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Ameila

Hello everyone Just after taking over my dads dairy farm as he no longer is able for the work,I 've a little knowledge so will need as much help as I can get from all you knowledgeable posters.

davidk1394

How ye lads im from the premier county situated in the fertile Suir Valley. On this a while but i better introduce myself. Im only a young lad whose still in college studying Land Management. i love the out doors and hardship so i suppose farming was ideal. our main enterprise is a 500 ewe flock and growing. We finish a few store lambs. I look after the bull beef operation which is slowly getting bigger. I started out contracting last year so im kept going during the summer months at that. On the look out aswell for a woman with a bitta road frontage aswell and a hefty Single Farm Payment !! :P as the saying goes "his so hungry for land he'd eat clay". Haha im eager to learn so i hope ye old timers will teach me as i go. Looking forward to getting to know ye all :-)

Base price

davidk1394 wrote: »

How ye lads im from the premier county situated in the fertile Suir Valley. On this a while but i better introduce myself. Im only a young lad whose still in college studying Land Management. i love the out doors and hardship so i suppose farming was ideal. our main enterprise is a 500 ewe flock and growing. We finish a few store lambs. I look after the bull beef operation which is slowly getting bigger. I started out contracting last year so im kept going during the summer months at that. On the look out aswell for a woman with a bitta road frontage aswell and a hefty Single Farm Payment !! :P as the saying goes "his so hungry for land he'd eat clay". Haha im eager to learn so i hope ye old timers will teach me as i go. Looking forward to getting to know ye all :-)

Unfortunately I think most of us good'uns are long taken
Best of luck in your endeavours and welcome

davidk1394

Base price wrote: »

Unfortunately I think most of us good'uns are long taken
Best of luck in your endeavours and welcome

I better be quick off the mark next time !!

visatorro

great to see a couple more contractors coming along, reggie had abit of a monopoly there for a while

tanko

davidk1394 wrote: »

I better be quick off the mark next time !!

Have you ever considered moving to Leitrim?:pac:

Kovu

tanko wrote: »

Have you ever considered moving to Leitrim?:pac:

Reggie.

visatorro wrote: »

great to see a couple more contractors coming along, reggie had abit of a monopoly there for a while

Mmmm might have to discourage this pup....... Welcome kid

Reggie.

tanko wrote: »

Have you ever considered moving to Leitrim?:pac:

Yeah I hear she has a hape of frontage

Base price

tanko wrote: »

Have you ever considered moving to Leitrim?:pac:

That is the best laugh I have had in ages
Apologies Kovu
Although I hear there is a bit of good land for sale on the Ballyconnel, Cavan side of Leitrim.
david1394 might have deep pockets
Oh the thoughts of a F&F wedding and the guest list :eek:

White Clover

Base price wrote: »

That is the best laugh I have had in ages
Apologies Kovu
Although I hear there is a bit of good land for sale on the Ballyconnel, Cavan side of Leitrim.
david1394 might have deep pockets
Oh the thoughts of a F&F wedding and the guest list :eek:

Quadboy might have something to say about this :-D

Reggie.

White Clover wrote: »

Quadboy might have something to say about this :-D

Ah he's in NZ

Bullocks

Base price wrote: »

That is the best laugh I have had in ages
Apologies Kovu
Although I hear there is a bit of good land for sale on the Ballyconnel, Cavan side of Leitrim.
david1394 might have deep pockets
Oh the thoughts of a F&F wedding and the guest list :eek:

Sure all the F&F crowd would have no craic, they would all have to go after the dinner to check things at home !

davidk1394

visatorro wrote: »

great to see a couple more contractors coming along, reggie had abit of a monopoly there for a while

Ahh its only a handy operation at the moment but it's growing !

Reggie.

davidk1394 wrote: »

Ahh its only a handy operation at the moment but it's growing !

All mighty oak trees start with a seed

davidk1394

tanko wrote: »

Have you ever considered moving to Leitrim?:pac:

Haha its a long way to be drawing cattle :P

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Base price wrote: »

Unfortunately I think most of us good'uns are long taken
Best of luck in your endeavours and welcome

Speak for yourself! :P :cool:

davidk1394

Reggie. wrote: »

All mighty oak trees start with a seed

Any silage or hedge cutting i could do for you :P

Reggie.

davidk1394 wrote: »

Any silage or hedge cutting i could do for you :P

We have our own side covered

davidk1394

Reggie. wrote: »

We have our own side covered

Fencing perhaps or dung spreading or a bitta dumper work perhaps ;-)

Reggie.

davidk1394 wrote: »

Fencing perhaps or dung spreading or a bitta dumper work perhaps ;-)

You are a fiesty one

ganmo

davidk1394 wrote: »

Fencing perhaps or dung spreading or a bitta dumper work perhaps ;-)

bitta fencing to do up this way, down a 60 degree slope and up again. ya in? :cool:

Genghis Cant

gadetra wrote: »

Speak for yourself! :P :cool:

Soooooooooooo........ How you doin?

davidk1394

ganmo wrote: »

bitta fencing to do up this way, down a 60 degree slope and up again. ya in? :cool:

Tis a track machine I'd want there ! But I'd give anything a shot once !

