Nearly a third through calving, Hard going with the weather
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They failed to get into Bantry Bay before
They had a very bad storm for three days. Global warming, cows were farting back then too
Heading for 55% today rain this evening and last few days is unwelcome and could be done without …thank god for sheds and lots of feed
Any French girls available - asking for a friend 🙈🙈
Am at 10%. Rain us not an issue here as we wouldn't dream of getting cows out in Feb in general.
Id say hes learning alot with u cheap labour is what ur happy with by the sounds of it
Is the nastiness a genetic thing or or some sort of freak anomaly?
Paid him well above the college advised rate, which may not be the right thing to do, but his attitude and exuberance is infectious.
I'm probably spending too much time in the company of misery and negativity.
What are you paying your employees?
The woman depending on how hard shes works that particular day gets a slap pat or squeeze on the arse would be my guess 🙄🙄🤦🤦.
On a side note alps it's great to have a good positive fella in the yard
There was a good few aupairs round here about 10 years ago .mostly French girls great goers but it didn’t work out great in a couple of house's neighbours young lad became a daddy in one village and a younger uncle caused bother in another house 🤦 I'm told that French people in general don't have the same Catholic guilt hammered into their relationship abilities
Dont have any looked for student but told none but certain farmers can get two or more and put doing cheap labour work.
Do you think it's because the system is rigged
Of course it's biased. It's not rigged .but definitely biased plus the students have a say. And can refused go to a farm. I would expect that a lot of lads know where they want/are going before they even start college
Have visited France for a long number of years and the young French farmers are very keen to get things done and learn knowledge to bring back home to their own farms, one friend’s daughter worked on a dairy farm in cork and when she went home she started to paddock some of the farm for suckler grazing and to this day she still talks about working in Ireland and the people. The French start early in the morning and like to finish in the late afternoon.
Do you think yourself you have the right personality traits to be a host farmer....
He might be a rad better thsn some of the dicjs that have been host farmers for years unfortunately
A buddy of mine had a Polish lad working on the farm and living in a Caravan. There wouldn’t be a peep outta him.
Au pair started working with a family down the road.
They clearly hit it off as my buddy said the caravan was like the one in Fr Ted where yer man was doing riverdance in it.
So you’re getting onto alps because he has “cheap labour “ but you have looked for it too ?
I was a student once. Learned lots good and bad. My 2 nd farm placement the farmer paid me a very good wage and I stayed work a few days here and there for him for 2 years after
The mad thing is paddock grazing was promoted and perfected by a French man called Andre Voisin.
The Irish authorities even had Andre in Ireland to learn from how this rotational paddock grazing worked.
The native is never appreciated in his homeland.
To be fair, even Irish lads get it hard to get into her bay.
So how much are you paying this french man what is the process to get students and why do some farmers get two.Wasnt there big drama in kerry last year where students werent treated properly.Your just on here boasting of the great worker you have there student on farms to learn not get trough as much work as you can fire at the them
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Well i think i do i bought a serious amount of land over the years im not in derogation any student cud learn from me not like some of the muppets give 400 euro plus for land with no facilities and yards likeva bomb zone
You'd be as well off renting out the place.
Well no way cud it be rigged.poster boys seem lucky always.Now theres plenty of other serious operators who students cud learn from.
A better idea is get cheap labour like alps sit in house then boast how much work this cheap labour can do and say its infectious did u ever hear the like such waffle
Dunno why I'm responding but here goes, what did you offer to pay when you went looking for students? How do you know what anyone else circumstances are or how any other place is run? Grand having differing opinions but coming out with what you say as constantly right, while running down others is no way to have a conversation. Perhaps look inside your own gate before disparaging others
Inspired Allan Savoury to create holistic management & planned grazing.
The ifj is ful of know alls every week itiv give full farm facts theres my proof of who get students.
How much per hour do you offer for casual labour?
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