Northern Ireland Milk Price Tracker

[Conrod96]

Wont tell us til monday or tuesday

Sounds about right

 

[Sheeps]

What price is straw in Scotland?

got a few bales today in Co. Louth they were €50 for the 3. 2022 straw I would say it looks to yellow for 2033

 

[Jaffa Cakes]

View attachment 1164975got a few bales today in Co. Louth they were €50 for the 3. 2022 straw I would say it looks to yellow for 2033

Barley straw?

 

[Whitewalker]

View attachment 1164975got a few bales today in Co. Louth they were €50 for the 3. 2022 straw I would say it looks to yellow for 2033

If it was 2033 straw it probably be burnt

 

[Wee Willy]

Was just wondering, is there still a Cream herd at Greenmount? Or are they all fed intensively now?

 

[Cowlife]

Cream gone about 5 yrs I'd say. Cows moved onto main herd

 

[nivilla1982]

Why did they get rid of it?

 

[ridger]

Cream gone about 5 yrs I'd say. Cows moved onto main herd

It was all they talked about when I was there

 

[Cowlife]

Wanted to expand main herd. Nitrates. Dairy enterprise option on degree is now done on main herd. Limo project was gone before it anyway. Cost of running. Staff cover when students not there.
New farm entrance being made through the site from tirgracey rd

 

[Sheep]

Yep they levelled it a couple of years ago.

Was a pain in the arse and not really student run as was the intention tbh.

Was a nice little unit, during my time students would have to do a week milking at it, sometimes just weekends?, which for someone with no dairy background wasn't very rewarding as it only took half an hour to milk so you never really got to full confidence before passing on to the next lot of students

 

[Davy]

Is there still an operation going on the Abbey farm?

 

[yin ewe]

It was all they talked about when I was there

It was Roy Mclenaghans (principal) baby, they had to make up similar courses for the beef, sheep and cereals folk to keep them happy but they were really only ever poor relatives.
I was in the 1st cohort to milk the cream herd and it was real nice handy set up. 2 of us milked 3x day for a full week on a 6 week rota. Weekends were great as Victor Woods (farm manager) cooked all the staff a hearty ulster fry on Saturday and Sunday mornings.

 

[cowboysupper]

Any of you folks know what the law is in terms of NIEA coming onto the farm without permission?

Met 2 of them out on the farm today. One of them said they were out walking the other day (on the next block of land over) and saw us spreading slurry, so they just wanted to come for a look around today to see if everything was OK.

I was always of the impression that pollution had to be reported or they strongly suspected pollution before they could access your farm. We spread slurry this past week and the ground has been in near perfect order, 3000g/acre so nothing excessive. Why the hell they think they can just walk in seems ridiculous.

 

[Davy]

I asked one of the ufu policy officers this question and he said they only had to have reasonable suspicion of pollution to come onto your property. I'm sure you weren't best pleased when you encountered them. Did you ask them to leave?

 

[cowboysupper]

I asked one of the ufu policy officers this question and he said they only had to have reasonable suspicion of pollution to come onto your property. I'm sure you weren't best pleased when you encountered them. Did you ask them to leave?

There's genuinely nothing to see so told them to go check the watercourse and head on. I was in a rush to be somewhere more important. Jobs worths.

 

[MrA.G.]

I have dealt a good bit with NIEA through certificate work, best way seems to be remain polite but firm. They do try and exert a bit of authority if allowed.

 

[cowboysupper]

I have dealt a good bit with NIEA through certificate work, best way seems to be remain polite but firm. They do try and exert a bit of authority if allowed.

Yeh I always try to take that approach with regulators. I dont think losing tempers gets you anywhere. It just baffles me why they didn't come to our farm yard first to speak to someone before tramping off across the fields. That's a recipe for getting people's backs up.

 

[yin ewe]

Yeh I always try to take that approach with regulators. I dont think losing tempers gets you anywhere. It just baffles me why they didn't come to our farm yard first to speak to someone before tramping off across the fields. That's a recipe for getting people's backs up.

Should have put them to the road with the graip

 

[Tex]

Any of you folks know what the law is in terms of NIEA coming onto the farm without permission?

Met 2 of them out on the farm today. One of them said they were out walking the other day (on the next block of land over) and saw us spreading slurry, so they just wanted to come for a look around today to see if everything was OK.

I was always of the impression that pollution had to be reported or they strongly suspected pollution before they could access your farm. We spread slurry this past week and the ground has been in near perfect order, 3000g/acre so nothing excessive. Why the hell they think they can just walk in seems ridiculous.

As far as I can see they can do what they want.
If in doubt they will find a fault to justify their visit.

two neighbours of mine fell out several years ago, one of them reported the other for polluting a small waterway with a septic tank. NIEA came out realised if there was pollution it wasn’t from a septic tank and must have been the dairy farm and tormented me for 2 months.

I had some choice words for the pair of them (neighbours).

 

[flatliner]

Tirlan up 2ppl to 34ppl plus 3ppl Winter bonus and 0.4ppl sustainability bonus.............. so 37.4ppl all in