Spreading slurry in heavy rain

It's like the bogus reports of water quality being better years ago when everyone was tilling and bedding with straw. I showed the teagasc reports water quality was actually worse.

The above is just the VFluence originated influence tillage group in Ireland really getting their boots stuck in. They'll want to control every facate of agricultural life in Ireland. A Chemical group that was telling governments worldwide how they should think re tillage and agrichemical use have now control of the environmental lobby in Ireland. The enviro lobby opposed the EU's reduction on Agri chems in parliament. How they sold it to the enviromental in Ireland was through some's hatred of grass farming and cows. I saw their influence first when Johnstown Castle had unbiased graphs shown on boards that tillage farming in Ireland was a carbon emitter and the pasture based dairy farmers as a sink measured by the eddy covariance monitors on farms. None of this made the farming papers from the influence group or was even discussed and shown at the loaded citizens assemblies on climate. We were told follow the science. But the science was never shown to anyone outside of those attending the open day.

Mostly agree. Though I think the covid actions were mostly correct at the time. It was a rearguard action to buy time for vaccination. Though I think we had it in the December and lots of others too at the time and those deaths and serious cases were being called a bad flu.

Cows are being seen as a scapegoat and money maker for the chemical companies to profit off. Johnstown Castle have the data for their herd on the pastures for sequestering carbon. There's no need for bovaer or any experimental chemicals to break a natural reaction. They have the data for other dairy herds from the in field eddy covariance devices too. What was the point of the government buying the machines if they considered the results not suitable to publish in public.

There's all sorts of mental gymnastics being played to sort a problem that isn't there. Denmark want to pay farmer's to cease farming. Netherlands are trying to divide piss away from dung a carbon substance in cow housing. The dung will hold the nitrates of the urine. But companies reckon the farmer is stupid and there's money to be made. Same as the chems added to urea to supposedly protect the atmosphere but phuck up the soil, cow, human health. As well as the aquatic environment. The enviros here clap like human seals for that one. But sure they're so tied to the chem lobby industry/group that they don't know when to stop.

My issue with the Covid era was the media blackout and refusal to allow any sort of debate on any of the measures, masks, social distancing, lockdowns, vaccines, etc. It was unbearable to watch.

As you mention the attack on livestock farming is nothing to do with methane or even nitrates. There is simply no other means of food production that grows such nutrient-dense protein-rich foods from so little chemical inputs. Meat and milk contain nothing like the levels of glyphosate and other chemicals than cereals and even fruit/veg. Having a population reliant on cereals, fruit and veg is great for the chemical companies and also the pharma companies. Many agro-chemical and pharma companies have merged in recent times. Glyphosate is linked with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6706269/

Bayer make Roundup, they also make several drugs to treat Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma….

Massive overreaction there for just mentioning covid. Relax.

It wasn't 'staying at home with your family' was an issue, many were isolated. Elderly died alone not allowed to see their children, grandchildren or friends. Suicides were up. Many businesses closed.

It wasn't that I didn't want to wear a mask. Kids were made wear them in schools - they are only starting out in life and not seeing each others faces was wrong.

I took the vaccine but I didn't agree with the vaccine passports to work/go for coffee.

You may believe covid was the most lethal thing to ever reach these shores, but the stats do not back that up. Here are the number of deaths in Ireland from 2018-2024. I just jotted them down from CSO. Anyone can do the same, takes 1 minute. Notice anything strange…

Moving on now. Just had to correct you on some of your rubbish assumptions.

Hmmm - in fairness it wasn't the green lobby who succeeded in burying the SUD(Sustaineable Use Directive) in the last EU parliment which was aimed at reducing pesticide use. That was done via a toxic mix of the likes of Bayer, Copa Cogeca and their pals in FG's EPP group in Brussels. Now with escalating human health and environmental issues with increasing pesticide and forever chemical exposure in food,water etc. including shutdowns in sale of Agri Produce in certain regions of France, Belgium etc. that is looking like an extremly reckless act!!

I think your simplfying things a bit too much - fact is most Dairy grassland in particular is intensively managed with a fair amount of chemical spray usage in terms of reseeding burn off, MCPA on rushes etc. dock control(excessive docks and nettles in pasture is itself an indicator of too much nitrate in the soil). As for saying Nitrates are not an issue in this country - well thats clearly not true based on comprehenzive mapping off soil health across the EU in the link below

https://eu.boell.org/en/2021/09/07/fertilizers-too-much-good-thing

I was on a farm walk on an organic dairy farm in Waterford. And they had docks growing as cow forage on the side of a hill. The cows were eating the docks as well as the ryegrass, chicory, plantain and whatever was there.

I killed out docks on a bit of ground using a knapsack sprayer. I used the clear water from making ormus from seawater. That clear water would have been sodium chloride. I mixed that neat with fulvic acid and sprayed on. The cows would eat the docks after then that year and the following year, spring the docks just never grew back.

Why do you think the dept are giving grants for separators for farmers to use green bedding