No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

Processors insist on QA and then insult us with a bonus...... Our producer group insists on QA---

Dept are going to insist on it in the new beef schemes now, we were warned at the CAP meeting last night not to let it lapse

Must've thrown the toy's out of the pram.

A journalist told us last night justin is still CEO

If you’re married - then wouldn’t it be half of everything (house + cash) would be used as the comparison against the farm value.

I don’t know the rules around it - but could you transfer some of the farm now. Transfer enough to come under the ag relief rules. Then, in time, transfer the rest - would the value of the bit transferred now work to your advantage in the calculations in years to come?

Jobs for the boys

There’s very few good staff in banks any more. 30 plus years ago it was seen as a big achievement and a matter of pride to have a family member working in a bank and the majority of bank staff would have been intelligent and hard working people.

Over the last 10 or so years, based on my own experiences with 3 different banks, I firmly believe the only qualification you need to work in a bank nowadays is that your IQ has to be in single digits. Any higher than that and you’re over qualified so you don’t get the job. It’s the only reason I can come to for the very poor quality of bank staff now.

Ye , it's a shame they're leaving. Find the Internet banking really good. Account manager is 💯 too

Is that in your guidance docs? Did she ask where you have to put the rinse water afterwards?

I think @Bass Reeves has the right approach. I presume there is no subgrades of QA - you either pass or not. So, there is no point trying to get full marks when the lad down the road doing the minimum is getting the same benefit as yourself.

Local man was just finishing his bird bia inspection and they were chatting in the potato store. A load of starlings flew in and he failed.

It's a horrible thing to happen to any farmer and I hope this farmer gets them back.

We had two good FR year and a half old bulls stolen from a outfarm during the late Summer 10 years ago. Whoever stole them knew what they were at as they were by far the best out of a bunch of 27 - they were British FR types. We reported it to the Garda and Dept at the time but nothing ever came of it other than the Dept removed them from the herd pending investigation. The Guards advised us to move them home which we did. A few months later the dogs went mad barking at about 4 in the morning, we got dressed and ran to the yard (with both shotguns) and found 6 bulls separated into a pen that we use for loading. We reported it to the Guards at the time and a Garda came the next morning. Our house and yard is in the middle of the farm with only one entrance and you have to drive past the house to get to the yard so we would hear any vehicle driving past. The Guard reckoned that they would walk the bulls along the lane to a jeep&trailer/lorry at the head of the lane to load them.

https://www.farmersjournal.ie/almost-600-cattle-reported-stolen-or-missing-so-far-this-year-714892

Dogs are great for alerting you

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Cattle taken from Slatted House. for sale in Cork for €13,579 on DoneDeal