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Farming Chit Chat

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  • #5162
    Manoffeeling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭Manoffeeling


    He never commented on the size of the ship. So why the know all, comment at the start?


  • #5163
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    Manoffeeling wrote: »
    He never commented on the size of the ship. So why the know all, comment at the start?

    I dono actually, me bad, it just looks much bigger from a distance, and I was disappointed when close up to it. Is that the same cruiser that has come 2 or 3 times this year Jerdee? was the first one not masshuvive?


  • #5164
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    so is it raining anywhere yet or windy?


  • #5165
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    Smashing evening here so far anyhow . Not a puff of wind yet


  • #5166
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    moy83 wrote: »
    Smashing evening here so far anyhow . Not a puff of wind yet
    same here, am wondering is it all a fairy tale, had a glass of wine just in case its the last sun we see:)


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  • #5167
    naughto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,471 ✭✭✭naughto


    this is the thread that ye need to be watching they no there sh1te well most of them do any way

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056724475

    you can see it coming in here

    http://www.sat24.com/de/eu


  • #5168
    flat out !!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭flat out !!


    Talk of up to 100 mm of rain to come tomorrow. Fecks sake as if ground wasn't wet enough after yesterday mornings downpours. Borrowed mole plough today and spent few hours draining off surface water that had gathered, was v impressed with the job it did.


  • #5169
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    unbearably humid here this evening, calm before the storm i guess


  • #5170
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    must get the fert spreader on so, crops need a shot of heroin. :D


  • #5171
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    bob charles wrote: »
    must get the fert spreader on so, crops need a shot of heroin. :D
    Do they not look bad enough as they are?


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  • #5172
    naughto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,471 ✭✭✭naughto


    flat out !! wrote: »
    Talk of up to 100 mm of rain to come tomorrow. Fecks sake as if ground wasn't wet enough after yesterday mornings downpours. Borrowed mole plough today and spent few hours draining off surface water that had gathered, was v impressed with the job it did.


  • #5173
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    Well does today put a cap on the summer? We've a few fields that had standing water before today and were kinda closing them for the year now :(

    Was talking to a dairy man earlier and he was hoping for a good back end to the summer. It got me thinking of years where Sept/Oct were good, the summer had been fair enough, I don't remember real bad summers recovering to much of a back end.


  • #5174
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    bbam wrote: »
    Well does today put a cap on the summer? We've a few fields that had standing water before today and were kinda closing them for the year now :(

    Was talking to a dairy man earlier and he was hoping for a good back end to the summer. It got me thinking of years where Sept/Oct were good, the summer had been fair enough, I don't remember real bad summers recovering to much of a back end.

    In 2009, we had only 60 bales of silage made by August 12th. We got it all tidied up within 2 weeks after that and had a reasonably good September and October. Its not much beyond that yet. In 1993, I can recall making square bales of hay on September 7th. It was first cut and the land had been too wet to get to up to that.

    Don't give up hope yet. It'll work out in the end! ;)


  • #5175
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    nature always balances its self out ,we will have a good sept oct nov:o


  • #5176
    Dozer1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭Dozer1


    I'm sure loads on here have family getting the leaving cert results today, hope they all got on well and will get the college choices they want.

    One of my nieces got great results 570 points, but in fairness to her she studied hard for it.

    maybe hard work does pay off:)


  • #5177
    snowman707
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707


    reilig wrote: »
    In 2009, we had only 60 bales of silage made by August 12th. We got it all tidied up within 2 weeks after that and had a reasonably good September and October. Its not much beyond that yet. In 1993, I can recall making square bales of hay on September 7th. It was first cut and the land had been too wet to get to up to that.

    Don't give up hope yet. It'll work out in the end! ;)


    what I don't like about this year is the way the leaves are changing colour so early, we were thinning ash yesterday and noticed a huge change in few days with how loose the branchlets are.


    Hopefully it is because of the weather gone by and not a sign of the future.


  • #5178
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    What worries me is that 2009 wasn't that long ago. So are we looking at more wetter summers and should people be planning accordingly, more silage for housing mid-summer etc. Remember the computer models for Global Warning predicted wetter summers for Ireland a few years back. The hard data doesn't lie.


