Fergal Monaghan

1st cut in , slurry out and a soft rain falling 👍🏻 no drought in Sligo!

My follow up essay: Ireland's Failure Premium. To answer the question a lot of people have asked me: So where the hell does all of our money go, if it's not into creating infrastructure and a high living standard?! [The short answer is: someone's pockets. Just not yours...]

@diver_shaun @farmersjournal @SiobhWalsh1 @MartinMerrick2 @FJSheep @ajwwoods @FJBeef What comes after forage rye?

12 months in production: 2/4/25 : sow Geraldine spring barley 8/8/25: Harvest, 2.9t/acre 5/9/25: sow forage rye 10/11/25: graze with sheep in some very undesirable conditions 21/4/25: Mow forage rye for pit silage 6 months of heavenly weather and 6 months of hellish weather

The enshittification of Ireland and the hollowing out of our institutions is the single largest threat to Irish civil society and prosperity. In this damning piece, I'm going into more detail about the graph I posted yesterday: why it's happening in Ireland, why the way we're thinking about the protests is entirely wrong, and what this means for our collective governance. Link to the article is below!

@kiltullaghfarm She fairly made up for it the following year

@MonaghanFergal Got hurt rising on a cow in heat. Always the way

A decent morning when you get a heifer out of a super cow like this

@Walsh50Brendan @jhealyq Happy with it here too. Just takes a bit more attention than conventional approach.

@MonaghanFergal @jhealyq The same could be said in poor fertility years ever before sexed arrive. 5 years using sexed and only one year would I say I wasn’t happy with fertility performance vs conventional

Was strongly thinking of going all conventional semen this year to cut costs a touch but... seeing as this little man is our 15th bull calf out of 19 births that plan goes out the window 🙄🙄🫣. Just as well they're actually worth something this year! 66 calved 43 to go💪💪

@Walsh50Brendan @jhealyq Maybe, or is it a case of perhaps lower conception rate/ lost DIM/ Longer Calving interval?

@jhealyq Possibly make more money on the extra beef calves than the saving you’d make on the sexed straws?

@JerryMoloney1 Good going, what’s the diet atm?

Still getting decent clean outs ….will house by night from next week ….production still holding very well 1.95 kgms

@jhealyq Great production! What’s the diet currently?

Time for evening milking. Cows driving on nicely at 2.15 kgms. Just over 24.5 litres at 4.6 f and 3.9 p. Off to UK in the morning for a couple of days of farm visits and a show with some farmers from around the country. Looking forward to it. Good relief milker = peace of mind💪

@kiltullaghfarm No rain here even managed to make some surplus bales, don’t want anymore rain though, grazing a very dynamic situation in this weather 🌧️

Waterlogged in the middle of July, biblical rainfall last night and it’s not finished yet

@JerryMoloney1 Good DM yield for year and getting a reseed in 👍🏻

@MonaghanFergal Yep grass and red/white clover ….another cut off this in September

Arable silage baled up ….16.5 bales per acre 😲

23rd of May reseeds ready for grazing. First attempt of multi species, looking good so far 🌱

@jhcgraham @Sligorobotman 70 units!

@Sligorobotman Beautiful crop! How much n did it get?

Second cut on the ground 9T dm per hectare. 😀😀

@Limousinbreeder @Damo810 @Domhnall901 Direct drilled?

@Damo810 @Domhnall901 Sowed in April clover is flying . Sprayed it Friday . Pic prob taken week ago

Red clover say the 4th of may coming very patchy, clover itself seems to be coming everywhere but grass is slow, got first rain last Friday, very dry ground, will it come? 🤔

@kieran_kigr Limited with the robot at the minute!

@MonaghanFergal More cows now 💪🏻

God bless the work ☀️ 🌱😎 Land reclamation complete for another year. Increased size of MP adding this bit of ground. Big change from what it was 2 years ago.

@kiltullaghfarm What’s the highest cover workable cover do you think?

Super efficient way of getting the brown gold out

@JerryMoloney1 Was thinking same , 16 degrees promised for next 10 days warmer than June

@MonaghanFergal With growth still strong for time of year and ground good ….def not …spray away

Reseed with lots of docks, is it too late for post emergence this time of year, any opinions?