Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

It was the cleanliness of the hole picture that struck me. The jeep/car is spotless. You would need a vaccination before you could come into my hilux these days

no livestock away from the yard here, it’s a good help in keeping it clean. It’s a discovery 4. Bit too good to be a farm jeep really

Jeez it must have been bad to be shut down, probably for the best for all concerned. A farm can fall apart fairly fast if illness/lack of interest takes hold

that’s absolutely brutal

Guess work here tbh. We’ve a slab with clay banks atm it’s 24x100 and held 20 acres last year easy. Will probably be 30 -35ft wide x100x 8-9 ft walls. Should hold 40 acres if we ever grow that amount

Mustv been fair bad alotta stuff for bord bia very easily solved at farm level and paperwork level plenty firms doing that on hire

Is the son happy for the cows to go. If not local co/op or IFA/ICMSA could provide assistance.

It happens,

It happened a local lad here, pressure drove him over the edge. The drinagh COOP even tried to send out a few workers to help him pass. But nothing could help, family or friends.

It turned out OK, when the cows went, the pressure was off, he went out working and he's back to himself.

I know lads here will tell you, that they manage hundreds of cows on their own, I don't believe them. If things go wrong there is mighty pressure on your own.

I was sitting beside an ex dairy farmer at a homeopothy conference. He converted to tillage and doesn't know himself and the wife was the same and with him. It was the constant pull and time that everything needs your full attention every day and he was missing out on stuff with his children.

I bought a fixer upper digger a short while ago from an ex dairy farmer and he got out because it was a ball and chain on his life (mental and social).

I know people say it's as hard as you make it. But I reckon those saying so have plenty of help in every way to share the load. And don't actually know themselves. My father has a saying when dairy farming was more fluid in the 70's. You'll take hardship for twenty years in life, after that you'll be gone or the cows will be. The trouble now too is standards and costs are a lot more difficult than the 70's to dip in and out when you want.

Yet the regulation, red tape and general top down hardship keeps getting sent down on top of us and they don't see the link.

The latest one being the need to notify movement of slurry to your own outside blocks. Bullsh1te again.