Farming Chit Chat III

Conmaicne Mara · 23-01-2014 03:45PM

What's the craic with height of loads of straw and hay now? I read something from little Leo but it was clear as mud. Two rows of hay or straw on an arctic to the West will drive the price beyond what it's worth.

td5man · 23-01-2014 03:51PM

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

What's the craic with height of loads of straw and hay now? I read something from little Leo but it was clear as mud. Two rows of hay or straw on an arctic to the West will drive the price beyond what it's worth.

Could be a market for rushes yet.

Farmer Pudsey · 23-01-2014 03:53PM

bob charles wrote: »

dont expect to buy them any cheaper though. If person rang me from a couple of counties away telling me they had bought my animals through such a person or mart, straight away I would be thinking I have a new victim. Thankfully im a nice person and would never do as such

I buy allot of animals/feed/supplies through dealers cheaper than I could buy it direct. Allot of sellers might not be so impressed with end users coming trying to deal with them direct. personally I dont like selling to end users as they are always awkard folk and expect wholesale price for retail goods. I prefer to give the middle man his margin and let him have the hassle of dealing with the end user. The job of a dealer is one I wouldnt do for all the tae in China

Sure try it - it could be the begining of a lovely relationship.

I think a lot of farmers are easier to deal with than a few years ago. Now they are willing to take realistic prices for cattle. They no longer tend to want the top mart price for all there cattle/calves and relise that there is up to 20/head lost on fees and transport. Bought a more cattle off farms this year than ever and the seller had the old:) jeep and box to deliver.

Huge benifits to seller, no spending half a day around a mart selling calves especially that you dare not bring home in case they have picked up anything. Yes you may have a sore ear for a few days but you are not wet and cold as well from hanging around mart.

Benifits to buyers as well you can buy a bunch and get delivered when it suits. You can buy in the evening or weekend as opposed to having to take a day off. Again you are neither wet or cold and will not suffer from a sore ear. However remember they are usually look better cattle in his yard than when they arrive in yours and you are filling out a cheque:cool:

PS you will never get a 20 spot luck from a mart

Timmaay · 23-01-2014 03:54PM

Kovu Murr wrote: »

Straw just delivered here at €22 a round bale. That about normal considering the distance it has to travel to get here?

Can't say I was too happy when my tillage neighbour told me he'd have to get 12e instead of the usual 10 this year for straw :P

Kovu · 23-01-2014 03:57PM

Timmaay wrote: »

Can't say I was too happy when my tillage neighbour told me he'd have to get 12e instead of the usual 10 this year for straw :P

:eek: About those rushes......

Conmaicne Mara · 23-01-2014 04:06PM

Timmaay wrote: »

Can't say I was too happy when my tillage neighbour told me he'd have to get 12e instead of the usual 10 this year for straw :P

I don't know how ye farm in the East with that hardship :P

moy83 · 23-01-2014 04:18PM

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Well he has a role to fullfill on commentary shows, that off the agent provocateur. He is there to stir up outrage, when did you last hear him praise anyone before a game?
But his account of his lifestyle before the company finally went belly-up is amazing. Telling his wife he is going to a conference in Kerry, and flying to Colorado to coach College teams? And setting the alarm clock to wake up at 6pm Irish time to ring the wife and talk about the Kerry weather. Nuts.

That sounds interesting , I dont really follow rugby though . Would it get boring for someone not interested in rugby or is it still worth a read ?

Timmaay · 23-01-2014 04:25PM

Actually even at that, its mad I'm alittle shy on straw at the second, but there is a local place who will sell me a tractor trailer of woodchip for 50quid, easily 5bales worth of bedding in it so I'm using that in place of some of the straw for bedding!

td5man · 23-01-2014 04:32PM

Timmaay wrote: »

Can't say I was too happy when my tillage neighbour told me he'd have to get 12e instead of the usual 10 this year for straw :P

:eek: €11 here.

