Bill O Keeffe 🐄

Listen back to IFA Farm Business Chair @billokeeffe on @morningireland discussing the impact of fuel and fertiliser price spikes on farmers' costs. rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…

@_Davy_Russel_ @LeglockLuke As Crocadile Dundee would say! 🤣🤣

@LeglockLuke 😂😂😂 that’s not a tractor

3rd year in a row I’ve got the tractor stuck in the same place #halfwit

Freshly calved heifers & cows for sale at Kilkenny Mart dairy sale on Monday 23rd March at 12.30pm. Sale live on Martbids. Lots 435-444. Pedigree Catalogue available. donedeal.ie/dairycattle-fo…

@1noeloconnor @allowdale Bulls done too.

@1noeloconnor @allowdale Vaccine gone in here too. Another cost but if fertility got a hit through April to June it would cost multiples of the vaccine. No brainer in a Spring calving herd. 👍

Today is a good day. All milkers out, bluetongue vaccination given, ground firm and cows bulling. Lá brea ar fad

IFA's Liam MacHale with Fergal Morris, General Manager @MSDAnimalHealth, & @SeanKellyMEP at a Health Working Group event: "No Security without Food: recognising Food Security as a Strategic Critical Infrastructure" in the @Europarl_EN this week.

The current conflict in the Middle East is bringing the price of fertiliser into focus. IFA's Farm Business Chair @billokeeffe is warning that profiteering is not on as sufficient stocks already exist. ifa.ie/farm-sectors/i…

@padraig_breen @1noeloconnor I only ever see them this far inland! 🤣🤣

@billokeeffe @1noeloconnor Brilliant didnt know there we wigeon that far inland.

@padraig_breen @1noeloconnor Loads there in winter. A pond/lake comes every winter. Curlew sometimes as well. Big reedy area in summer all the reed warblers etc

@1noeloconnor @billokeeffe Do you often have wigeon there Bill?

Farmers zoned for RZLT have until April 1st to apply for an exemption. It's important to check the updated maps and apply in good time, according to Farm Business Chair @billokeeffe. ifa.ie/farm-sectors/f…

This scandal just gets worse. It now turns out that the Chair's own company is not accredited under the Bord Bia’s Food Processor Standard QA scheme. Over 100 other food businesses in Ireland are in this scheme but the chair of bord bia’s company is NOT!!

Larry Murrins company is importing beef that is competing with @Bordbia assured beef and chicken. The company was listed up to a few days ago as been accredited under the Bord Bia QAS. It would never have qualified for the scheme. The scandal grows by the day.

@Bordbia have no respect for Irish Farmers. We are both a resourse to be exploited and a pain in the backside to be tolerated. If they continue to bite the hand that feeds them there will be consequences. It's time they realised they need us more than we need them. @IFAmedia

Tom and I have just boarded the ferry for Dunkirk. Thank you to everyone who supported us on our journey from Dublin to Rosslare today. Our focus now turns to Thursday’s Europe-wide farmer protest, organised by the European farm umbrella body @COPACOGECA @IFAmedia #backfarmers

The IFA President will set out on a tractor from the Irish Farm Centre next Mon, bound for the @COPACOGECA protest in Brussels on Thurs. On board will be his son Tom (11) as they bring the message for our farming future. ifa.ie/farm-sectors/i…

@davidkerr67 @AnTaisce @boucherhayes Maybe if we housed all the stock, our water quality would improve in line with Europe...

@AnTaisce @boucherhayes So, is Elaine suggesting housing stock completely like continental Europe with a whole new set of problems. There will be the same stock numbers on most of these farms with or without the derogation.

It's no wonder water quality is not improving, derogation farmers are being told to do things that will not stop nitrates from getting into the water — An Taisce's Head of Advocacy Dr Elaine McGoff with @boucherhayes on RTÉ Radio 1 CountryWide

Fresh Calved heifers at Kilkenny Mart Dairy Sale on Mon Nov 17th at 12.30pm. Lots 434-437. donedeal.ie/dairycattle-fo…

@davidkerr67 The tag version is very easily taken off...too easily sometimes.

You wouldn't want to be in a hurry when taking off cow collars... .

All roads lead to Corrin Mart in Fermoy on Mon, Nov 3rd. We will hold a national meeting to secure a workable extension of the Nitrates derogation. Minister @martinheydonfg will address the meeting. ifa.ie/farm-sectors/m…