What's your slurry/fodder situation?

I'm not talking about the farmer making minimum feed every year....that's poor business sense or baling out the lad that's driving on numbers & no allowances made

I'm referring to the fact that where I am it's rained since the middle of June last year, if you get locked up with tb or heavy ground that's failed to get 2nd cuts out of you are snookered if you get a bad 3 months either side if the Xmas.

2013 was the last time the perfect storm came here & people got caught.

Far from emotional blackmail..…more like dying farming community spirit in certain areas

As an aside I got a call earlier with the offer of bales if I wanted,we gave him feed in 2009...no charge, wheel always turns

Did you not remind him? Would he been a cute hoor or just forgot about it.

Best drawing a line under each transaction at the time.

no I was too shocked. He is a mechanic but it was literally just a 5 min job so that my father could finish the mowing in the morning. He was passing the door.
oh we never fell out but wouldn’t be going offering him feed again.

The weather is bad when the cattle say fnck this and walk back into the shed!

Have cows out as they calved (calved all indoors except first one this year) and was worried would run out of grass on fields grazed first. ( had to move them around quicker than normal due to wet ground) but more optimistic this morning as can see bit of growth coming. Beef cattle still in because they go to outside blocks and while it's possible to bring them back they will stay out when put out! Had cows out for month of Feb on "saved grass" which saves a lot of silage, but wetter winters have me considering not doing this in future even though I find it great to get cows fit for calving compared to being couped up in shed

serious drying today. No rain and the sun is out . Much better than predicted. Some amount of bales on the move on. Roads this morning though.

Very wet day here again all cattle still in never as late getting stock out. Buying silage also, its a costly winter.

you should raise that with farmers journal or agri land . Show the absolute nonsense the dept are at. Saying they will support farmers and then act like that.

What part of the country are you? looking like it might be a bit drier in the south and east next week

There’s a good chance of high pressure for the second half of next week imo, hopefully it happens, badly needed now.

Is that action by the Department even legal ?
If you have never had a reactor, had a clear test in November and yet you are restricted ? It’s the same as they insisting on two clear tests after a reactor .Why would one clear test not be enough? Especially in a year like this.
The Department of Agriculture needs to be pulled into line badly and if the farm organisations don’t have the balls for it, it will be up to individual farmers.

I have about a month of silage left and a foot or two left in the slurry tanks. Had to travel with the tank a few times in slippy conditions and did damage.

I had 200 bales of silage for sale earlier on the winter but there was no interest. I think it was @Mooooo on here that said to me, he never depends on spring arriving until May 1st anymore. (Or something not that effect).

Lesson learnt for me anyway is to sell nothing. I just thought I had way too much and wouldn't be able to use up my pit enough before I cut silage.

I don't know is it in conjuction with the support scheme or not buy I heard kerry supplying pit silage at 50p/tn

fecking serious rain again this afternoon and evening here again.

I asked the lad in my local Kerry store Wednesday if they were going to be be sourcing stuff and making it available locally. Said he would find out for me but it's tumbleweeds from him since. A neighbour has since got in contact and said he can see me out with what I'll need. Hopefully if there's an improvement in the weather a couple of weeks will get some of them out on the drier ground. One of the tanks is looking like it will need a few loads taken from it early next week again.

Need to find a lad with a quad and weed licker to give a run to a few meadows as the rushes are starting to creep up but they're hard got now too.