Farming Chitchat 10/10- Now VIRUS-FREE!

NcdJd · 19-09-2020 1:26pm

Base price wrote: »

They lived in a house near Rowlestown for a year or so.

I know that

been in it.

Mossie1975 · 20-09-2020 8:29am

In from the milking. Taking myself and the dog off to the beach. Tail is wagging - she knows where she’s going.

patsy_mccabe · 20-09-2020 11:10am

Niece's holy communion yesterday. She insisted as it was her special day, I had to go on the bouncy castle with her. 😀 Some laugh.

orm0nd · 20-09-2020 12:14pm

making first on line vat claim

do I need to upload scans of the invoice or just put in the invoice details

mostly fencing and a bit of reclamation

Tonynewholland · 20-09-2020 12:26pm

orm0nd wrote: »

making first on line vat claim

do I need to upload scans of the invoice or just put in the invoice details

mostly fencing and a bit of reclamation

Yes you need to scan the invoice too

tanko · 20-09-2020 12:27pm

A neighbour grazed 80 ewes on the silage ground here for three weeks in the spring.
What would be a fair price to get off him, first time doing that.

wrangler · 20-09-2020 12:45pm

tanko wrote: »

A neighbour grazed 80 ewes on the silage ground here for three weeks in the spring.
What would be a fair price to get off him, first time doing that.

It'd be a valuable time if it was after lambing, if they were suckling he'd have to give them 1 to 1.5 kg meal/day to replace good grass if he didn't have it.
He was lucky to have it, especially this year, there was no grass anywhere..
I'd imagine the grass took a while to recover as well after them.
Dry ewes in january, you'd be alright at 10 -15c/day, They'd only eat half what a suckling ewe would eat

charolais0153 · 20-09-2020 12:45pm

tanko wrote: »

A neighbour grazed 80 ewes on the silage ground here for three weeks in the spring.
What would be a fair price to get off him, first time doing that.

10c a day is 170, 15c is 250. Somewhere in between is fair enough

tanko · 20-09-2020 12:59pm

They were dry ewes carrying singles.
I’ll ask him for €200 worth of straw, i’d be happy with that if he has some to spare.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 20-09-2020 2:21pm

Last silage of 2020 made today, a few acres of heavier ground I wouldn't risk cutting last week. So 43 more bales added to the pile for next winter.

We headed to an U16 hurling final the second lad was in today, unfortunately they lost after extra time.

We had to laugh when the ref gave a free against him for a push in the back even though he was ahead of the player he was supposed to have pushed. His marker even gave him the ball for the free against him and was a bit bewildered when he realised the free was for him.:D

whelan2 · 20-09-2020 6:40pm

Well done Sam Bennett.

Say my name · 20-09-2020 7:09pm

EAT Lancet chair acknowledges that Grass based livestock are good for the planet.

https://twitter.com/herdyshepherd1/status/1307738668338216960

How much damage was done in the meantime especially our own who has digging in at our grass based production here.
Maybe finally work can now begin to double down on carbon sequestration with livestock playing a key role.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 20-09-2020 7:15pm

Say my name wrote: »

EAT Lancet chair acknowledges that Grass based livestock are good for the planet.

https://twitter.com/herdyshepherd1/status/1307738668338216960

How much damage was done in the meantime especially our own who has digging in at our grass based production here.
Maybe finally work can now begin to double down on carbon sequestration with livestock playing a key role.

They've had to retract their horns a good bit in the recent past because of all the positive attributes of grasslands and ruminants on them coming more to the fore.

The next two or three years are going to be rather difficult for anti ruminant agitators, I think.

Say my name · 20-09-2020 7:26pm

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

They've had to retract their horns a good bit in the recent past because of all the positive attributes of grasslands and ruminants on them coming more to the fore.

The next two or three years are going to be rather difficult for anti ruminant agitators, I think.

Any farmer with livestock and anyone that turned a sod knew the benefits livestock make to the soil.

How people believed tillage was ever good for the planet is beyond me.

But as always it's not one good one bad.
Tillage is bad for soil. No till is good.
Livestock in the main are good. It's how that animal is managed and how the food for that animal is grown really dictates how the soil microbes react and how they fix more carbon.

Finally though we've moved beyond livestock bad, plants good.

Ain't it quare how someone with a spikey haircut had so much power on the world..

