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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #3092
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    whelan1 wrote: »
    anyone going to the ifa protest tomorrow

    Whats the protest for/about


  • #3093
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,888 ✭✭✭mf240


    darragh_haven wrote: »
    Whats the protest for/about

    The price of condoms


  • #3094
    poor farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 446 ✭✭poor farmer


    whelan1 wrote: »
    anyone going to the ifa protest tomorrow

    Yes , going on the bus in the morning


  • #3095
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    my dad is heading too


  • #3096
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    Can you rent out your hill to someone but still keep the entitlements


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  • #3097
    case885
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭case885


    Anyone know of articles IFJ did on fattening cattle indoors all year round, couldnt find any on the internet.


  • #3098
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    mf240 wrote: »
    The price of condoms

    About time this baby boom has to stop,


  • #3099
    Manoffeeling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭Manoffeeling


    Is there anything as annoying as a cat in heat? If Tom gets his way, he'll leave her in a flood!


  • #3100
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Anyone see the girl on weather forecast, you could hang a wet duffle coat on what was sticking out, still not right:D


  • #3101
    newholland mad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 338 ✭✭newholland mad


    delaval wrote: »
    I am getting the same again a 3 tonne that will fit onto the bogey that I have. Dealer looked about an hour ago quoted 5k to change but that's his opening price.
    This would work out at €100/month for 5 years. The repair estimate is €1200 there is no way I would spend this on an 8 year old machine

    Have a 2 ton zam 21 seasons old doing 150t/yr calved also back in march botched it up for 500 to buy time and get going in a hurry but its day is done.
    Fab spreader set of fins every second year and only for 24m tramlines they would do 3 years.
    Find it hard to pass amazon only the next time will deff try and streach to weigh cells. Is there any electrics on that one he quoted for?


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  • #3102
    maxxuumman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 592 ✭✭✭maxxuumman


    Fodder Crisis on Prime Time now


  • #3103
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    newholland mad wrote: »
    Have a 2 ton zam 21 seasons old doing 150t/yr calved also back in march botched it up for 500 to buy time and get going in a hurry but its day is done.
    Fab spreader set of fins every second year and only for 24m tramlines they would do 3 years.
    Find it hard to pass amazon only the next time will deff try and streach to weigh cells. Is there any electrics on that one he quoted for?

    With no cells but with headland deflector. We change fins twice a season, only in the last 4 years fert seems to have changed


  • #3104
    Juniorhurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    A contribution from CAP for future fodder crises!! No way. It would end up like the national pension reserve, in the coffers of this shower to bail out the banks.


  • #3105
    adne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,232 ✭✭✭adne


    maxxuumman wrote: »
    Fodder Crisis on Prime Time now

    Was it just me or did pat kenny sound very cynical of farmers


  • #3106
    Manoffeeling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭Manoffeeling


    O **** turns my stomach.


  • #3107
    rancher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭rancher


    adne wrote: »
    Was it just me or did pat kenny sound very cynical of farmers

    Is he not always anti farmer


  • #3108
    Juniorhurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    He is just jealous that we have land and he was foiled in his bid to takeover Gorse Hill from his neighbour.

    I wouldn't mind too much, I am used to it, I am hated in both coats as I am a public servant and a farmer. Even some on here will hate me for my other coat and some in work hate me for my farm coat. Hence I have a hide like a rhino.


  • #3109
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,888 ✭✭✭mf240


    he has the personality of an empty box.


  • #3110
    maxxuumman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 592 ✭✭✭maxxuumman


    adne wrote: »
    Was it just me or did pat kenny sound very cynical of farmers

    Always found him to be very supportive of farmer, and has a good understanding of farming...for a jackeen


  • #3111
    maxxuumman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 592 ✭✭✭maxxuumman


    delaval wrote: »
    With no cells but with headland deflector. We change fins twice a season, only in the last 4 years fert seems to have changed

    Do it right...get the cells.
    On my wish list for later in the year


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  • #3112
    Manoffeeling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭Manoffeeling


    mf240 wrote: »
    he has the personality of an empty box.

    And to think this guy is married and had another on the go :eek:


  • #3113
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,888 ✭✭✭mf240


    Manoffeeling wrote: »
    And to think this guy is married and had another on the go :eek:

    One empty box helping out another?


  • #3114
    Dampintheattic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 839 ✭✭✭Dampintheattic


    rancher wrote: »
    Is he not always anti farmer

    He is not anti farmer as a rule, IMO.

    But you know, 80% of small businesses in this country, are in a squeeze since the crisis began four / five years ago.
    Fuk all help they get from anybody, only more and more policies from government to choke them off completely.

    Farmers think they are different though. They are the special ones. Should get help.

    FFS!

    I'm a farmer.


  • #3115
    Juniorhurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    Manoffeeling wrote: »
    And to think this guy is married and had another on the go :eek:

    He had? No accounting for taste.


  • #3116
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    The professor bladdering on about climate change was contradicting himself. He reckons farmers should have looked into their crystal balls to know this weather was coming and reduced stocking rates accordingly :rolleyes: Then he starts moaning about the single payment being put into a fund to help farmers in need.


  • #3117
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,888 ✭✭✭mf240


    Dampintheattic wrote: »
    He is not anti farmer as a rule, IMO.

    But you know, 80% of small businesses in this country, are in a squeeze since the crisis began four / five years ago.
    Fuk all help they get from anybody, only more and more policies from government to choke them off completely.

    Farmers think they are different though. They are the special ones. Should get help.

    FFS!

    I'm a farmer.

    Other business dont have stock that needs to eat.

    That they feel compasion for.

    They dont live on there own with them and stay awake at night worrying about feeding them.

    Would take very little effort to solve this if will was there to do it.


  • #3118
    Manoffeeling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭Manoffeeling


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    The professor bladdering on about climate change was contradicting himself. He reckons farmers should have looked into their crystal balls to know this weather was coming and reduced stocking rates accordingly :rolleyes: Then he starts moaning about the single payment being put into a fund to help farmers in need.

    Speaking of balls, did you try shaving below yet? :D


  • #3119
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Manoffeeling wrote: »
    Speaking of balls, did you try shaving below yet? :D
    If you tried to do just that you certainly would feel it man :D


  • #3120
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Wondering did that farmer put cows in his wettest paddock or is land in that area really that wet?

    If it is they are in serious bother. He had well conditioned cows but completely unsuitable for the land he has. I thought he came across well though. Dev is some ass though!!


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  • #3121
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Dampintheattic wrote: »
    He is not anti farmer as a rule, IMO.

    But you know, 80% of small businesses in this country, are in a squeeze since the crisis began four / five years ago.
    Fuk all help they get from anybody, only more and more policies from government to choke them off completely.

    Farmers think they are different though. They are the special ones. Should get help.

    FFS!

    I'm a farmer.

    I got the head took off me about CAP in a local shop early this year. Why should I get subs when he (the shopkeeper) gets nothing? I don't usually mind being asked, but the vitriol with this was full on. I bit my tongue and kept my thoughts to myself, but I haven't spent a bob in there since.

    It was as if I had all the power and decided to pay myself from Europe.


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