Farming Chitchat 10/10- Now VIRUS-FREE!

Base price · 23-01-2020 9:27pm

emaherx wrote: »

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There are several different keys. Your local auto factors will have some. Or a local garage may let you borrow some you only need them for a few seconds just drive truck over.

2 pieces of flat steel could work either if you had some... Cut out of a tin for example if you have a metal shears.

Come sort out my cow..... And I'll pop out the radio

I will try the screwdrivers in the morning and if it doesn't work I'll take a saw to the dashboard and cut it out. Our mechanic said that if I give it to him tomorrow afternoon (I have to travel from NCD tomorrow morning to Longford) he will fit it. I was worried if it needed to be 24v but he said that it doesn't matter.
Hopefully the cow will take to both twins. I'm on the N2 outta Ashbourne to Rathfeigh, then onto Tara, then onto the M3 to Virginia and cross country to my Uncles place. If ye need any help with her/twin calves pm me.

emaherx · 23-01-2020 9:30pm

Base price wrote: »

I will try the screwdrivers in the morning and if it doesn't work I'll take a saw to the dashboard and cut it out. Our mechanic said that if I give it to him tomorrow afternoon (I have to travel from NCD tomorrow morning to Longford) he will fit it. I was worried if it needed to be 24v but he said that it doesn't matter.
Hopefully the cow will take to both twins. I'm on the N2 outta Ashbourne to Rathfeigh, then onto Tara, then onto the M3 to Virginia and cross country to my Uncles place. If ye need any help with her/twin calves pm me.

Sure you are passing right by

But seriously I should be fine.

Base price · 23-01-2020 11:01pm

emaherx wrote: »

Sure you are passing right by
But seriously I should be fine.

Helpful to know you can put the kettle on the next time I get a blow out on the lorry at Rathfeigh at 5am

carrollsno1 · 23-01-2020 11:08pm

Any chance anyone here knows where and how to get an official copy of youre leaving certificate results?

gozunda · 23-01-2020 11:24pm

carrollsno1 wrote: »

Any chance anyone here knows where and how to get an official copy of youre leaving certificate results?

Edit.

State examination website

https://www.examinations.ie/index.php?l=en&mc=ca&sc=sto

Base price · 23-01-2020 11:26pm

carrollsno1 wrote: »

Any chance anyone here knows where and how to get an official copy of youre leaving certificate results?

Yep, but ye need to know your exam number and date. As far as I know it takes approx 6 weeks to get. However your old school may still have a copy on file.

https://www.examinations.ie/?l=en&mc=ex&sc=sp

carrollsno1 · 23-01-2020 11:43pm

Thanks. I was trying the SEC website but that was saying rom 2006-2011 i think

_Brian · 24-01-2020 12:33pm

_Brian wrote: »

Does anyone know is there work ongoing by Teagasc or Bord Bia regarding their actual carbon cycle of Irish agriculture specifically ??

It seems bizarre that groups are being allowed run amok publishing all sorts of mad data against Irish farming and there is no actual scientific evidence that can be pointed to that clears the air.

You constantly see the IPCC being quoted where All Ag emissions is 24% of total, but it intentionally divides our fossil fuel emissions into various categories to minimise the overall impact, it has the result of making ag seem shocking high when in fact all ag and land use is 24% and fossil fuel related emissions is maybe 65-70% of all emissions.

I feel very let down by all these highly funded agencies sitting on their hands doing sfa while a propaganda war is raging against animal farming in Ireland and likely a large portion of the next government will be based on the false information of this war.

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/too-late-to-change-2030-emission-targets-despite-methane-revelation/

Sweet Jesus.

Teagasc recognise they have inappropriately calculated the methane cycle in carbon calculations and so have based our 10 year plan from 2020 to 2030 on incorrect information.

However, seems it’s too much bother to recalculate it but rather they will implement plans based on flawed data.

Holy Christ farming is being thrown under a bus by an organisation unfit for purpose. So to recap recently they forgot to think about what the extra 800,000 dairy calves would do when calves down, and now we hear that they forgot that grass and soil captures carbon as it grows.

This is unforgivable behaviour.

Water John · 24-01-2020 6:23pm

Like everything else, they only realised it when NZ pointed it out in their agricultural calculations.

patsy_mccabe · 24-01-2020 7:08pm

So any idea how big the error is?

zetecescort · 24-01-2020 9:37pm

this is like the closing of the sugar factories all over again

alps · 24-01-2020 11:36pm

Water John wrote: »

Like everything else, they only realised it when NZ pointed it out in their agricultural calculations.

