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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #2822
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,137 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    Back from 3 days in France.
    Well advanced crops of OSR and barley but a lot of the crops around Paris looked very patchy. Took 1 3/4 hours on the train before I saw cattle (Normandes)

    I'm delighted to report that the French also seem to have serrious problems with buttercup :D


  • #2823
    Dampintheattic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 839 ✭✭✭Dampintheattic


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    Back from 3 days in France.
    Well advanced crops of OSR and barley but a lot of the crops around Paris looked very patchy. Took 1 3/4 hours on the train before I saw cattle (Normandes)

    I'm delighted to report that the French also seem to have serrious problems with buttercup :D

    And if you go back in July / August, you will see they also have ragwort in abundance:P I was astonished at the amount of it I saw last year, on the train from Le Harve to Paris.
    Wonder how much of it came in here in the French hay:o


  • #2824
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,137 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    blue5000 wrote: »
    A cap ful of diesel will stop the fairy liquid frothing:)

    cap full of cooking oil will do the same and is enviromentaly more exceptable


  • #2825
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Bodacious wrote: »
    Lads/ladies

    Can you give same mobile number for BVD tagging results /icbf, mine is in use already but elderly neighbour has no mobile and asked me to give mine to get results etc, was in a rush to post samples before work this morning so just lamped down my contact number but wondering now will my number not already be on system for my own herd and will they flag it up

    Yes it's fine.
    Herd identifier is what they go by rather than mobile number.


  • #2826
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    bogman_bass wrote: »

    I'm delighted to report that the French also seem to have serious problems with buttercup :D

    Going spraying some here this evening fingers crossed. Place is covered in creeping buttercup:mad:


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  • #2827
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,854 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    Bad for seals is it not?

    Sure it can't be any worse than some of the other chemicals that go into a sprayer. I know of two tillage farmers with cancer.

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



  • #2828
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    Some day here, after mowing two strong paddocks that'll.be baled tomorrow, could have left it another week but want to get back with rotation just in case the weather breaks and need grass


  • #2829
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    blue5000 wrote: »
    Sure it can't be any worse than some of the other chemicals that go into a sprayer. I know of two tillage farmers with cancer.

    Never used it but I know a lad (now in the land down unda) who did and he had to replace all the seals on his tractor sprayer. He'd be a lad to keep things awful tidy.

    I agree with chemicals being dangerous. Used to get fierce headaches off sheep dip years ago. Got some Thistlex a while back and reading the leaflet actually put me off using it :rolleyes:


  • #2830
    Conor556
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭Conor556


    Aaaah last ever day of school put down :D, and sum day to finish on, have to get ready for graduation mass and then beer!


  • #2831
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    Conor556 wrote: »
    Aaaah last ever day of school put down :D, and sum day to finish on, have to get ready for graduation mass and then beer!

    Enjoy it, feels like it was years ago and can still remember it, time seems to have slipped away so fast. Tonight could be your last night to get lucky with the top burd :D


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  • #2832
    Conor556
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭Conor556


    bob charles wrote: »
    Enjoy it, feels like it was years ago and can still remember it, time seems to have slipped away so fast. Tonight could be your last night to get lucky with the top burd :D

    More like her last night to get lucky with me ;)


  • #2833
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    Conor556 wrote: »
    More like her last night to get lucky with me ;)

    Ah, the illusions of youth


  • #2834
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    group meeting went well, they didnt slate me too much, think they where shocked how bad things where around here....


  • #2835
    Tipp Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭Tipp Man


    whelan1 wrote: »
    group meeting went well, they didnt slate me too much, think they where shocked how bad things where around here....

    What did ye discuss?

    More importantly what did you take from it? Anything that inspired you to make a change?


  • #2836
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Tipp Man wrote: »
    What did ye discuss?

    More importantly what did you take from it? Anything that inspired you to make a change?
    my stocking rate, how much silage i will need for next winter, what i could do to improve the grazing platform... they said not to change to 100% spring milk but to work in 2 distinct groups as i am doing, and to put last year behind me and move on


  • #2837
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    just did my inplate cooler -again- who ever tightened that the last time must have used an air gun , ffs nearly killed me to open the nuts


  • #2838
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    blue5000 wrote: »
    Sure it can't be any worse than some of the other chemicals that go into a sprayer. I know of two tillage farmers with cancer.

    A cousin of mine got lukemia 20 years ago when still a teenager. The largest group of cancer patients in the hospital he was in were tillage farmers. Guys who had used all the chem in the 70's and 80's before proper cabs and safety equipment were common place. Most of them died.


  • #2839
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    there a few cattle dosing pour ons that give me heart burn, i cant imagine they would be doing any good to your inards


  • #2840
    Marooned75
    Closed Accounts Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Marooned75


    whelan1 wrote: »
    there a few cattle dosing pour ons that give me heart burn, i cant imagine they would be doing any good to your inards

    Gloves?


  • #2841
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,886 ✭✭✭mf240


    Marooned75 wrote: »
    Gloves?

    What they give you heart burn?


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  • #2842
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Marooned75 wrote: »
    Gloves?
    yes with gloves.... its the smell- didnt use it while pregnant- but it cant be good for you if it gives you heart burn when using it for a short time


  • #2843
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,854 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    whelan1 wrote: »
    my stocking rate, how much silage i will need for next winter, what i could do to improve the grazing platform... they said not to change to 100% spring milk but to work in 2 distinct groups as i am doing, and to put last year behind me and move on

    Did they give you grief about having sheep in for the winter:P??

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



  • #2844
    dharn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭dharn


    whelan1 wrote: »
    yes with gloves.... its the smell- didnt use it while pregnant- but it cant be good for you if it gives you heart burn when using it for a short time

    Is whelan 1 a female of the species ?


  • #2845
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    dharn wrote: »
    Is whelan 1 a female of the species ?

    Ah, yes, by all accounts she is......


  • #2846
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,886 ✭✭✭mf240


    dharn wrote: »
    Is whelan 1 a female of the species ?

    Either that or the pour on is even more dangerous than we thought.


  • #2847
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Marooned75 wrote: »
    Gloves?
    dharn wrote: »
    Is whelan 1 a female of the species ?
    yup.. the secrets out now....:rolleyes:


  • #2848
    dharn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭dharn


    Fair play to ya !


  • #2849
    iverjohnston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭iverjohnston


    dharn wrote: »
    Fair play to ya !

    Either that or his wife is a big butch trucker!:-)


  • #2850
    huey1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 494 ✭✭huey1975


    dharn wrote: »
    Is whelan 1 a female of the species ?

    I think she has no brothers either. It's the only explanation I can think of!!


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  • #2851
    naughto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,404 ✭✭✭naughto


    dharn wrote: »
    Is whelan 1 a female of the species ?
    yes she is dharn i made that mistake as well,i would say she has more balls and does more work that half the men on this thread me included(cos i dont even own a farm)


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