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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #362
    vincenzolorenzo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,250 ✭✭✭vincenzolorenzo


    whelan1 wrote: »
    anyone at the Clongowes sale ?

    Is there much up for sale at it do you know?


  • #363
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    Ah FFS, looks like I will be in the clink anyday soon :eek:


  • #364
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    it'll be a easier number than farming anyway bob. :p


  • #365
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    hugo29 wrote: »

    thanks for that, looks like i could and should have gone slurry first and lime second, now to to show this to the advisor who told me go the other way
    It was a lime spreading contracter that told me two weeks


  • #366
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,450 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    bob charles wrote: »
    Ah FFS, looks like I will be in the clink anyday soon :eek:

    :confused: what divilment were you up to?


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  • #367
    saranac1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭saranac1


    Jaysus will this weather ever stop. We managed to empty our tanks feb 27th.trying to get lime out since last week but unsuccessfull, have enough fodder for 2 wks and then that's it, weanlings will be out on the lime spread fields, no other option.

    How soon would you need to dose them with levastas diamond and qualimec after they go out say 1 month
    I plan to dose them mid April!


  • #368
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    :confused: what divilment were you up to?

    He said he was going to Dublin over the weekend soooo.........

    I'd say the possibilities are endless:eek:


  • #369
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    freedominacup wrote: »

    He said he was going to Dublin over the weekend soooo.........

    I'd say the possibilities are endless:eek:

    Aye, "Hell for leather" he said it was gonna be!
    It seems it was. :-)
    With good behavior Bob you could be out in no time.


  • #370
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Bizzum wrote: »
    Aye, "Hell for leather" he said it was gonna be!
    It seems it was. :-)
    With good behavior Bob you could be out in no time.

    That's where it'll all go curly


  • #371
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,391 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    vincenzolorenzo wrote: »

    Is there much up for sale at it do you know?

    Fairly controversial!, all jex in the future! http://www.independent.ie/business/farming/clongowes-school-to-sell-off-700strong-holstein-dairy-herd-29108434.html


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  • #372
    AntrimGlens
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭AntrimGlens


    a neighbour came to borrow the loader to lift off a couple of 8x4x4 wheat straw bales to bed his sheep - he's after paying £59 per bale, says its being shipped from the south of england. I'm starting to see more silage trailers full of pit silage nd loads of bales on the road these days, theres a lot o men in a panic with fodder here and no sign of any grass


  • #373
    ZETOR_IS_BETTER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 575 ✭✭✭ZETOR_IS_BETTER


    Kovu Murr wrote: »

    How many here in the forum still wrap bales compared to pit silage? It would be interesting to know.
    All bales here aswell.


  • #374
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    AntrimGlens wrote: »
    a neighbour came to borrow the loader to lift off a couple of 8x4x4 wheat straw bales to bed his sheep - he's after paying £59 per bale, says its being shipped from the south of england. I'm starting to see more silage trailers full of pit silage nd loads of bales on the road these days, theres a lot o men in a panic with fodder here and no sign of any grass


    I've been up to Dublin with work twice since Christmas and both times I met 5-6 artic loads of hay and straw coming against me heading down the M6 to the West.

    How are lads selling clamp silage? Do they weigh it at a weigh bridge, or is it so much a grab??


  • #375
    Juniorhurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    Right folks, I am off out training now. We played ****e in a practice match yesterday so I'd say I'll need a lend of a cow lifter in the morning to get me out of the cot. I'm too old for this.


  • #376
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Juniorhurler wrote: »
    Right folks, I am off out training now. We played ****e in a practice match yesterday so I'd say I'll need a lend of a cow lifter in the morning to get me out of the cot. I'm too old for this.
    I feel your pain. Lost our first league game yesterday so training tomorrow night will be daft. The manager is good but the trainer is a mad man!


