There trying to avoid tax by leaveing it to poor year i refuse to pay unless the invoice states time worked carried out contractors are vital to me i cant work without them i pay them whatever they want within reason theres no way id have time to operate or money to buy the machinery try and be abd reasonable with contractirs they cant be everywhere at once my guys might empty one tank and go to another lad even tho id like all emptied but with short windows they have to keep many happy
Nobody wants to live in most of those areas as well as not wanting to farm. French countryside is very empty away from the main areas.
Thinking of mowing the red clover here next week.Will give me the time frame to cut it 3 more times by September.Still going strong in its 5th year
Do you let it go to seed for one cut
I have done but the feed quality drops then as it gets awful stemmy
Just wondering if you did to extend the crop
Dry land.
In fairness we use to grow winter barley in that ground for years.was able to get slurry onto it in late February this year.so dry land is a big help
I hear the French Wine industry is going down the same route - ie over capacity and falling consupmtion with alot of wine ending up in the biofuel bin….
We'd an ad on donedeal for bulls, a lad rang yesterday, has bought off us before. How many have you, 2 left. I'll take them tomorrow. If carlsberg did bull sales , this was the best. He arrived this morning and took the 2 , no crap out of him
There is meant to be sheds full of last years spuds left over here. Paddy would probably rather see them rot than be seen letting them go to a digester.
Spuds was always a boom or bust crop, they might all be needed yet
You'd never know
Is it because the investors in wind energy can no longer afford wine, that it's being thrown away
That should of course have read "Wine", not "Wind"!! Dame auto correct!!
Would they not make good animal feed for pigs etc.??
And cattle
The farm organisations really arent worth bothering with anymore, the department retrospectively back dating cohort animals wasnt mentioned in anything i had read, our seen...
What exactly is the point of the tb forum when the ifa etc didnt actually know this was the case till the rules came in and the sh**tshow thats followed
Totally locked up here now again basically, checked aim this morning and my 1st calvers are category 3 too, that werent in the cohort group from my aug 2024 tb breakdown, maybe they just need a 30 day test our their actually now seen as cohort animals, its as clear as mud anything the department puts its hands too
The ifa are a joke, why do you think Micheal martin would only talk to them the time of the protest.
An energy crisis, I got a lad to do a plan for solar panels and gave 190 euro to teagasc to send it in to TAMS, and no funds available.
Anyone paying subscription to the IFA should have a think about it
Teagasc were worse to take the money off you. I thought their minimum was 380 euro. Maybe that includes doing the claim too. It was common knowledge that funds ran out and there was going to be 90 percent rejected. Presumably that would go to the females or young farmers.
Very hard to have any faith in them, whats the point of them when their been played for clowns by the department/bord bia as a rule...
Ongoing tb breakdown is the exact wording that allows the retrospectvely applied rule pre this April, all the ifa has to do was make them put a date to it, but they knew the department was bringing it in via weasel words and now are acting shocked it was
Teagasc, pricing has changed a lot the past few years. I think the 390 is advice and sfp ect. But acres and applying for TAMS or any other schemes have an individual cost on that.
It's probably not that more expensive than the private operators. I have a friend, with a private advisor and it's around 500
They did tell me funding was low, its according to stocking rate, the cost per unit ect.
What im saying is, that the government are warning every day of a fuel crisis, but they won't put their money in it
harsh re IFA …yes it has faults but farmers are very lucky to have them …they can deal with govt bodies ,they have elected reps etc some of those lads that were fronting the fuel protests left lot to be desired and they showed tgere colours with some of there social media antics and posts …anton savage handed john dallon i think his ass on a plate when interviewed ….he was appointed as spokesman for a group but then he wasn’t part of the group and danced around it
I take it, the new TB rules don't effect you so,
The "im alright Jack" approach is fine until the problems happen.
I'm listening to the other unions going in to meetings on workers pay, calling for pay rises every year. Imagine reps paid 10k 20 years ago, compared to the **** of a scheme now. Imagine installation aid, early retirement, being dumped. Imagine a sfp that had been cut in half through inflation.
We Have lost alot the past 20 years, sorry if I have been a bit tough on the IFA,
they very much do ….im on/outcoc restrictions good few years .im not saying the IFA are the dogs you know what but farmers are better with than without them …all you mentioned above can’t be just thrown at there door …I missed installation aid ,dad missed early retirement etc
Are you suggesting we run with some of the individuals who fronted the fuel protests …the 3/4 guys fronting it ill be honest I wouldn’t like them representing all farmers …they have no structure or plan and just believe they have a right to demand a meeting with govt and get what they want ,
I fully support the protest as a farmer the hauliers ,contractors etc ,I’m sick of the govt and want them gone but people like Richard o donoughe and independent Ireland group need to get involved more and set committees and structures in place that can deal with the govt
Something has to be done about TB. I think the pre movement test is a good move, even the 6 month test. Sometimes one has to be a grown up and accept a little pain to fix issues and not be like the healy raes crying into their drinks and sulking because they are now outside the tent shouting in instead of being inside the tent and actually having an influence. Knee jerk reactions and throwing toys out of the pram like all the contractors selling up all of a sudden. Sure god help them.
Do you know how hard for rich odonohue and the few genuine gd guys to set up comittess and structures you need people and you need alot of money these guys arent magicans they have other issues to deal with not just farming and rural.This is why new parties just dont appear look at the athlone protest it took some effort and time to organise it.
The protests showed just how much power farmers and contractors have. A few tractors, trucks, and WhatsApp groups brought the country to a halt and then dragged the Govt into a deal.
If the IFA and other farm orgs can’t harness and direct that power (and I suspect they won’t even try), they are not fit for purpose.
o donoughe is part of an established group and would be well thought of especially after the protest and his role/presence in Foynes
Such a protest will not be allowed again. An Gardai will be down on it faster and rightly so. We cannot have interest groups shutting down the country with machinery, taxies, trucks or anything else. The public will turn against it very fast.
It easy to sit outside the tent and p!ss into it. As farmers we will have to manage better inside our own gate. Whether we like it or not energy is going to get more expensive and diesel in particular.it is going to challenge high input systems. The government is not to blame for the war and it is outside there control. It cannot keep throwing money at it. Our co-ops have to get leaner. If you are based in mid Limerick there are 5 Kerry co-op ( Farmhome Stores) wothin 15 miles of you and one Dairygold store. I suspect a significant amout of the rest of the country is similar
