No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

Water John

Now Whelan has 3 phase to charge the new loader faster:

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/kubota-launches-battery-powered-compact-loaders/

whelan2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121321041#Comment_121321041

In car at football Friday evenings, not alot to do. Raining most weeks

roosterman71

Where is the biggest farm in Ireland?

Bass Reeves

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121318027#Comment_121318027

Even though it's a B2 energy rating it will cost a small fortune to heat. Nowadays with prime property they often get a furniture specialist in to refurnish the property for its sale. The owners( basically the furniture is rented) will be removing the furniture on sale. Fine house though, you would need a good few solar panels

Base price

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121322630#Comment_121322630

That depends on what you mean by a farm. I would say our marine fisheries which comprises of about 220,000,000 acres. Whereas our land farm acreage is about 12,075,051.

Other than that and off the top of my head I reckon Bord na Mona or Coillte probably have the largest acreage. John Magnier/Coolmore Stud probably the largest private combined ownership of land in various counties/townlands. AFAIK but stand corrected the Duke of Devonshire, the owner of Lismore Castle Waterford is the biggest private owner of a single plot/estate.

roosterman71

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121322826#Comment_121322826

Well I meant farm in the traditional sense of land with someone farming it with crops or animals. I ask as the young lad is into farming simulator and is telling me these days of the big machines he's going to buy when he grows up. He's also going to buy the biggest field in Ireland and the biggest farm. I'm just wondering where that farm is

Le shovelle

It used to be the Grianan estate in co. Donegal. It was somewhere in the region of 3500 acres at a time. It's called Glenmore estate now

Le shovelle

https://youtu.be/29wqFnfip5o?si=OkGvC8EO1VD473sl

davidk1394

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121322895#Comment_121322895

Tell him to head for Brazil when his older or maybe Ukraine and he'll have all the acres he wants

whelan2

Brought a big bag of runners, football boots and shoes to local vincent de paul. Some of them unworn. The girl said I dont know if we can take them......she took them in the end

Wildsurfer

I'd have taken them off you even, don't know are my lads hard on football boots or the quality is gone so poor, but they come back from training every few weeks looking for a new pair.

whelan2

I got a pair to have in the boot of the car after one of them forgot their boots for a game, got them in vincent de paul. The ones I gave in were easily in better order than the ones i bought

DBK1

OH was at a concert last night, a fundraising event organised by the local motorbike club.

Best Foot Forward were the headline act, for anyone that doesn’t know them they’re a band that Ray Murphy is a member of.

She said there wasn’t a dry eye in the house when Ray sang Sweet Sixteen.

It’s horrendous to think what that poor family are dealing with and going through at the moment.

50HX

God love them & the media are not helping with the saturation coverage of the trial

whelan2

The Molly Martens trial is pretty hard going too.

TheClubMan

There's a dairy farmer near Blessington who walks his dairy herd from the parlour to an outside grazing block, about 200m down along the N81 during the grazing season. That's the main road linking West Wicklow to Dublin. He has the cows trained to walk in single file on the correct side of the road walking both ways. Impressive to watch when I come across them I must say but my heart would be in my mouth with all the traffic building up and the potential for an accident!

wrangler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121317376#Comment_121317376

Sorry to hear that,

John Dillon did something similar and it shook him well, He's had two accidents now that should've killed him.

I try to put most of the perspex sheets on the sides now, it lasts longer and is safer

RockOrBog

Who are people using for house and farm insurance, I only priced FBD yet they didn't seem too bad.

Bass Reeves

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121331731#Comment_121331731

Zurich here but AXA and Aviva don't as well

green daries

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121331731#Comment_121331731

Fbd last number of years

50HX

Fbd this year

Previously Zurich & fbd before that

Like car insurance you need to keep moving

Water John

FBD, but I always call to the office. I have three that fall due at the same time , so I try for a package deal.

I says

Beef exports to China from Ireland have been stopped after a case of atypical BSE was detected in a bovine animal in the state. RTÉ news

more bad news

Say my name

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121338313#Comment_121338313

This is very strange.

Under WHO rules decided in June this year. Atypical BSE cases are no longer required to be declared.

At the same time as this announcement from China, Michael Martin is in China where they are reeling from comments he made about China earlier in the year.

So there's some possibilities.

*China has spies in Irish meat plants that informed them of the case. And used it against Martin on his visit.

*Martin is anti animal agriculture in Ireland and used this as a stick against beef exports to China and tried to save face with honesty and naivety.

🤷‍♂️

Base price

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121338407#Comment_121338407

Apparently we already agreed to a protocol with the Chinese that any BSE cases in Ireland were to be notified -

"Under a protocol agreed with China, beef exports have to be suspended on discovery of any BSE case which has now happened."

https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/1107/1415209-china-beef-exports/

Base price

Anyway, IMO that Chinese contract was a load of shite. You couldn't bring ordinary cattle on the same lorry with one's for that contract and the factory lairage had to be cleared of non contract cattle before the Chinese ones were allowed in. You'd nearly think that they were holier than thou.

Say my name

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121338429#Comment_121338429

Something tells me this is too convenient.

You can bet south American beef exports to China just go by WHO requirements.

This country and people continually shoot themselves in the feet. Lots behind the scenes we never know of.

I've never had a great regard for Michael Martin since he came into this government.

Base price

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121338452#Comment_121338452

see my comment just above yours in case you were typing as I posted.

mr.stonewall

Just looking at the volume and value of beef exported to China this year its small its 2693 tons at a value of approx €16m.

Bag of the fag box calculation leaves its it €5.94/kg leaving the the factory, so it wasn't high value cuts and was less than 10k cattle for the year.

A pain in the backside but not the end of the world. It will be interesting to see what other markets will be affected, if any

kk.man

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121338558#Comment_121338558

Most of it is offal.