Based on what I saw today on Twitter concerning the meeting between the EU commissioner and the main EU farming orgs, the likes of Copa Cogeca views such things as "progress" and wants to double down on the policies that brought it about🙄
The place with a good whack of Delaval robots?
I'm not sure if that's where they're going in Dunhill. It was the man in Scrahan told me the lorry heads for Dunhill after collecting from him.
I didn't know SETU was setting up a monitor farm. They've links with Kildalton for various student courses, but their own place would be useful if they get the go ahead for the new vet courses.
There was a farm very near dunhill castle receiving visits for years. Think it was an all indoor setup
Paddy irish rears calves at a loss he pays 90 euro to exporter to get rid of them to europe cus hes not allowed to slaughter.Exporter makes money european farmer gets calf slaughters and makes money everyone makes money except paddy irish farmer who makes a loss
Young farmers and grants acres will keep a floor under prices for rent .Farmers being farmers who being a status thing with how many cows you milk will continue to rent and bid against each other will drive on prices.
I was alluding to people slaughtering calves/dumping calves in Marts etc.
Farmers should be prepared to properly rear calves to a saleable standard for sale at the Mart or off farm which I’m sure you’re doing, again it’s the small minority that cause the trouble for everyone else.
Spot on there, to suggest the co-ops or bord bia would foot the bill or some of it for exporting calves is ridiculous. As always the cost will fall back to the farmer and placing a 1c leavy across the board for every farmer supplying milk would be totally unfair.
I would change that, breed and rear a suitable calf
I was on it back in 2017 with WIT but we weren't looking at the dairy side. I think there was a former lecturer in WIT involved in it. When I was there the same man was all for indoors, he seems to be top notch on nutrition. He was trying to get lads to go out to Uganda and work on indoor farms there, unsurprisingly no one took him up on his offer. The same man was on on RTE 1 last week talking about MSS and clover. Fair U turn there.
I'm an academic part of the week (for now) so I can say this: nothing matters in academia as it's all just theory and playing around. You could say one thing this week, and the opposite next week, and no one would bat an eyelid. That's the environment (pardon the pun) that most of the anti-livestock brigade in the media come from. All that matters to them is winning their argument.
One of my tenants claim indoors is the only way to go with robots and he's a terrific farmer., but doesn't have robots .......yet.
Is he an IFA member
I see my bull is flying up the active list and is in the new AI catalogue. Beyond my wildest dreams when I started farming in my own name 7 years ago. 🤠🤠 It's the small things in life.
Would you recommend him?
yea
In fairness Mike isn't an academic, has lots of real experience. Would doubt he was contradicting himself. They're not necessarily two mutually exclusive systems.
when you have boards made up of people who don't know what's happening. calibre of dg board is hopeless now compared to 10 yrs ago. we got half cent bonus which we were delighted with but no one on board knew it was coming. what does that tell you? management didn't want to overdo the profit? board yrs ago would have been all over this
Coop boards these days are rotten with politics and keeping people of certain mindset and thinking on them …very hard for new guys get on as lots of wink wink nudge nudge goes on at elections to get people they want elected …then you throw in minimum trading requirements etc needed to hold seats you automatically rule lots out
I was asked to go on some glanbia committee before Christmas to keep the gender balance needed. Too much stuff going on here atm. Maybe in a few years. Must have been fairly desperate if they asked me
From a GHG perspective. High yielding cows managed efficiently have less emissions per l of milk.
A balanced diet is kinder on cow. Levels off spikes of n and variability of grass.
From soil health perspective. Lower n use benefits soil health and diverse sward also does, increasing carbon storage. Humic acid use may be able to close some or all the gap in the soil between diverse sward/straight ryegrass.
Biodiversity is better in diverse swards. A rotation with other forages also does similar but not as good.
A system like Dawg or stans probably near optimum but obviously won't ever be best fit everywhere
Doctors differ. Patients die.
Imagine a world where everyone thought the same.
:exploring the ghg relevance of dual purpose milk and meat cows.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652620341536
Very interesting: they seem to be saying that if you consider the dairy cow's contribution to beef production through a decent beef calf, then the GHG is lower overall for the dairy and beef produced, rather than separate specialist dairy and beef productions.
Would be nice to run the numbers in an Irish context.
What's his code
You’ve brought the thread to a new low Sam. Good man you are!
Stans system is over reliant on rented ground only a fool would think that system is long term viable given what rented ground is making.
Dairy lads must all be too busy to post. Had a lad from 5th year on work experience all week. Not from a farm but a handy lad. Only down the road. Said I'd give him work if he wanted
That would be very handy .have a lad here. did small bits with his uncle. a Lad with a good head on him says he will do a couple of days/evening a week. Great to have an extra pair of hands
French student arrived here last weekend. Absolutely top class...no end to the amount of work he wants to do. Milk, drive, clean...the lot..
Be careful of them french fellows, a farmer near dunmanway had one of them, he was a pure Polly bull. They nearly had to put a ring on him and stake him. the wife and mother and neighbours, no wire would stop him
