Limefield
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- Northern Ireland
Its all leaving farming VERY difficult. Even when a couple of good days come, they are needed to dry the fields a bit before you could let the cows out and by then its raining again - REPEAT!!!!
Forecast says 4 dry days starting tomorrow! Will the cows be sneaking on Monday!
Weather has changed less frost in winter less dry in summer.....
I've heard dad talk about waiting for the ground to thaw enough to let him start ploughing with the 35. Two coats, two pair of breeks, hat gloves etc. Sounds pretty awful.
There's a small lake near here that froze when my mum was young, enough to walk on. She remembers people going through the ice and drowning. In the last extreme winter when we had down to minus 16, that lake was beginning to get a skin on it. But only a skin. And dad remembers the Bann frozen. Apparently it was skated on at coleraine. I saw a skin starting on it at the edges where there was no movement.
It is with the greatest of regret that I have to agree with that statement.It's too short a season here to be a spring calver.
Just 60 odd still milking , and starting to sell the youngstock.@Cowmangav are you milking any cows now I recall you were planning to quit ?
It’s not hard to jump on the gerbil wheel . Then however everyone one has different ambitions. Simplicity suits me best being simple myselfIt’s a carousel that many find hard to get off,don’t want to judge anyone, but keeping ahead of the neighbours or being in deep with the bank can be factors as over the years some crazy money has been spent on land over here as it is in such short supply.
Just 60 odd still milking , and starting to sell the youngstock.
It's certainly not all fun and games down south either. Cows out with a week but conditions are difficult. Put out calves, they broke wire and went apeshit but eventually settled. Had to bring them back in yesterday No one should take any notice of the IFJ. It's fantasy farming.It is with the greatest of regret that I have to agree with that statement.
I read the IFJ far too much. We are not on a level playing field with the weather and soil type compared to the boys down south. No point trying to do something that is impossible...grazing cows spring and autumn.
It's certainly not all fun and games down south either. Cows out with a week but conditions are difficult. Put out calves, they broke wire and went apeshit but eventually settled. Had to bring them back in yesterday No one should take any notice of the IFJ. It's fantasy farming.
No. Have to pay brothers out , after Mum 's death.Will you continue to farm in some capacity?