If weather doesn’t happen in the PRC, is it really weather?
Cork, the South, got a fair load compared to Mayo and the West.
Must be climate change because the PRC couldn’t possibly p1ss off the rain Gods.
I had a quick look at the cumulative rainfall for the last few years after reading the above.
Moore Park long term average is 1029mm, but 1225mm fell in 2023
Cork airport long term average is 1228mm - 1527mm fell in 2023
Roches Point long term average is 976mm - 1306 fell in 2023
Sherkin Island long term average is 1188mm - 1377mm fell in 2023
I only looked at weather stations in the People’s Republic of Cork, since it is the centre of the universe after all…..
But I did look at Belmullet too since Dawg referred to it
For the last few years Belmullet has been around 1244 annually.
2023 total is only 13mm higher than the average
Between 800-900mm.
Got over 1400mm last year. Someone was saying that’s more than Belmullet.
That s alot of rain for ye is it.whats the.yearly average
It's not the professionals job, their job is to facilitate whatever is needed , also bringing a proposal straight to national council doesn't work either, it has to be discussed at the relevant commodity committee meeting and passed at that level first, National Council barely gets through all it's business in 8 hrs without discussing every proposal from the counties.
Action coming from the members on the ground is IFA policy. I know what support a Co Chairman gets with a direction from above,,,,, none
fantastic sale of fresh dairy cows in the normal monthly sale in Carnaross today (not taaffes sale)
top price over 2500 with avg price around 1700
in calf heifers avg 1100
trade on fire
In other news..got over 800mm of rain since mid-October. It stopped last Thursday. Fresh calvers out today and we’ll fire them all out tomorrow.
There's a committee representing every sector, A commitee with a direct line into the department and an executive secretary, mind you sometimes it's difficult enough to get your proposal through the secretaries and if they're not driven hard enough it's farmers own fault, the opportunity is there.
If I was a CO. Chairman now I'd just say F... them, considering the poor support from farmers and the whingeing on social media, why waste any more time with them.
Yea continuous tillage leaves even heavy land only fit for tillage, Grazing needs organic matter to get through droughts etc
That's a big part of it.
The staffers in Bluebell don't want anything too much like uncomfortable work either. National Council has too many members (30+) attending the meeting for them to operate efficiently - very few get to speak properly especially if they have a motion from their county executive that requires everyone to buy into it.
There's also an east-west divide that's nigh on impossible to get agreement across. The debacle over "upward only convergence" showed that. No one in HQ would make a decision and the Dept used that to ignore the whole lot.
The Dept are riding roughshod over dairy farmers re nitrates but the IFA is so limp now, it can't even begin to fight back.
Having said that, all it takes is a few farmers in an area to get together. I wasn't at this last night, but several (mostly dairy) farmers gathered outside a local village to make a point: https://www.farmersjournal.ie/news/news/waterford-farmers-gather-in-solidarity-with-european-counterparts-803181
There's talk of something happening in Carlow tonight too. This isn't coming from the suited crew in Bluebell - it's farmers themselves taking it on.
Heard that alright, of a dairy man that blew out a tillage man that had been renting the ground for years.
Dairy guy was disappointed with performance. Saw an arctic lorry and 3 tankers drawing slurry there a couple of weeks ago.
Those who are not full time care just as much but have even less time to spare than those who are full time.
weak in a different sense of the word than your original comment. A weakness brought about by the IFA. If the IFA represented all different scales and sectors of farmers equally then they would have a far bigger membership, wouldn’t have had break away organisations and may have more members possibly including more suitable people to elect as representatives.
We are just being walked on as kg said those who are full time farming just don't have time at the moment and those who are not just don't care really
Farmers that aren't in any organisation are weaker still. politicians are delighted with the likes of them, it's no wonder that rules and regulations are layered onto farmers if the ''vast majority '' of them can't be bothered.
Most EU/ Government proposals seem to be accepted without a hitch now compared to when I was in IFA
It's good ground fairly level, it has been fairly well minded..suppose there could be a risk of a plough pann in it, but you'd need a subsoiler to sort that..I'll get out dung on it whenever weather plays ball and then maybe look into power harrowing in slurry with the seed..I'll make a few enquiries on that
Is it free draining and fairly level as In not hopping out of the seat of the tractor. If so a quick disk and set the seed with power harrow would be my suggestion. if you think its compacted its ploughing and tilling. Lads power harrow in the slurry and seed in one go .....I've never done it. dung would be a serious job on that field
That's what I'd be thinking I'll stick with the grass until I can afford to be pitting that type of stuff.
Would you plough in the dung or would it be ok to disk the stubble field.
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.
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
IFA officers are elected from members on the ground so they represent the calibre of the members.
IF nothing else, the IFA is democratic
I’m aware of that but would like to see what the back up will be.
Because he served for the ifa before so it can’t be their fault…
How?
You’re not wrong.
Millers will keep their margin.
Weak IFA reflects weak farmers
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
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.
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.
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.
