Farming Chitchat 10/10- Now VIRUS-FREE!

Anecdotal reports of pubs opening too on the quiet for "regulars".
And there were loads of booze buses from Dublin that headed up beyond the border on Paddies day too

Good artical below about how issues like tropical deforestation and the illegal trade in wildlife play a big role in such outbreaks

http://www.birdlife.org/worldwide/news/conservation-time-coronavirus-message-ceo

CloughCasey1 wrote: »

On a lighter note
Is this you Patsy?
Breakfast Bar stool attached to a bicycle rack with jerry can and funnel attached.
Turn off for Bunratty today.

Ya, that's me off to self-isolate. Plan is to fill the jerry can with beer and funnel it into me. The breakfast stool was a mistake. I thought it was a regular bar stool.

Water John wrote: »

The UK are listing farmers and farm workers as 'key workers' in the economy, during Covid 19. A step from unskilled, which is what they were listed.

It doesn’t mean they are skilled or unskilled.

In this current crisis highly skilled people can be of low importance and some unskilled workers will be the key to beating it.

Basic farm workers like fruit pickers are unskilled, the U.K. are crying out for them.
Working machinery or milking cows would likely be classified as semi skilled.

Without looking up the definitions it’s worked out on the amount of qualification and training time required to perform the tasks at hand.

Key personnel in this crisis will include many shelf stackers, cleaners, drivers, farm workers etc. Unskilled isn’t a put down, it’s just an industry description of a position in relation to the cost of deploying a worker.

jimini0 wrote: »

Where can I find gestation lengthy for bulls? Icbf seems to have changed. I'm looking for lm2010 and lm2014

Found that too sadly :-(
Even for calves recorded in calving difficulty
If you go to prev evaluation, down the bottom there’s some info

whelan2 wrote: »

What's the story with taxis at the moment. Surely you don't want yo be hopping into a car with a stranger and not know who was in it before you

Surely they might not. But some people won't have that choice...

We go to outfarm with our digger 2 or 3 times a week during the winter. Neighbour messaged me today that her 2 lads aged 4 and 2 live for the digger coming over. So excited when they hear it coming over the road. Especially now when they can't go to play school.

My good deed for the day. Well Thursday it was.

A few days after Xmas I'd a call from a lad looking for permission to search our land for a drone the young lad lost. I told him to work away.
Not a thought about it again until I was fencing on Thursday and found it in the field.
I dropped it back , just left it on the front lawn and kept goin.
I was told today that the young lad himself spotted it on the lawn and it was like Xmas all over again!
It turned out that he'd lost it on its maiden voyage.

Panch18 wrote: »

Brilliant program on Maradona on channel 4 at the moment

Some genius

Young lad wanted to watch it but they gave a warning of nudity etc before it and he said no

Panch18 wrote: »

Brilliant program on Maradona on channel 4 at the moment

Some genius

Some operator when you consider what defenders could get away with back them and that he was off his head for alot of it

greysides wrote: »

No disease-related news or comment here please, use the other threads.

We will all need a break from it, so here will be a temporary haven.[/CENTER]

You'd sort of miss the Brexit talk

emaherx wrote: »

You'd sort of miss the Brexit talk

And climate change. Not a word about it now or vegans. Every cloud and all that.

_Brian wrote: »

Got the bikes dusted off yesterday for their first outing of the year.
Sausages in the oven to fuel us and a home reared ham cooked for picnic.

Beautiful morning here. Hope it’s nice where everyone is.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there.

Yeah tasty morning here. Started off the stitching season here yesterday with the first bit of reseeding starting tomorrow.

whelan2 wrote: »

Breakfast ready for me when I came in from milking

Cereal?

orm0nd wrote: »

all pollution/emission levels have dropped in the last 2 weeks, even though farming is continuing as normal (within reason)

That will be noted. Time to wake up the 35 from its winter rest and grease up the vicon. I wont do too much climate damage on that old lady today. ; )

whelan2 wrote: »

Breakfast rolls. Daughter did a fry.

Sweet

Mad thirst on ya for the rest of the day

orm0nd wrote: »

all pollution/emission levels have dropped in the last 2 weeks, even though farming is continuing as normal (within reason)

This great.
No theory, no papers, nothing else needed.

Literally within days of reducing consumption of fossil fuels air and water quality has bounced back while agriculture hasn’t missed a step. No longer do we need to listen to pasty faced keyboard warriors blaming farming while taking multiple unnecessary flights a year.
Now we have one mantra., farming isn’t the problem, if they want to make a positive environmental impact they need to stop criticising farming and stop their actions that burn fossil fuels. The evidence is clear and factual real world example.

We do need to address runoff from N application and the likes of MCPA. That’s a separate argument though.

greysides wrote: »

VIRUS FREE ZONE

If not already, we will soon be overwhelmed by Covid-19 related news and comment.

Not to have it all-consuming, the mods are designating this thread as virus-free.

No disease-related news or comment here please, use the other threads.

We will all need a break from it, so here will be a temporary haven.

Thats a relief, ye were slow enough off the mark though.

Bet the eco warriors aren't happy that the sitting duck farmers are shown NOT to be the problem they've spent decades complaining about. Happy Mother's Day! I'm off to collect a pet kid goat and a couple of pet lambs to keep her company. My daughters are so excited, they've even come out of their electronic devises!

Cars up and down road here, people climbing the mountain

_Brian wrote: »

What app are you calling through ??
You could just delete that app of the tablet.

Thanks might try that
If we delete apps off Tab
Would it delete off her phone too?

How does anyone else work a tab or old phone for the kids

Anyone any idea where I'd get an ignition key for a International Harvester 885xl?

The key code is 14609.

I'm not seeing much online so will probably end up ringing castlebar farm machinery tomorrow but said I may as well ask here all the same.

Say my name wrote: »

The international space station is passing overhead at 8.23 pm lasting about 4 minutes coming from the sw.

So outside now if you want a gander!!

There were actually two satellites visible to the naked eye just as the ISS went into earths shadow. One moving south to north and the other west to east.

No alien spacecraft visible though..