Martin Carroll

Live every day as your last and some day you will be right!

[Martin Carroll @Mart_C90]

@ConallMoore5 Will be twice the expected growth in that field anyway!

[Martin Carroll @Mart_C90]

@1noeloconnor The Life of A Cattle Dealer by Sonny Enright, Milestones And Memories The Life and Times of Joseph Bruton are also well worth a read. Can be got from your local library.

[Martin Carroll @Mart_C90]

@patquirke @CiaranL1808 @Edwardkennedy84 @sprinkles785 If buying a PTO tractor washer get a multiplier gearbox with it. Can run it with the tractor ticking over then. Well worth the extra cost day one.

[Martin Carroll @Mart_C90]

@DanAllred1 @jackharnett1 Mulvihill styyle

[Martin Carroll @Mart_C90]

@dairy_meat @brianrushe81 Thus in relative terms for Ireland ag emissions look like a problem. Essentially because we don't produce anything else unlike industrialised countries of which most of our European neighbours are.

[Martin Carroll @Mart_C90]

@dairy_meat @brianrushe81 Producers. We are a pastoral country. Makes sense that we focus on this produce and trade with the Germans for their cars and equipment they are industrial production specialists and are unable to produce dairy and beef in the grass based outdoor manner that we can..

[Martin Carroll @Mart_C90]

@dairy_meat @brianrushe81 They would, we still drive these cars and use the products that are derived from the natural resources of other countries. So for Ireland the emissions for the manufacture/processing of the above are 'offshored'. We, due to location and climate are effecient beef and dairy....

[Martin Carroll @Mart_C90]

@brianrushe81 To me it seems Irish Ag is being scapegoated and targeted as the easy way to achieve overall reduction targets. I don't see the French or Germans committing to reduce car production. Which is their traditional native industry, Ireland's being agriculture.

[Martin Carroll @Mart_C90]

@brianrushe81 Some of the points discussed are in this article: https://t.co/uSBb0hk27j Irish Agriculture is a large relative emitter as we have no industrial manufacturing or raw resource extraction like other European countries which make up a larger share of their emiss relative to ag.

[Martin Carroll @Mart_C90]

@gaulstownfarms Straw bedded Ronan?

[Martin Carroll @Mart_C90]

@SeanMc1Mahon Dribble bar or trailing shoe for the LESS portion?

[Martin Carroll @Mart_C90]

@CiaranLen @TaeSavesLives @nookost Very little to date. And agree with you no incentive to produce to it. Is this not what we are trying to achieve though for a proportion of Irish Beef with the recent PGI application? Hats off to Rian's system, it is a super one. Looks to be the most profitable route for his farm

[Martin Carroll @Mart_C90]

@TaeSavesLives @CiaranLen @nookost the system. It has a place and is very well done as his cattle are ready for the lull period before grass cattle start coming fit . Just it does not entirely line up with Irish Beef production's USP. That being grass fed forage source for 90% of the animals lifetime feed intake.

[Martin Carroll @Mart_C90]

@TaeSavesLives @CiaranLen @nookost They were killed start of July. So avg birth date is mid May. If housed start November that's 8 months continuously inside. 3 month diet of ad lib concentrate to finish. Much more intensive than grass based. Cattle pushed to gain before reaching natural maturity. Not knocking...

[Martin Carroll @Mart_C90]

@TaeSavesLives @CiaranLen @nookost I am assuming these bulls would have been housed for all of their second spring/summer prior to their July slaughter so no difference in housing periods overall between them and dairy cross? So the bulls above only spend one summer out on grass, well on both grass and milk.

[Martin Carroll @Mart_C90]

@CiaranLen @nookost @TaeSavesLives drops. Farmers increase production to try to maintain the same standard of living in a reducing margin scenario. Back to the above, any account of the 6 months methane emissions from the bulls mothers pre weaning? The dairy Cross animal's mother be producing liq or manf milk.

[Martin Carroll @Mart_C90]

@CiaranLen @nookost @TaeSavesLives And I agree with you on this Ciaran. The reality is that this is the road all sectors of farming are being forced to go down to stay afloat. Intensify, get the maximum output per hectare or kg of feed that is physically possible. The Saudis cut oil production when the price...

[Martin Carroll @Mart_C90]

@CiaranLen @nookost @TaeSavesLives Superb performance. Top genetics, stockmanship and management evident. But in my opinion the exact opposite of the beef system we should be advocating for our temperate grass friendly climate. This system mirrors the intensive indoor based systems seen in poltury and pigs.

[James Robinson @JRfromStrickley]

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Hedgelaying our way through winter at Strickley.

Taking it steady. Clearing heads and doing good things.