Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

I’m milking 50 cows and the last 2 years I find I’ve no money left to do simple investments on the farm once all the bills are paid and had times when if everyone came looking for money at the same time I’d be in the red. I’m also considering my future.

There's a bit of an epidemic of suicides ongoing in this part of the country atm. Whatever the rest of the country is like. Hope it's better than around here anyway.

I think it's everything. The weather hardships, probably debts ran up, toxic positivity (it's a real thing and the people themselves tend to be bipolar), social media (adv and disadvantages), stresses from council which is government on pollution control measures that often make no sense, anti livestock in media and no defence from government or advisory services, price of concrete and development from carbon tax add ons, covid ramifications (I think people are lagging in energy than they were pre covid), constant talk of climate change doom ( there's no light at the end of the tunnel presented, probably same goes for the wars and people access to social media showing footage of people being blown up, it's akin to the watcher being there themselves) , diet of foods is probably getting worse in people too with more and more processed making larger and larger daily intakes, lack itself of vitamin D in people and that's back to weather again (but the first is the downright sloggery of livestock and farming and health in bad weather).

Whatever all though. Suicide is never an answer to anything bar maybe terminal cancer. I often think how many billions of years has this earth been here and this life and consciousness hasn't been a part of it. And how many billions of years may go by again and your conscious may not come back again to it if there ever is reincarnation. There's religion of course and faith. But who knows. Could be the nothing again.

There is always ways out of 99% of predicaments in this country. There is a social service in this country. It's not Angola we live in. It's not the end of the world like the other is. We all should embrace as much of it as we can. One page of your life may look grim. But turn the next page and it looks better and there's something else learned or amusing on it. And that's before you get to the next chapter.

It would be some acknowledgement by the government that there is pressure on dairy farmers atm particularly the smaller ones. And policies they are dreaming up are not helping.

In my opinion they are going to really double down on screwing us if they get away with it but there's a tipping point for lads and they will kick or get out heard of an adviser (wasn't being the nicest about calling out and was intending on doing a dairy inspection whilst there )in roscommon area being ran clean out of a lads yard. (i would call him level headed enough)

Came out cos his lorry driver was cribbing about things left in his way (very poor driver ) and the farmer told them he had enough leaches about the place and was putting the herd up for sale. Area manager and store manager had to call to smooth things over.

Well definitely the bad Spring got to a lot of lads. Was at the ICMSA county AGM about 6 or 8 weeks ago. Was supposed to start at 8.00 but didn't until 8.30. Anyway it was about 8.15 when I got there and normally at these things when you go in they would all be standing around at the back chatting, blowing s,,t. But they were all sitting down as quiet as mice.

And usually during the meeting some few lads would pipe up complaining about something. But that night not a word out of anyone. It struck me as being very strange. I guess lads were just worn out.

That's a very worrying sign ...... would agree with your thoughts on being worn out .....to add I wonder is all the changes and uncertainty on top of the attempt by the media to portray us as criminals and in a negative light seeping into the mindset

I'll vote to put them back somewhere but not in Brussels .

Sure aren't lads here giving you advice for a long time on how to straighten your show up and straighten you up, at least they and you are trying that, something in that.

And the gas thing is all these boyos are in the media now calling for reduced red tape after introducing it all in the first place. Two face cnuts.

You really are a dope.

Your previous post was complaining of bad yards and bad parlours.

And now this of building parlours and the likes as you put it and you are whinging yourself in every post.

Do you not read your own posts? You make no sense. Self praise is no praise. Only makes you more of a dope to read.

I posted of actual people taking the ultimate step in taking their own lives and you come out with these troll posts. What are you even here for?