any farmers on this forum at all?

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goodman galwayman.....sheep is it? with a few sucklers for good measure? did you open the wraps yet?

All dry stock. Got out of sheep. Too much work for no return. Tough enough going since the beet went but still tipping away. Not yet but I'd imagine I'll cut the first plastic in the next week or so. Yourself?

keep a few store bullocks, may put them in at the weekend, cutting the place up. have a few down in the bottoms...feck all to eat and giving them silage i made in sept...nice stuff and they are glad of it. got out of the sheep 2 years ago myself..not sorry either. what way are the single farm payments gonna go? i was away from farmin for a while but might need to go back at it full time. isnt CAP up for renegotiation in 2013? what is likely to happen? cheers

Once upon a time, not anymore, the brother looks after it now.

wouldnt know one end of a sheep from another unlike a few here.

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Are round balls of silage still 25 euro delievered?

i hope that was a typo padsters ;) bales could make €30 this year, because of the bad summer, on the other hand the national herd is down numbers so could even itself out

Should this thread title not be

any farmers on this forum at all at all?

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im a farmer too

wlecome....type of farmin please

i grew up on a dairy farm but it wasn't the life for me, alot of hard work (not that i'm against hard work but for the return at the time it didnt make sense to me), with dairy cows you're pretty much tied to it 7 days a week 52 weeks of the year. My dad ended up gettig out of the cows when he realised I had no interest in continuing it on, was tough for them given how long they had spent building the herd up but it was the rational decision to make. He now keeps livestock which is easier on hm at his stage of life, I even enjoy going back and helping out but as a career it was not for me.

The meat factories have been robbing farmers blind for the last 20 years with beef prices paid to the farmer now the same as 1980.No wonder the factory beef barons have helicopters and a lavish lifestyle.They are worse than the bankers and politicians.Almost every beef farmer will be at a loss this year,due to poor prices,withdrawal of REPS,increased costs and the fact that we have the worst minister for agriculture of all time,who hasnt done anything but close the REPS Scheme and cut Area Aid payments. His handling of the dioxins in pork and farm building grants were only awful.Bring back Mary Coughlan who was well liked in the farming community.

sucklers here also .went out this morning to find the best one i had belly up.e95 to have her collected, punchestown looking a bit unlikely now ,used to manage to wrangle open meeting at one stage but its good to be healthy.

Grass tetany?

im signing in as well.i milk but i dried them all off this week and i wont milk a cow again till mid january.

yep padster tetany, hard to avoid in this weather. is punchestown in any danger of being called off at weekend due to weather.clonmel gone today and lots of water on the way .

sorry to hear that oufie :_| its always the best ones that die on ya. remember when you were allowed to bury them?
how is the fluke situation? i heard 25% of cows arent in calf this year after 2 wet years in a row...because of fluke.

god i dunno about Couglan....wasnt the beet wound up on her watch?....Galwayman??? i didnt think she was that well liked.

re. the beef prices..my good mate is one of the biggest buyers in the country...he tells me that Goodman has all the power now and dictates more or less to the penny what we (beef farmers) get. he is selling into tesco's now below cost after undercutting kepak. he is buying up all round him in UK too (abbatoirs etc)

And to think that Goodman was on the ropes at the time of the Beef Tribunals.Left off the hook like the bankers and has since amassed a fortune on the backs of farmers. Cosy cartel. The farmer Co-ops llike Dairygold left beef processing and without any meaningful opposition Goodman can pay what he likes.

I wonder are there any feed merchants or the like donating any meal to the farmers that are in hardship in the west after they making so much money off them. I see 60k worth of silage/hay has been donated by farmers.

Dairygold now selling beef ration at 158

this flucking weather is a fluckin joke...
what is rolled barley making around the country?

Read in the Journal about death of Gerry Scully,good guy, what happened him?