it's not over
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- thunder rd co.antrim
Do they need pickers,I rather be a womble than be a silage contractor
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- East Tyrone
Red Tractor over an done with yesterday. Most stressful week so far this year. Didn't fair too badly though. #longrunsthefox
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- Northern Ireland
As I've said before, it's the highlight of the farming year. 
it's not over
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- thunder rd co.antrim
I did my red tractor in Jan,still not completed but fxxk it. Life is too short, I done need it yet
It's the med book.....".does not correlate "
It's the med book.....".does not correlate "
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- East Tyrone
As I've said before, it's the highlight of the farming year.
My missus loves it........ it's the one time every 18 months that I tidy the desk..
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- East Tyrone
They're definitely tightening up on the med records.
Back Row Man
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- Co Antrim
If you milk record you might have a medicine book as part of the system. I use Dale Farm’s Dairy Herd Management (which is run by CIS) and it has a very good medicine book linked to the herd data. All my animals are on it even youngstock and males. I vaccinated cows for Lepto and BVD this week and the 'paperwork' took a couple of minutes. You can pull out the drug you used and it'll show on what animals it was used on along with the withdrawal dates, or you can pull out an individual animal and show all the treatments it has received. RT are happy with it the 4 inspectors I've had since I was 'encouraged' to do RT all said they'd never seen it before. I wouldn't like to do it manually again!
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- East Tyrone
We use Farmwizard and their mobile app, and I agree with you, you'd never go back to pen and paper.
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- Northern Ireland
Got a fqas beef&sheep spot inspection this week!
- Location
- East Tyrone
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- Northern Ireland
I started using herdwatch in the spring. Only niggle is it's having trouble picking up new medicines with the code scanner, which is part of the point of it.
Back Row Man
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- Co Antrim
CIS let you put in the VM number which gets you the correct version of the product
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- East Tyrone
Farmwizard's scanner can be a bit hit or miss too. A lot if the time I just take a pic of the batch no. and refresh the batch on the laptop
it's not over
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- thunder rd co.antrim
I normally got the latest pd sheet,copied the numbers,then went enee meanie minie moo on the drugs, and hey.......
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- Northern Ireland
A week and then the inspector delayed another few days because he wanted to do some round baling
it's not over
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- thunder rd co.antrim
Long runs the fox
My standard is that I won't sell any milk I wouldn't drink myself
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- Northern Ireland
Any cow that died on the farm could receive a fair wack of the drugs in the months before it ko’d!
- Location
- East Tyrone
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- Northern Ireland
Very inconsiderate of him.
I power washed the parlour but by the time he comes he’ll not notice, the mess the cows have been making every milking since