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  • #352
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,078 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    Farmer Pudsey wrote: »
    They might be breeding like rabbits but they are out of the championship this year.

    ouch!:(


  • #353
    frogloch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 130 ✭✭frogloch


    If been around here a short while so I better introduce myself. I'm a wexford man been milking cows all my life. I have one horse left, had five halfbred mares here at one stage. I supply glanbia, spring calving, sell all bulls as calves keep the heifers. Milking the same no of cows as last year :). This is a great resource to have. EVERY DAYS A SCHOOL DAY, without the schoolbags and suspensions :P.


  • #354
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    frogloch wrote: »
    If been around here a short while so I better introduce myself. I'm a wexford man been milking cows all my life. I have one horse left, had five halfbred mares here at one stage. I supply glanbia, spring calving, sell all bulls as calves keep the heifers. Milking the same no of cows as last year :). This is a great resource to have. EVERY DAYS A SCHOOL DAY, without the schoolbags and suspensions :P.
    Keep away from Kovu and you'll evade suspension! Welcome aboard. Are you another one of these lads that suffers drought?!


  • #355
    frogloch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 130 ✭✭frogloch


    just do it wrote: »
    Keep away from Kovu and you'll evade suspension! Welcome aboard. Are you another one of these lads that suffers drought?!

    Why is she the headmistress? No I don't mind dry weather at all, beside the blackstairs, hard to keep rain away. A few miles away each side of me its like a different country.


  • #356
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,481 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    frogloch wrote: »
    Why is she the headmistress? No I don't mind dry weather at all, beside the blackstairs, hard to keep rain away. A few miles away each side of me its like a different country.

    Ah she likes to think she is :D


  • #357
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    frogloch wrote: »
    Why is she the headmistress? No I don't mind dry weather at all, beside the blackstairs, hard to keep rain away. A few miles away each side of me its like a different country.

    Your only over the road so.
    out farm is at the foot of it


  • #358
    frogloch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 130 ✭✭frogloch


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Your only over the road so.
    out farm is at the foot of it

    Keep going west for a few miles. I drive a mf4270.:D


  • #359
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    frogloch wrote: »
    Keep going west for a few miles. I drive a mf4270.:D

    Have ye now


  • #360
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Wexford seems to be a more mixed county than I thought both land wise and weather wise. Over here on the Atlantic we all have the impression Wexford is like the Algarve ;):D


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  • #361
    frogloch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 130 ✭✭frogloch


    just do it wrote: »
    Wexford seems to be a more mixed county than I thought both land wise and weather wise. Over here on the Atlantic we all have the impression Wexford is like the Algarve ;):D

    Big difference in climate and soil around county from macamores in east that grows some amount of grass in a dry year to tillage land around ballycarney that'll dry up the second it stops raining. Then land where I am where soil is very deep and south wexford then has a drier milder climate than me.:)


  • #362
    Farmer Pudsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,326 ✭✭✭Farmer Pudsey


    frogloch wrote: »
    Big difference in climate and soil around county from macamores in east that grows some amount of grass in a dry year to tillage land around ballycarney that'll dry up the second it stops raining. Then land where I am where soil is very deep and south wexford then has a drier milder climate than me.:)


    Climate area's along the West Coast are easy to predict it is wet amd wetter. Land type in general is split in two with a few area's excepted. Bog or rock :D. So it is obivious that Wexford could have bigger differences in climate and terrain.


  • #363
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Had a farm walk on my own place with a fellow boardsie farmer recently and it's amazing the different land types/ terrains even within a few acres


  • #364
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    just do it wrote: »
    Had a farm walk on my own place with a fellow boardsie farmer recently and it's amazing the different land types/ terrains even within a few acres

    I hope he converted you to jex ;)


  • #365
    boggerman1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭boggerman1


    Tipp man here 36 yrs of age.fulltime dairy farmer in mid Tipp area,around Templemore.farming 125 acres all in with 70 cows and replacement stock.have followed this board for a long time and find it fascinating at times


  • #366
    mattP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 255 ✭✭mattP


    Only a young lad here, 17. I live on a sucler farm of >80 acres, and I don't have a ****ing clue if I'll take it or not. My parents are doing great work building it up, improving it, buying better stock etc and they both have said about me taking it ("after you go to college"). I have a great passion for the breeding and watching the calves come on, but I find other parts dreadful boring! Ill mainly just peruse the breeding and genetics threads :3


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  • #367
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,481 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    mattP wrote: »
    Only a young lad here, 17. I live on a sucler farm of >80 acres, and I don't have a ****ing clue if I'll take it or not. My parents are doing great work building it up, improving it, buying better stock etc and they both have said about me taking it ("after you go to college"). I have a great passion for the breeding and watching the calves come on, but I find other parts dreadful boring! Ill mainly just peruse the breeding and genetics threads :3
    Welcome aboard and if it suits ya...keep on farming


  • #368
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    mattP wrote: »
    Only a young lad here, 17. I live on a sucler farm of >80 acres, and I don't have a ****ing clue if I'll take it or not. My parents are doing great work building it up, improving it, buying better stock etc and they both have said about me taking it ("after you go to college"). I have a great passion for the breeding and watching the calves come on, but I find other parts dreadful boring! Ill mainly just peruse the breeding and genetics threads :3

    That's how I started ;) Love genetics and breeding history myself as well.

