Not sure if that's the intended picture or who wrote the article, but there's literally a setting when you want notifications if collars haven't sent data in 1h up to 48h on my sensehub, probably same with the others too
put in their scrapers here 4 years ago, their constantly giving trouble, latest was a part going within a month on all 4 scrapers that cost 250 euro a piece to sort out, was going to put acrs/flush on parlour got quoted 70k incl vat from local dairymaster agent, for 20 units, all that was included was the acr unit/swing-arm/flush system/plusation and new lowline wash noting else, already have dairymaster lw clusters
Hmmm!
I remember a few years ago I was having awful bother with milk meters and was told it was only me- after a huge tread on twitter where so many farmers had the same problem - low and behold on the Monday after it a ky reg van arrived from headquarters and swapped out them all- a very large farmer in cork had the same service on the tuesday
Ballpark lads and ladies, collars/bolus and a drafting system for 75-80 cows, how much? I am sick of bulls already.
25-30k + VAT. Then both are eligible for grant
Dairy disaster I'm told by a few
They will install waikato if you ask nicely. Starting selling gea robots aswell.
Collars priced a few weeks ago, 3k base station, 130 per collar all plus vat which isn't refundable unless you get lucky with the base station
Grant reference costs are 2850 roughly for the base station and 112 for the collar/tag/bolus
That man is the definition of suffering
I have 60% grant eligibility once the wife comes into a partnership so it's very doable so.
I say no brainer if you can get the 60%
Ya it would be next spring by the time partnership be set up fully and grant application in. This spring and next spring as we are so and in with the system ahead of 2026.
Do you mind me asking is the wife from a farming background? My better half is a townie, and has no interest in the farm so there's not a hope she would do green cert if I asked her.
My lady done the greencert pregnant( her uncles a farmer but wud have no farming background) funny thing is there was another girl the same also.
Her Dad was a contractor, uncle on father's side was a dairy farmer and another on her mother's side. She wouldn't have known a goat from a jackass when we got married but would milk now if needed but rathers not be too hands on. She would be very involved in the admin side of the thing and does all the vet runs, coop runs etc.
Been told you can purchase the system without grant approval as it is mobile, but I'm a bit reluctant to do it myself without grant approval.
I wouldn't let the grant be a deal breaker. Sure you get taxed at 50%+ on the grant cheque anyway.
My wife has a friend at work doing the green cert so she was asking me about it as she smells money.... is the 180hr course gone. That's what I did myself. All I see is distance learning over 18 months or something.
Are you certain on that. I think that might only be the case if an accountant fails to incorporate the fact the job is a grant one. In reality I think the only scenario you're taxed on grant money is if you put the full expense of the item down beforehand instead of the net percentage
Depends on your viewpoint I'd say. Its income like. Everyone seems to be getting heat detection. I'll probably get a system myself too although I get on very well with tail paint. I only check them at milking times.
grant money is not taxable. E.g item costs 10€k plus vat. Vat deductible for certain items. now 40% grant received so receive a cheque for 4k. You only put down the cost of the item as 6k€ in your accounts.
Well I got a 40k grant the year after I paid for a shed and half the cheque went in tax. It is taxed as income imho.
It’s not meant to be taxed as income. Do you think people getting the 70k grant for doing up a house will be taxed on it
Had a job, to find anything green to bring in this morning. Happy May Day, I hope you all survived spring 24 and hopefully a nice summer
Same To you and everyone else one here and many more of them older.... its very hard to get a proper green these days alright
I found the pot of gold this morning. So all is good. 😃
My understanding is while technically not income you do subtract it off the capital cost there fore making less capital allowances available for depreciation and subsequently more tax paid than if you paid for it yourself
obviously depends on your accountant… we got grant money for a shed 2years ago and accountant just subtracted it from cost of shed… so instead of having capital allowance for full shed cost ex vat… its shed cost ex vat and ex grant… so your still paying tax on grant but its over 7/8years
