The only problem with all the protesting is that at best you only get a sticking plaster solution which only kinda solves the problem for now.
The real solution is the problem itself in that some farms will have to shut down and production must drop. Now in the dairy sector that may not be very far into the future. Not many lads interested in going at it here anyway and I believe that almost every second dairy farm in France is for sale.
Wrong time of the year for us Dawg . Most of them are too busy calving cows....
On the Maize grades. we are paying around 220 from the port . Its not the farmers fault we are paying a premium price for a **** grade if you're correct. Its the millers/ importers. I'd be more than happy to pay 190 from the port for grade 1 French Maize. Not gonna happen though unfortunately
Dairy issues are different to the issues driving the majority of the protests I would think. No matter how much EU farms cut back, there is any amount of product available from third countries to still come in and supply the market as things stand.
Beef is ok for the minute as imports are limited. Dairy is fine also as the capital investment hasn't been made in south America to really drive production on there yet.
But grains, poultry, pigs and horticulture are all being undercut. The only real solution is protection from non EU imports.
And that's before Ukraine even getting full access to the single market. It's caused enough issues as it is.
depends on the grade of maize and barley:)
its the second ingredient listed after maize...might be slightly out, gave it to a competitor miller and they couldnt beat price due to volume of soya, the 25% is the figure they gave me....there is some beet pulp with i forgot
Irish farmers the most disenchanted dis interested bunch of layabouts..... Irish farmers will never again join together and have any clout as an organisation far too much back biting and hatred of each other
Closeness of Irish farm orgs to beef processors and their impotence in the face of Dept randomly changing regs has a lot to do with farmer apathy too
Definitely a big part of it all
What's peoples opinion on putting stubble ground back into grass, would be in corn for a good few years. The ground would be intended for silage mostly. Somebody suggested wholecrop with grass undersown but I don't really see the benefit? I'm guessing getting some dung on it wouldn't do it any harm anyway.
A bulky cut of silage would be the main reason for undersowing it
Be grand. Grass would grow on your Wellington if you stood still long enough.
All the organic matter would be gone out of tillage land if it was any more than six year sin tillage and it'd take a few years to build up again. Plenty of nitrogen or clover in the sward would help and it's very important to have the soil fertility indexes high. After that just target the reseeds for slurry for a few years.
It costs so much to reseed now, I wouldn't be undersowing,
P and k levels would be the worry organic matter as others said would definitely be low
Strongly disagree!!
Irish farmers are not layabouts and it’s disingenuous to call them that.
Why in the name of God would the IFA and Irish farmers ‘storm the bastille’ about millions of ton of imports when they/you benefit 100% from them?
Turkeys don’t vote for Xmas.
100%!
Every second farm is only 50%..I’d wager it’s much more than that!
If you saw the video where farmers drew in earth to a national road and planted grass seed..it was in protest about any grassland that is over 4yrs old must be left in grass forever more. That locks farmers into dairy forever, and they want out! That’s in Quimper where K.G is buying the organic dairy farm. Thing is, the land there isn’t much use for anything else.
Thanks lads, I have a couple of years worth of dung and can get slurry on aswell. Would you spread now and just disc or powerharrow to prepare for sowing. If I spread it now and plough will I just be burying the nutrients I'm putting on?
I'd have to bale it is my concern I don't have pit space
The more extreme nationalistic type farmers have been blockading the main border routes into France. They’ve been checking refrigerated trucks for the provenance and paperwork of their cargo. Truck after truck full to the gills with poultry products..eggs/meat labeled as French with false paperwork, all after coming into Poland from Ukraine, through Germany and into France. Totally illegal. They reckon that 50% of poultry products for sale in France is illegally imported.
Paris have been denying this for 2yrs saying that it would be insensitive to stop it while UA is in the middle of a war…?
Mad stuff indeed.
Farm orgs have only looked after the big boys the only problem with this is the big farmers are a minority so when it comes to protest there wont be much of attendance.
Your talking about all the imports of grain coming in the country, surely it’s only making big profits for the big miller merchants to become bigger fat cats and easy to talk about what Irish farmers shouldn’t do with a very weak IFA in place.
Jasus you've obviously been away a while there's very few farmers killed any more as an overall percentage of the "farming" population its small the bunch that are working hard anymore on farm.
Been watching the French farmers on tiktok the past couple of days and thought if started in ireland would I go and the answer is not a chance, I just couldn't spare the time and I think that would be the way in most yards at the minute.and to be fair to lads with off farm work would they take time off to go protesting I don't think so and there is very few full timers that would have.the.capacity to take off just like that
Weak IFA reflects weak farmers
You’re not wrong.
Millers will keep their margin.
How?
Because he served for the ifa before so it can’t be their fault…
I’m aware of that but would like to see what the back up will be.
IFA officers are elected from members on the ground so they represent the calibre of the members.
IF nothing else, the IFA is democratic
Ya never ever bale anything other than grass silage seen a lad set fire to the last twenty bales of arable silage one Time the vermin that ran out of it was just unbelievable 😳 twas a good job he moved it away out a field first
You need to reword your comment then to weak IFA reflects weak IFA members. Vast majority of farmers in my area anyway wouldn’t be IFA members as our type of farms wouldn’t be in the category of what the IFA represent or fight for.
