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Farming Chitchat 10/10- Now VIRUS-FREE!

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    #9122
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,482 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    It's a Meteor on a direct course with Mullingar isn't it?

    https://twitter.com/RoyalAstroSoc/status/1305454796225351682?s=20


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    #9123
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,444 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Say my name wrote: »
    It's a Meteor on a direct course with Mullingar isn't it?

    https://twitter.com/RoyalAstroSoc/status/1305454796225351682?s=20

    I'll sort dont you worry


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    #9124
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,482 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Reggie. wrote: »
    I'll sort dont you worry

    Ah it's only life on Venus. Nothing major.


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    #9125
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Say my name wrote: »
    Ah it's only life on Venus. Nothing major.

    I for one welcome our new Venus overlords.


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    #9126
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    NcdJd wrote: »
    I for one welcome our new Venus overlords.

    Women are from Venus - yes? :pac:


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    #9127
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    gozunda wrote: »
    Women are from Venus - yes? :pac:
    That's why Venus is our brightest planet :D


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    #9128
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Base price wrote: »
    That's why Venus is our brightest planet :D

    Where's the double barrel post button for best post of the day :D


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    #9129
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,482 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Seemingly this is occurring but on the RTE player..

    Ye might be lucky.

    https://twitter.com/RTEplayer/status/1305574535068958720?s=20


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    #9130
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Sorghum molasses. Wonder can ya grow that variety here.
    Edit, looks like warmer climate required for cane variety.

    https://youtu.be/1q87lUGW-G0


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    #9131
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Say my name wrote: »
    Seemingly this is occurring but on the RTE player..

    Ye might be lucky.

    https://twitter.com/RTEplayer/status/1305574535068958720?s=20
    I remember you suggesting recently that the NPA should run some sort of online promo where exhibitors could send in videos.


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    #9132
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    NcdJd wrote: »
    Sorghum molasses. Wonder can ya grow that variety here.
    Edit, looks like warmer climate required for cane variety.

    https://youtu.be/1q87lUGW-G0
    I think Dawg posted about growing Sorghum sometime last year.


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    #9133
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,482 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Base price wrote: »
    I remember you suggesting recently that the NPA should run some sort of online promo where exhibitors could send in videos.

    Ah that was just flukey.

    Or else they read here and acted double quick.


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    #9134
    Mossie1975
    Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭Mossie1975


    It's getting fierce dark these mornings. I'm still recovering from overexerting myself climbing a mountain (probably more a big hill) at the weekend. I'm not 20 (or 30 or 40) anymore


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    #9135
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,511 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Evenings are fecked too. Dark at 8pm now


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    #9136
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,564 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Evenings are fecked too. Dark at 8pm now

    It wouldn’t matter too much if we were getting decent dry weather during the day.
    But past weeks have been desperately broken so the darkening evenings seem more of a punishment.

    Lot of grass cut locally yesterday and tedded out. We had a few hours of heavy rain last night and grass is sopping wet this morning.

    Pain in the hole, friend knocked yesterday and pulled swarths together hoping ground would dry between swarths, got a text earlier that ground is worse this morning than yesterday and he’s worrying about swarths starting to sweat and heat, would it happen that quick with damp weather ??


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    #9137
    wrangler
    Registered Users Posts: 11,142 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    _Brian wrote: »
    It wouldn’t matter too much if we were getting decent dry weather during the day.
    But past weeks have been desperately broken so the darkening evenings seem more of a punishment.

    Lot of grass cut locally yesterday and tedded out. We had a few hours of heavy rain last night and grass is sopping wet this morning.

    Pain in the hole, friend knocked yesterday and pulled swarths together hoping ground would dry between swarths, got a text earlier that ground is worse this morning than yesterday and he’s worrying about swarths starting to sweat and heat, would it happen that quick with damp weather ??

    Yea, I see a lot of brown grass spread yesterday, it seems to be spoiling worse than usual


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    #9138
    Bullocks
    Registered Users Posts: 5,890 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    wrangler wrote: »
    Yea, I see a lot of brown grass spread yesterday, it seems to be spoiling worse than usual

    It was fierce close maggoty type of weather yesterday, I was crying from the forehead at work a fair bit!


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    #9139
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,764 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    Bullocks wrote: »
    It was fierce close maggoty type of weather yesterday, I was crying from the forehead at work a fair bit!

    get one of these - or have several of them handy. Great for keeping helmets or visors in place.

    https://karakal.ie/products/karakal-headbands


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    #9140
    Bullocks
    Registered Users Posts: 5,890 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    Lime Tree Farm wrote: »
    get one of these - or have several of them handy. Great for keeping helmets or visors in place.

    https://karakal.ie/products/karakal-headbands
    Is it a sweat band type of job?


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    #9141
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,764 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    Bullocks wrote: »
    Is it a sweat band type of job?

    Yes, great under a visor when strimming. The Karakal one is soft cotton toweling and very comfortable. Give them a cool wash to maintain the softness


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    #9142
    Castlekeeper
    Registered Users Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭Castlekeeper


    _Brian wrote: »
    It wouldn’t matter too much if we were getting decent dry weather during the day.
    But past weeks have been desperately broken so the darkening evenings seem more of a punishment.

    Lot of grass cut locally yesterday and tedded out. We had a few hours of heavy rain last night and grass is sopping wet this morning.

    Pain in the hole, friend knocked yesterday and pulled swarths together hoping ground would dry between swarths, got a text earlier that ground is worse this morning than yesterday and he’s worrying about swarths starting to sweat and heat, would it happen that quick with damp weather ??

    Why would they have cut before the rain with such a good forecast for the week?
    Panic?


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    #9143
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,564 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Castlekeeper wrote: »
    Why would they have cut before the rain with such a good forecast for the week?
    Panic?

    We had no rain forecast overnight here at all.
    With what’s possibly only good week contractors under pressure to get all done.


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    #9144
    Castlekeeper
    Registered Users Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭Castlekeeper


    _Brian wrote: »
    We had no rain forecast overnight here at all.
    With what’s possibly only good week contractors under pressure to get all done.

    Bad luck so, hopefully it'll dry out in the next few days. Contractors tipping away but not too busy here.


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    #9145
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,511 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Was talking to one man who had 80 acres mowed. He was trying for hay for some of it. He was well fed up this morning after all the rain


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    #9146
    roosterman71
    Registered Users Posts: 5,548 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Was talking to one man who had 80 acres mowed. He was trying for hay for some of it. He was well fed up this morning after all the rain

    Not the time of year or weather for hay really


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    #9147
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,564 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Was talking to one man who had 80 acres mowed. He was trying for hay for some of it. He was well fed up this morning after all the rain

    I’d have thought with the ground so damp under it batting hay would be impossible now.


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    #9148
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,511 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Had a dealer here today, I can't sell anything as I'm locked up. He said, dont tag the calves and I'll take them , wtf. How could that possibly be anyway legal?


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    #9149
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,511 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    _Brian wrote: »
    I’d have thought with the ground so damp under it batting hay would be impossible now.

    God loves a trier


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    #9150
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,389 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Had a dealer here today, I can't sell anything as I'm locked up. He said, dont tag the calves and I'll take them , wtf. How could that possibly be anyway legal?

    Could they go to a veal unit?


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    #9151
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,511 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Water John wrote: »
    Could they go to a veal unit?

    Surely they would have to be tagged or registered to move off farm


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