Really Jesus there not still at that messing 😳. It's beyond a joke
I'm sure there are ..my post was an attempt at humour given the discussion over Christmas involving that poster around the topic of cull cows.
Well if they were teagasc poster boys students are sent to them farm to keep the party going
There was a death recently of a mart foreman in the locality. One worker refused to go to the funeral or wake. My own father went to the wake. This worker wasn't a worker at all. But would work with his mouth. He'd be out in the yard ordering everyone else what to do and him doing as little as possible and he not a foreman or manager at all. The deceased put him behind the weighing scales on his own one day and he had no excuse or couldn't get away from the work. 40 or 50 years ago this was. And that man still carries that the man did the dirty by putting him there and wouldn't go to the funeral. I never laughed so hard inside when I heard the man saying and then felt so sorry how he was spoilt rotten by not being left permanently behind the scales.
must be the increase in minimum wage its gone to €12.70 an hour
Have milk peaked for ireland, looks to be plenty of clearance sales.
Its nine years since quotas went so i supposed that big burst on has happened at this stage
It's all about trying to build up excitement and anticipation for another year. Heard another of their podcasts there on the environment edge. All they wanted to hear was about the positives "going forward". They had the right kind of lick arse fools on but they couldn't resist mentioning their uncertainty over future investment. Ah sure spend away mad and at least you will have it in the off chance that you might need it was the teagasc response.
As my father says, most of the teagasc lads couldn't put their hands in their pockets for 10k themselves but they're great to advise others to spend.
Probably doesn't help all those clowns posting videos on TikTok recently of themselves firing out slurry during torrential rain over recent weeks🙄
In some places theres a brother that does all the work and another that does all the talking.
Anyone I know coming close to it has either plenty staff, family or otherwise, and/ or good facilities. Facilities can make things faster and easier to do so is the big one really imo
Some riveting insights from Teagasc in latest dairy edge. "We spoke to 4 farmers who average an 8 hour day, which is comparable to PAYE employees." Took them a while to mention that 8 hour day equated to a 56 hour work week. Then slipped in the fact that of the 4 farmers questioned, 1 had his missus doing the calf rearing and admin work, 1 had his auld boy doing all the Maintenence work and odd bit of tractor work, drawing bales in the summer and another had his kids feeding calves before school. What a monumental waste of resources
Hi everyone, just wondering does anyone know when imports of incalf heifers is suppose to resume in Algeria? It was temporarily closed in December. 1000 plus heifers were suppose to be heading for export there.
One old rule of thumb is to run one cow for every month of age the bull is up to 30. Half the thing is a cute mature bull moves on from an animal once he's her served.
I'd be wary of the synching as the repeats can come back in a cluster making the situation worse.
A hardy reared easy calving 3yo AA AU or SA would be your best bet and you could often pick them up handier this time of year.
There’s some new stipulation every week now it seems easy to see why people would give up on it.
where did you get the figure of 75k. Would he. not qualify for Consanguinity Relief?
I know two guys very well doing it, both have a lot of leased ground very good at what they do but aren’t giving any big money for land, if certain factors are present there is money to be made at that craic but the vast majority wouldn’t make enough from that craic to make it worth their while.
😅😅😅 Who'd be stupid enough to step that far out of the teagasc box
And if you keep a good few culls on an outfarm you might even get that figure lower😀
Just ai for 3 weeks youll surely get 50 percent worst case scenario and some well bred heifer calves.The bull will surely catch the other 15.
My buddy told me that he received the Dairygold Milk Purchasing Conditions in this morning’s post. 38 pages of regulations he said.
Would certainly serve as encouragement for any suppliers thinking of selling up…..
Looks like they want that new concrete levy to be big to pay for them mica houses to be rebuilt.if you believe that that tax money will see people in Donegal getting new homes 😏
But let's be honest.the current requirement is probaly not enough in practice. We ve a fairly rain free winter accommodation and we are just about enough.now I will say we are doing a bit of straw bedding in theory but it wouldn't about to 10 % in the overall scheme of things.anyway that always been the story with milking you're always spending
Edit. misread post.
are there any plans to allow lads to test their slurry for N..? we have all our tanks roofed here.... got slurry tested out of curiosity... came back at 5.9kgsN/m3...
It's all implausible made up figures just to keep the boot in and close of any options like existed re slurry exporting before they took a few watery slurry samples and used them as their basis point to come up with the n figure we are at, if the civil service put in half the effort and f**k-wittery they are pulling on us into the health service they'd have it turned around in no length
Amazing how my cows emitted 106 last year and only 92 this year. 🤔
I'm surprised it's not a lot higher.
A 106 cow emits 2kgN per week (supposedly), and if slurry contains 2.4kgN/m³, then you should require 0.83m³ (2÷2.4) per week storage.
Someone got a formula across that the 106 cow emits just 1kgN/week during the housed period.
This will be included in the water framework directive. It will be a legal requirement...storage capacity, comply with spreading dates, no runoff etc.
Giving up SFP will be of no benefit with this one.
350-450 gallons of extra storage per cow depending on area your in and type of slurry storage installed, with building costs and if you can't get grant aid with current interest rates 160 cow farm for arguments sake would have to take out probably 75k just to get a tank up no shed, just slats and tanks, on a 5 year term you'd have circa 1500 euro a month leaving the account, our nearly 2 cent a litre added on to production costs, nice kick in the balls with the year just gone and the majority of dairy farms hoping to recoup some of their losses and build back up a rainy day fund
whatever they can do to get farmers to spend money they will do it.... is going from 0.33m3 to 0.4m3 a europe wide thing... or is it just here in little oul ireland.... the quarries will be delighted....
lads will sooner or later start to look at the SFP and wonder is it worth it...
