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Farming Chit Chat

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  • #4832
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    Absolute scorcher here. even looks like a day for hay. is this the start of summer or spring?


  • #4833
    KCTK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 378 ✭✭KCTK


    bbam wrote: »
    Yep..
    Rainfall radar looks nice and clear all over..

    http://www.met.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp

    I'm afraid the radar mustn't be working down here in the south west!!! Miserable fog and drizzle not clearing.


  • #4834
    Username John
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    KCTK wrote: »
    bbam wrote: »
    Yep..
    Rainfall radar looks nice and clear all over..

    http://www.met.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp

    I'm afraid the radar mustn't be working down here in the south west!!! Miserable fog and drizzle not clearing.

    Yep, heavy drizzle in Cork... :(:(


  • #4835
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    Username John wrote: »
    Yep, heavy drizzle in Cork... :(:(

    Yea,
    In fairness I noticed before that mist/fog seems to slip by it ?


    Very frustrating waiting for silage contractor.. Spoke to him yesterday and he was a bit vauge when I said I wanted it knocked+baled before the weekend :( He's never let me down in the past but I really don't want to miss these few good days (good is all relative of course, good for this year)


  • #4836
    KCTK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 378 ✭✭KCTK


    bbam wrote: »
    Y

    Very frustrating waiting for silage contractor.. Spoke to him yesterday and he was a bit vauge when I said I wanted it knocked+baled before the weekend :( He's never let me down in the past but I really don't want to miss these few good days (good is all relative of course, good for this year)

    Gota take any opportunity in a year like this, no point waiting and saying the weather might be better next week...


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  • #4837
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Same as above. I'm looking at knocking it this evening and baling tomorrow. Time of baling will depend on weather which is supposed to hold until Saturday noon (that's how I see it for West Clare anyway). There was fog out at sea this morning but burned off around 9-10am with good sun and some heat now with the wind supposed to pick up over the next 12-24hrs (Fingers crossed:cool:)

    Looking at accuweather 25d forecast isn't good so need to take this opporunity despite the ground needing more time to dry.


  • #4838
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,966 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Hopefully (weather permitting) cutting another 10 acres today, sucklers need a few more headlands to clean up:D

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #4839
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,966 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    pakalasa wrote: »
    This might cheer people up. Forecast for next THURSDAY.


    Rtavn2161.png

    Hey Paks which Thursday was this for?:pac:

    Glad to see it's not only our own Met office that gets it wrong:confused:

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #4840
    vincenzolorenzo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,250 ✭✭✭vincenzolorenzo


    blue5000 wrote: »
    Hey Paks which Thursday was this for?:pac:

    Glad to see it's not only our own Met office that gets it wrong:confused:

    That was for today. Looks fairly spot on from where I am anyway (Dublin)!


  • #4841
    nashmach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭nashmach


    We are still waiting on the heatwave though and this weekend was meant to be a scorcher :rolleyes:

    Instead back to mid teens according to the forecaset at 8am.

    Damn glad we got the silage in last weekend!!


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  • #4842
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    see justin mc carthy is leaving the farmers journal....


  • #4843
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    whelan1 wrote: »
    see justin mc carthy is leaving the farmers journal....

    I wonder will it be like Derek Casey the Machinery Editor?!


  • #4844
    tanko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,537 ✭✭✭tanko


    whelan1 wrote: »
    see justin mc carthy is leaving the farmers journal....

    I cant believe where he's going. He wont be too worried about the profit margains of farmers from now on!!


  • #4845
    MickeyShtyles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,371 ✭✭✭MickeyShtyles


    Suns splitting the stones in Meath now! :D
    Me father has been in East Galway since Tuesday and the weather has gone from torrential rain to serious heat there today! :P Has the 'summer' arrived?


  • #4846
    huey1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 499 ✭✭huey1975


    whelan1 wrote: »
    see justin mc carthy is leaving the farmers journal....
    Now he will have to change his tune from talking up the price of beef to talking down the price of beef. Maybe Larry decided it was better to have him inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in.


