Farming Chitchat 10/10- Now VIRUS-FREE!

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

There's a few changes to TB testing after being agreed. Calves can be traded up to 120 days for internal trade though the 42 day requirement for export stays. Concessions for TB testing for older farmers are agreed as well to postpone testing without penalty for a period.

https://www.farmersjournal.ie/new-tb-testing-concessions-agreed-due-to-covid-19-537739

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_Brian wrote: »

Funny, when they runai article slagging Beef Plan it’s not behind the paywall. Politically driven news is rarely worth bothering with.

Just had to wait a little while

Check this out on Agriland - Calves to be exempted from TB testing up to 120 days – IFA https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/calves-to-be-exempted-from-tb-testing-up-to-120-days-ifa/

Thank fook March is over. Hopefully by the end of April we'll have a handle on covid

Reggie. wrote: »

Bet ya said that in feb too

Covid was only diagnosed here in March. January was a long month too

Siamsa Sessions wrote: »

Could do with a sup of rain to soften things here in the south-east. What little grass is growing is weak and brittle with that harsh wind.

Talk of rain at the weekend so that might lift temperatures too. How quickly things have changed in the last two weeks: muck and sh*te everywhere then to a drought now!

How DARE YOU!!!!!!

Siamsa Sessions wrote: »

Could do with a sup of rain to soften things here in the south-east. What little grass is growing is weak and brittle with that harsh wind.

Talk of rain at the weekend so that might lift temperatures too. How quickly things have changed in the last two weeks: muck and sh*te everywhere then to a drought now!

Yep, need a bit here alright. Ground is like iron

Siamsa Sessions wrote: »

Could do with a sup of rain to soften things here in the south-east. What little grass is growing is weak and brittle with that harsh wind.

Talk of rain at the weekend so that might lift temperatures too. How quickly things have changed in the last two weeks: muck and sh*te everywhere then to a drought now!

davidk1394 wrote: »

Yep, need a bit here alright. Ground is like iron

I dunno about rain, good bit of grain to be sown yet and you'd like to see lads get that it over the next few days maybe...

But looking about the place this morning, grass is going backwards. Grass that should be looking lovely and green and lush is turning brown from the hard cold wind...

I think we need higher temp more than rain, but we really need the cold wind gone...

FFS - https://www.farmersjournal.ie/wolves-to-be-introduced-to-connacht-in-pilot-re-wilding-project-537687

Base price wrote: »

FFS - https://www.farmersjournal.ie/wolves-to-be-introduced-to-connacht-in-pilot-re-wilding-project-537687

Go home, sit down, make a cup of tea, and look at the calendar....:)

Ah lads I know what day it is. I was wondering would anyone react to the article.
BTW Daisy calved last night on her own with a healthy bull calf.

Bullocks wrote: »

Green Party leader and south-facing window salad campaigner Eamon Ryan has expressed delight at the news.

“What a time to be alive,” Ryan told a media gathering on the plinth outside Leinster House this morning

Is this an April's fool joke?

Nice to see a bit of craic around 😂

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Go home, sit down, make a cup of tea, and look at the calendar....:)

Thank you for that,. I was just about to reach for my blood pressure monitor, but can find the pressure going down now, like air out of a punctured tyre.

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Lads are hardware shops open, I’ve a few jobs to get done, I need some glass nails, sky hooks and a glass hammer if anyone knows where I can get them....maybe online. Thanks Mac

Great news on the wolves......I’ll be making money thanks to that scheme:D

The long stand is still open.

We used to send new recruits in work over to the nurse for their “anti static injections”, she always had a good laugh at it, made them wait outside while she “charged up the needle”

A bubble for a spirit level.

There is such a thing as a skyhook - used in rock-climbing - I have a couple somewhere.

My old wood work teacher was teaching us about bending timber in theory class one day. At the same time the class smart ass was acting the goat. He says to hell with it lads I'll show ye but we will need to make a steam box to steam the laminates.
He takes out a big plastic container and says that will do for the box, but how do we manage the steam and a tube? He thinks for a second and sends our smart ass off to the science lab for a bucket of steam and the lend of a set of fallopian tubes.
5 minutes later yer man is back as red as a beetroot. He would never tell us what the science teacher said but whatever it was she embarrassed the sh1te out of him.

Anyone elsenotice a huge amount of rabbits around the last few weeks

ganmo wrote: »

Anyone elsenotice a huge amount of rabbits around the last few weeks

It's the Easter bunny....

Valley here is full of buzzards now so rabbits wiped out.

_Brian wrote: »

Valley here is full of buzzards now so rabbits wiped out.

A buzzard only needs one rabbit to keep going for a week(they scavenge most of the time, plus the likes of crows and rats make up most of the live diet) - much more likely a disease like Mixi or RHD has hit, the latter arrived in the country only a couple of years ago and has spread fast and hit many populations hard.