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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #7232
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    Where the agfood correspondence section illustrates the date they send letter requesting info like folio numbers, lease evidence etc.. do they on the otherhand column update "letter received"? just wondering if what I sent in last week is sufficient


  • #7233
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Bodacious wrote: »
    Where the agfood correspondence section illustrates the date they send letter requesting info like folio numbers, lease evidence etc.. do they on the otherhand column update "letter received"? just wondering if what I sent in last week is sufficient

    Go into SFP and then you'll see correspondance. Choose 2013 and all letters sent out to you will come up according to sent date!


  • #7234
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Grass growth has been amazing these last few days. Nothing like misty warm weather to get it going. This was the weather we were used to in the past, before it went all funny with either prolonged wet, dry or cold spells.


  • #7235
    Dampintheattic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 839 ✭✭✭Dampintheattic


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Grass growth has been amazing these last few days. Nothing like misty warm weather to get it going. This was the weather we were used to in the past, before it went all funny with either prolonged wet, dry or cold spells.

    Correct. Cut the lawn on Saturday morning. I was amazed at it when I looked this morning. Real heavy thick growth.
    Must tell herself, it would be a good idea, to strip graze it:o


  • #7236
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Grass growth has been amazing these last few days. Nothing like misty warm weather to get it going. This was the weather we were used to in the past, before it went all funny with either prolonged wet, dry or cold spells.

    I sowed my part of new lawn this day last week and after a damp mist last night, it has all come up this morning.

    Lawn that was sowed 2 weeks ago tomorrow has 1 1/2" of grass up. Never had growth like it. Hopefully the deluge of rain stays away so that pasture and aftergrass is grazeable up until late october.


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  • #7237
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    reilig wrote: »
    I sowed my part of new lawn this day last week and after a damp mist last night, it has all come up this morning.

    Lawn that was sowed 2 weeks ago tomorrow has 1 1/2" of grass up. Never had growth like it. Hopefully the deluge of rain stays away so that pasture and aftergrass is grazeable up until late october.

    LATE october, Id be hoping for the middle of november,

    serious covers starting to build up on aftergrass,


  • #7238
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    hugo29 wrote: »
    LATE october, Id be hoping for the middle of november,

    serious covers starting to build up on aftergrass,

    You have better quality land than us. If we have the majority of them out till the end of october on the best of years, we are doing very well!


  • #7239
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    reilig wrote: »
    You have better quality land than us. If we have the majority of them out till the end of october on the best of years, we are doing very well!

    we usually get middle to end of november, last year got till 01st November with a struggle,


  • #7240
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    just looking at dovea website at beef sires, dont see any Parthenaise bulls, have they given up on them altogether?


  • #7241
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    vanderbadger wrote: »
    just looking at dovea website at beef sires, dont see any Parthenaise bulls, have they given up on them altogether?

    I got BZB from them about 3 weeks ago - AI man said that they were very popular this year. Don't know what the story is?


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  • #7242
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    hugo29 wrote: »
    we usually get middle to end of november, last year got till 01st November with a struggle,
    ye the year is flying , 4 months til christmas and summer holidays over


  • #7243
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    whelan1 wrote: »
    ye the year is flying , 4 months til christmas and summer holidays over

    dont mention the C word, wait till after holloween at least
    summer has flown, eldest starts school friday


  • #7244
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    hugo29 wrote: »
    dont mention the C word, wait till after holloween at least
    summer has flown, eldest starts school friday

    I hate c**ts that mention the C word.


  • #7245
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    whelan1 wrote: »
    ye the year is flying , 4 months til christmas and summer holidays over

    I bought seed today for to grow veg in the polytunnel for the C dinner - brussel sprouts, leeks, onion and spinnage. :P


  • #7246
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    reilig wrote: »
    I bought seed today for to grow veg in the polytunnel for the C dinner - brussel sprouts, leeks, onion and spinnage. :P

    brussel sprouts:D

    ya ever heard the joke about brussel sprouts and their comparison to pubic hair


  • #7247
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    bob charles wrote: »
    I hate c**ts that mention the C word.
    bah humbug


  • #7248
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    hugo29 wrote: »
    dont mention the C word, wait till after holloween at least
    summer has flown, eldest starts school friday
    eldest starting secondary school tomorrow, one lof the local secondary school where back last friday, thats way too early imo


  • #7249
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    Grass seed came this morning, going picking friday hopefully, then going to chance a bit of stitching see what its like


  • #7250
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    reilig wrote: »
    I bought seed today for to grow veg in the polytunnel for the C dinner - brussel sprouts, leeks, onion and spinnage. :P

    We bought some of the Santa stuff for the girls a few weeks ago :o


  • #7251
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    reilig wrote: »
    Go into SFP and then you'll see correspondance. Choose 2013 and all letters sent out to you will come up according to sent date!

