Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

Chin up the thing is it's the very ones who want to put you out of business are using that data and the very ones who are supposed to shout for us are not able to get there points across well enough ........ not that there thick or anything .....its maybe just not slick enough is all...... as they say In the films don't let the bustards see your beaten.

The sooner the better the messers are caught up with and dealt with the better for us all …..I would find it hard to shop a neighbour alright even some of the ones I’d have little time for …but like others here I’m sure it’s always the lads trying and making the effort to comply that get inspected and fined the most whilst the lad that don’t give a shite and with sun standard practices and yards that seem to get away

In fairness alot of these yards are ran by men 50 plus years old, with no one following after them, their not going to spend anything to clean up their act and will slop away till they drop…

The thresehold of pollution needed to close a yard down and stop the above from farming is huge, the man beside us was only dealt with after he contaiminated the local water supply for the village, he was made build sheds, house cattle, pipe open drains, he used the sheds for one year, than reverted back to out-wintering everything again, and he's not even on the councils radar anymore

The epa targets that are not met and the reports they issue like the one last week will all be presented to the commission by them when the review takes place and will be detrimental to us, they monitor a couple of thousand sites whereas teagasc only monitor 6 as part of their effort to demonstrate improved water quality.

When the epa show that the majority don’t improve as we haven’t been given enough time to allow for improvement due to measures we’re implementing best case scenario we can hope for is what bada posted during the week a derogation of 200 for land around parlour and none for land 20km plus away imo

In all fairness some of these kips with no facilities are doing very little harm theve only a few cattle theres far more damage been done with slurry being spread in spring legally at wrong time

You come on with what sounds like a hugely embellished little story about someone that reports his neighbour and then call a well known poster here an idiot for not liking that. Maybe it's you that could do with a break from it because that is an entirely natural reaction to hearing someone do that.

You’re dead right it’s completely wrong to tell an inspector to call to a neigbor, a sure fire way to make enemies and be outcasted by your neigbors. When anyone around us gets an inspection or ourselves you’d ring each other to tell each other what went wrong for you and what they’re looking for not telling the inspector to call over to the neigbor because I had a few issues maybe the neigbor has more to take the heat off me.

The same poster that only a few weeks ago opened a thread which from his own words was to post about squandering and waste in Ireland while they try and run farmers off their land with stupid regulations.

What does he think causes the regulations to be changed and made more strict all the time? Do you think a half acre yard with shed capacity for about 70 cattle that’s filled for the winter with double if not triple that amount which results in the whole yard being a 2 foot deep slurry lagoon that flows out into the road and down the hill towards the village and into the stream being inspected will help to relax all the regulations being implemented at present? If the water samples from the stream come back too high for nitrates all the farmers along the stream could be restricted further on their fertiliser and slurry practices and it would be due to the one man that’s openly and brazenly polluting the stream, why should they have to put up with that either?

There’s nothing embellished in what I posted. If I put up the name of the farmer I’d be fairly certain there’d be someone on here that would have been at a walk on his farm at some stage over the years that would know him and know his set up. I could also put up a video of the offending farmers place but I won’t be doing that either. I’ve never reported anyone for anything in my life, and I hope I never have a department man in to inspect my yard because while it’s not bad it’s far from perfect too, but if I was to be blamed for directly polluting a stream that I know I’m not polluting and I know the cause of the pollution further up the stream I’d certainly be standing my ground and arguing my case with the department.

A few years ago 2 department vets came here to blood a few cows as the calves off them that I'd sold had been stolen ftom the buyers farm. Stolen being used very lightly there, he's a gangster farmer. A couple of the cows had 1 tag and they reported me, I had an inspection. The vet who did the inspection said these lads think they'll get brownie points for reporting such a trivial matter but we all know they're assholes. I actually had replacement tags on farm the first day they came out

On a side note, when does an informer become a whistle-blower?

Is it any wonder farming is f,,,,d, with all the infighting. Divide and conquer, The boys at the top have yee well sized up.

Talking about neighbours I have a nice hive of bees after moving in to the cavity block wall here in the yard. Very quiet, you can walk straight up to them

your dead right nothing lower then an informer.

Has it got to do with the amount of fibre in the diet vs leaf. Maybe eating more silage some day or a stronger paddock

Bit ironic this bit of information

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