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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #3662
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,972 ✭✭✭dzer2


    quadboy wrote: »
    Will yearlings eat grass that has gone to seed, one field hasnt been eaten since last november and has gone wild

    In this weather mow it down and let it wilt then strip graze it.


  • #3663
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    freedominacup wrote: »
    That's the whole point and you should keep it in mind when answering those questions. A lot of those boys were off their faces when they were writing that stuff.
    A bit like 'The Doors' music, eh? :D


  • #3664
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    i am in the middle of filling one of these forms to reclaim vat on the first six months of outlay on stakes, wire, gates, steel for shed etc

    can i also reclaim vat on this form for teagasc membership and education/training invoices?

    thanks in advance


  • #3665
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    Viewtodiefor wrote: »
    Lads did ye really need a teagasc man to tell ye that?

    No but it made me smile to my self


  • #3666
    Dampintheattic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 839 ✭✭✭Dampintheattic


    What a difference a couple of weeks can make, when the sun decides to do what it was designed to do. SHINE, SHINE, SHINE!!!

    I have 70% of my worst case winter silage requirement in the yard. All good grassy stuff, made without rain.
    Slurry tanks 70% empty this week. Nice shower this evening to help wash it in.
    Plenty good quality grass in front of the stock into the bargain.

    Most of my silage last year, was made in heavy rain. Fields cut up. Soil and muck in the bales. Cattle made do with crap grass and muck to the knees at times.

    Here's hoping the year ahead brings everybody back on track.


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  • #3667
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    pakalasa wrote: »
    A bit like 'The Doors' music, eh? :D


    Exactly or any number of others. There was a poem on the leaving back in the day and the first 2/3rds maybe were written when the guy was off his face on opium and the second part was written when he came down as was lamenting the fact that he couldn't get the high again that allowed him write the first section can't remember the title for the life of me. It was as trippy a piece of writing as you'd ever read.


  • #3668
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    delaval wrote: »
    What maddens me is that I filled it this pm because wagon on in the morning at 7. He must have been watching, yet he is the first I'd call if in bother.
    He'll buy me a few pints

    I try not to borrow or lend anything anymore.
    Lad borrowed a tractor a few years ago, tractor was full of diesel leaving the yard he came back a couple of days later to borrow diesel for the tractor.
    Tractor came back completely empty. :-(
    Another lad borrowed the lowloader,the box was full of straps,but wasn't when it came back.
    Neither lad is given anything anymore.


  • #3669
    jomoloney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭jomoloney


    hugo29 wrote: »
    OK i now have 2 sprayers, replacement sprayer delivered today, showed the delivery man the broken sprayer which has to go back, he replied i know nothing about that and left it there so "anyone want to buy a 300l jarmet sprayer" :D

    which one are you selling?


  • #3670
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    td5man wrote: »
    I try not to borrow or lend anything anymore.
    Lad borrowed a tractor a few years ago, tractor was full of diesel leaving the yard he came back a couple of days later to borrow diesel for the tractor.
    Tractor came back completely empty. :-(
    Another lad borrowed the lowloader,the box was full of straps,but wasn't when it came back.
    Neither lad is given anything anymore.

    Never a lender or a borrower be, says me, the hypocrite :) Mind you, any time I borrow anything I give it back at least as good if not in better shape that it reached me.


  • #3671
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056963401&page=3

    If this happened in farming wouldn't it make a bigger cause? Respects to OP.


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  • #3672
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Have a cow with eye badly swollen and running, she seems content enough and don't think it's sunburn, any ideas anyone on possible cause


  • #3673
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,396 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Bodacious wrote: »
    i am in the middle of filling one of these forms to reclaim vat on the first six months of outlay on stakes, wire, gates, steel for shed etc

    can i also reclaim vat on this form for teagasc membership and education/training invoices?

    thanks in advance

    No only capital, unless you are vat registered.


  • #3674
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,396 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    hugo29 wrote: »
    Have a cow with eye badly swollen and running, she seems content enough and don't think it's sunburn, any ideas anyone on possible cause

    If it looks infected stick in part of a mastitis tube.


  • #3675
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    Timmaay wrote: »
    If it looks infected stick in part of a mastitis tube.
    Id say opticlox would be a tad better but mastitis tube will do too


  • #3676
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,886 ✭✭✭mf240


    engymycin or any of the mycins will cure 10 cc under skin easier on man an beast.


