I’d consider it to be a huge problem going forward. IFA need to get on it asap. It goes completely against everything farmers should be striving towards..autonomy, sustainability and even sovereignty!
If what you claim happened to be reality there wouldn’t be any need for marketing!
The f,,,,,s rode us all along, now they want them when they are all gone.
Would you of not at least followed it with the tag-line, poster boys who are currently getting theirs arses handed to them with the above ethos, we can't go changing our grass based systems based just on one bad year
Those ass holes are not down here for the good of their health. Plenty angus and Hereford calves a month old going for 40 euro off Fr cows. The whole thing is just sickening. I sold some out of the yard for 150 the other day. Took some of their comrades to the mart the following week and got 35. Seriously considering keeping more calves to 1 year old.
we refuse to sell fr bulls for a €5 so we found the best way to make a buck on them is to keep to forward store, or the following november when they are 18 to 20 months old.
Ah dawg and I quote."the regulations are there I don't know why people can't abide by them" you can't pick and choose what regulations suit you and what ones don't
Looks like the penny is starting to drop at long last....
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/irelands-nitrates-derogation-is-uncertain-dairygold-chair/.
Strongly considering buying a few first calvers off lisduff tomorrow. Don't really want to waste a few hours going to the mart.
Would I be mad to buy online and get them delivered without seeing them? The only thing I ever buy here is a bull so disease is a concern also. They'll be joining my own herd in by night, out for a few hours by day. I'd use them to breed more cow families into my herd over the longer term.
foot problems would be my biggest concern mortellero is some dose see a few lads that bought in heifers with it not nice
well it needs to keep dropping, in the uk its been costed up and dairy farmers need an exta 16c/l to cover additional sustainability and environmental costs related to these scope 3 emission targets being aimed for by processors and eu….consumers dont care about scope 3 emissions
the mary poppins approach to business either needs to stop or be backed up with proper pricing….
when the avg salary in our coops is higher than the average profit of the supplier/owner we have a problem, i think the coop management are only realising as supplies drop this differential becomes bigger
the return at farm level needs to improve, otherwise they need to start planning redundancies in coops…..
if you’ve no Johne’s on your farm then you’d be absolutely bonkers to buy anything in is my honest opinion
Pretty disturbing allegations if it's these men mentioned livestock, multiple units and 1000's of cows is all well and good, but when it goes wrong, it goes really wrong
I don't know anything about that particular herd but as well as the disease risks mentioned, I'd say, in general, animals like that need pampering more than hardship.
They would be great rags to buy
Glancing through the catalogue anything sired by Batman/Griff don't go near, their not cows for a grass based system, especially griff, the bomaz episode would be the ones I'd be trying to buy his American daughter proofs are unreal 4.7bf/3.4pr over 13000 litres daughter average, good health traits too
You said the truth there, when things go wrong they can go very wrong. May God protect us all.
I knew a top cattle farmer, that got depression and could not get out of his bed to feed his cattle. He was lucky he had a brother close by, who stepped in.
I heard of a another man not far away, who loved farming but was so wiped by cancer, and the treatment, that he used to stop the milking half way through to lie down for an hour and then continue.
that Twitter page sharing that video is only active this month. That post and two comments is all that’s linked to it
seen it on this trend, which itself was a eye-opener, where they poisoned and killed 60 odd cows when they gave cows water from liquid urea tankers that hadn't been washed out properly
https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/evolution-farming.234142/page-4
going looking at calf’s tomorrow, the man’s herd is pure fresian, 60% holistein and 40% British freisian, what would his stock be like then? Would most people’s herds that are pure fresian be something similar in percentage?
in no way defending them but just a few points
they are milking like 4000 cows
We all have 1-2 runts every year in herds of 100 cows, so you’re bound to have a lot more /or a shed full with the cow numbers they have. they definitely should have better condition on them than they do though imo.
Arla are also really strict on calf death numbers so they wouldn’t be able to knock off a few as calves as they crop up like we would do here
In the part of the world where I live a lot of bachelor farmers go that kind of way with depression and it’s the cattle that suffer. More should be done to shut down such places, it’s not fair on the animals and in all them cases the fella with the depression would be the biggest winner of all by putting him out of his misery and shutting him down
That’s not a regulation or directive. It’s slotted into Irish policy by politicians, probably Green? Nothing whatsoever to do with EU legislation/directives/regulation. It needs sorting, and fast!
If that policy was enforced here nearly 100% of livestock farms would close down. For example, I’m obliged to feed a minimum of 50% maize to cows to qualify for AOP. When the dero drops to 170, there will be a lot more ‘mixed’ farms in the country.
I couldn’t urge ye enough to kill that policy dead!
It's a derogation measure as far as I recall sooooo no need to worry about it long term
I never heard poor old John so upset. 😂
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yc3MucG9kcGxheXN0dWRpby5jb20vMjc5MS54bWw/episode/MTNhMGNkNzgzOGM2YzcwYzZlZjc5Zjk1ODQ1YmYwN2E?ep=14
Was made at the last bord bia inspection when I submitted the winter diet for cows, to amend/lie as the max allowed freshweight of maize been fed is 10kgs, was feeding 30kgs a day
It's all illogical bulls**t, peddled by extremely smart senior civil servants who are playing us like children
Is it some Green/bureaucratic bullshyte to make ye double down on the ‘grass fed’ narrative?
It’s OK to feed as much as you like of some imported shyte once it’s called a ‘dairy nut’, but you’re not entitled to grow your own??
Pure shutter!
Rattled alright, the general public won’t give a fiddlers about climate change, farming etc when election time comes around it will be the usual issues of housing, hospital beds etc, I read a red c poll the other day greens were projected to win 3 seats in the next dail so that will tell you what issues matter most to the wider general public.
The last point he made about taking your government to court if their not doing enough for climate change is half the reason this country is fucked, opens the door for NGO’s again to claim expenses to the high heavens from the state and challenge everything pure and utter bs.
Ireland being one of 2 or 3 countries to send legal teams out to help out that Swiss grannies case is typical also, any sniff of legal fees and it’s jobs for the boys for our attorney general and co.
It's only for derogation farms. Get down below 170 and you can be 0% grass. A high percentage of grass is probably the biggest thing making Irish farms different enough from EU farms to justify the derogation
80% rule for derogation farms is there for years. The reason we have the derogation is because we have such a high % grassland. Its part of the NAP
If you're under 170, you can do what you like.
If we loose the derogation it is feared we will move away from the grass based system, blowing our marketing point of difference out of the water.