    Are you me! :eek:


  • #369
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,481 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Kovu wrote: »
    That's how I started ;) Love genetics and breeding history myself as well.

    Are you me! :eek:

    One of you is bad enough :P


  • #370
    davidk1394
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,174 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    MrMuscles96 wrote: »
    Am I the youngest here :P ? 19 years old from the west coast! From a small drystock farm in Mayo. 50 odd Texel x ewes lambing mid march selling in the back end. 6 spring calving sucklers cows selling the calves as stores at 12-13 months. Just finished drystock management course there in June but going to try and get into shared milking or that as I'm not going to get the home place(doing the Professional Diploma in Dairy Herd management). Should be starting a work placement on a dairy farm mid september probably near one of ye cork boys! I hope to learn a thing from the dairy farmers posting on here! Have been going through the threads for a long time and picking up bits of knowledge along the way! You don't learn everything from a book some you learn from a computer screen! :)

    Are you doing that course in kildalton college ?


  • #371
    MrMuscles96
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭MrMuscles96


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    Are you doing that course in kildalton college ?

    No its based in Moorepark.. its more practical than theory.. Theres only few days every 2 months your in moorepark


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  • #372
    Millstream
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭Millstream


    Hello all, First post but been checking out the boards for a few weeks now. Mid 30's originally from Wexford but been living in Canada for awhile now. Moving home next year with wife and young son. Hoping to move back to the farm and get off farm work to get a mortgage in place. Farm was a dairy and tillage operation up to a few years ago but beef and a bit of barley now, as the folks are getting on. I will be keeping an eye on the various threads and looking for some ideas closer to the time of the move home.


  • #373
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,698 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    You have 1 Canadian winter left so, good luck with the move and welcome on board.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #374
    Caelan6400jd
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭Caelan6400jd


    Hello everyone, my first post on here. Farming in the county of Waterford. 170 acres broken into two sections: 80 grassland and 90 hill. Been following all the topics over the past few weeks and I find them great, this place is a hive of information!


  • #375
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,481 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Caelan6400jd wrote: »
    Hello everyone, my first post on here. Farming in the county of Waterford. 170 acres broken into two sections: 80 grassland and 90 hill. Been following all the topics over the past few weeks and I find them great, this place is a hive of information!

    Welcome


  • #376
    MF290
    Registered Users Posts: 728 ✭✭✭MF290


    Hi all, have been posting the odd bit from time to time but mainly reading the threads. There's a vast amount of knowledge and experience too! From a tillage and beef farm in the midlands myself. The land would be heavy but good. Absolutely love the farming, maybe a little too much by times... Wouldn't have much of a say in matters on the home farm due to there being too many chiefs about, but I suppose I'm lucky not to be tied down at a young age. Will probably end up part time farming with the father who I get on with very well (despite bickering and arguing 24/7). The father has done a good job trying to build up the farm but a lot of work and investment is still required. Studying in UCD for the next few years so I really enjoy being able to follow farming matters during the week.


  • #377
    rushvalley
    Registered Users Posts: 426 ✭✭rushvalley


    MF290 wrote: »
    Hi all, have been posting the odd bit from time to time but mainly reading the threads. There's a vast amount of knowledge and experience too! From a tillage and beef farm in the midlands myself. The land would be heavy but good. Absolutely love the farming, maybe a little too much by times... Wouldn't have much of a say in matters on the home farm due to there being too many chiefs about, but I suppose I'm lucky not to be tied down at a young age. Will probably end up part time farming with the father who I get on with very well (despite bickering and arguing 24/7). The father has done a good job trying to build up the farm but a lot of work and investment is still required. Studying in UCD for the next few years so I really enjoy being able to follow farming matters during the week.

    What are you doing in ucd?


  • #378
    MF290
    Registered Users Posts: 728 ✭✭✭MF290


    rushvalley wrote: »
    What are you doing in ucd?