  • #4847
    kboc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 458 ✭✭kboc


    tanko wrote: »
    I cant believe where he's going. He wont be too worried about the profit margains of farmers from now on!!

    where is he going?


  • #4848
    tanko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,537 ✭✭✭tanko


    He's going to work for Larry Goodman.


  • #4849
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Lovely day here, got some more of Dads sheep shorn. Might spend the evening pulling thistles :D


  • #4850
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    the last few days i have been bitten by something while pulling ragworth... it turns out like a hive on my arm.... my mam thought it was mosquito(sp) bites any one else get them?


  • #4851
    red menace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭red menace


    whelan1 wrote: »
    the last few days i have been bitten by something while pulling ragworth... it turns out like a hive on my arm.... my mam thought it was mosquito(sp) bites any one else get them?

    I get bitten loads by them. But in Canada
    they leave a circular red bump that is really itichy
    takes nearly a week to go away
    dont scratch!


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  • #4852
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    whelan1 wrote: »
    the last few days i have been bitten by something while pulling ragworth... it turns out like a hive on my arm.... my mam thought it was mosquito(sp) bites any one else get them?

    I was going to suggest burnt oil but a good anti histamine from the chemist will help lots if your having a reaction. Herself gets terrible reactions from Mosquitos.


  • #4853
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    the journal is a great paper, but after reading it for a year most of the articles become a little repetitive. I still put down a half an hour reading it every week:)


  • #4854
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Silage down and some seriously good drying conditions this evening. Temperature hit 20oC with blue sky and sunshine. Decided at 6.30pm to leave baling till tomorrow, forecasts were clear and view over the Atlantic looked good. Then within about 20min the sky darkened over the Atlantic. It has lightening again before sundown but now praying for a dry night;). Fingers crossed


  • #4855
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,046 ✭✭✭✭Birdnuts


    whelan1 wrote: »
    the last few days i have been bitten by something while pulling ragworth... it turns out like a hive on my arm.... my mam thought it was mosquito(sp) bites any one else get them?

    Could be horse flies - got a few bites myself while savin hay on my place in the west:(


  • #4856
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Birdnuts wrote: »
    savin hay on my place in the west:(

    How did that go?


  • #4857
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,046 ✭✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Bizzum wrote: »
    How did that go?

    Despite bouts of drizzle and less then ideal drying conditions we've mangaged to get most of it done, thanx to some good work from the lad with the haybob. Tommorrow we hope to finish and get all the bales into storage - I'd like have had more drying in the field but Saturday is looking very showery so needs must as they say.


  • #4858
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Light passing shower at around 2.30am otherwise a dry night here. I was seriously worried when I looked out the window at 5am as the sky was dark over the Atlantic. Luckily, for me anyway, it seems to have blown off SW - I wonder how Kerry & Cork are this morning? Fingers crossed the forecast is right and it holds off till at least tea-time. We'll be done and dusted by then:cool:


  • #4859
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    had a neighbour over yesterday looking to buy a suck calf to put on a heifer, he's a suckler man, has great stock. He has ch heifers calving at the minute 2 sections- dead massive calves- and another calved yesterday with a normal sized dead calf:mad: said he had had them on good silage but they are mud fat and has a good few more to calve yet, sounds like a nightmare


  • #4860
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    whelan1 wrote: »
    had a neighbour over yesterday looking to buy a suck calf to put on a heifer, he's a suckler man, has great stock. He has ch heifers calving at the minute 2 sections- dead massive calves- and another calved yesterday with a normal sized dead calf:mad: said he had had them on good silage but they are mud fat and has a good few more to calve yet, sounds like a nightmare
    Self inflicted to an extent... is he not pulling back on the feeding close to calving.. May be too late now..

    Sometimes I wonder... a lad I work with brought 5 young heifers into his herd, calving down in the spring there... all bulled with stock CH bull and all five had torture calvings with three calves lost.


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  • #4861
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Or when you go to a special in calf heifer sale and lads mad bidding for FAT heifers on the point of calving. You have to learn the hard way I guess.


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