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[jetro 5,349]

Very interesting. Really enjoyed watching this .

I started to look into the food citizenship wilf. Only a small bit sofar, but good So far.

Atb j 

[DIDO.1 22,864]

Look like a bunch of lefty hippies to me. Not sure they would be happy if a fox and hounds ran through their lentil patch

[WILF 50,303]

7 hours ago, jetro said:

Very interesting. Really enjoyed watching this .

I started to look into the food citizenship wilf. Only a small bit sofar, but good So far.

Atb j 

Jacob is at Strokestown, he is investigating a thing where by you donate to the farm and in return you own a share of the harvest.

I signed up for it and if he gets it up and going I’d be happy to do it, it’s a way small producers can expand and the donated gets something back too.

Don’t  know what the costs are or anything yet as it’s just at a research stage from what I can gather.

Theres a bloke up your way called “Mad Yolk Farm” and he does box schemes and sells at farmers markets in Galway, he only serves local people and he is feeding about 70 customers off of half and acre !! 

Edited July 25, 2020 by WILF

[WILF 50,303]

1 hour ago, DIDO.1 said:

Look like a bunch of lefty hippies to me. Not sure they would be happy if a fox and hounds ran through their lentil patch

Yep, there’s a few like that but all good people who share some core beliefs about how we treat the world and the quality of the food you put in your body mate.

Farmers are pretty realistic about stuff 

[Squirrel_Basher 17,102]

12 hours ago, WILF said:

Mate, they spray everything with round up........meanwhile in the states Monsanto have had to put hundreds of millions of dollars aside to settle cancer claims !!

Over here and the UK they spray as a matter of course prior to harvest:

Potatoes

Rape

Wheat

Silage  grass in some instances, so your beef is laced with it too !! 
 There is probably a shit load of other stuff too.....

Makes your mouth water don’t it  

Who told you that bollocks Wilf .

edited to say part bollocks ,wheat and silage grass arnt sprayed here anyway but spuds and rape are .

[Squirrel_Basher 17,102]

Agreed it’s a travesty as the plant must take it down to the spud or rape grain post spraying .

[WILF 50,303]

14 minutes ago, foxdropper said:

Who told you that bollocks Wilf .

edited to say part bollocks ,wheat and silage grass arnt sprayed here anyway but spuds and rape are .

I could be wrong about wheat but silage here is definitely wilted off by some farmers, in fact TEAGSC (our agri people ) had cows grazing on a sprayed off field on one of their own farms !! 

[Squirrel_Basher 17,102]

I can’t understand why a farmer would spray grass before silage .Maximum yield is required .Its cut in the afternoon when the sugar content is highest ,left to wilt overnight and chopped the next day .Used to put ADD F onto it via the chopper but that been stopped .It was a acid that excelerated  fermenting 
Wheat isn’t sprayed to my knowledge but the straw is getting shorter every year as the call for it dwindles .

[WILF 50,303]

43 minutes ago, foxdropper said:

I can’t understand why a farmer would spray grass before silage .Maximum yield is required .Its cut in the afternoon when the sugar content is highest ,left to wilt overnight and chopped the next day .Used to put ADD F onto it via the chopper but that been stopped .It was a acid that excelerated  fermenting 
Wheat isn’t sprayed to my knowledge but the straw is getting shorter every year as the call for it dwindles .

They do it so that they can reseed quicker after cutting ! 
 

[WILF 50,303]

Cows on sprayed pasture, recent photo on the farm of the organisation that advises farmers etc 

Everything that’s wrong about big agri in one photo right there ! 

[king 12,030]

18 minutes ago, WILF said:

Cows on sprayed pasture, recent photo on the farm of the organisation that advises farmers etc 

Everything that’s wrong about big agri in one photo right there ! 

The next field they should be in.

 

[Squirrel_Basher 17,102]

That’s not sprayed just fresh cut mate .Sun bleached .Farmers don’t spray off silage grass ,trust me .

[Squirrel_Basher 17,102]

1 hour ago, WILF said:

They do it so that they can reseed quicker after cutting ! 
 

Mate ,you don’t seem to have a grasp on farming at all .Grass isn’t resown after silage it grows again .3 sometimes 4 cuts a year depending on weather .Silage cuts are sometimes grazed immediately after cutting so cows have access to new fresh growth .Most farmers have silage fields on rotation ,hay fields the same .New leys ,replanted grass , are put in every 5 years or so when the grass gets old .All fresh cut fields are yellow until the new growth starts .Grass grows from the bottom not top as most think .All grass is yellow at the bottom near the ground .

[greg64 3,048]

39 minutes ago, foxdropper said:

That’s not sprayed just fresh cut mate .Sun bleached .Farmers don’t spray off silage grass ,trust me .

some do if they  want to re seed 

Edited July 25, 2020 by greg64

[greg64 3,048]

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