Northern Ireland Milk Price Tracker
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The report is funded by all of the main farming industry groups so I think there will be a big push back against Claire Bailey's PMB using this report as the evidence. Outrageous that Claire Bailey was on the radio this morning saying the report is only regurgitating the UK Committee for Climate Chanage's data, yet that is the data that Claire Bailey and her supporters have chosen to ignore because they some how know better! The main political parties now need to roll in behind the DAERA climate change bill and condemn Claire Bailey's to the bin.
Mouser
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Thought we'd all be dead from catastrophic climate change by then anyway? Or coronavirus? Or coronavirus vaccines?
Maybe she has a window box to grow all her food in
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By the time she's hungry, it's way too late.
mixed farm
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Brilliant post. I've said it before, may not be this generation but food shortages will come again and it's only then that farmers will be appreciated.
it's not over
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It boils down to simply too many people on this planet. Mass exploration of oil is the culprit, we are where we are,85% decimation is extreme,I'd guess 20% at the most,quotas by the back door,could be a life saver for agricultural, who knows
Oil was running out 25 years ago when I was at school.
People (me included) expect too much now, it's a basic human right to have 2 holidays a year, a TV in every room, 2 cars outside the front door and horse riding lessons for little Toby.
Most don't give a fiddlers about the climate, as long as they can get 2 chickens for a fiver and 2 litres of milk for 65p.
boumaticboy
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It’s a great plan. We grow nettles and briars meanwhile we import all our food from the recently cleared rainforest in Brazil 
the biggest threat to our planet is a disease called STUPIDITY which seems to be incurable abd spreading rife
the biggest threat to our planet is a disease called STUPIDITY which seems to be incurable abd spreading rifeDon't say too much or they will produce a vaccine for it and make uptake compulsory!It’s a great plan. We grow nettles and briars meanwhile we import all our food from the recently cleared rainforest in Brazil
Wishful Thinker
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- Northern Ireland
Just after putting down 2 Holstein heifers that tested positive for BVD, they were 2 pictures. first cases since compulsory tagging started. Brutal.
We’ve been paying £4.50/£5 per tag for how many years? Problem still not sorted but we were told would only be for 2 years. My cows are in so not a neighbour. So I’ve obviously bought a Pi. After this experience I can understand why people change tags and the problem doesn’t go away. Should be a compensation scheme, would be quickest method to knock it out. And now this consultation for TB, it’s going to head the same way. Create new schemes, new task forces all to make jobs for themselves at our expense. Their way of culling us, but where will they be when we’re all gone?
We’ve been paying £4.50/£5 per tag for how many years? Problem still not sorted but we were told would only be for 2 years. My cows are in so not a neighbour. So I’ve obviously bought a Pi. After this experience I can understand why people change tags and the problem doesn’t go away. Should be a compensation scheme, would be quickest method to knock it out. And now this consultation for TB, it’s going to head the same way. Create new schemes, new task forces all to make jobs for themselves at our expense. Their way of culling us, but where will they be when we’re all gone?
Wishful Thinker
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I do now
Seem to doing them for something once a month now.I had two tested positive in May. Went to the bother of blood testing them . One came back completely clear and one with quite a low reading but I still culled that one. Brother in law had one cleared in the blood test after +ve ear tag test. Also in May. Beginning to doubt the tag test. First +ve in four years.
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Been testing the concept of the 'short trouser' this summer on the farm. They have benefits, but....
it's not over
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Check this out on Agriland - Video: 3-month old Holstein heifer sells for over €49,000 https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/video-3-month-old-holstein-heifer-sells-for-over-e49000/
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mixed farm
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Run her with an Angus bull and if she has a bull calf that knocks €200 off her straight away!
What if she calves down with 3 spins as you southern men talk about?
Bogeyman
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Genus bought her she’s more valuable as a flusher