  • #5179
    Tipp Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭Tipp Man


    pakalasa wrote: »
    What worries me is that 2009 wasn't that long ago. So are we looking at more wetter summers and should people be planning accordingly, more silage for housing mid-summer etc. Remember the computer models for Global Warning predicted wetter summers for Ireland a few years back. The hard data doesn't lie.

    I suppose the question is do you change your set up after 1 or 2 bad summers? Was it 85 and 86 that were 2 atrocious summers in a row?

    We've had wet summers and summer floods before and going back into the 40's and 50's.

    Personally i think you'd want 4 or 5 wet years in a row before you'd do anything too dramatic

    Admittedly these year takes the biscuit


  • #5180
    FarmerWatch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24 ✭FarmerWatch


    Both years, 2009 and this year, there's a whole other cause I think. The El Nino weather system is stirring up over in central america at the moment, the last time it struck badly was 2009. There's drought in Russia, American and parts of Australia at the moment and the Indian monsoons are late... all that rain has to go somewhere and unfortunately it looks like it's here! :( It does mean an unusally warm Sep/Oct for us as the rain will concentrate in Central America for the start of Autumn. But if it's followed by an el Nina we could get a double kick of a very cold January. There's not enough research done on how it affects Europe really to be honest but they are praying it's only going to be a minor incident over there!


  • #5181
    jerdee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 383 ✭✭jerdee


    bob charles wrote: »
    jerdee wrote: »
    I work in a port and we have a cruise ship in today.When some of passengers heard of hurricane winds coming they decided to go off ship and headed for home .must put up a few picks in pics thread.

    hope it passes here as land is soaked......

    I taught it was a much bigger cruiser, was in your port myself today. Jasus if anyone throws lighting fag around, everywhere within 5 miles will be dry in no time at all with all the coal thats currently sitting dock side

    I don t think you were in my port as coal stocks are very low compared to three months ago . SIze wise it's not the biggest mv adonia but I won t like to be swimming out of its way ...mostly grain here .


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  • #5182
    Hay_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 138 ✭✭Hay_man


    The weather has gone beyound a joke now :(

    It's just sooo depressing to look out a window at that lashing rain :(


  • #5183
    Richk2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Richk2012


    Hay_man wrote: »
    The weather has gone beyound a joke now :(

    It's just sooo depressing to look out a window at that lashing rain :(

    And the top it off its not even 9 o clock yet and its getting dark .
    Welcome Autumn :rolleyes:


  • #5184
    Hay_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 138 ✭✭Hay_man


    Richk2012 wrote: »
    And the top it off its not even 9 o clock yet and its getting dark .
    Welcome Autumn :rolleyes:


    Ahhh that's the iceing on the cake :o


  • #5185
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Well back today from a week in France without internet or contact with home i.e. only hearing today how bad the weather has been. I'd decided to house the cattle for the week while I was away and am glad now. I haven't had a chance to get down to the farm yet for a walkabout but going by this thread there'll be plenty water waiting for me:rolleyes:


  • #5186
    keep going
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,551 ✭✭✭keep going


    lately i dont even look at the milk docket as there is nothing i can do about our performance this year and i just find it better for my head to just switch off.


  • #5187
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    its friday, so who is going where for the weekend


  • #5188
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    bob charles wrote: »
    its friday, so who is going where for the weekend
    my brother is getting married tomorrow, reception in the shellbourne hotel:eek: my daughter is flower girl , hopefully weather will improve


  • #5189
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    bob charles wrote: »
    its friday, so who is going where for the weekend
    Double funeral today, championship game this evening, double months mind tomorrow, 50th birthday party tomorrow night and I know there's something else on Sunday but can't think of it right now ;)


  • #5190
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    takin the girlfriend for dinner(its her birthday:rolleyes:), soccer match this evening. And watch the tipp match sunday after milking the cows early!


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  • #5191
    jerdee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 383 ✭✭jerdee


    Emigrating party wife's best friend and partner are heading for Canada .taught it would be like 5hr flight to Toronto but its another 4hrs onwards to fortmc Murray.thats seems like the only parties these days


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