Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

Why can't we get some propaganda like this for ourselves.

Rewilding in Europe with ruminant animals results in a huge carbon capture and a win win for everyone. They had the figures way over stated originally and had to correct them.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/15/bison-romania-tarcu-2m-cars-carbon-dioxide-emissions-aoe

Ya, they're belching perfume 😂😂🤣 and sh1tting roses and pissing spring water.

Don't tar us all with the one brush please. There has always been the same old few breaking the rules while the rest of us try our best to comply.

A local man here had a department inspection a few weeks ago. His land joins a stream so they were doing an inspection on his slurry storage and farm practices to ensure no pollution of the stream. This man would have the cleanest yard and tidiest setup in the parish. He used to be a host farm for Bord Bia a few years ago where other farmers would be brought to his farm to show them how it should be done.

Less than half a mile from his yard is a farmer the complete opposite to this. Slurry running out of the yard and down the road all winter, cattle never tagged, animals roaming the road all the time. No fences, gates, sheds falling down, animals dying from starvation, a very sorry sight. The farmer that got the inspection mentioned to the department man in his yard that he was quite happy for them to check all they wanted on his farm but by any chance would they call into this other yard on the way back as both farms are joining the same stream. He was told this was of no concern of his and he shouldn’t be telling them how to do their jobs.

He left it at that as he didn’t want any hassle but as far as I can see they’re inspecting lads that would have the place fairly right and ignoring the lads that don’t give a s**t about the regulations as it’d be too much work for them to try sort it all out.

Have a carbon copy of that beside us but hes alot worse, made 300 bales this year and stacked them in a corner of a field beside the mainroad through the village, 30 metres from local school/gaa pitch spent the next 3 months hauling bales out twice a day, plastering the road with clay/stones, in the wind-up as the stack was on a slope whenever their was heavy rain it was flowing out onto the road…

He decided aswell to outwiner 40 cattle on the side of a hill beside the main-road wasnt able to get into the field to feed them bales so started dropping them over the ditch from the road with tractor and loader, eventually the field got that bad , silt and clay started flowing into the neighbouring houses front yard, if you've ever been to the slieve bloom waterfall youll know the farm im taking about

Any lad acting like that deserves to be reported....its not informing. I don't like one bit that your infering that the child molesting and wife beating and generally depraved rapists. Who terrorised there own population [ira ] would disapprove of informants

Probably several reasons one of them was Probably the simple reason he got inspected and the neighbours was a mess and was able to flout the regulations...... the amount of lads firing out slurry with the splash plate round here this spring summer is unreal ...... each one is a long way over the 130 ...…

Were still testing for bvd every year because of cowboys and its costing us a huge amount of money. Derogation gone will cost us considerably more. Giving these fellas the carrot option doesn't work. So what would be your suggestion to tidy them up?

What's the department doing so that's there job as for bvd tb and that **** bord bia all a money racket.how come years ago with open slurry pits cattle drinking in streams and open face silage pits there was hardly a word about water quality.if you are a farmer reporting another farmer you are the lowest of the low in my opinion.

My tea might taste a bit ****

GONE, GONE, but not forgotten, go on the bull!

It sickens me to think a farmer is giving names to a dept inspector, whom he thinks is a bad farmer.

After the gatherer, comes the squanderer

The squeaky clean lads should not be so proud. It doesn't take much for circumstances to Change.

I see a lot of farmers who own dribble bars, spreading slurry with splash plates for the second cut, the dry weeks.

After all the EPA reports show farmers good work the past few years ain't making very little difference.

He doesn't have one only government bad ....... bit too much gript consumed

I'm just saying not to be giving your neighbours names to the department if you get inspected.

It's the Way of a dog, to bite the dog next to it, because it gets a kick.

If you think things are going to turn out "happy ever after" because you get the department on to your neighbours, you are mistaken my friend

agree with that …..it is hard sell the rules …I comply majority of time ((we all bend the rules odd time but not in a major way )….and Yeadh I’m fed up …and demoralised …and pissed offf but I carry on …..but annoys me when I see lads blatantly and consistently flouting things when most of rest of us are doing our best and in future we will differ for the actions of a minority