Greengrass1 · 23-01-2014 04:36PM

Soil test whole farm. Big difference in ground that got dung in the autumn and ground tat didn't is freezing cold ground that got dung is a nice cool temp

Greengrass1 · 23-01-2014 05:01PM

If I spread lime today how long after I spread it could I go with can or pasture sward?

Nekarsulm · 23-01-2014 05:16PM

Hi Moy. There is a certin amount of rugby chat, asyou would imagine, given the number teams he was involved with. Also a bit about his relationship with Eddie O Sullivan. The most is about his personal and business life, most of which you couldn't make up if you tried. This is not the book he launched at Christmas but an earlier one, called " time added on". Not along book, but amazing that he was selling a hundred thousand sandwiches a day, employing about four hundred people and yet had the most bizarre business dealings you could imagine.

moy83 · 23-01-2014 05:38PM

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Hi Moy. There is a certin amount of rugby chat, asyou would imagine, given the number teams he was involved with. Also a bit about his relationship with Eddie O Sullivan. The most is about his personal and business life, most of which you couldn't make up if you tried. This is not the book he launched at Christmas but an earlier one, called " time added on". Not along book, but amazing that he was selling a hundred thousand sandwiches a day, employing about four hundred people and yet had the most bizarre business dealings you could imagine.

Worth a read so . Can it be got on kindle I wonder ?

bob charles · 23-01-2014 05:42PM

Farmer Pudsey wrote: »

I think a lot of farmers are easier to deal with than a few years ago. Now they are willing to take realistic prices for cattle. They no longer tend to want the top mart price for all there cattle/calves and relise that there is up to 20/head lost on fees and transport. Bought a more cattle off farms this year than ever and the seller had the old:) jeep and box to deliver.

Huge benifits to seller, no spending half a day around a mart selling calves especially that you dare not bring home in case they have picked up anything. Yes you may have a sore ear for a few days but you are not wet and cold as well from hanging around mart.

Benifits to buyers as well you can buy a bunch and get delivered when it suits. You can buy in the evening or weekend as opposed to having to take a day off. Again you are neither wet or cold and will not suffer from a sore ear. However remember they are usually look better cattle in his yard than when they arrive in yours and you are filling out a cheque:cool:

PS you will never get a 20 spot luck from a mart

Give me a mart anyday. Too much humming and hawning over peanuts when buying of the land. its allot easier deal with a mart than some individuals. Some people have no word.

Nekarsulm · 23-01-2014 05:44PM

don't know about kindle, you Will probably pick it up on ebay, or a charity shop near you!

Conmaicne Mara · 23-01-2014 05:49PM

td5man wrote: »

Could be a market for rushes yet.

Already is on Donedeal :eek:

I killed all mine, may turn out to have been a bad idea

biddy2013 · 23-01-2014 06:15PM

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Already is on Donedeal :eek:

I killed all mine, may turn out to have been a bad idea

hows the young lad doing?

Timmaay · 23-01-2014 07:13PM

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Already is on Donedeal :eek:

I killed all mine, may turn out to have been a bad idea

I may be in the "sunny south east", but I still got 1/2 acre of rushes from 2012 in a paddock that I just haven't got around to draining fully yet.

jt65 · 23-01-2014 07:34PM

biddy2013 wrote: »

brought my phone to 4 phone shops this morning 3 of them wouldnt go near it and the last one wanted 190 to fix it, i would get a new phone for that

thought I posted the link for you the day you broke it

done the daughter's samsung last year, (you just reminded me she still owes me for the screen )

Conmaicne Mara · 23-01-2014 07:50PM

biddy2013 wrote: »

hows the young lad doing?

Time will tell. Was asking him today who does he be playing with at break and they're all excluding him at school. That's fine if they leave him be, we'll manage the rest.

One of the lads at him has a history of this. Young lad boxed him in the playground one day and sat on him, that was that. I've suggested that course of action to herself but it was declined.

