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Farming Chit Chat III

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  • #9542
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    Should we start calling you granny? :D

    She'll be a right old biddy then


  • #9543
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    did anyone hear that the young trained farmers 60%grant for buildings is also to include machinery ? fella had that for me today!!!???


  • #9544
    epfff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭epfff


    Bodacious wrote: »
    did anyone hear that the young trained farmers 60%grant for buildings is also to include machinery ? fella had that for me today!!!???

    Has it to be environmental machine
    Eg injector slurry tank


  • #9545
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    epfff wrote: »
    Has it to be environmental machine
    Eg injector slurry tank

    thats good and similar to other countries. down side to this is, the big get bigger


  • #9546
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    reilig wrote: »
    He also talks about what a lot of people are thinking

    "The notion that the guy with entitlements worth €750 per ha was twice as productive as they guy with entitlements of €350".

    In a lot of cases the lower entitlement holder was twice as productive because he had to be in order to survive!

    This is the bull$hit right here. Conmacine Mara and myself have had a couple of right oul barneys on this question and it turns out that Cons max payment around €15,500 (according to his own posts on another thread) was around €7-800 lower than my max payment. His has been hit harder than mine with some schemes going but you'll have to explain to me how his payment which he hopes to get back up to is a small one worthy of protecting and enhancing whereas mine is a large one, a symbol of greed, sharp practice and insider gombeen politics which must be severely cut in the name of fairness because I've "had it god enough for long enough" according to more than one poster.


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  • #9547
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    biddy2013 wrote: »
    was amazed the other evening at parent teacher meeting how young the teachers are, of the 12 teachers i spoke to only 2 would have been over 40, the majority where under 30, felt old:o

    Half and half where my kids go. Two of the teachers were there in my time but they were only young ones fresh out of Maynooth. One of them has a son that plays soccer with my eldest. Mrs freedom was a bit taken aback on our eldest's first day when his teacher comes over and gives me a hug at the door of the classroom. She thought a lot of me for some reason probably due to the fact that she never taught me. I played football with the principal but the other two are a bit younger.


  • #9548
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    freedominacup wrote: »
    This is the bull$hit right here. Conmacine Mara and myself have had a couple of right oul barneys on this question and it turns out that Cons max payment around €15,500 (according to his own posts on another thread) was around €7-800 lower than my max payment. His has been hit harder than mine with some schemes going but you'll have to explain to me how his payment which he hopes to get back up to is a small one worthy of protecting and enhancing whereas mine is a large one, a symbol of greed, sharp practice and insider gombeen politics which must be severely cut in the name of fairness because I've "had it god enough for long enough" according to more than one poster.

    Using my case to prove Reiligs argument won't work, as I was never allowed to be productive - which I always wanted to be.


  • #9549
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    freedominacup wrote: »
    This is the bull$hit right here. Conmacine Mara and myself have had a couple of right oul barneys on this question and it turns out that Cons max payment around €15,500 (according to his own posts on another thread) was around €7-800 lower than my max payment. His has been hit harder than mine with some schemes going but you'll have to explain to me how his payment which he hopes to get back up to is a small one worthy of protecting and enhancing whereas mine is a large one, a symbol of greed, sharp practice and insider gombeen politics which must be severely cut in the name of fairness because I've "had it god enough for long enough" according to more than one poster.

    I knew it, when I read that post I said to myself , if that don't get freedom out of undercover nothing will,:D


  • #9550
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    freedominacup wrote: »
    Half and half where my kids go. Two of the teachers were there in my time but they were only young ones fresh out of Maynooth. One of them has a son that plays soccer with my eldest. Mrs freedom was a bit taken aback on our eldest's first day when his teacher comes over and gives me a hug at the door of the classroom. She thought a lot of me for some reason probably due to the fact that she never taught me. I played football with the principal but the other two are a bit younger.

    One teacher in our school which was there in my time, she started with me, rest are girls in their mid 20s and principal would be early 30s, but credit where it's due, the school is well run


  • #9551
    A cow called Daisy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭A cow called Daisy


    .Kovu. wrote: »
    lads please look after yourselves. ijust had to call nowdoc as was barely fit to stand. turns out I have one of the worst cases of salmonna he ever seen. Heart rate wase was/is over 160, temp of over 106. i wasnt even to keep water down snce sat but thought nothng of it til i thought iwas gong to keel up:(

    Kovu, just wondering how you feeling now. Hope you well on road to recovery


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  • #9552
    biddy2013
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭biddy2013


    hugo29 wrote: »
    One teacher in our school which was there in my time, she started with me, rest are girls in their mid 20s and principal would be early 30s, but credit where it's due, the school is well run
    it was secondary school i was in the other day principal is young and every kid loves going to school there, big change from when i went to secondary school


