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    #212
    TITANIUM.
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    TheClubMan wrote: »
    Does anyone know when the next tranche of GLAS is due to open? I heard somewhere that it could be later in the year but is there an exact date announced?

    I presume it'll be September October and in early November/start of December


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    #213
    Rushy Fields
    Registered Users Posts: 222 ✭✭Rushy Fields


    When can I top my LIPP Parcels.... is it the 1st of July or Later?


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    #214
    Base price
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    nealger wrote: »
    When can I top my LIPP Parcels.... is it the 1st of July or Later?
    From the 15th of July.


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    #215
    High bike
    Registered Users Posts: 2,428 ✭✭✭High bike


    damobrady31 wrote: »
    no word of the overdue glas payments that were due in may. also what about the3% due from the single farm payment or what ever it's called now . has the dept ran out of money.
    its showing in my agfood account today so I presume will be in the bank in a few days


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    #216
    Base price
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    High bike wrote: »
    its showing in my agfood account today so I presume will be in the bank in a few days
    Balance of BPS payment is showing on ours but no mention of GLAS.


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    #217
    High bike
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    Base price wrote: »
    Balance of BPS payment is showing on ours but no mention of GLAS.
    sorry mine is BPS balance no Glas,any idea when that's due?


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    #218
    Base price
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    High bike wrote: »
    sorry mine is BPS balance no Glas,any idea when that's due?
    I read somewhere on F&F that the next Glas (Tranche 1) payment was due in May - last month :rolleyes:


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    #219
    jfh
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    need to buy bird /bat boxes, any recommendations?


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    #220
    TheClubMan
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    Have a look on DoneDeal. There's plenty of different lads selling them to GLAS participants.


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    #221
    kollegeknight
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    jfh wrote: »
    need to buy bird /bat boxes, any recommendations?

    Our local men's shed and tys made and sold them. Have you any of these in your area?


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    #222
    50HX
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    jfh wrote: »
    need to buy bird /bat boxes, any recommendations?

    if you don't have time to make it yourself buy the material and pay someone to make them

    once they one cut to size you'd fly through them

    how they justify 8-12 euro per box on DD is beyond me


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    #223
    jfh
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    kollegeknight wrote: »
    Our local men's shed and tys made and sold them. Have you any of these in your area?

    None that I know off, I see my local coop has a guy selling them


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    #224
    Nobbies
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    Are lads using nails or screws too put these bird/bat boxs up with on the tree?also its suggested the tree should be marked so the better paid lad can know where the box is.any suggestions for marking?


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    #225
    50HX
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    Nobbies wrote: »
    Are lads using nails or screws too put these bird/bat boxs up with on the tree?also its suggested the tree should be marked so the better paid lad can know where the box is.any suggestions for marking?


    i used screws to fix onto the tree

    anything at all will do to mark the tree - nail a bit of a lat, cut up a fertilizer bag and tie on somewhere

    doesn't specify so anything that will identify it as a tree with a box if you stand back and look at a group of them together


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    #226
    TITANIUM.
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    Nobbies wrote: »
    Are lads using nails or screws too put these bird/bat boxs up with on the tree?also its suggested the tree should be marked so the better paid lad can know where the box is.any suggestions for marking?

    If it's only suggested then I wouldn't bother. The more time he's walking around with his head stuck up every tree means less time looking for other problems. weren't they marked on a map in the application anyway?


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    #227
    ganmo
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    TITANIUM. wrote: »
    If it's only suggested then I wouldn't bother. The more time he's walking around with his head stuck up every tree means less time looking for other problems. weren't they marked on a map in the application anyway?

    from the posts on here from the guys that have gotten inspections, the inspectors seem to be taking the suggestions as requirements.


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    #228
    TITANIUM.
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    from the posts on here from the guys that have gotten inspections, the inspectors seem to be taking the suggestions as requirements.

    Mark away mad so. I won't be bothering with that. Sure I can show him anyway.
    I've much better things to be spending my time on.


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    #229
    manjou
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    TITANIUM. wrote: »
    Mark away mad so. I won't be bothering with that. Sure I can show him anyway.
    I've much better things to be spending my time on.

    Stand under tree with phone and get get gps coordinates and if asked where boxes are hand them gps coords should keep them amused for a while.


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    #230
    Base price
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    jfh wrote: »
    None that I know off, I see my local coop has a guy selling them
    Make sure that the bat boxes you make/buy have the slits on them for the bats to crawl up. I don't know the requirement for bird boxes. There is a diagram on how to make the bat boxes on the Glas book.
    ganmo wrote: »
    from the posts on here from the guys that have gotten inspections, the inspectors seem to be taking the suggestions as requirements.
    I have a fencing post along the hedge in front of each tree - pretty simular to the other 30 odd fencing posts along the hedge ;) We put 4 boxes on one tree and 5 on the other. The requirements were a minimum of 3 boxes per tree facing different directions. I chose two trees with no ivy and good spacing between the branches so that we didn't have to cut any branches on the trees.


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    #231
    50HX
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    i thought it was a max of 3 per post/tree??


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    #232
    Base price
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    50HX wrote: »
    i thought it was a max of 3 per post/tree??
    The wording was "at least 3 boxes per tree/post"


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    #233
    moll3
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    it says in the book at least three boxes per tree or post


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    #234
    A cow called Daisy
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    Nobbies wrote: »
    Are lads using nails or screws too put these bird/bat boxs up with on the tree?also its suggested the tree should be marked so the better paid lad can know where the box is.any suggestions for marking?

    Put the boxes on oak trees then
    "Tie a yellow ribbon 'round the old oak tree'
    and you can point them out to inspector while singing the song


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    #235
    The Cuban
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    These Traditional Hay Meadows are going to be traditional dung heaps now with the weather we are getting, not really worth baling up as Silage either as the quality is rubbish at this stage


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    #236
    limo_100
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    The Cuban wrote: »
    These Traditional Hay Meadows are going to be traditional dung heaps now with the weather we are getting, not really worth baling up as Silage either as the quality is rubbish at this stage

    Mine are good quality enough hoping to get them into baled silage next week, I didnt put out the fertilizer until the 20 of may so it wouldn't be growing as long and wouldn't all shoot and collapse before july. Ours has lots of red and white clover in it should make good enough for the cows


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    #237
    Water John
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    That sounds good Limo. It needs a different regime than we have got used to.


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    #238
    20silkcut
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    Kale starting to come on in the WBC parcel. Have a lot of grass coming through as well.
    This pic is where I made a balls of the sowing and let out the entire bag in a few yards.


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    #239
    20silkcut
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    This is where I got it right (I think) and mixed the kale with a bag of nitrogen.


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    #240
    Base price
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    20silkcut wrote: »
    Kale starting to come on in the WBC parcel. Have a lot of grass coming through as well.
    This pic is where I made a balls of the sowing and let out the entire bag in a few yards.
    I don't know much about kale other than seeing it been grazed but I assume that it will smother out the grass as it gets stronger.


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    #241
    20silkcut
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    Base price wrote: »
    I don't know much about kale other than seeing it been grazed but I assume that it will smother out the grass as it gets stronger.

    That's what I'm assuming too. Was going to put round up on it as well but then I thought what is the point of killing grass in a non commercial crop.


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