We've a lovely soft field called The Black Meadow!! Maybe we should get rid of the generational trauma and rename it The Wet Field.
These machines with track would do serious damage when turning but sure lads think its a great job a wise man once told me a cab should bever be on a tractor .
he was a very wise man. I’d say everyone will go home this evening and get out the grinder and cut the cab off.
Is there a a cab on your Fendt??
Grassmen have done a video with Jack Farrell spreading with his CAT Challenger…. he was spreading for 2 farmers in my parish a couple weeks ago… he was spreading paddocks for one lad so alot of turning… and silage fields for 2nd farmer and in fairness considering the ground conditions and the land he was spreading wouldnt be the best he did little or no harm when turning… in fact passing them fields now you wouldnt even know there was slurry spread there…
Sorted.
They spread for us on an outfarm 2 weeks ago. No bother travelling and it wouldn't be the golden vale. Fergal Connor drew slurry from home to it with the trucks the week before.
You'd hope Joe got lazy and used chat gpt to come up with these fairy-tales, 16 hours labour a cow per year is the standout one by 2030 as a key preformance target.
Theres that much grass in fields bar u get stuck damage isnt seen but serious damage is being done i cant walk my land.
What a ridiculous document. I'd love to see how much his team gets paid for that crap. 600kg meal and under 500kgMs. Every line gets more ridiculous than the one before it.
Lads are expected to increase the days at grass by over a month, from 256 to 290. Sure we’d all do that if the weather played ball and grass kept growing.
“Spur roadways and all your other tricks from the tool box” won’t stop the rain.
Any mention of the accuracy of data they’re using? Or is it just what lads are reporting themselves to Teagasc advisors?
not sure how we’re supposed to increase stocking rate to 2.5 either given half the country is now at 220kg nitrates limit
They Just threw down a few random figures on a Friday lunchtime on the way out the door it looks like. No accountability whatsoever.
B.fat 4.13% Prot 3.56%, Milk Urea 15 here atm. Grass silage, meal, Grass in diet.
I haven't a clue what I'm doing re blue tongue vaccine or not. Vets in webinars saying to do it by 17th march and another booster after before breeding season starts. Farmers in France saying the vaccine is nearly worse than the virus.
My father used to say, if you can't travel the ground with a two wheel drive, the ground isn't suitable for fertilizer.
That was in the good old days, when you were told to whiten the place with urea after Christmas.
It's non stop raining down here, I see a few trying to get cows out on dry patch's for a hour or two.
It's a lot of work to unsettle the cows, and it's not great to rotavate the end of feb as grass won't thrive for the rest of the spring.
paper won’t refuse ink and he needs to keep peddling that sort of shite to keep the job ….often wonder do these lads believe what they put to print …Aidan brennans bit on meal feeding and nutritionists recommendations to feed a cow was another roll the eyes article
I’ve heard bits similar re vaccine ….cant see myself doing it but I will be using a pour on for flys every 4/6 weeks from mid may
What are lads feeding these days to calved cows in full-time. I'm 6kg and fairly good silage to 460kg/Ms cows
4 kg. Only started 3 weeks ago and have half calved so alot of them are very fresh. Must weigh it and up it to 5kg of 18% shortly.
Make no mistake lads are grazing cows are doing serious damage the same lads will have no grass in april once the grass that grew over the winter is gone i got through some bad springs but i never tramped the ground most of the lads grazing now are just walking grass into the ground ground can dry very quick this time of year dont panic
The trouble is those continental farmers are calving all year round and it was some cows were in very early gestation when the blanket vaccination was done. And that's how they got the dummy calves. Then issues with cows feet then after the vaccine.
BUT if you don't do it. And the midges come in early gestation in your block calving spring system then your whole calf crop next year is goosed. With the vaccination you can control when the cows get it before breeding and hopefully going in calf is not effected and there'll be no dummy calves next year.
Then there's the issue of is the vaccine that particular strain was found along the east coast? You'd imagine it should be since they've time now or else what scamsh1te are they selling us since it should have been identified and the particular vaccine that protects against it.
I was down the fields here at dusk this evening in the tractor and there was midges around the lights
Pour on will be of little use. If your milk tank is only half full come August you will regret your decision
A down cow in the straw keeps stretching out intermittently. I keep leaving tyres around her but she's got to a stage she'll move a couple yards and stretch again so it's impossible to police it now. My fear is if she does it for the whole night but she seems to perk up every now and again?
We put a head collar on a neighbours cow and tied it to a rail, as he found her one morning lying against the slope unable to rise. It stopped the moving.
Unfortunately she never stood, so she's grazing in a nice pasture in cow heaven now
I often wonder did a bag of ration fall on Aiden as a young fella as he has a desperate horror of ration .just looked at a video from graisc consulting and I thought he talked a bit of sense.
listens to it earlier ….pretty good stuff and common sense from him
In fairness
Is that all fresh calved cows ...
Yep.
