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Farming Chit Chat

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  • #8102
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    We hired a guy into clip all freeze brands and tails €10/hour.

    Soil temp 7.7oc today things starting to green up. Would an early spring be too much to hope for?

    Any prices for Urea or CAN?


  • #8103
    naughto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,446 ✭✭✭naughto


    how much would a student be paid for the 15weeks??

    hang on there delaval thers a sting in this winter tale ye if i can remember correctly mt on the weather form was saying a very cold end to jan early feb.if i can find it ill post it


  • #8104
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Like the slurry, is there closed period for spreading N fertilizer? You guys are giving me ideas....


  • #8105
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    35 hrs /week

    €122 /week


  • #8106
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    delaval wrote: »
    35 hrs /week

    €122 /week
    Funny that's similar to what the au-pair gets. €100 for 30hrs a week (plus a night's babysitting :))


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  • #8107
    naughto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,446 ✭✭✭naughto


    not a lot when u consider what the dole pays


  • #8108
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    naughto wrote: »
    not a lot when u consider what the dole pays

    But I know which one I'd prefer to be on!


  • #8109
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Where did you get au-pair? We didn't bother trying very rural area she would need a car. We pay a child minder to come to house 2 days/week €10 / hour

    Student's card stamped


  • #8110
    jerdee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 383 ✭✭jerdee


    Remember getting 40 sterling when I did my placement in Scotland many moons ago
    ....miss the old famous grouse whiskey...


  • #8111
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    just do it wrote: »
    But I know which one I'd prefer to be on!

    Very tempting to be smart here!!!!!!!!!!!


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  • #8112
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Very interesting article re. grazing fodder beet. Anyone ever try it with dry or milking cows?

    We used to grow kale, I do not miss it one bit very hard to manage hot wire because of it's height and lost the entire crop to frost in 2010


  • #8113
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    delaval wrote: »
    Where did you get au-pair? We didn't bother trying very rural area she would need a car. We pay a child minder to come to house 2 days/week €10 / hour

    Got her through this website http://www.aupair-world.net/ We talked to a lot of people before taking the plunge and this seems to be where they are all sourcing au-pairs now.

    We are also very rural but don't let that turn you off. Some of them like our au-pair prefers this. She likes walking which is a big bonus for our labrador. He's gotten fat since she went home for Christmas! Also she likes the farm and cows calving etc so it's an attraction rather than anything else. She's insured on the family car and has use of it when it is free. Again depending on the girl this won't be a big issue.

    I have to say it's a godsend as my wife works every second weekend and is away for it. It allows me to do my farm work without having to bring the kids with me. Also I can pop down to the sheds to check on a cow when she's here if the missus is out. She doesn't work as many hours as some of her new au-pair friends, but the flexibility of hours worked was the key thing for us.


  • #8114
    naughto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,446 ✭✭✭naughto


    just do it wrote: »
    But I know which one I'd prefer to be on!
    does the farmer have to pay or is it the college??
    as long as farmers dont go to town on it like the jobbridge crap then its win,win for both sides.
    i have heard some unreal stories about the jobbridge being abused


  • #8115
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    delaval wrote: »
    Very tempting to be smart here!!!!!!!!!!!

    Don't worry, someone else will ;).


  • #8116
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    naughto wrote: »
    does the farmer have to pay or is it the college??
    as long as farmers dont go to town on it like the jobbridge crap then its win,win for both sides.
    i have heard some unreal stories about the jobbridge being abused

    the farmer pays, some lads would treat a dog better and some are genuine,luck of the draw


  • #8117
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    naughto wrote: »
    does the farmer have to pay or is it the college??
    as long as farmers dont go to town on it like the jobbridge crap then its win,win for both sides.
    i have heard some unreal stories about the jobbridge being abused

    I'd say it's the farmer. Don't know as I'm only a part-time farmer with a small herd.


  • #8118
    naughto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,446 ✭✭✭naughto


    just do it wrote: »
    I'd say it's the farmer. Don't know as I'm only a part-time farmer with a small herd.
    iam no time farmer with no herd but iam still stuck in the middle of it:D:D


  • #8119
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    naughto wrote: »
    does the farmer have to pay or is it the college??
    as long as farmers dont go to town on it like the jobbridge crap then its win,win for both sides.
    i have heard some unreal stories about the jobbridge being abused

    It was the farmer when I did it a few years back anyway and it was either 200 or 250 a week but I cant remember for sure. That jobbridge is a cod of a thing, my girlfriends brother is in it with a year, He was meant to be starting his apprenticeship in September but his employer is great friends with the jobbridge fellow and he is trying to keep him on that so that he has free labour, meanwhile the girlfriends brother has a year worked which could be a year of his apprenticeship done if it wasnt for cnuts like that abusing the system. I think its up for review again before the end of this month and if he try's the same thing again he is going to bail out because it has been done to him twice by the same lad already.


  • #8120
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Jobbridge?


  • #8121
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    bob charles wrote: »
    Give me a fellow that knows **** all about the job and I train him up my way, than some young fellow doing it the way his father does it. Come on lads you make it sound like putting on clusters is some sort of magical art, a monkey would nearly best it:D

    That's what I'm thinking. Agree about milking not rocket science especially when he'll never be on his own


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  • #8122
    naughto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,446 ✭✭✭naughto


    http://www.jobbridge.ie/

    this is just some of the crap that they get away with

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=74439831


  • #8123
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Can't be bothered reading it can a farmer get labour from this scheme?


  • #8124
    naughto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,446 ✭✭✭naughto


    delaval wrote: »
    Can't be bothered reading it can a farmer get labour from this scheme?
    well i cant be bothered to answer that


  • #8125
    Viewtodiefor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,217 ✭✭✭Viewtodiefor


    bob charles wrote: »

    its not as if your going to give a student the running of the place while you go off on a month long cruise. some of you dairy lads come free with a handle for winding up:D

    Ya Bob lots of fellows r off over nothing alright n even some of the beef guys r getting in on the act now! Will they ever learn to relax! Funny how d journal runs pages on how to put on clusters! Come on like!


  • #8126
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    I was watching these documentaries there on Horse and Country (sky 280) last night. It's UK based, but it would have been fairly similar here in Ireland in many respects.

    The one on milk and another on beef I found really interesting. (dedicated progs on fruit/veg and wheat aswell)

    Here's a youtube trailer I found online to give you a taster
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puWlIrmbpiQ


  • #8127
    JohnBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭JohnBoy


    They're good alright, I think the beef one especially so.

    Still havent managed to see the dairy one.


  • #8128
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Congrats greysides...did you become a mod recently?


  • #8129
    Beefbaron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 ✭Beefbaron


    Had a cyserian section on a cow with a monster Charolais calf. Vet arrived within 20 minutes and did a great job. Mother and son doing fine
    :)


  • #8130
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    Beefbaron wrote: »
    Had a cyserian section on a cow with a monster Charolais calf. Vet arrived within 20 minutes and did a great job. Mother and son doing fine
    :)
    48hrs before you really know if it was a good job,but great news,what breed of cow ,what bull,any chance of a pic up on photo thread.


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  • #8131
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    leg wax wrote: »
    48hrs before you really know if it was a good job,but great news,what breed of cow ,what bull,any chance of a pic up on photo thread.

    Agreed, My vet and I done a close on perfect job late last sunday night, cleaning and all came out as calf dead a while. We commented when we finished we would give her a 95% chance. she was dead 30hrs laters:D:D. So much for my Vet and I views :rolleyes:


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