Kovu

White Clover wrote: »

Quadboy might have something to say about this :-D

Har har, aren't you a funny one

@BasePrice, sure we can't even organise a F&F drinks night, we'd be hopeless at any sort of wedding.

Bullocks

Kovu wrote: »

Har har, aren't you a funny one

@BasePrice, sure we can't even organise a F&F drinks night, we'd be hopeless at any sort of wedding.

Was there one already ?

ganmo

Kovu wrote: »

Har har, aren't you a funny one

@BasePrice, sure we can't even organise a F&F drinks night, we'd be hopeless at any sort of wedding.

if you're buying we'll be there tomorrow ;P

Mac Taylor

Reggie. wrote: »

Yeah I hear she has a hape of frontage

And What's the land like?:D:D

Kovu

Bullocks wrote: »

Was there one already ?

We were all set for one until realisation set in that we're all farming and couldn't possibly get away for a night :rolleyes:

Bullocks

Kovu wrote: »

We were all set for one until realisation set in that we're all farming and couldn't possibly get away for a night :rolleyes:

We'll have to do a video conference type night out !

AntrimGlens

ganmo wrote: »

bitta fencing to do up this way, down a 60 degree slope and up again. ya in? :cool:

Sure Ganmo he'd be away home to sit in the kitchen drinking tae the first time the crowbar hit a stone. Those young boys have no stamina. He can't even fence his own place without heading off on some excuse about neighbour needing silage cut out. 😀

davidk1394

AntrimGlens wrote: »

Sure Ganmo he'd be away home to sit in the kitchen drinking tae the first time the crowbar hit a stone. Those young boys have no stamina. He can't even fence his own place without heading off on some excuse about neighbour needing silage cut out. 😀

A crowbar ?? I wouldn't even know what they are :P

just do it

davidk1394 wrote: »

studying Land Management

Welcome aboard and you can probably educate us as much as the other way around! Tell us, what involved in the studies? Is it agri focused, or more planning related, or something else entirely?

davidk1394

just do it wrote: »

Welcome aboard and you can probably educate us as much as the other way around! Tell us, what involved in the studies? Is it agri focused, or more planning related, or something else entirely?

Its a bit of everything ! Science, soils,accounting, feed and nutrition, and then the different agri industries themselves

smiththeglen

Hi all been reading the forum for a spell. Not farming myself but work away on the home place as well as the girlfriends parents farm. Don't see too many kerrymen on here and definitely nobody as far south as me so said I'd finally join.

darragh_haven

smiththeglen wrote: »

Hi all been reading the forum for a spell. Not farming myself but work away on the home place as well as the girlfriends parents farm. Don't see too many kerrymen on here and definitely nobody as far south as me so said I'd finally join.

There are a handful of us a bit further south than you. West Cork men
Welcome

Cistern

new to boards. come from Kerry, help my father on his dairy and bit of beef I help out as much as I can, I recently completed my leaving cert so I have more time to devote to farming.

Nekarsulm

Hi Cistern, we're flushed with excitment about new members!
Welcome aboard.

ganmo

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Hi Cistern, we're flushed with excitment about new members!
Welcome aboard.

Oh nek...that was crappy

Reggie.

Lads lads :rolleyes:

ganmo

well lets hope his ballcock is working fine

Kovu

Ah lads, the puns are shïte. Ye should take a U-bend...

Buford T. Justice XIX

Looks like Have2flushtwice has a new friend:pac:

Toby12345

Hello all,

Meath man myself. Dairy and beef mainly. Have a horse too but that just costs money ! No expert at this, just learning the ropes. A lot of good info to be found.

Base price

Toby12345 wrote: »

Hello all,

Meath man myself. Dairy and beef mainly. Have a horse too but that just costs money ! No expert at this, just learning the ropes. A lot of good info to be found.

Welcome Toby, nice to see another representative from Leinster

bogman_bass

Great to see another man form the Royal county! Welcome aboard!

Reggie.

bogman_bass wrote: »

Great to see another man form the Royal county! Welcome aboard!

Breeding like rabbits ye are

Farmer Pudsey

Reggie. wrote: »

Breeding like rabbits ye are

They might be breeding like rabbits but they are out of the championship this year.

Kovu

Farmer Pudsey wrote: »

They might be breeding like rabbits but they are out of the championship this year.

I just snorted eggs :D

MrMuscles96

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!