Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi all! We have been experiencing an issue on site where threads have been missing the latest postings. The platform host Vanilla are working on this issue. A workaround that has been used by some is to navigate back from 1 to 10+ pages to re-sync the thread and this will then show the latest posts. Thanks, Mike.
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Future of beef production in Ireland.

13»

Comments

  • #102
    K.G.
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,259 Mod ✭✭✭✭K.G.


    A lad said something to me the other day that surprised me but is 100%true.he said that giving up milking is not really an option nowadays because beef is so bad.


  • #103
    Siamsa Sessions
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,902 Mod ✭✭✭✭Siamsa Sessions


    If it's of any use to others, our plan is to set a few acres of kale or rape even year and out-winter 20 dairy-beef weanling heifers on it. The fields need to be re-seeded anyway so we'll slowly work thru those 10 acres over the next 3 years. Shed space is tight and it's straw-bedded rather than slats so more costly.

    The heifers are white-heads and Angus, bought from a local dairy farmer at 4 weeks. Don't know if we'll get to finish them at 19/20 months but that's the plan at the moment.

    It being an ex-dairy farm, we've plenty paddocks for cattle (not sheep!) so should be able to manage grass OK.

    Main thing for us is to keep on top of the work-load and keep costs down. Very hard to invest in the current climate. Maybe this is the exact time to invest and in hindsight it'll all be obvious. But tis hard to see it at the moment when you hear talk of 3.00 euro/kg

    Trading as Sullivan’s Farm on YouTube



  • #104
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,808 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Good plan there. If you had the time to finish them in stages, a few each month, a local butcher/restaurant might be interested in a tie up.


  • #105
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    Should get rid of all the polluting cattle and embrace the Impossible Burger 2.0

    So there you are on your mobile phone or labtop, consuming energy generated from the burning of fossil fuels . Ironic don't you think.

    'If I ventured in the slipstream, Between the viaducts of your dream'



  • #106
    wrangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,224 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    So there you are on your mobile phone or labtop consuming energy generated from the burning of fossil fuels . Ironic don't you think.

    The only thing the Government/ Public service will do for Climate Change is enforce a Carbon Tax,
    Climate Change will involve producing emissions ''somewhere else''


  • #107
    Danzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,125 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    But tis hard to see it at the moment when you hear talk of 3.00 euro/kg[/quote]

    Christ if that happens


  • #108
    Albert Johnson
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 1,898 Mod ✭✭✭✭Albert Johnson


    Danzy wrote: »
    But tis hard to see it at the moment when you hear talk of 3.00 euro/kg

    Christ if that happens[/quote]

    I'm the first to agree that the whole job is in dire straits atm but I'm also of the belief that there's a certain amount of scaremongering going on. It's not impossible that €3kg will come to pass but unlikely imo, certain ongoing worldwide events such as the swine flu epidemic may boost the demand for beef. Even if €3kg was reached then the same naysayers would be talking of €2.50kg coming down the line. The bottom line is most of us don't know what's going to happen but it may not be as bad as some would lead us too believe.


Advertisement