Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

The two lads here were going as soon as they could walk and still involved every day, but seen too many farmers killing there own family with work and hardship for very little reward, one neighbour couldn’t work hard enough and maybe two or three Sundays in the year he would bringing the lads to the town for ice cream, they never went on holidays, one son always said as soon as he was old enough he was gone and he wouldn’t look back. The farm leased out now and none of the lads live in Ireland now. Any farmer that doesn’t take the family on holidays is a fool life’s too short and for enjoying and lads grow up so quickly.

arguing, fighting and sulking. Did it once, never again.

They had signs up on the way in, jesus christ the optics of it are crazy, from a bio-security point of view should of been held at a different location

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jayus did anyone of ye do the farmers safety course and here about the accidents and deaths of young children around farm yards.

One second of distraction and something can do wrong. We can all boast about our children's abilities, but one accident could change the whole family.

The fella that gave the farm safety to me for tams, gave me a good wake up call. Telling of accidents to real people

Don't be treating children as adults as we are prone to make stupid mistakes not to mind 7yr olds.

nothing short of a disgrace that open day went ahead and nothing announced in meaningful way that place is under restriction …..it just goes to show the incompetence of the advisory body and dept that this was allowed ….not as of herd just recently restricted …locked since janurary

Another way of looking at it is there's a segment of farmers being led by the nose to accepting that everything Teagasc does is correct at all costs. Including now hosting an open day on their pastures of an unlimited amount of livestock farmers from the four corners of Ireland.

I am near a local farm was supposed to host a regenerative event for twenty farmers that was cancelled as the farm had been LOCKED UP the days prior.

And now we have farmers who would consider this best practice now defending Moorepark opening their gates when they are also LOCKED UP and having thousands of farmers walking around.

When are ye going to consider it best practice that every time Teagasc fuk up willfully, intentionally or otherwise that the tar barrel is brought out and some teagasc sacrificial lamb responsible be tarred and feathered and wear that shame. The defence of Teagasc always is nauseating. There's good people there but that doesn't mean overall good decisions are made and when they aren't every farmer in the country should call them out.

If a farm is LOCKED UP it's LOCKED UP.

You don't throw the gates open and accept thousands of livestock farmers from everywhere that you are trying to control a bacterium from spreading out of.

There's no ifs nor buts nor leeway given. It's not worth it for those thousands of farmers attending. Farmers that if told prior would likely not have travelled there.

Every word from your last 3 posts are 100% true. Farming is being dictated to by a bunch of beauracrats that wouldn't know a cow from a pig.

Surely any decision to go ahead would have to be given the green light by local DVO. So they clearly saw nothing wrong.

Tb is mainly spread through the air and infected droplets moving between cows. The chances of bringing tb out of a farm like that must be nearly zero.

Or could all the outraged people explain the pathway or how tb could be brought from Moore Park to their farm when boots are been dipped on the way out and in?

amazing how moorepark or Tegasc can be defended on this with tb at such high levels around country …total double standards

Like lots of others here I’m in/out of tb ….im contract rearing heifers to comply with nitrates and good cow nos ….its akin to me bringing back my heifers from rearers who were locked up and telling the dvo these wont be near my own stock ..be on different holding and expect to be not restricted ….there was a local farmer here in spring who was to host an early spring grassland walk for all our area …he went down with tb on small few ainmals on a Monday …walk was meant to be Wednesday …event pulled Tuesday morning and proper order …..its a small wonder we can’t eradicate or control tb with such lax attitudes as was evident with moorepark last week

So we now change the regulations just because Moorepark went against department guidelines and wangled the local dvo to have the event?

When I was locked up the department official went through everything including maybe testing ourselves for TB. All fences were to be done and no infiltration of animals on or off. We were advised against visiting other farms. All to stop any spread. Later another official behind a desk asked where it came from. She asked had I a closed herd. Replied I had but had a bull. Oh she said it came from the bull. Bull has always tested clear and in the best of health and we're clear now. But to her the put down was I bought a bull.

Now we went through Foot and mouth disease. We closed the country down because we didn't want it in. It travels through dirt or contact the same as TB. TB goes through dung pats on ground it's how it spreads from cow to badger looking for grubs in the pat. That then spreads back to cow via dung or urine on grass. It takes about three weeks for tb to die out in preserved silage. So it does survive on grass for some time.

I won't be changed in my position that it is a disgrace and just shows how little those running the event thought of those livestock farmers coming onto their farm.