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Dairy Farming General

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  • #8462
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    whelan2 wrote: »
    will take 2 weeks for the ground to dry out here, normally cut first cut on june bank holiday weekend

    I've seen more than a few crops which weren't grazed before closing starting to lodge around here after the rain last week.


  • #8463
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,792 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    freedominacup wrote: »
    I've seen more than a few crops which weren't grazed before closing starting to lodge around here after the rain last week.
    mine was grazed so we have a bit of time, fert only went out in early april


  • #8464
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    freedominacup wrote: »
    Completely finished now.

    Nothing to do tomorrow except go to Gowran


  • #8465
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    whelan2 wrote: »
    will take 2 weeks for the ground to dry out here, normally cut first cut on june bank holiday weekend

    This is the main reason our ground is dry and early. Seeing as the contractor had no mowing to do he sent the guy who normally drives the mower along with a digger and rock breaker. These bastards were a real hazard to mowers and even pickups.


  • #8466
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    freedominacup wrote: »
    This is the main reason our ground is dry and early. Seeing as the contractor had no mowing to do he sent the guy who normally drives the mower along with a digger and rock breaker. These bastards were a real hazard to mowers and even pickups.

    That's almost like limestone. Once those are ripped out it allys any fear of machonery getting damaged.


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  • #8467
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    freedominacup wrote: »
    This is the main reason our ground is dry and early. Seeing as the contractor had no mowing to do he sent the guy who normally drives the mower along with a digger and rock breaker. These bastards were a real hazard to mowers and even pickups.
    Sure it makes the silage cuttin' a bit more interesting up there in their climate controlled cabins:D

    We did a bit of that a few years ago but we waited till the silage was cut to do the digging, ya mad yoke.


  • #8468
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Jaysus I must be a ****e farmer.......no silage made yet :D:D

    You better hurry up, I made mine 9 months ago :)


  • #8469
    Deepsouthwest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭Deepsouthwest


    darragh_haven wrote: »
    hey frazz, most things are better topless

    I presumed it was the local beaches he was talking about!


  • #8470
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    Found a "victim" for my first cut. :)
    Pitted second cut and a further 5ha of wraps on strong paddocks.


    Dry as tobacco.


  • #8471
    Deepsouthwest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭Deepsouthwest


    14 acres of cows ground mowed and tedded yesterday, raked and baled this evening, two really great drying days with plenty sunshine. 74 bales of what I'd hope is super quality stuff stacked and finished now and it's just started raining outside. I love it when a plan comes together!!


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  • #8472
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Nothing to do tomorrow except go to Gowran

    Racing??

    I love racing.


  • #8473
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Jaysus I must be a ****e farmer.......no silage made yet :D:D

    Expert grass budgeter?:)


  • #8474
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    freedominacup wrote: »
    This is the main reason our ground is dry and early. Seeing as the contractor had no mowing to do he sent the guy who normally drives the mower along with a digger and rock breaker. These bastards were a real hazard to mowers and even pickups.

    WTF! Have you enough surface to sink a plough??
    I must admit, I don't have any experience of ground like that.


  • #8475
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    60 bales made ,but not all in, lashing here now.


  • #8476
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Dawggone wrote: »
    Racing??

    I love racing.

    Not racing.
    Glanbia coop members voting on releasing or not, some of the coops value to members in the form of Plc shares.

    Might be the one time more people bring money out of Gowran than don't :):)


  • #8477
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Dawggone wrote: »
    WTF! Have you enough surface to sink a plough??
    I must admit, I don't have any experience of ground like that.

    There's rock like that in most paddocks though what's left is generally benign as the dangerous ones have been rockbroken or dug out. That's in ground we bought a few years ago and are still trying to get right. Blackgrass reckons it's boys ground. Grew decent crops of beet though.


