2024 is coming, how ye fixed

Sorry for your loss lad

Sorry for your loss. I always say to people that might be giving out about the parents that the day will come when you wish they were here to still to give out

look after yourself.

Sorry for your loss, thank god I haven't lost a parent yet but my grandmother died Christmas Eve a few years back..I know it's a tough time for all the family..take care an look after yourself

Sorry for your loss weatherby

It’s been a terrible year but on the farm and in the school. Do many funerals this past year. My plan is to lose a good bit of weight and get fit. Improve the farm and control costs better. I got a penalty for being overstocked. I’m thinking of setting 17 acres for first cut silage and let the farmer pay for the manure. How much is worth?

Yes. Going to keep fewer and less pressure.

I'm sorry to hear about all the people here who have lost loved ones in 2023. It's seems that it was a bad year for deaths. I'm truly sorry.

I don't really make plans, it's just trying to stay up with life, I have a lot of elderly relatives and the kids to help and it's seems that to be there for them is my make objective.

In my little wet patch, it's the weather that makes or breaks my year. I hope for an early spring, a dry summer and a fine October. And media and politicians to fuuuck off and give farmers a break. That's all LOL

Early spring, dry summer and a fine October……. That’s my dream too.

Glad to see the back of 2023 lost my mother to cancer back in March. Hoping to be just about nearly qualified by the end of 2024 so hopefully next years thread will see me posting about booking a flight out of the country onto the next chapter, long overdue. Have a wedding abroad in the fall of the year twill be the first proper holiday ill have had since returning home and looking forward to that. Gonna continue the Animal Based/Carnivore lifestyle fell off the wagon a bit over the festivities but should be back on track this week, will also try look more into the workings of the human body in laymans terms i.e. Gary Brecka and Andrew Huberman. Havent ran since July was up to doing 10km on my own of a Friday evening but injuries caught up on me so hopefully start from the start again this month. Put in a tough few months in the run up to Christmas with work 3-4hrs commute a lot of days think im going to be 1hr-1hr15 each way away from site until i go to my next college block. Usually work 7-5 mon-thurs and 7-1330 Friday thinking of going back to 7-4 mon-thurs and stay the same Friday going by my calculations its €40 less/week but ill have a lot more time to train in the evenings. Could go back to the later finish if im feeling up to it aftera few weeks again anyways. "Off the fags" three years this January would love to be able to do without them of a night out by the end of this year awful **** things altogether they are.

Just discovered this thread in the last ten minutes. Sorry for your about your father @weatherbyfoxer from your father's age it was a bit too soon.

62 in first quarter of 2024 myself. Eldest lad is going into partnership with me. He has the Green Cert done. We will probably try to double the land base ober the next year and a bit.

Change the system slightly to carrying cattle 3-4 months longer on average. He was 30 last October so will have to sign over the existing farm to him in 2028 same time as I will start collecting the OAP.

Aggressive expansion there is life in the old dog yet

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121552950#Comment_1215529502 outta 3 but the first one was a complete no show. @Dunedin

Had a good year after,but have to say i missed being able to go into the father next door to bounce farming ideas off.He was never a man for making big decisions or changes but was always someone to run stuff by.All arrows are pointing to a major change now on the farm and could do with his ear but will have to navigate this one without him

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121542732#Comment_121542732

2024 was a bit better personally. I did watch the father here grieve in a big way for the last year and a bit. Tough going to see the effects of it on him.

Farm wise it was a shocking spring but the good back end and the bounce in milk price covered a multitude. I did get a 100' tank in so have been very comfortable for storage this winter. The aim for next year is to extend a shed over it and a feed passage,extend cubicles from an existing shed out to meet it etc. All in, new shed will be 100' x 75' with an additional 30 cubicles, 6 calving pens and the tank and a 20' feed passage roofed. That's if I can get the builders back into the yard,not to mind paying them.

god help you Dunedin. Every thing else is immaterial.

looking back on my post from last year it was to change the tractor. Which I did. Second hand but happy enough with it.
went up with stock numbers but probably over stocked now especially this year with poor growth. Work was an absolut slog this year. Think it’s time to start a new chapter on that front.

Tough year but all in all happy enough with how it played out in the end.

I got broke up in March in a man basket, broke a rib when I got slammed against the rail of it. I got checked out and was told I was fine but I wasn’t. The broken rib burst a blood vessel on my lung and over the period of 10 days it filled up my chest cavity with blood. All through that period I was out and about doing what ever bits I could but had absolutely no energy. It wasn’t till I passed out in the bathroom that we decided to go get checked out again. Got rushed to surgery within 10 minutes of entering the hospital, spent 6 days in icu and 2 more in a hospital bed. Took about a month then for me to get back milking cows just in the morning. Lucky to have had both parents to feed calves - that usually wouldn’t , a good young lad to milk and my brother in law did what ever tractor work he could do for us

My mother then in august had a minor stroke in town going to do the shop. Thankfully she has had no illeffects from it but we were very worried about her

aside from that we’ve had a decent enough farming year 😅

Did all our own silage this year and happy we don’t have the contractors silage bill coming at us. Takes a bit longer to feed in comparison to the pit but we have little to no waste this year in comparison.

Leased a new farm over the road in the backend of 2023 and have it all limed and half reseeded, it’s well set up to produce grass in 2025 🤞

Built a big slatted tank in November that has really taken the worry and pressure off slurry storage this winter. It still needs slats and a shed over it though

Baby no 4 due the end of Jan just as cows start to calve.

Going to be another busy year in 2025 but very much looking forward to it