    Ag :D


  • #379
    rushvalley
    Registered Users Posts: 426 ✭✭rushvalley


    MF290 wrote: »
    Ag :D

    What year


  • #380
    sonnybill
    Registered Users Posts: 970 ✭✭✭sonnybill


    rushvalley wrote: »
    What year

    the two boys have hit the student union bar! ;-)


  • #381
    MF290
    Registered Users Posts: 728 ✭✭✭MF290


    rushvalley wrote: »
    What year

    Only first year


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  • #382
    rushvalley
    Registered Users Posts: 426 ✭✭rushvalley


    sonnybill wrote: »
    the two boys have hit the student union bar! ;-)

    Fcuk that place !! I'm not made of money


  • #383
    rushvalley
    Registered Users Posts: 426 ✭✭rushvalley


    MF290 wrote: »
    Only first year

    I'll have to try figure you out now :p


  • #384
    davidk1394
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,174 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    MF290 wrote: »
    Hi all, have been posting the odd bit from time to time but mainly reading the threads. There's a vast amount of knowledge and experience too! From a tillage and beef farm in the midlands myself. The land would be heavy but good. Absolutely love the farming, maybe a little too much by times... Wouldn't have much of a say in matters on the home farm due to there being too many chiefs about, but I suppose I'm lucky not to be tied down at a young age. Will probably end up part time farming with the father who I get on with very well (despite bickering and arguing 24/7). The father has done a good job trying to build up the farm but a lot of work and investment is still required. Studying in UCD for the next few years so I really enjoy being able to follow farming matters during the week.

    Its good to have another young lad here among all the old timers !!


  • #385
    MF290
    Registered Users Posts: 728 ✭✭✭MF290


    rushvalley wrote: »
    I'll have to try figure you out now :p

    Haha, best of luck with that!


  • #386
    MF290
    Registered Users Posts: 728 ✭✭✭MF290


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    Its good to have another young lad here among all the old timers !!

    We'll outnumber them yet!


  • #387
    davidk1394
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,174 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    MF290 wrote: »
    We'll outnumber them yet!

    What do you make of UCD and the ag science course ? I've a friend of mine studying that course aswell


  • #388
    rushvalley
    Registered Users Posts: 426 ✭✭rushvalley


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    What do you make of UCD and the ag science course ? I've a friend of mine studying that course aswell

    Its nearly all science atm but its all ag after 2nd year. Sticking it out well so far hopefully I can get passed this science craic without much trouble :rolleyes: :D


  • #389
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    rushvalley wrote: »
    Its nearly all science atm but its all ag after 2nd year. Sticking it out well so far hopefully I can get passed this science craic without much trouble :rolleyes: :D

    Ex Ag here, ya first year is heavy on the science but it gets more relatable after that


  • #390
    Feckthis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Feckthis


    Are the grants still open for farm improvements? For weigh scales, calving gates and stuff?


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  • #391
    Bullocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,890 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    MF290 wrote: »
    We'll outnumber them yet!

    Probably outlive them any how . Welcome aboard


  • #392
    juniorfarmer
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭juniorfarmer


    How ye Lads.
    Just said i'd introduce myself here. I'm here for a bit of an education on farming. Help out at home with the father and have been following forums and threads on this for a long time. It's unreal the amount of great information that can be got from this site. Anything I can add to it I will, but I'm here to learn more than anything else. Sure we 'll see how we get on anyway.
    Thanks.
    Goodluck.


  • #393
    carrollsno1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭carrollsno1


    Finished ag college and working as 2ic om a large dairy farm in england from a suckler farm back home thats too fragmented to milk on not sure what enterprise ill end up running on the home farm when i go home

    Better living everyone



  • #394
    A cow called Daisy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭A cow called Daisy


    Welcome on board.....


  • #395
    bullnuts
    Registered Users Posts: 108 ✭✭bullnuts


    Suckler farmer from limerick with full time job ! About 40 Sucklers very little a machinery good land that needs a bit of reclamation in places ! Mostly contractor does our work ! Married three kids and just turned 40


  • #396
    parishsavings
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭parishsavings


    Hi folks, not a farmer but helping a suckler / beef farmer, full-time off farm work.
    Hoping to buy my own farm for a part-time set-up. Based in Tipp.
    Single and ready to mingle (if you have the right land!)


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  • #397
    davycc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,019 ✭✭✭davycc


    parishsavings wrote: »
    Hi folks, not a farmer but helping a suckler / beef farmer, full-time off farm work.
    Hoping to buy my own farm for a part-time set-up. Based in Tipp.
    Single and ready to mingle (if you have the right land!)
    Warm welcome to the form parish


  • #398
    Salrub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 112 ✭✭Salrub


    Hi everyone. Farming on family farm with sucklers, beef and sheep, the money making enterprises!!! part time now but hopefully full time in the future. Hoping to listen and learn new things and maybe help too!


  • #399
    Who2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,091 ✭✭✭Who2


    Hi im a part time farmer, i run around 50 sucklers with an aim for exporting but still with a lot to do and work full time.


  • #400
    Coolfresian
    Registered Users Posts: 306 ✭✭Coolfresian


    Hi everyone,
    Young full time dairy farmer from leinster. Have a Holstein/British fresian cross herd. Finish cattle on the farm also so the best of both worlds :)


  • #401
    Shuck
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭Shuck


    Hi everyone. Work full-time shift work, farm part time on the family farm. I'm from cavan , we run a 12 cow suckler herd and a herd of 35 dry stock. Hope to take the reins some day in the future. Love every minute of farm. I am hoping to learn from the vast experiences on this fourm.
    Maybe I can help some too
    Thanks


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