Oooof

Grueller · 24-01-2020 11:45pm

Looking at the journal this week, had we a picture of one of our regular posters on it feeding a calf?

MickeyShtyles · 24-01-2020 11:45pm

zetecescort wrote: »

this is like the closing of the sugar factories all over again

Christ alive, can we not go back to that!

alps · 24-01-2020 11:58pm

_Brian wrote: »

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/too-late-to-change-2030-emission-targets-despite-methane-revelation/

Sweet Jesus.

Teagasc recognise they have inappropriately calculated the methane cycle in carbon calculations and so have based our 10 year plan from 2020 to 2030 on incorrect information.
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We've been really let down, and again on a topic and point of view that was repeatedly voiced by farmers since the very beginning of this whole emissions saga.

But I'm not sure teagasc is the culprit. I think this goes back to 2005 when an agreement was made, by unknown personell to me, that only emissions would be included in figures and sequestration figures could not be used.

This was a monumental mistake by whoever was in our corner...dont know was it our politicians, civil service or scientists...but it has been devastating.

Compounding that calamity has been the fact that no authority shouted foul.....While we have been given a reprieve from reductions (and this may be partly due to a recognition that in fact sequestration should have been included) the fact that we are being blamed for 34% of the country's emissions has caused and is causing untold and possibly unretreivable bad press with the general public..

While our suits might have our back in terms of nursing this situation along until it can be redressed in the next round of negotiations running up to 2030, the public perception is detiorating at an alarming extent, and we are largely left to our own devices to get a scientific point of view across to save the sales of our products..

You've got to ask how much this has already played into beef prices...

I'm despondent, disgusted and disappointed that whoever was at that meeting in 2005, apparently fell asleep at the wheel..

Water John · 25-01-2020 12:21am

The fault probably lies with the Dept of Environment.

ganmo · 25-01-2020 11:24am

Water John wrote: »

The fault probably lies with the Dept of Environment.

Green minister at the time wasnt it?

_Brian · 25-01-2020 11:42am

alps wrote: »

We've been really let down, and again on a topic and point of view that was repeatedly voiced by farmers since the very beginning of this whole emissions saga.

But I'm not sure teagasc is the culprit. I think this goes back to 2005 when an agreement was made, by unknown personell to me, that only emissions would be included in figures and sequestration figures could not be used.

This was a monumental mistake by whoever was in our corner...dont know was it our politicians, civil service or scientists...but it has been devastating.

Compounding that calamity has been the fact that no authority shouted foul.....While we have been given a reprieve from reductions (and this may be partly due to a recognition that in fact sequestration should have been included) the fact that we are being blamed for 34% of the country's emissions has caused and is causing untold and possibly unretreivable bad press with the general public..

While our suits might have our back in terms of nursing this situation along until it can be redressed in the next round of negotiations running up to 2030, the public perception is detiorating at an alarming extent, and we are largely left to our own devices to get a scientific point of view across to save the sales of our products..

You've got to ask how much this has already played into beef prices...

I'm despondent, disgusted and disappointed that whoever was at that meeting in 2005, apparently fell asleep at the wheel..

But if Teagasc really had our back on this they would be digging their heels in and pushing for immediate review.

How ANY self respecting professional in a governmental position can blindly implement a 10year plan based on known flawed data is beyond me. If we don’t act on current scientific data we’re just blindly bumbling along.

How can farmers accept punitive measures and implement them knowing its all based on incorrect calculations, it’s a shambles, it is true greenwashing, to be doing something knowing it’s not correct, but doing it to be seen to do something.

Teagasc employees will plod along drawing wages and getting their wage increases year on year as this plan rolls out over ten years, while farmers on the ground are punished for emissions that were known to be wrong, but it’s not worth correcting.

Pathetic.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 25-01-2020 12:14pm

Horse meat scandal in Spain this time.

https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2020/01/22/Horsemeat-scam-highlights-threat-of-food-fraud

And loads more similar being found across Europe.

gozunda · 25-01-2020 1:07pm

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Horse meat scandal in Spain this time.

https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2020/01/22/Horsemeat-scam-highlights-threat-of-food-fraud

And loads more similar being found across Europe.

Some interesting articles in that Buford. Looks like the Spanish have been caught with their pants down. Imo here there is large profits to be made - their will always be a small number of unscrupulous individuals willing to do so regardless of the law.

The article on rice was not surprising tbh - I've been seeing reports for years about rice being adulterated for much the same reasons

https://i.imgflip.com/3n67mx.jpg

https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2019/10/01/Agilent-backs-rice-fingerprinting-method-to-fight-fraud