself with a few crocks around the place. Not even going on the main roads. Another couple of thousand every year.
I hope the unions can stop this as the costs of farming are crippling. ( I doubt they will as they are fuuucking useless)
If that’s the spot it’s on the banks of the Blackwater. And they’re lucky that the river didn’t flood the lot and level a large portion of it.
Suit them better to enforce all existing " rules of the road "
Im sure like most orgs who tell us what to do an ex farm org high flyer will be chairman or something other to fight our corner.The usual rant is it coming from europe thesevlaws
It’s more to do with having poor facilities and needs must. I’d much prefer to have them in but can’t currently properly manage them, legacy issues. Will probably saying legacy issues in 40 years time.
His starting to sound more like a lad with 20 acres rather then 200 plus, all bought and paid for by the way. I personally don’t bother with farm organisations. Sick of money being taken off my cheques going towards Ifa, Macra etc.
Jaysus 😴😴😴😴😴😴
No they are not. Its a myth high yielders tell themselves. Prove that they are
Prove that there not ......
Is that you Aidan …..
Are you referring to the likes of the IFA as a union ?
Seriously !
40k personal drawings on accounts where their was 1.2 million litres of delivered in 2022, with 10k on relief labour has alarm bells ringing with boi, re-financing a milk-flex loan, their washing their hands of lending to dairy farmers by the tone of a email I got their a few hours ago
Anyone have prices for beet?
Prices I'm getting are putting it on par with ration, but won't be available until weather dries up.
I reckon by the time it becomes available, herds may be finishing up and customers will be scarce.
65/70 washed and delieverd …..going to be a hard sell this year ..especially to dairy herds
You can get maize freely around me for 75 a tonne. Contractor pitting it because he can't sell it all. Still grazing by day here ... but for how long i don't know, huge struggle with winter milk. cows currently doing 22 litres @ 4.59f and 3.89 pr. gonna have to pull the plug on grass for a while soon i recon. only being used as a protein source at the moment.
Got some delivered into the yard during the week. Washed and delivered €70.
Who is aidan
On the beet factory side or the racecourse side? That floods! Ploughed the beet factory side for a few years many moons ago
Must be George R crew? Disappointing if it is..they should know better. Anyhow why plant maize on land prone to flooding.
No idea price wise ....what are you being quoted . I'd say you are correct about herds drying off doesn't seem to be an apatite for milking on this year
I’m in at night last 10 days or so 6/7 grazings by day then that’s it ….frig all feeding in grass just want covers cleaned off …despite rain doing little damage .milk recorded during week …just over 16 kg milk 5.12 fat 4.1 p ….tgeres 6 to be dried off early next week aa they’ve nearly dried themselves anyway then will start drying jan calvers following week …seriously challenging year from milk price to weather to poor quality grass ,expensive poor quality dairy nuts and high running costs in general …at least milk price is turning
You couldn't be up to them, my aul lad is in the tourism industry and advised me that if your sector is going well, they're happy to lend, if it's under pressure they pull back.
Same as DBK, €70. Its over 300 a tonne DM and a bit of a head scratcher as to whether it's worth it.
Dont bother going to aib, most useless shower I ever dealt with
I always have a motto ''business is business'', I never take anything like that personally. I found them excellent at times over the years and not so good at other times
I got my Mortgage from them for a self build in 1991 and the farm loan in 2002/2003. I moved the farm loan from them in 2005 as they were not willing to renegotiate the rate. We all might have been as well off if every bank had been as hard as them to negotiate with.
They may be over committed to Agri lending at present. Just move on if it suits but I would never be afraid to negotiate with them. Got an SCBI loan of them a year and a half ago no problem.
The biggest issue at present is a lot of government subsidized borrowing which is the cheap money is not for refinancing existing borrowing's that is the money coming in around 4-5%
Have a application gone into the local credit union this drib and drab re boi is going on months they look for information you provide and a week later they need something else and your back to square one again....
Credit union is actually partnered with ifac for the cultivate loan so my accountant is taking care of the application, I reckon the main banks are going to stop any meaningful degree of lending to dairying without crazy levels of security against it
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