David Cooil

Massive thanks @CooilDavid and @iomcreamery for sending this exciting package! Especially useful ahead of #NationalCheeseLoversDay on Monday.

#farm24 8 acres of multi species grass seed spread before the next bout of wind and rain arrives

@GillwallyO Do you have any issues with milk taints when grazing

Summer grazing crop coming into it's own

👏🏆 🇮🇲 Some brilliant news……congratulations to @CooilDavid & Rob Cooil on this fantastic award. Winning the ‘Silver Lapwing’ is a huge achievement & thoroughly well deserved. 👏👏👏👏👩‍🌾 🇮🇲 Well done to you all. 👍 @FWAGAssoc @iomdefa @manxnature @IOMGovernment

@LeverettFarming @wcain1995 @AndrewJardine2 Lunchtime would be best for us but it ruins the day so we’ve modified it to suit ourselves

@CooilDavid @wcain1995 @AndrewJardine2 Agree the 2 oads in a row hits them, my rule is never more than 20 hours and never 20 hours twice in a row, on my own so milking fits round everything else I’m doing Usually milk 2wice mon,wed,fri,sun

Right folks- looking for opinions, experiences, facts, pros, cons on 10 in 7 milking. 90% of our jerseys calved aug-dec with only a few left.thoughts is go 10 in 7 from April through to calving at start of August. Save some costs at grass and improve family time for a few months?

@wcain1995 @LeverettFarming @AndrewJardine2 We did a full season of 10in7 with our spring block in 23 lost more milk than I expected the 2 long breaks on the weekend seemed to hit them and take most of the week to recover so we’re now nearer to 3in2 (5am-4pm-9am) they seem to be happy on that and litres remain steady

@LeverettFarming @AndrewJardine2 @CooilDavid Did twice a day Friday and Saturday here as dad didn’t mind doing the Saturday afternoon. Dave is doing it rolling so oad mon wed fri sun one week then tues thurs sat the next

Creamery boss (the big cheese) Findlay Macleod has praised the cooperative's staff after it picked up three gold awards at the Global Cheese Awards #isleofman gef.im/news/environme…

@CooilDavid @MiddChris

@sophieaplin Why have you moved to split block calving?

Dry gals 🐄 on holiday eating their dry cow rolls behind fence 15% calved 😂 100 in total to calve 😂 Split block dream 🤮 might as well be #365days #autumncalving #teamdairy

Just had our 1st delivery of honey produced on our meadow! Chief tasters (the kids) say it’s the best honey they’ve ever tasted! Good luck to Linda and Tom that have the bees here in their venture!

@CooilDavid Interesting to see how much clover has established under the Oats

Whole crop being chopped for beef cattle finishing. Spring oats undersown with a clover sward grown with 12.5 units of artificial N and seaweed extract no herbicides or fungicide

@eanparsons Same down this end

A fair bit of rain so far today!

Beautiful afternoon to be #farming

Early morning grass measure under moody skies. Growth has increased to 45 from 38 still not great but moving in the right direction dry weather really knocked it for a few weeks. Some more rain would be appreciated.

Proud dad moment today her 1st show on Cosmo and got named champion! Massive thanks to Stella Hampton from ballawhetstone stables.

Fly clean up squad hard at work

@timgloverash I think you should be clear that the contractor that moved it (pictured) isn’t the contractor that has left it there and was probably only contracted to move it a few yards?

The scene before - hazardous waste left in lay-by in Ballabeg after crossing work weeks ago. Today looked like work to remove. Moved a few yards to allow access to field! Opposite hall, nearer water course, on school run and blocking access to parking & recycling - genius! 🤬

Arbory traditional” laa column killey” (village fair)

Am at @Groundswellaguk & it’s even BIGGER than ever! Will be launching our new @DungBeetleFarms Dung Beetle Assessment & running #DungBeetle workshops. Let’s talk about a biodiverse & #regenerative farming future!