  • #8478
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,792 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    freedominacup wrote: »
    There's rock like that in most paddocks though what's left is generally benign as the dangerous ones have been rockbroken or dug out. That's in ground we bought a few years ago and are still trying to get right. Blackgrass reckons it's boys ground. Grew decent crops of beet though.
    on our outfarm we have land like that, when motorway went through it we got the lads to break up the rocks and we hired dumpers to dump the rock in the bog, used to be all furze , rocks and bog and now there's no waste


  • #8479
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,792 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Not racing.
    Glanbia coop members voting on releasing or not, some of the coops value to members in the form of Plc shares.

    Might be the one time more people bring money out of Gowran than don't :):)
    was all set to go but something has come up here:mad: too long to be away , let us know how it goes, would be the guts of 4.5 hours on the road to/from here


  • #8480
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Not racing.
    Glanbia coop members voting on releasing or not, some of the coops value to members in the form of Plc shares.

    Might be the one time more people bring money out of Gowran than don't :):)

    Nice one!!
    I hope ye make a small fortune.


  • #8481
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    freedominacup wrote: »
    There's rock like that in most paddocks though what's left is generally benign as the dangerous ones have been rockbroken or dug out. That's in ground we bought a few years ago and are still trying to get right. Blackgrass reckons it's boys ground. Grew decent crops of beet though.


    Must be good land to grow good crops of beet.
    I thought that I've experience of most types of land, but I've never seen that kind of land. I assume it's very dry.


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  • #8482
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    whelan2 wrote: »
    was all set to go but something has come up here:mad: too long to be away , let us know how it goes, would be the guts of 4.5 hours on the road to/from here

    Similar here, but cross Country all the way.


  • #8483
    Blackgrass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 735 ✭✭✭Blackgrass


    freedominacup wrote: »
    There's rock like that in most paddocks though what's left is generally benign as the dangerous ones have been rockbroken or dug out. That's in ground we bought a few years ago and are still trying to get right. Blackgrass reckons it's boys ground. Grew decent crops of beet though.

    We all know someone bigger better faster stronger smarter than ourslves, in know few folk with Dorset diamond or Aberdeen gravel who'd happily swap their bit of dirt.
    http://d1hu4133i4rt3z.cloudfront.net/attachments/113/113914-d128da04c748f97eb048d87c9711fc5d.jpg


  • #8484
    WheatenBriar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,170 ✭✭✭WheatenBriar


    Timmaay wrote: »
    Similar here, but cross Country all the way.

    On a bicycle ? :D
    Down the Gorey bypass on to Bunclody and across to M9 is how I go
    Good road all the way
    About an hour


  • #8485
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    WheatenBriar wrote: »
    On a bicycle ? :D
    Down the Gorey bypass on to Bunclody and across to M9 is how I go
    Good road all the way
    About an hour

    Pr into bunclody head for kiltealy onto bored and your in gowran. Only 30 min for us and look at heifers on the way


  • #8486
    WheatenBriar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,170 ✭✭✭WheatenBriar


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Pr into bunclody head for kiltealy onto bored and your in gowran. Only 30 min for us and look at heifers on the way

    I've put bored into the Sat nav and it's asking me to make a legal u-turn :D


  • #8487
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    whelan2 wrote: »
    on our outfarm we have land like that, when motorway went through it we got the lads to break up the rocks and we hired dumpers to dump the rock in the bog, used to be all furze , rocks and bog and now there's no waste

    Did you use it to reclaim the bog? Convert it to grazing ground? Nice one


  • #8488
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    There's a Russian lady showing up in an advert on boards between posts and she's most distracting


  • #8489
    Bullocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,893 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    just do it wrote: »
    There's a Russian lady showing up in an advert on boards between posts and she's most distracting

    I didn't want to be the first to say I saw her in case it reflected poorly on my search history


  • #8490
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    WheatenBriar wrote: »
    I've put bored into the Sat nav and it's asking me to make a legal u-turn :D

    Borris would be a fairly boring place alright


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  • #8491
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    WheatenBriar wrote: »
    On a bicycle ? :D
    Down the Gorey bypass on to Bunclody and across to M9 is how I go
    Good road all the way
    About an hour

    Just looked at Google maps, 1hr40, I'm almost I Wicklow Town, but Yeh I was thinking tinahealy way before you suggested Bunclody. In any case, other things to be done!


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