We were delighted last year to sell one of our bull calves to Dovea for as an AI test bull, after many small hiccups and delays.
It’s nice to see Garrendenny Lucifer featured in the catalogue – nice EBI now of 262 now too. It’ll be interesting to see how he gets on. His Garrendenny comrades are [...]
It’s not often a farmer whoops with joy and pleasure. Farmers, although optimistic by nature (they’d have to be to survive in this occupation) never let on to others that they are pleased or happy, perhaps they know that one good day may be followed by a bad one and it’s never good to get too carried away.
The cheque arrived yesterday for [...]
Mention that you’ve just had a full cross compliance inspection to anyone and there’s a loud intake of breath, a hiss and a mouth falls open as they look at you in horror! Those words ‘full cross compliance inspection’ strike horror in the hearts of most farmers. ?Farmers are busy people and it’s been a tough year keeping on top of [...]
I haven’t written about farming as much as I’d intended this year – mostly because it was such a disasterous year with the extremely unsettled weather – it just made farming so much more of a challenge as well as being an expensive year. ?Farmers had hoped for a good autumn so they could keep the cows out at grass and milking for as long as possible but that just hasn’t materialised. According to our milk collector, lots of farmers [...]
Are you wondering if I had disappeared off into an abyss? I don’t think I’ve visited this blog at all for the last month, I’ve lots to post about but just didn’t have the time – just as well I was organising rather than trying to do well in Blog Awards Ireland?and there you can read our post on how the ‘power of we’ managed to create an event on Saturday night that turned out to be a [...]
