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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #5852
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Muckit wrote: »
    Do they do a name check or could any chancer (aka me) walk in?

    I'd say if you just show up they won't turn you away. The last better farm wall I went to you had to fill out a reg form to get in the gate but sure if you make up a name for it and drop it in the box they won't look at it for weeks! Can't go myself unfortunately but wish I could cause Joe Murray's farm is heavy enough of land and represents our own land quality.


  • #5853
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    reilig wrote: »
    I'd say if you just show up they won't turn you away. The last better farm wall I went to you had to fill out a reg form to get in the gate but sure if you make up a name for it and drop it in the box they won't look at it for weeks! Can't go myself unfortunately but wish I could cause Joe Murray's farm is heavy enough of land and represents our own land quality.

    I know a lad from our group who can't go, give his name muckit, we will hit the pub in Elphin after and come home the following day,


  • #5854
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    hugo29 wrote: »
    I know a lad from our group who can't go, give his name muckit, we will hit the pub in Elphin after and come home the following day,

    Come home the following day, lightweights - A good meeting will take a number of days to discuss the host farmers shortcomings


  • #5855
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    hugo29 wrote: »
    I know a lad from our group who can't go, give his name muckit, we will hit the pub in Elphin after and come home the following day,

    The elf inn in elphin???


  • #5856
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    reilig wrote: »
    Better farm walk is Joe Murray's in elphin next Tuesday. It's only open to btap members.

    Does it qualify as an event? I don't see it on the approved list
    http://www.agriculture.gov.ie/farmingsectors/beef/beeftechnologyadoptionprogramme/2013programme/


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  • #5857
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Muckit wrote: »
    Do they do a name check or could any chancer (aka me) walk in?

    Do the decent thing and sign in for some one you know who's short an event











    (PM sent :D)














    Joking


  • #5858
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    just do it wrote: »
    Does it qualify as an event? I don't see it on the approved list
    http://www.agriculture.gov.ie/farmingsectors/beef/beeftechnologyadoptionprogramme/2013programme/

    Yea it does indeed


  • #5859
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    i dont think they are very strict on the amount you actually attend, as long as you are not taking the piss, there was a lad in our group who would arrive 20 minutes late, sign the form and leave after half an hour....


  • #5860
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    Muckit wrote: »
    Do they do a name check or could any chancer (aka me) walk in?

    I might be going yet muckit....you could pretend to be my auld lad :P


  • #5861
    jomoloney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭jomoloney


    some moving stories here

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIHEgijBB5U&feature=player_embedded


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  • #5862
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    What time is that walk on at on Tuesday lads? :rolleyes:


  • #5863
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Muckit wrote: »
    What time is that walk on at on Tuesday lads? :rolleyes:

    2pm and 6pm I think


  • #5864
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    I might be going yet muckit....you could pretend to be my auld lad :P
    Muckit wrote: »
    What time is that walk on at on Tuesday lads? :rolleyes:
    Might try and make the 6pm showing, where'll I meet ye;)


  • #5865
    C0N0R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,965 ✭✭✭C0N0R


    Just got head butted by a cow and split my eyebrow open, the joys of re tagging and DNA testing 550 cows! At least the sun in shining, can't beat nz winters!!


  • #5866
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    More populist bull in today's farmers journal. They're saying how some large farmers are getting an increase in sfp under new cap. Some with over 400 hectares will get close to 200k. I know it's not everyone's idea of fairness but what the journal fails to mention is the amount of farmers with less than 100 hectares who currently get more than 200k and will only lose a small amount of this in relative terms under the new cap. Paper doesn't refuse ink and these guys know how to mislead people and stir it up.


  • #5867
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    reilig wrote: »
    More populist bull in today's farmers journal. They're saying how some large farmers are getting an increase in sfp under new cap. Some with over 400 hectares will get close to 200k. I know it's not everyone's idea of fairness but what the journal fails to mention is the amount of farmers with less than 100 hectares who currently get more than 200k and will only lose a small amount of this in relative terms under the new cap. Paper doesn't refuse ink and these guys know how to mislead people and stir it up.

    I would read anything but I couldnt be arsed with the crap in the journal . Its a very repetitive paper with damn all new or interesting articles .
    I find the farmers guardian is way ahead with pieces from farmers that are trying new and different things , good or bad .


  • #5868
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    reilig wrote: »
    ..Some with over 400 hectares will get close to 200k. ....
    How many farmers in Ireland, over 400 hectares, in fairness.


  • #5869
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    id love 400 hectares:D


  • #5870
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    kevthegaff wrote: »
    id love 400 hectares:D

    Alot of lads would including myself


  • #5871
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    pakalasa wrote: »
    How many farmers in Ireland, over 400 hectares, in fairness.



    do you realise how hard it is to run a farm of 400ha, you should try it sometime :D:D



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ORNfD8e_sk


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  • #5872
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    just do it wrote: »
    Might try and make the 6pm showing, where'll I meet ye;)

    should meet up if going to all be there at 6pm show,


  • #5873
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    I'I definitely go if I knew it wouldn't be a wasted journey and I'd get in. If you are a member are you allowed bring a 'friend' or I could be your 'farm hand'? :pac:


  • #5874
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    Muckit wrote: »
    I'I definitely go if I knew it wouldn't be a wasted journey and I'd get in. If you are a member are you allowed bring a 'friend' or I could be your 'farm hand'? :pac:

    Go as hugos spalpeen !


  • #5875
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    moy83 wrote: »
    Go as hugos spalpeen !

    lol, now which meaning of that term should we take moy;)


  • #5876
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    hugo29 wrote: »
    lol, now which meaning of that term should we take moy;)

    Around here a spalpeen was an orphan that came out of the orphanage to live and slave on the farm !


  • #5877
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    moy83 wrote: »
    Around here a spalpeen was an orphan that came out of the orphanage to live and slave on the farm !

    round here it was either a rascal or a member of the travelling community who worked on the farm


  • #5878
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Interesting one - MF35 Tractor modified for wheelchair use.
    Someone might know someone.
    http://www.donedeal.ie/tractors-for-sale/mf-35-tractor/5225928


  • #5879
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    heard dog barking so went up the yard, was a travelling sales man looking for the "boss man":)


  • #5880
    towzer2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 533 ✭✭✭towzer2010


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Interesting one - MF35 Tractor modified for wheelchair use.
    Someone might know someone.
    http://www.donedeal.ie/tractors-for-sale/mf-35-tractor/5225928

    There's a man on our discussion group in a wheelchair and nothing seems to faze him. He even went in on slats with it for one of the farm visits and that took doing. Just shows you what you can do when you are determined enough.


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  • #5881
    towzer2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 533 ✭✭✭towzer2010


    whelan1 wrote: »
    heard dog barking so went up the yard, was a travelling sales man looking for the "boss man":)

    Did you tell him where to go.........




    ..to find the boss? :)


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