    Hi reilig,

    I've got all that but do dept post the date they receive /approve my letter in adjoining column? I see they've "received" my SFP application e.g. 14-5-13


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  • #7252
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    bbam wrote: »
    We bought some of the Santa stuff for the girls a few weeks ago :o

    jayus ye are on the ball, dont even know what we are getting yet (well I dont herself probably does:D)


  • #7253
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Dampintheattic wrote: »
    Correct. Cut the lawn on Saturday morning. I was amazed at it when I looked this morning. Real heavy thick growth.
    Must tell herself, it would be a good idea, to strip graze it:o

    Could you get her to strip and mow it???


  • #7254
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Bodacious wrote: »
    Hi reilig,

    I've got all that but do dept post the date they receive /approve my letter in adjoining column? I see they've "received" my SFP application e.g. 14-5-13

    Yes, they will post up the letter and the date they received it. It can take them 2 weeks or more to scan it and post it up in my own experience.


  • #7255
    ABlur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 837 ✭✭✭ABlur


    whelan1 wrote: »
    eldest starting secondary school tomorrow, one lof the local secondary school where back last friday, thats way too early imo

    Teachers off since end of May I don't think last week of August is too early for them to be back!


  • #7256
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    reilig wrote: »
    Yes, they will post up the letter and the date they received it. It can take them 2 weeks or more to scan it and post it up in my own experience.

    if they are anything like the council it could take up to 2 months,:( its a big job to take a letter to the scanner, scan it in and save it into its rightful folder:rolleyes:
    prob involves 3 different people, one to open the letter, one to scan it and one to save the scan to its rightful folder


  • #7257
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    ABlur wrote: »
    Teachers off since end of May I don't think last week of August is too early for them to be back!

    Agree.
    Teachers should run summer schools during the summer, kids can be sent in add-hock.
    It's a mockery. I know two teachers who head off to France am are reps on a campsite for the summer while being paid by the state back home.
    If they do online courses over the summer they get paid days off during ye school year. If they correct exams they get extra pay. If the work in the summer tuition scheme they get extra pay.
    I don't take the whole 9 months salary paid over 12 months malarkey.

    The number of working parents that pay extra child care over the summer while their taxes pay for teachers to have the summer off. It's madness.


  • #7258
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    bbam wrote: »
    Agree.
    Teachers should run summer schools during the summer, kids can be sent in add-hock.
    It's a mockery. I know two teachers who head off to France am are reps on a campsite for the summer while being paid by the state back home.
    If they do online courses over the summer they get paid days off during ye school year. If they correct exams they get extra pay. If the work in the summer tuition scheme they get extra pay.
    I don't take the whole 9 months salary paid over 12 months malarkey.

    The number of working parents that pay extra child care over the summer while their taxes pay for teachers to have the summer off. It's madness.

    is there a teaching forum, copy and paste that into it:D go on i dare ya;)


  • #7259
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    hugo29 wrote: »
    is there a teaching forum, copy and paste that into it:D go on i dare ya;)

    I know.
    I have relations and great friends who are teachers and I daren't mention the topic. The girl married to me nephew is expecting their second. They openly say its times so her maternity leave starts the first week in September.

    The days of the kids needing the while summer off to help with the harvest at home are over.
    Give the kids six weeks off and the teachers 21 days holidays just like the rest of us plebs.

    I have to bite my tounge listening to friends bemoaning going back to teaching next week. FFS get a grip. They at least could admitt it's a handy number. Only one chap I know admitts the only reason he went into teaching was JJ&A (June,July &August).


  • #7260
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    bbam wrote: »
    I know.
    I have relations and great friends who are teachers and I daren't mention the topic. The girl married to me nephew is expecting their second. They openly say its times so her maternity leave starts the first week in September.

    The days of the kids needing the while summer off to help with the harvest at home are over.
    Give the kids six weeks off and the teachers 21 days holidays just like the rest of us plebs.

    I have to bite my tounge listening to friends bemoaning going back to teaching next week. FFS get a grip. They at least could admitt it's a handy number. Only one chap I know admitts the only reason he went into teaching was JJ&A (June,July &August).

    i know,I am in the same boat, i know one lad who teaches woodwork and farms part time and he wil happily admit it the best advice his old man ever gave him "do woodwork teaching son"


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  • #7261
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    bbam wrote: »
    I know.
    I have relations and great friends who are teachers and I daren't mention the topic. The girl married to me nephew is expecting their second. They openly say its times so her maternity leave starts the first week in September.

    The days of the kids needing the while summer off to help with the harvest at home are over.
    Give the kids six weeks off and the teachers 21 days holidays just like the rest of us plebs.

    I have to bite my tounge listening to friends bemoaning going back to teaching next week. FFS get a grip. They at least could admitt it's a handy number. Only one chap I know admitts the only reason he went into teaching was JJ&A (June,July &August).
    the other problem as well with teachers is there is no way of getting rid of a crap teacher, you just have to grin and bear it and hope she does go on maternity leave:D


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