just passed tb test and i come in to this ha ha…….
Factory's could not even dream this rule up. Cows going up the line for what ever price they want to pay.
At 5% of the herd that's only 5 in 100. 1 in 20. For a small herd in a bad area it would be years of lock down. Won't be many nuts pumped in to them. Milk them bare, and let them stagger up the lorry
Yes but some farmers will suffer ,why dont dafm also do something about diseased badger's .I dont see why it is always the farmers rules are changing ,dont agree with any rule changes until dafm off their arses and starting eradacting diseased wildlife!!!
Mayo mats for last 25 years here, still perfect. I've some heavy duty ones also and they're not fans,I just put incalf heifers on them now.
Hopefully the disturbance won't cause any TB troubles.
Just cutting out Ash dye-back trees is all
Did you have to get Dept pre- approval for that or were you able to work away yourself?
Where did ye pull the nitrates exemption from. News to me.
lads this is one off better moves the dept have come up with ….anyone dead against it got any better ideas …it’s a small inconvienence ….if a nitrates exemption comes with it better again ….there has been an ass load of stupid ideas but this def ain’t one’…..
They have already devalued herds selling heifers with the category rating on ICBF. It seems to me that lads should be entitled to compensation.
Any recommendations for cow mats or mattresses, need to change a good few, last few I bought were krailburg interlocking mats and the cows aren't keen on them at all.
I asked a question not coming down one side or the other. Is it an Armageddon situation? Have you an answer from your infinite stock of wisdom?
About 1.8 million cattle slaughtered yearly
Take about 2500 TB herds affected by the proposed limit on mart sale annually, for arguments sake (It would likely be lower than this)
Call that 250,000 cows total. Cull rate a round 20% is 50,000 cows.
Assume 40% of them are usually sent to the factory by these dairy farms anyway (i.e. not all cows would have ended up in the mart). That leaves about 30,000 cows nationally that farms will have to send to factory themselves instead of to the cull ring.
That is about 1.6% of total number per slaughtered annually.
Can you explain how 1.6% of the cattle slaughtered being sent by dairy farmers not jobbers will tilt the market?
Did you come up with the idea or was it whoever you ate licking up to in the position above you in the department......
Once you have the nitrates exemption. It will make little to no difference to farms. Could actually suit a lot of dairy farm on the edge of nitrates limits
Also am at a loss to see how it's a tool to reduce the national herd?
agree with you on this ….i can actually see a bit of merit in this measure tbh …
suits Larry to have a guaranteed supply.we see in the marts what a bit of scarcity does to prices at the ringside
Will lads really go broke sending cows to the factory? I thought ye all said there was great money in it.
Nitrates exemption as per current rule will come with the 3 years too in the proposal.
So a lad can be free of nitrates limits for 3 years, can sell calves and young-stock no bother, and all he has to do is factory the culls, which will return similar to selling in the mart anyway? Is that an Armageddon situation?
now is the time once and for all to see if the IFA,ICMSA etc have the balls to tell the department to go fcuk themselves
Anyone with wildlife issues is going to have to be very proactive in controlling them in-house, if they bring in what their talking about, you'll have farmers either throwing in the towel and getting out, our becoming extremely militant and not engaging with them, they are basically devaluing herds 100's of thousands of euros depending on size if they get their way with a 3 year rule
It's official policy in the department they just don't wont be telling paddy
someone obviously in dept saw that in Australia they bought in an 8 year ban on selling in marts to reduce tb so thought why not propose 3 for stupid old paddy to work with.
Reduce the national herd is not official government policy but it sure is unofficial policy by the back door
3 year lock up on herds with over 5% reactors in a test on all cows in herd going of journal headlines, you'll have to factory all your culls our sell to fwwdlot
What are they planning Jay
Department really have been thinking outside the box in implementing their new scheme for a national herd reduction, if they bring in what's proposed it will do alot more damage than the loss of derogation to dairy farms
Have the digger man in the last few days clearing of scrub ground , found the main hostel this evening in the corner of the wood,
Once you got the first couple of rows thru it wasn't too bad I suppose. I only ever wore the plastic milking gloves and the apron with half sleeves on it. I tried the rubber milking gloves but couldn't work with them. See cuff and things like that about now that probably are a good job in fairness. Remember 2010 I think it was -15. Milking once a day. You'd only milking on the first couple of units. That was some torture.
Then it's magic gloves under the milkers for you. just pull off the milkers when you need to use your mobile.
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only bit i miss about old parlour is the jars for warming my hands
That's a morning i don't miss the parlour anyway!