If they continue on verbally and sly at him I'll have 0 hesitation in telling him to pick the biggest of them and let fly.

biddy2013 · 23-01-2014 07:59PM

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Time will tell. Was asking him today who does he be playing with at break and they're all excluding him at school. That's fine if they leave him be, we'll manage the rest.

One of the lads at him has a history of this. Young lad boxed him in the playground one day and sat on him, that was that. I've suggested that course of action to herself but it was declined.

If they continue on verbally and sly at him I'll have 0 hesitation in telling him to pick the biggest of them and let fly.

its all school yardpolitics, youngest lad is the youngest by a long shot in his class, he normally played with the few lads that where not into sports etc, now he is trying to break into the other lads group and there are plenty of tears:( jeeny you want them to work there own way up but on the other hand you want to go and deck a few lads

aneala · 23-01-2014 07:59PM

Timmaay wrote: »

Can't say I was too happy when my tillage neighbour told me he'd have to get 12e instead of the usual 10 this year for straw :P

Similar happened here also, so I politely declined;)

Got a load of 8x4x3 for €26.50 delivered (approx 65miles) first year with big square, will never again draw or stack rounds if I can help it.

C0N0R · 23-01-2014 08:08PM

biddy2013 wrote: »

its all school yardpolitics, youngest lad is the youngest by a long shot in his class, he normally played with the few lads that where not into sports etc, now he is trying to break into the other lads group and there are plenty of tears:( jeeny you want them to work there own way up but on the other hand you want to go and deck a few lads

Either things have got a lot more complicated since I left school or time erases all the bad memories!

Conmaicne Mara · 23-01-2014 08:13PM

C0N0R wrote: »

Either things have got a lot more complicated since I left school or time erases all the bad memories!

Teachers have gotten softer.

simx · 23-01-2014 08:21PM

aneala wrote: »

Similar happened here also, so I politely declined;)

Got a load of 8x4x3 for €26.50 delivered (approx 65miles) first year with big square, will never again draw or stack rounds if I can help it.

Was that barley straw, talked to a man the other day that got €33 ex shed for it, went north of the border

freedominacup · 23-01-2014 08:24PM

aneala wrote: »

Similar happened here also, so I politely declined;)

Got a load of 8x4x3 for €26.50 delivered (approx 65miles) first year with big square, will never again draw or stack rounds if I can help it.

We finally got some 8x3x2 locally this year only because the grower was looking at a field of s.wheat straw with no home for it. We told him we'd take it if he got it in squares. There's no downside to them at all. Rounds are only cnuts of things by comparison for any use feeding or bedding. I don't know what's wrong with farmers/contractors in this area but none of them have the balers or seem to want the bales. Other than the fact that my supplier is one of the biggest growers in the area and has no baler I don't know if we'd have got them. He gives a bit of business to all the contractors so they try to keep him on side. The contractor who baled it had the baler put away to sell but took it out for that job.

Conmaicne Mara · 23-01-2014 08:27PM

Ear to the ground in a few minutes.

rancher · 23-01-2014 08:28PM

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Time will tell. Was asking him today who does he be playing with at break and they're all excluding him at school. That's fine if they leave him be, we'll manage the rest.

One of the lads at him has a history of this. Young lad boxed him in the playground one day and sat on him, that was that. I've suggested that course of action to herself but it was declined.

If they continue on verbally and sly at him I'll have 0 hesitation in telling him to pick the biggest of them and let fly.

That's the way we had to sort it when we were growing up, good training for life, eh

Conmaicne Mara · 23-01-2014 08:31PM

rancher wrote: »

That's the way we had to sort it when we were growing up, good training for life, eh

It probably would have happened already but I had him on a bit of a short leash being new in the school etc. He's well into his sports, rugby and swimming so he's no wallflower.

biddy2013 · 23-01-2014 08:55PM

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Ear to the ground in a few minutes.

hectacres;)

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