Eddy Weldon

@ArableSam Solution: reward positive nature based solutions on farm. Think reps money and some of the mentality from acres. Only then really can you say it is marginally better than before.

@ArableSam Stocking rate is obviously much better. However, these farmers will not see any benefit from this greenwashing. Shite from factories and supermarkets again muddying the waters. Only the big guys benefit as it’s set up for dairy to beef

Does the producer get any extra ?

@PlayerGaelic Add in the inability to get more coaches or parents involved. Becoming a real issue

Read and respond. It’s not a rhetorical question.

@ballsdotie There is not meant to be a clear advantage as he suggests. Mearly a reward to play at home. Anyone can be caught on the day with is exactly what championship should be. Groups only suit big squads

Ciarán Whelan Has One Concern With New All-Ireland Format. Only time will tell on this one🤔 balls.ie/gaa/ciaran-whe…

@rayofoghlu Farming has changed but it’s not all pessimistic. People trying to improve things for many reasons, efficiency, small improvements etc. simply just trying to make it work. Making it work because of who they are. Policy needs shifting. Food system needs an overhaul. Leadership

@AnSealgaire Your an Absolute melt!

Sell one of your 8 fucking tractors if your struggling ffs....

@kingkane Farming - the only profession where you need millions in assets just to make a regular wage. Add to fact that the working week is 60+ hours too. You’ve literally no idea the work/stress/financial insecurity that goes with the job. Dose

Those tractors didn't come cheap, the money for that didn't come from the local credit union. They're not small farmers struggling to get by.

@OffgridIreland €2 a litre next week according to suppliers. Supplier called us last week and asked if could take some before it rises

🚨 Irish farmers hit hard by the energy crisis! A silage harvester takes up to 1,000 litres to fill. Green diesel now at €1.70 per litre means an extra €700 per fill often TWICE in a single day! The green nonsense isn't sustainable anymore. Time to REMOVE ALL TAXES on fuel and energy for Irish farmers and families. Enough is enough!

@JaneSelena Exact same.

Anyone thinking of joining the dozens of us being ripped off by #rathwood furniture don't. They sold me a product not even in stock & won't give me my money back they won't reply to emails or calls. A whole lot of people with same problem.

@TrevorFarrell12 No sympathy for dealers, but the price of calves is outrageous atm. Financially makes no sense to rear at current levels. Literally working for nothing.

I see Seamus Scallan is being outbid at the ring by farmers for calves and he’s turned to TikTok to try and talk down the calf trade 🤣 He done the same before the calving started trying to talk down prices Calves are a great trade and don’t sell them cheaply 👍

@rayofoghlu @ArableSam Big caveat is the land change use. The biggest reason it is slow to take off. If land could be classified as agricultural land with agroforestry on it, you would see more of it.

@ArableSam Best € route would be stacking afroforestry on biss/criss/ecoscheme, as well as putting the farm into organics. Some caveats- permanent land use change/time limits/organics is not open. My calculation says 50k a year (not including🐏🐂enterprise). Derogation dairy farm 80-110k

We pay lip service to nature, but in reality theres no money in thick hedges and seminatural grassland. Like day follows night, the nature on this old farm will be wiped out after it changes hands. irishexaminer.com/farming/arid-4…

@pippa_hackett Being told to do so by councils. Hate seeing it but happening along so many roads

There seems to be extra destruction this year, which is so counterproductive. Given the rain we’ve had, every hedge and tree is worth its weight in gold for land management. We’re planting more, others happy to wreck what they’ve got already. So sad to see.

@2pintpaddy Makes no sense. How lads can pay that and see a margin at the end is beyond me. Recently got rid of 22 moths hex heifers. 560+kg, none reaching €2k. By time rear, test and feed them not much left. If was to replace would cost 5-600 hd. Madness

Calfs making some money at the moment. #BandonMart #WestCork🇮🇪🐄

@TrevorFarrell12 Very little if any growth in the plants to take up nutrients therefore if in free draining it will wash away in Dec/jan. agree calender farming is not th solution. So much spread onto lakes just because it had to be got out. Not right either

Calendar farming is working very well this year isn’t it

@stuart__mcavoy Rugby player cannot get a pass away in traditional sense so has to improvise and fling it. Ireland are struggling to go from wing to wing when compared to other teams. Midfield are lacking in creativity. Far from quality. Pose very little threat

Stuart McCloskey currently one of Ireland’s best players at the moment. It wasn’t that long ago he was nearly on the move to France. Such a quality asset for Ulster over the years and now very much proving his worth in the green jersey. #IREITA

@sarahreilly30 It’s simple economics really. Costs more to produce them here than they can be sold for. For the last 10 years the bogs were open they were propped up by the taxpayer. Also there is still peat being harvested mostly horticultural and you’ll never guess - most of it is exported

It’s crazy that we let Bord na Mona close up shop only for us to have to import briquettes from other countries. Climate hypocrisy looks like shutting down indigenous businesses in Ireland but importing thousands of tonnes of turf from abroad.

@tomdoorley Boiled mickeys.

You either get coddle or you don't. In my view, it's one of the great dishes of the world. In fact, I feel a Substack coming on (Link in bio, as they say)

@ciaranmullooly Isn’t this a much better use of your time than spouting fear and misinformation about farming. As long as you don’t say open the bogs

Apprentices have always been an important part of life in the old Bord na Móna communities in the midlands. When I first went to the Tech in Lanesborough in the 1980s, the school had an annual influx of block release apprentices from all over the country - lads who were serving their apprenticeship time in workshops like Mountdillon, Blackwater and other BNM works but came into the metalwork room at the Voxational school in Laneborough to learn about skills like welding and more form vastly experienced teachers like Tom Nohilly. These were rock solid apprenticeship training schemes - they produced top class fitters , mechanics and electricians who got jobs all over the midlands and the block release also gave a few bob to local house owners who put them up and gave them bed and board. When Bord na Móna closed down the peat harvesting operations - a fundamental mistake was made to discontinue these apprenticeships schemes. I strongly believe the EU Just Transition Fund should have continued to train hundreds of midlands men and women for these roles and I was very annoyed when I was told it was FF/ FG government and the Greens who wouldn’t continue it . Nowadays - the demand for trade skills like electricians , fitters and mechanics is even GREATER than ever - we need to steer as many young students as possible in this direction and that’s why we have been focussing in our constituency office in re-starting more interest in these areas and at an earlier age . We strongly believe that students who have done their Junior Cert exams should be immediately offered the opportunity to safepass training to allow them go on building sites and the age needs to be lowered to start this urgently. Brid Gordon who runs our constituency office has been co-ordinating free training courses in safepass for many local schools and working with @Pobail and @Reshape programming of EU Just Transition Funds at TUS Midlands Student Resource Centre to make this happen . We had another group from Colaiste Chiarain Athlone in to do the training this week with Pobail and whole to roll out more and more . Today Brid was delighted to attend a new initiative in Roscommon on a similar vein by Sean Mulryan of Ballymore Properties Ballymore Construction Apprenticeship Bursary is designed to support apprentices employed in specific trades. Its primary aim is to encourage greater participation by Roscommon-based apprentices in apprenticeship training. The initiative is funded by Ballymore Group and administered by Galway Roscommon Education and Training Board (GRETB). The bursary is paid in two instalments and can assist with costs such as travel, accommodation, equipment, college fees, and other expenses related to off-the-job training or apprenticeship requirements. We fully supports Sean’s initiative - here’s the link to get more gretb.ie/further-educat…