Farming Youtubers

Roundup is not banned.

It's approved for another 10 years. But it's also under derogation which means it can be pulled from the market by the EU.

 @IFarmWeFarm7615. I noticed that too. On my similar gate here, there is a swinging tab that hooks onto a flat part with a notch cut in it. That holds the gate open. Simple but works very well. One on other side too.

In PIC, A hooks onto B. 2nd pic shows it opened.

Do..please..BTW dvds for them crows?

Interesting watching olly Harrison with the min till. I think everything has to get round up. And struggled to sow this autumn.

I'm not an expert, would ban on round up be a bad thing for min till in Ireland?

That’s what I need to do for the back of our pit. Some thinking behind that invention too.

@kk.man No DVD’s didn’t work, i even tried a Westlife cd to see would “ flying without wings” give them the hint!

Gonna get a bird of prey decoy to see how that works, but it’s just odd that the radio worked perfectly for two years and has zero effect this year. Maybe they’ve grown to like Pat Kenny 🤷🏻‍♂️

There is options out there like weeders/hoes that I assume would work in a min till situation but like everything it’d boil down to money as there’s robotic/ai ones I’ve seen probably more for crops other than cereals and I know there’s bare basic units out there that’d do the job but how efficiently without crop damage is up for debate. The biggest thing would simply be time spent weeding as I assume it would have to be done regularly till the crop closes the rows.

the organic beet I pulled was weeded with a armer hoe but was still had a strong weed presence

Waste of time. Tried them in the stud farm where I work and made absolutely no difference .

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30 acres of uncut barley beside us and 1000's of crows/pigeons feeding out of it, usually their up here destroying the maize but none yet, when the barley rums out I'll need a machine gun to keep them away from the place

there is only one thing for the crows and that's the shot gun they get so paroined that if you put the handle of the pike in the air there gone like a rocket !

Fecker ......

Can you put doors up, before you get the neighbours talking?😃

It works with bales left in the meadow, so should work.

I hung up tarpaulins to keep the crows and birds out of the parlour while the cows are dried off. Roller door would be the solution but a costly one.

Recommend that everyone on here watches this video:

C4 done a programme on British beef which was an ill informed hit job. This is Harry Metcalf's response.

I was at the Johnstown Castle soil health open day last year. They have measuring devices called eddy covariance towers that measure the gases in whatever field they happen to be in.

The figures they had for the cow herd and I think the beef herd were they were sequestering carbon on top of the emissions from the herd.

Where were RTE or Ear to the ground or John Gibbons or Ella McSweeney? Not there. There was myself, arable farmers and soil researchers. A German soil researcher had to ask twice had they the recorded figures. The Johnstown Castle speaker replied they have them recorded.

I'd encourage anyone talking to any Teagasc representative to release those figures to the media and not just a couple of groups of fifty walking around a rainswept field in Wexford.