  • #9553
    biddy2013
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭biddy2013


    had a cow caught her collar on the bottom bit of the side of the manger in parlour today, these collars are supposed to open under pressure, they dont:mad: had to run and get a stanley knife and cut the collar off her


  • #9554
    knockmulliner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 152 ✭✭knockmulliner


    biddy2013 wrote: »
    had a cow caught her collar on the bottom bit of the side of the manger in parlour today, these collars are supposed to open under pressure, they dont:mad: had to run and get a stanley knife and cut the collar off her
    Was it a heat ime collar


  • #9555
    Parishlad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 879 ✭✭✭Parishlad


    I had my secondary school picked out from a very young age. All I wanted to do was play hurling there.


  • #9556
    rancher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭rancher


    freedominacup wrote: »
    This is the bull$hit right here. Conmacine Mara and myself have had a couple of right oul barneys on this question and it turns out that Cons max payment around €15,500 (according to his own posts on another thread) was around €7-800 lower than my max payment. His has been hit harder than mine with some schemes going but you'll have to explain to me how his payment which he hopes to get back up to is a small one worthy of protecting and enhancing whereas mine is a large one, a symbol of greed, sharp practice and insider gombeen politics which must be severely cut in the name of fairness because I've "had it god enough for long enough" according to more than one poster.

    Good post
    Last year I was trying to explain that we were trying to protect the SFP of farmers with €400 - 600 because a lot of them are suckler farmers with 30 - 40 ha which coincidentally is the average size farm for IFA members. To survive they need every euro of that. A table on the journal today projects they'll be losing up to 25%.
    Unfortunately with that policy it was easy to be a victim of the spin doctors


  • #9557
    biddy2013
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭biddy2013


    knockmulliner wrote: »
    Was it a heat ime collar

    Yes the new type ones. Old ones used to open under pressure. This is the third onc
    E I had to cut in the last month


  • #9558
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    A cow called Daisy wrote: »
    Kovu, just wondering how you feeling now. Hope you well on road to recovery

    No :( I'm still not able to eat or take water. May be a hospital job! Andd to think I wouldn't leave it this long f it was a cow that couldnt eat!:rolleyes:


  • #9559
    A cow called Daisy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭A cow called Daisy


    .Kovu. wrote: »
    No :( I'm still not able to eat or take water. May be a hospital job! Andd to think I wouldn't leave it this long f it was a cow that couldnt eat!:rolleyes:

    Look after yourself anyway. We will be keeping an eye on you


  • #9560
    onyerbikepat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,921 ✭✭✭onyerbikepat


    Nice. My kinda heifers.

    http://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/breeding-heifers-for-sale/6395838


  • #9561
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Just found the FF CAP policy document, probably what will be on the agenda for tomorrow nights and subsequent meetings:

    http://www.scribd.com/doc/203415644/Cap-Policy-Paper


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  • #9562
    biddy2013
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭biddy2013


    onyerbikepat wrote: »
    Nice. My kinda heifers.

    http://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/breeding-heifers-for-sale/6395838
    would they not be a bit old for breeding?


  • #9563
    I said
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭I said


    Is the IFA on a recruitment drive at the moment have had a lad call here twice in last week?


  • #9564
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    Reading herd test in a hour, fingers crossed :)


  • #9565
    biddy2013
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭biddy2013


    I said wrote: »
    Is the IFA on a recruitment drive at the moment have had a lad call here twice in last week?
    they have rang me 3 times in the last week, each time i was up to my tonsils, calving a cow, dosing a cow and chasing after a suckler cow:rolleyes:


  • #9566
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    biddy2013 wrote: »
    they have rang me 3 times in the last week, each time i was up to my tonsils, calving a cow, dosing a cow and chasing after a suckler cow:rolleyes:

    the same cow:D


  • #9567
    biddy2013
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭biddy2013


    hugo29 wrote: »
    the same cow:D
    no:D


  • #9568
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    bad dose of man flu doing the rounds


  • #9569
    biddy2013
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭biddy2013


    hugo29 wrote: »
    bad dose of man flu doing the rounds
    hurt my hand yesterday :( but i know man flu is worse , take 2 weeks off work to recover


  • #9570
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    biddy2013 wrote: »
    no:D

    ah right had visions of ya chasing a cow with a calving jack in 1 hand, dosing gun in the other and the toy boy trailing behind;)


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  • #9571
    GrandSoftDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 743 ✭✭✭GrandSoftDay


    Got the fright of my life heading to the mart this morning. Was going around a mini roundabout slowly and the back of the jeep slid when I started turning and the whole thing started to jack knife. Lucky enough I threw in the shoe and steered out of it but I was shaking for a few minutes after. Very close to chaos :(


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