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.
He might be a rad better thsn some of the dicjs that have been host farmers for years unfortunately
Do you think yourself you have the right personality traits to be a host farmer....
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.
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
Do you think it's because the system is rigged
Dont have any looked for student but told none but certain farmers can get two or more and put doing cheap labour work.
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
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
What are you paying your employees?
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.
Id say hes learning alot with u cheap labour is what ur happy with by the sounds of it
Am at 10%. Rain us not an issue here as we wouldn't dream of getting cows out in Feb in general.
Any French girls available - asking for a friend 🙈🙈
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
They had a very bad storm for three days. Global warming, cows were farting back then too
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They failed to get into Bantry Bay before
Nearly a third through calving, Hard going with the weather
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
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..
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
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
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.
You’ve brought the thread to a new low Sam. Good man you are!
What's his code
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.
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
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
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
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
