Farmers 'could be given licences to grow cannabis

keepalive213

TheMilkyPirate wrote: »

14 ounces? Outdoors? In Ireland? Right.

Yeah it's a load of nonsense alright, this has to be one of the funniest / weirdest threads I've seen in farming...

drunkmonkey

TheMilkyPirate wrote: »

14 ounces? Outdoors? In Ireland? Right.

Mainline it..

gctest50

Before you go planning/spending money on glasshouses :


At Berkeley they had a little chat with brewers yeast and persuaded it to make THC and CDB

Some insulin is manufactured the same way for years so it probably won't take long


https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/02/27/yeast-produce-low-cost-high-quality-cannabinoids/

Feeding only on sugar, the yeast are an easy and cheap way to produce pure cannabinoids that today are costly to extract from the buds of the marijuana plant, Cannabis sativa.

“For the consumer, the benefits are high-quality, low-cost CBD and THC: you get exactly what you want from yeast,” said Jay Keasling, a UC Berkeley professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and of bioengineering and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. “It is a safer, more environmentally friendly way to produce cannabinoids.”

drunkmonkey

Like there doing with the impossible burger growing the Heme in yeast. Not good for people or the environment by all accounts.

Irishdude30

Hi Iv heard that you can get medical cannabis in Barcelona (Cbd oil + Thc) how to get this in Barcelona does anyone know ?

drunkmonkey

Irishdude30 wrote: »

Hi Iv heard that you can get medical cannabis in Barcelona (Cbd oil + Thc) how to get this in Barcelona does anyone know ?

Just go into one or the cannabis club's, loads of them in Barcelona, it's fully legal as long as your a member.
Spannabis is on at the moment you should go if you've no plans for tomorrow.

Irishdude30

iv seen this alrite when I typed it in on google (cannabis clubs) and how exactly does it work , Iv a family member with bad anxietys and pannick attacks . And need to try something different, he is on the cbd oil but not affective . Do they assess you when you go into one of these clubs , is it in oil forms ? And how much THC percentage is in it ?

greysides

Mod:
Irishdude30, this really isn't the right forum to answer your question and your query is off-topic. Try one of the other forums.

skooterblue2

emaherx wrote: »

Or do we hire armed gaurds too?

On the other hand if they are trespassing and causing damage to the crop, they are classed as vermin and you can shoot the nasty scrotes. I say open season on them and allow us have army surplus 7.62 rifles.... and Release the dogs with bees in their mouth and when they bark they shoot bees at you?. that will show em!!

JupiterKid

Hemp would certainly be possible as a cash crop in our damp cool temperate oceanic climate and I’m sure a couple of farmers may give it a go on a trial basis.

But full flower cannabis plants? Nope.

Ultimate Seduction

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/376843/judge-commends-quality-of-limerick-land-as-man-in-court-for-growing-cannabis-in-field.html?fbclid=IwAR2VPgv71ooH-10BMCEGfjZRYMWo3dgJN_jVq6A3u5icQcA9PlHQZcIkaUw#.XLoAmQmQ5hs.facebook

Limerick man grows thriving cannabis plants outdoors worth 3000. Judge commends him on the quality of the land

patsy_mccabe

Is this not the house that Dolores McNamara, the big eurolotto winner, bought?

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/grow-house-with-drugs-worth-900k-found-in-mansion-in-clare-38168044.html

Say my name

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Is this not the house that Dolores McNamara, the big eurolotto winner, bought?

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/grow-house-with-drugs-worth-900k-found-in-mansion-in-clare-38168044.html

From Google.
https://www.thesun.ie/news/3613984/son-euromillions-winners-splashes-hotel/

Edit: You would have to wonder is it anything to do with the crackdown on local gardai and the appointment of a commissioner to sort out the limerick situation?

endainoz

I'm going to look into getting a licence for some hemp growing for next year. Already have a processor sorted, going to go and pay them a visit tomorrow to learn a bit more about it.

Say my name

endainoz wrote: »

I'm going to look into getting a licence for some hemp growing for next year. Already have a processor sorted, going to go and pay them a visit tomorrow to learn a bit more about it.

This fella was on rte radio's Countrywide a few weeks back talking about hemp growing.

http://www.thejournal.ie/hemp-ireland-association-co-op-3-3893119-Mar2018/

endainoz

Since the licences were granted recently, the story has been doing the rounds on farming websites. I'd say a lot would be looking into growing an acre or so to start off with and see how goes from there. That's my plan anyway, think it is a fledgling industry alright and while this thread may have gone a bit off topic, it's created some awareness of the serious potential sowing a few acres could have.