  • #377
    micky mouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 278 ✭✭micky mouse


    Muckit wrote: »
    I've been up to Dublin with work twice since Christmas and both times I met 5-6 artic loads of hay and straw coming against me heading down the M6 to the West.

    How are lads selling clamp silage? Do they weigh it at a weigh bridge, or is it so much a grab??
    As far as i know its by the grab.Anyone know what bales of silo is making in da "wild west"


  • #378
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    could be worth watching primetime tonight.


  • #379
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    1chippy wrote: »
    could be worth watching primetime tonight.
    Has it anything to Bob ? :D


  • #380
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    moy83 wrote: »
    Has it anything to Bob ? :D
    That would be be crimeline not primetime.


  • #381
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    Muckit wrote: »


    I've been up to Dublin with work twice since Christmas and both times I met 5-6 artic loads of hay and straw coming against me heading down the M6 to the West.

    How are lads selling clamp silage? Do they weigh it at a weigh bridge, or is it so much a grab??
    We are selling pit silage buy the ton. We fill the neighbours trailer with 8 full blocks with the shear grab. It's weighed once a week in a quarry weighbridge just to make sure everyone is happy. The last 3 Wednesdays that it was weighed, there was only 350kg between the heaviest and lightest trailer loads.


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  • #382
    bonaparte2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭bonaparte2


    Hect acres on tv again now


  • #383
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    bonaparte2 wrote: »
    Hect acres on tv again now
    Hope hect acres arent something like Irish/statute acres where we end up with even less hectares than weve been cut down to already.


  • #384
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    bonaparte2 wrote: »
    Hect acres on tv again now

    Lol - I am genuinely glad that the mention of hect-acres on here came after the meeting in Claremorris, as when I read it now I can't help but laughing. I know it's completely beside the point and unimportant as we all know what he means, but still :D


  • #385
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    Lol - I am genuinely glad that the mention of hect-acres on here came after the meeting in Claremorris, as when I read it now I can't help but laughing. I know it's completely beside the point and unimportant as we all know what he means, but still :D

    Missed that one


  • #386
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    hugo29 wrote: »
    Missed that one

    Me too, what was it on about?


  • #387
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    hugo29 wrote: »
    Missed that one
    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    Me too, what was it on about?

    If ye mean the meeting in Claremorris :

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=83648081&postcount=77


  • #388
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    darragh_haven wrote: »
    We are selling pit silage buy the ton.

    Last of our bales went out the gate last night. Wish had more of them. It's looking like it'I be May day around here before the fields start to green up.


  • #389
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Muckit wrote: »

    Last of our bales went out the gate last night. Wish had more of them. It's looking like it'I be May day around here before the fields start to green up.
    Same here. I've bales till May 5th so no more shed after that regardless!

    Bringing a new trench to the back corner of 8ac silage field beside shed. Corner has always been wet. Looks like I'll get the fall I need - phew. Otherwise I'd have to put in a gravel drain to a trench 500m away. Hit a deposit of gravel along the way. Going to check later how big a deposit it is -fingers crossed:)


  • #390
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    just do it wrote: »
    Same here. I've bales till May 5th so no more shed after that regardless!

    Bringing a new trench to the back corner of 8ac silage field beside shed. Corner has always been wet. Looks like I'll get the fall I need - phew. Otherwise I'd have to put in a gravel drain to a trench 500m away. Hit a deposit of gravel along the way. Going to check later how big a deposit it is -fingers crossed:)

    This new trench you are digging, is it being ran into an open drain? Are you putting down pipe and stone/chips?


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  • #391
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    i know this has been discussed previously, but did anyone get this years bill for BTAP membership, mine has gone up to €300 from €167

    so lets work this out

    Payment From Government to Farmer €900:)

    Payment By Farmer to Teagasc (State Funded Agency) €300:mad:

    €600 of balance- Less 5 Farm Visits (Travel Expenses and Time), ok so we all learn something new but I mean is it actually worth it, i thought so last year but now I dont know


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