Climate Bolloxolgy.

Me too.

http://smartgriddashboard.eirgrid.com/#all

Even now, have you not copped on to the fact that beef processors are a private business and won't be bullied. yet you're still coming out with this.

You really couldn't make it up....

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A very misleading snapshot given that it was in low single % figures most of this year - between that and the failure to maintain conventional power plants, has led to multiple amber warnings for potential black outs issued by Eirgrid this year

Can you enlighten me on how you think this high level plan is going to help the environment by reducing slaughter age to a lower average age

Seems to me it's the opposite of a good plan for the environment never mind what it will do to small farms.

Depends when you look. This years numbers will be interesting.

Ireland's target for cuts to methane is 10%, the 30% figure is an EU target.

A cruise ship emptying its sh..e

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While I don’t agree with all of your first paragraph I certainly do agree with your second paragraph and I’ve been saying it on here a while too. The obsession lads have with the 30 months is ridiculous really. If you want to earn a living out of cattle keeping them until they’re pensioners is not the way to do it.

There should be no issue finishing the majority of cattle long before that. Off the top of my head in the last 5 years I think I only have 2 animals that went over 30 months. One was a heifer that was bought and turned out to be in calf, had to have a section which didn’t turn out well and knocked her back a long way. The second is on farm now and just didn’t thrive as well as others for whatever reason and will probably be 32 - 33 months when she’s killed. That’s well below 1% of my cattle going over 30 months and I’ve everything from O- white heads to U+ continentals.

I will have 10 bullocks that were badly done my an older relative of mine to be killed in the next few weeks as well and most of them will be over 30 months but 2 years of 7 month winters with nothing only hay in a round feeder was the cause of that.

I don’t pump cattle with meal either, majority of white heads are killed at around 22 months old, so normally around Dec/Jan. They’re still out on grass now and haven’t had an ounce of meal since the middle of February. Grass and silage need to be done right, there’s too many lads cutting first cut after the middle of June and then wondering why their cattle don’t thrive. Or leaving them on the one field the whole summer and again wondering why they don’t thrive.

A small bit of meal (1-1.5kgs a day) for 3 months of their winter as a weanling, good silage, out to grass as early as possible and moved to fresh grass at least once a week and a whitehead or Angus should never see anything over 24 months of age and a continental 24-26 months.

it'd save a lot of emissions too. They claim that there is dairy calves that won't finish under thirty mths...... if they weren't bought it might stop dairy farmers breeding them. To finish them at circa two year old you have to be in control of them all their life so movements wouldn't be a problem either.

Poor grassland management and poor silage quality stagnates cattle thrive and wastes time which causes more emisssions per beast

If it reduces the tonnage of beef for the cartel it’s good news(lighter carcasses). Anything can be fattened under 24months with copious use of concentrate rations but environmentally and economically this is a joke!!! I finished a mix of friesians to u grade continentals out of the shed in this spring. All good weight for age last November

Averaged almost 1 tonne of meal each despite 72dmd silage. Killed from 22 to 27 months of age.

stored another lighter for age lot on no meal and went to grass. No chemical fert spread on their pasture. Killed some with no meal in late July, started rest on 4 kg after and most gone in September. A few left and will be be gone in 2 weeks. Average age will be over 30 months overall this group but carcass weights 15kg heavier.

the first group are methane friendly...

The environmental footprint should be related to fossil fuel usage. (The Russians have done more sort this than any policy makers as the ifj cartoon last week pointed out)

Instead of EV's, the push should be towards zero emission vehicles. Subtle but important distinction between the two. Zero emission encapsulates syn fuels, bio fuels, hydrogen and whatever else folk can think of. Policy makers should not be telling the engineers and scientists how to meet the end goal.

Porche as pushing syn fuel research and JCB are pushing hydrogren. Both currently have issues with the amount of energy required to produce the fuel, but can run in ICE type engines which are more easily recycled and have a distribution network already in situ.

(sorry for the Daily Fail link!)

I was surprised the dept of ag has finally acknowledged that nitrogen is a major pollutant in Ireland that needs to be reduced. Expect to see a bigger push for clovers and MSS into land in the future. I'm glad there won't be a compulsory herd cull but some will no doubt downsize herd sizes due to people going organic and not being able to rely on heavy nitrogen applications every year. I guess thats what the government are banking on.

Always used barley and soya here so couldn't feed high levels, they'd be getting 5kg/day for 120 days and the heifers would be for 60days