There's also no need to spray this crop, now if a decent no till system could be adopted for it all the better!

Say my name

endainoz wrote: »

Since the licences were granted recently, the story has been doing the rounds on farming websites. I'd say a lot would be looking into growing an acre or so to start off with and see how goes from there. That's my plan anyway, think it is a fledgling industry alright and while this thread may have gone a bit off topic, it's created some awareness of the serious potential sowing a few acres could have.

There's also no need to spray this crop, now if a decent no till system could be adopted for it all the better!

The big winners at the start will be the seed growers.
Depends after that on the processing side and margin left. Any special machinery needed for harvest?

It's a pity for growers it's not a perennial plant.

endainoz

Say my name wrote:

The big winners at the start will be the seed growers. Depends after that on the processing side and margin left. Any special machinery needed for harvest?

Say my name wrote:

It's a pity for growers it's not a perennial plant.

A regular harvester is good enough to harvest it. That agriland weekly web show thing had a piece on it. I know some people harvest by hand too on a smaller scale. The guys I'm talking to will buy it an process it themselves. Still need to check over numbers but there should be a decent margin on it. A better one than raising beef cattle on the same piece of ground anyways.

drunkmonkey

Should you be looking at growing the real thing now under licence. The Government needs it and it's starting importing it. Convert an idle shed and get a 24/7/365 business going. It's probably legal to export already.

Sacrolyte

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Should you be looking at growing the real thing now under licence. The Government needs it and it's starting importing it. Convert an idle shed and get a 24/7/365 business going. It's probably legal to export already.

Cowsheds dude. Cowsheds...

drunkmonkey

Sacrolyte wrote: »

Cowsheds dude. Cowsheds...

Yea cowsheds, it worked a few posts up.

endainoz

drunkmonkey wrote:

Should you be looking at growing the real thing now under licence. The Government needs it and it's starting importing it. Convert an idle shed and get a 24/7/365 business going. It's probably legal to export already.

Well maybe ill give a go at the hemp first and see how it goes. As for growing the real stuff, I'd imagine a legal massive grow house would need some decent security!

skooterblue2

endainoz wrote: »

Well maybe ill give a go at the hemp first and see how it goes. As for growing the real stuff, I'd imagine a legal massive grow house would need some decent security!

..... *starts filling the shotgun with nails* ..... an' we are going to need dogs!!!

drunkmonkey

endainoz wrote: »

Well maybe ill give a go at the hemp first and see how it goes. As for growing the real stuff, I'd imagine a legal massive grow house would need some decent security!

They don't need security at the moment. Just stick to the first rule of fight club.

ganmo

drunkmonkey wrote: »

They don't need security at the moment. Just stick to the first rule of fight club.

How are you meant to sell a crop if you dont talk about it

That and people have things called eyes

Gawddawggonnit

https://www.agriland.ie/farmland/

€1500 to €4k per ACRE!!

I’ve produced a lot more than this man and I can’t get it over €1k per HECTARE.
(usually around €800/ha).

Around 12t+dm/ha of fibre and about 1t of seed is all I can manage...bad farmer me?

Why bother yourselves growing it? I’ll send over as much as ye want for a fraction of his projections....

Waffletraktor

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

https://www.agriland.ie/farmland/

€1500 to €4k per ACRE!!

I’ve produced a lot more than this man and I can’t get it over €1k per HECTARE.
(usually around €800/ha).

Around 12t+dm/ha of fibre and about 1t of seed is all I can manage...bad farmer me?

Why bother yourselves growing it? I’ll send over as much as ye want for a fraction of his projections....

Bit like the Beet Ireland nonsense, flashy headlines to draw the suckers in.
Over here guys are dropping beet due to lack of profitability on much less than 85t/ha plus ground.

Gawddawggonnit

Waffletraktor wrote: »

Bit like the Beet Ireland nonsense, flashy headlines to draw the suckers in.
Over here guys are dropping beet due to lack of profitability on much less than 85t/ha plus ground.

Friend of mine is thinking of getting out of sbeet, and he’s in the Paris Basin!
This years price offer is €27.70/t. Regularly gets 100+t/ha.

He’s in the process of nailing down a contract for growing spuds for McCains...

ganmo

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/uks-largest-hemp-farm-forced-to-destroy-crop/

wouldn't that be a right kick in the gillhoolies

Birdnuts

Discovered last week that a local sheep farmer from back home near Naas has gone in to hemp this year with 15 acres sown. Had a look at it today and it seems to be thriving so far!!