Would it look bad with low figure's. Maybe they don't want to be depressed. It's not the litres that depressed me this year, it was the meal bill
Coolmore??
600k for house, yard and 40 ish acres
600k for 70 ish acres
280 k for remaining 40 ish acres - to get to that lot you had a right of way through the 70 acre lot. Unless it was bounding you it’s wasn’t very attractive
Land in tipp with a house worth around 350k and 63 acres made 1.85m, top quality land no sheds last week
twisted womb (fully twisted), you need to get vet to do a section straight away by sounds of it, had 2 this year similar, dug filled up and then disappeared. i lost both cow and calf in both situations as i was a day late getting vet
Considering the house alone must surely be worth €300,000 on a half acre that’s awful bad money for the 3 lots. Might be a sign of things to come
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/XWSjsMqenvE5Ks27/?mibextid=KsPBc6
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/XWSjsMqenvE5Ks27/?mibextid=KsPBc6 160 acre dairy farm that was discussed on here didn’t make its reserve today and was withdrawn from auction as it didn’t meant it’s reserve. No bids for the entire, the 3 lots made 1.480 together
If there is no smell from her and she is putting on weight she must be clean inside....
Has anyone here ever seen this happen before? Basically a heifer was getting sick to calve in the evening time.
By the following morning her pins were totally down but there was no calf and absolutely zero sign that she had calved
She started dropping milk by that evening but her pins went back up and never calved
She had to be milked because she was so forced and dropping the milk
We presumed at the time that she was gonna calve any minute then but no calf ever came
Is it that the sickness went off her, the calf was dead inside in her already and that it’s just mummified inside in her now?
All of that happened months and months ago, she never came into much milk, is going dry now though and is putting on deadly condition
It wouldn’t be totally impossible for her to have calved and for the calf to got out but it would have been incredibly unlikely that he’d of gotten out and that would have never again been seen like that
Milk recorder here this morning, she was saying 5 of her normal herds still haven't recorded in 2024. Hardly any point at this stage?
back into it today actually. 2nd time zero grazing it.
yes. Noticed the same, stuff cut a month ago that got another go of 3 k gallons and a bag of can after cutting and it’s not ready to cut again for another few days
Same at home here, was only getting growth last of 40 for all of April
where you noticing regrowths poor on zero-grazed ground, cut 30 acres here the last week of april and barely had a 700 cover on it up to last thursday, its after exploding since growing 100 plus a day
Right and proper not to link to production. Amy time they do the processors swallow up the payments. The only place I see a justification for a production linked payments is on calf rearing. We need to encourage lads tgat are there to stay there. Even then I would limit it to the first 50-70 calves. I se it in the 50-70 euro range and pay it for calves at 6-10 months 150 days on a farm. It could only be drawn on a calf once where a suckler payments was not paid. Like the old schemes in the 70's calves should have a visible inspection on numbers above 15 every year and there should be mortality targets
Other than that payments should be area linked. IMO there will be a reassessment of payments in the next CAP. There will be a significant increase in the CAP budget. They will need to simplify access to payments too much is now leaking to advisors and other professionals. The way private advisor costs increased for last ACRES scheme was a disgrace, it was tantamount to a protection racket.
Triclopyr is the active you want to be seeing on the label. Forefront based on this, doxstar is too. Don't know after that
Not sure on pastor only used one bit if it hurlers is good enough. Bit you'll be back to it the year after as it won't give the clean out of forefront..... but it depends on infestation level
naghhhh twas last week here ….grass growing 100 an hour here last 2 hours ….rain last night this morning ….sunny and warm now
Just to drive anti nz crowd mad.id say today is magic day around here
damaged paddocks is sone of the reason but not all of it. Both myself and others locally are tight for grass and a lot of those farmers kept cows in instead of grazing and doing damage. The weather simply hasn’t been great until lasts weeks heat
any opinions on hurler or pastor trio?
Hurler especially seems like value if it’s any use.
No mention of their advice to get cows out into those saturated paddocks in March either 😂
https://www.farmersjournal.ie/dairy/management/dairy-management-grass-growth-rates-slower-than-expected-816504
They still arent saying the quiet bit out loud, rotavated paddocks expirencing slower growth rates
Literally the only way to justify EU payments nowadays is for adopting more environmentally friendly practices. Any review of payments would focus on that because there's no need at all to support production for productions sake.
Dairy farmers and tillage farmers would lose out the most. Beef and sheep would win.
Yes I accept everything you’re saying and would have to actually agree with you. I presume for most dairy farms though the SFP isn’t of huge significance versus what a farm turns over. Dairy farmers probably get the short end of the stick with the SFP.
Something I’d have to wonder though is if there was no SFP and if people did leave farming as a knock on effect would those people probably be better off? The wages in jobs now is bananas versus what’s out of farming
Not being smart here and Dairy industry is not doing the same on rental agreements and the big co op big wigs wages and retirement packages paid by the dairy man. The problem in Ireland is farmers are separated and won’t stand together and have possibly the poorest minster of agricultural ever who hasn’t a clue and the green agenda is number one and farming is at the end of the bottom of the pile.
The average farm size in Ireland is around 80 acres and in most parts of the country that wouldn’t amount to a million, these guys or girls inheriting a couple of million worth of an asset in the main are a small segment of the overall farmers in Ireland. Subsidies allow the cost of food to eu residents to remain affordable. As many posters pointed out without these your part time farmers would capitulate and it would be detrimental to rural Ireland. Another poster said we need all the different farm enterprises to survive and they were dead right without tillage farmers and beef farmers things would get very difficult for dairy farmers very quick, capitalism can only go so far.
It’s fine saying all your points from your point of view having no further building work needed, a substantial herd and farm and no sfp but think of the ordinary Joe soap who sfp and grants to keep going and make life some bit easier, it must be very frustrating for them reading your views here on this issue.
I think the both of you make great points. I personally don’t have any great ideas instead of what’s currently there but when you stand back and size it all up… for a fella to inherit a farm worth maybe a couple million and then for the ordinary Joe Soap taxpayers across Europe having to pay their taxes which are then used to prop up a multi millionaires business. Like it’d suit me fine if they said they were gonna double up the payments but when you stand back and size it all up objectively it is ridiculous. It’s not much better than glorified social welfare money
As far as I know, the EU (or is it the Dept?) won't allow a direct payment linked to production because they don't want to encourage extra production. Or something like that. The reality may be different now.
But I agree - some type of updated system of direct payments should be considered. Maybe what we have now is the best of a bad lot, but it's never any harm to look at things with fresh eyes.
But the big problem is the original payments were made on cattle sheep milk and crops but payments now are made on land ownership
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Isn't he the guy that was bullying librarians... Blight they call him. Any chance he could phuck off back to where he came from himself I wonder. He's a v poor reflection of the country in my opinion.