Water John · 20-09-2020 7:50pm

A new series of ' What planet are you on?' is on RTE 1. Just caught a glance as I passed through the kitchen. The voiceover was bemoaning the carbon footprint of the meat and milk some family had.

Say my name · 20-09-2020 8:17pm

Water John wrote: »

A new series of ' What planet are you on?' is on RTE 1. Just caught a glance as I passed through the kitchen. The voiceover was bemoaning the carbon footprint of the meat and milk some family had.

Apparently that Marco Springmann on that was getting funding from EAT.

North Korean tv has nothing on RTE.

20-09-2020 8:35pm

Probably the wrong place to ask but, how do I change some of the "my forums" forums?

emaherx · 20-09-2020 8:48pm

Click the forum link that you want to unfollow then there should be a big unfollow button near the top.

whelan2 · 20-09-2020 9:08pm

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

Last silage of 2020 made today, a few acres of heavier ground I wouldn't risk cutting last week. So 43 more bales added to the pile for next winter.

We headed to an U16 hurling final the second lad was in today, unfortunately they lost after extra time.

We had to laugh when the ref gave a free against him for a push in the back even though he was ahead of the player he was supposed to have pushed. His marker even gave him the ball for the free against him and was a bit bewildered when he realised the free was for him.:D

Was there restrictions on people attending the match?

NcdJd · 20-09-2020 9:10pm

Say my name wrote: »

EAT Lancet chair acknowledges that Grass based livestock are good

"Livestock is not the problem, the current number and our overconsumption of meat in high income countries is. Grass fed, free ranged animals are part of healthy ecosystems. Factory farms are as bad as coal fired power plants for the ðŸŒ, and a health and aminal welfare problem."

She still stated that the current number of livestock and over consumption of meat is a problem. I don't trust them.

zetecescort · 20-09-2020 9:15pm

Some breed of a Viper found in Offaly today. Reckon it came in a delivery of stone from India

patsy_mccabe · 20-09-2020 9:28pm

zetecescort wrote: »

Some breed of a Viper found in Offaly today. Reckon it came in a delivery of stone from India

Would the cold here have killed it eventually?

ruwithme · 20-09-2020 9:44pm

Stone from India? Thought we'd enough of that here

naughto · 20-09-2020 10:04pm

ruwithme wrote: »

Stone from India? Thought we'd enough of that here

A lot of stone for the likes of headstones
On graves comes in

Buford T. Justice XIX · 20-09-2020 10:05pm

whelan2 wrote: »

Was there restrictions on people attending the match?

No, none at all. I'd say maybe 100 at it, a good quarter of them kids under 5 or 6. Social distancing poor enough but the groups of 4 or 5 stayed mostly together.

We were at the far end of the spectators and stayed until most had gone away. My first match this year and I certainly didn't bring a bit of luck with me.

ganmo · 20-09-2020 10:08pm

naughto wrote: »

A lot of stone for the likes of headstones
On graves comes in

All the granite used for the walls around the m50 came from china

Nekarsulm · 20-09-2020 10:13pm

ruwithme wrote: »

Stone from India? Thought we'd enough of that here

A lot of stone comes in from India and China.
Coloured sandstone, marble, polished granite etc.
Even slates, have been in a house nearby here in Cavan where the entire roof slates, sandstone window sills, cut stone quoins, stone floor slabs for the kitchen and four carved stone pillars, 8 feet long and 18 inches in diameter, all came in crates from China.

_Brian · 20-09-2020 10:17pm

Nekarsulm wrote: »

A lot of stone comes in from India and China.
Coloured sandstone, marble, polished granite etc.
Even slates, have been in a house nearby here in Cavan where the entire roof slates, sandstone window sills, cut stone quoins, stone floor slabs for the kitchen and four carved stone pillars, 8 feet long and 18 inches in diameter, all came in crates from China.

Isn’t there a guy in Stradone that imports stone and marble from India for headstones and surrounds

50HX · 20-09-2020 10:19pm

Interesting read by vets on Covid

Water John · 20-09-2020 10:34pm

I'll read that, but considering the progress they have made with bovine TB in the last 60 years???
On the plus side the vet in Shetland took action very early on and set up for testing islanders for Covid 19.

Farming Chitchat 10/10- Now VIRUS-FREE!

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