Farming Chit Chat

Tis a great day here. Strong breeze and stuff. As a fella would say, it would dry the dung in a dog.

Midlands. Went for a drive to Carlow and athy and back to tullamore. Nothing only hay bobs, wrappers and balers. Crisis over?

redzerologhlen wrote: »

Did you drive the road from lennane to louisburg? never seen the likes of it before, pure wilderness!!

did you ever drive over derrybrien on a wet winters night..jaysus i wouldnt like to get a breakdown

an awfal night here , fecking flood made, place is in ****e again, feck sake

i knocked 16 acres on sat ,was meant to bale yesterday,a well fook it,fooking farming:o

I wonder what % of 2nd hand tractors for sale are just fancy paint jobs, nothing more?
I remember a post on here a while back about front tyres on the wrong way around. Someone said some people do it, to help reverse out when they are stuck....;)

dasheriff wrote: »

We have a light mist here so far but its looking bad back the kerry side which means it'll pour here later..

W e had a light most at seven this morning.
It has steadily progressed into heavy rain and the sky is closed from one end to the other. Any drying from the weekend has been well undone by now and any of the 10 day forecasts that I look at are pulling back on the chances of dry days.

I've been holding off mowing silage but it's looking like well have to bite the bullet and get stuck in anyway. Provisionally booked to knock it Wed morning.

Muckit wrote: »

Trying to be optimistic, I let a few cattle out on Saturday. Majority have been in the last three weeks on baled silage. Then the oul lad says 'ah sure the good is going out of the grass from now on anyways' It'd kill ya to hear it, but f**k it, he's right!!

Walked some of the silage fields. Couldn't travel with slurry since it was cut. Not 2 blades of grass in it and it is over a month since was cut. Rushes are doing well though in the ruts the baler made. Back to square one after getting the field into some shape after 2009.....

Still I could be one of the many lads around here that have hay down. Like hay..... am... have they been away on holidays for the summer??!!

Any tips for keeping positive???

Your Sincerely

A down in the dumps Muckit

We got 150 more bales of layledge/silage baled yesterday before the rain. It puts us half way to the total that we need for the winter. We are only 10 days behind cutting at this stage - thank god we grazed early.

A lot of lads with hay down around here too. Most people have animals housed. A relation sold 30 cattle on saturday - most were off Dairy cows. His meal bill for mid June to mid July was €3000. This was bigger than his milk cheque.

Lads around here are having awful issues with slurry - any ground dry enough to take it is getting a double coat - this really slows up regrowth. There is a huge risk of pollution also.

We still only have 10 dry cows housed, but have a bale of silage in a round feeder in the field for 2 other groups of cows and calves.

On the bright side, July 23rd 2009, we only had 70 bales of silage made. Didn't get the bulk of our bales till after August 10th.

It's never easy, is it? If its not bad prices, its bad weather.

Bloody factories are cutting prices again -even though beef kill is at an all time low. They want it all their own way. They'll keep pushing down prices and then only raise them slightly to try to attract finishers to slaughter their finished animals.

The sooner the Libyan market opens to live exports, the better.

On the bright side, there is only 154 days, 12 hours and 10 minutes to Christmas, and if you ask nicely, Santa might bring you a nice inflatable boat for herding!!!