Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

Is criticism of this "huge organisation with a good business infrastructure" not allowed.

Harsh ….IFA ha major flaws …still has but current president and vice president have been a huge step forward and brought credibility back to the organisation …..it’s a great pity Brian rushe isn’t running for head job ….but I understand his reasons why

I think ifa need to get a decent pr person to combat falsehoods and anti farming lies in the media. iv said it before. I think Ciaran Fitzgerald would be a great performer and well able to stand his ground and defend his position

The surprise is "press release" description of being pissed and disgusted that government should instruct teagasc to withold a paper containing information that would be benificial to farmers, prior to a new regulation being imposed.

This "instruction" would have bypassed the board of the organisation, but should be incumbant on the board to take the issue to task in a proper manner.

It was a sick move by government, in the full knkwledge of the financial impact relative to the gain, and will in essence work against the regulators pussing further obsceneties across the line.

Majority of the mebership would agree with you here. The day of the "farmer on the ground" being capable of commanding in such situtations is long past.

Certainly the person with "skin in the game" works for negotiations, but not necessarily for media.

Being trained not to get caught out with a question is not good enough to also being able get you point across in pursuasive terms.

Many on here are well able to get their point across though. Some here know everything and they know everyone else is wrong...about everything...

Incredible talent, when one considers they have never attended, partaken or are in the loop with such organisations.

Explain please

On the media professional ….couldn’t agree more ….current president is a man I’d want in my corner fighting for anything farming related …..but he’s poor in front of a camera ….Brian rushe is very accomplished both as a speaker and what he dose on ground and ultimately would of made an excellent president but for understandable reasons he’s out of running

Farmers jump up and down screaming the minute they hear of someone being paid.

🤣🤣🤣Too true

Anyone have slurry channels?

They could make sense for me but a narrow passage with a base 1.5m above the slatted tank floor strikes me as potential for s**t to harden after a month or two while the tank catches up to its level. I assume they've a decline towards the tank?

I suppose it'd make sense for them to be near agitation point the better?

About 10 years into testing here. Numbers getting lower each year. It's a fecker of a disease

How do you manage it?

They're just over the 50 limit, vet reckons they'll be fine to keep in the herd. We've been good about not mixing colostrum to dairy calves and these two have only have had beef calves so I'm hoping that if it's just these two it can stop there

3 & 4, I'll be doing a dung test. The older lady was just under the limit the last two years

delete

Nothing like pulling 2 tankers of dirty water and letting them off together at the same time. That would give some flush to any channel