  • #3677
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    Bodacious wrote: »
    i am in the middle of filling one of these forms to reclaim vat on the first six months of outlay on stakes, wire, gates, steel for shed etc

    can i also reclaim vat on this form for teagasc membership and education/training invoices?

    thanks in advance

    Did teagasc not charge you the fee for drawing up the shed for planning :rolleyes:


  • #3678
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    bob charles wrote: »
    Did teagasc not charge you the fee for drawing up the shed for planning :rolleyes:

    good thinking bob!!

    they charged me E150 for letter to verify that my BSc Ag was equivalent to green cert and E300 BTAP and vat on both receipts so was hoping to claim it back but not looking good now :rolleyes:


  • #3679
    nhg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,147 ✭✭✭nhg


    Bodacious wrote: »
    i am in the middle of filling one of these forms to reclaim vat on the first six months of outlay on stakes, wire, gates, steel for shed etc

    can i also reclaim vat on this form for teagasc membership and education/training invoices?

    thanks in advance

    As far as I know - no. They are gone a lot stricter. It can only be new work not repairs & the item has to be fixed to the ground.

    I was refused the vat back on a head scoop but got the vat back on the head gate & rest of crush & pens, when I queried it they said to could be unbolted & moved, we have it welded to them crush so that it cannot be removed (by unwelcome visitors) & I told her that I could send in a picture that it is welded, but no still not allowed.


  • #3680
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    had a lad came up here yesterday from kinsale to buy my fertiliser spreader, i thought that was a hell of a distance to come, he had a jeep and trailer.


  • #3681
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    If in high tax band why reclaim would it be better write off against income tax?
    Am I totally wrong here?

    Having said that we reclaim all we can.


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  • #3682
    nashmach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭nashmach


    whelan1 wrote: »
    had a lad came up here yesterday from kinsale to buy my fertiliser spreader, i thought that was a hell of a distance to come, he had a jeep and trailer.

    Must have been cheap!!! :)

    Not unknown for lads to drive far for stuff on DD.


  • #3683
    jomoloney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭jomoloney


    hugo29 wrote: »
    Have a cow with eye badly swollen and running, she seems content enough and don't think it's sunburn, any ideas anyone on possible cause


    if she has a white head or white area around the eye, it could be the onset of cancer, hopefully not perhaps a prod or a puck maybe


  • #3684
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,396 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    delaval wrote: »
    If in high tax band why reclaim would it be better write off against income tax?
    Am I totally wrong here?

    Having said that we reclaim all we can.

    You can still writeoff capital over time by deprecation, but yep, in cases that you have a massive tax bill coming for say one year only it might make sense to forget about trying to get the vat back and throw it in as maintenance etc.


  • #3685
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,886 ✭✭✭mf240


    Timmaay wrote: »
    You can still writeoff capital over time by deprecation, but yep, in cases that you have a massive tax bill coming for say one year only it might make sense to forget about trying to get the vat back and throw it in as maintenance etc.

    But you would only be saving the tax on that amount so you would be losing the other 60 % whereas if you claim it back and pay the tax you have whatevers left. Or am I missing something.


  • #3686
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    quadboy wrote: »
    Will yearlings eat grass that has gone to seed, one field hasnt been eaten since last november and has gone wild

    Bale it! They'I do more walking than eating and wreck your head bawling to be let into more


  • #3687
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    Muckit wrote: »
    Bale it! They'I do more walking than eating and wreck your head bawling to be let into more

    Dont think its worth baling its too small and a few rushes on one side, my bullocks are well behaved they dont be at that racket at all. Would cows be a better option


  • #3688
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    delaval wrote: »
    What maddens me is that I filled it this pm....He'll buy me a few pints

    Tell him that you would have preferred if he full the loader and not you with diesel...... and do it before he fills your tank or you won't give 2 sh*ts then!!:D


  • #3689
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Muckit wrote: »
    Tell him that you would have preferred if he full the loader and not you with diesel...... and do it before he feels your tank or you won't give 2 sh*ts then!!:D
    its amazing how much a diesel tank holds, went to local shop a few weeks ago and put 50 euro into tank, needle didnt even go over half full


  • #3690
    dharn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭dharn


    Ya its amazing, you just roll up to your tank fill up the tractor and off you go, I had to go to local garage for diesel when tank was empty ,it took over 100 euro, I was shocked


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  • #3691
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    dharn wrote: »
    Ya its amazing, you just roll up to your tank fill up the tractor and off you go, I had to go to local garage for diesel when tank was empty ,it took over 100 euro, I was shocked

    cost me 140 euro to fill mine in local garage 3 weeks ago, nearly cried


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