Michael Curtin

Software engineer by day, Dairy farmer by night

[Michael Curtin @Robo_Mike]

@aoifedoyle7 @kieran_kigr Ring the neighbours, see if any of them have a bunch of 20 it would do!

[Michael Curtin @Robo_Mike]

@1noeloconnor Turn off the pto when closing the shutters, open it up as fast you can drive!

[James Sills @JRDSills]

The headline finding is that fertiliser derived N losses are small compared to total N losses and both types of inhibitors in the clay soil make total losses WORSE rather than better. In sandy soils the DCD + NBPT (UND) treatment had worse losses than untreated urea.

[Michael Curtin @Robo_Mike]

@Joedev1956 @davidkerr67 @CormacTagging Same here, only one sample back so far, rest in the lab as we only started calving on the 8th. Seeing people having poor quality issues, wonder if tagging before the calf has dried ofd might cause issues? Certainly guilty of it here, time will tell!

[Michael Curtin @Robo_Mike]

@AidanAidanmc @jhealyq I have 10 since September 7th 😭😭

[Michael Curtin @Robo_Mike]

@TaeSavesLives @RossHamiltonG @HerdPlus I now have genomic evaluations for just under 10% of what was sampled for the NGP!

[Michael Curtin @Robo_Mike]

@TaeSavesLives @RossHamiltonG @HerdPlus

[Michael Curtin @Robo_Mike]

@NiallReidy1 @icbf The way it was explained to me was that they will be running the genomic evaluations when they have a chance to review how adding 600k genotypes will affect their models

[Michael Curtin @Robo_Mike]

@NiallReidy1 @icbf I asked the icbf about this... They aren't running parentage yet, afraid of how many issues will be found! You can request it from them though if you want

[Michael Curtin @Robo_Mike]

@1noeloconnor @sprinkles785 Not all can be connected to solar. Check your element is no more than 3kW! Can have 2x 3kW elements, but not a 6kW... Know of some that got caught out with too big an element!

[Michael Curtin @Robo_Mike]

@TerranutriTECH A horny one....

[Michael Curtin @Robo_Mike]

@WilliamConlon What time have you to complete the project from approval? TAMS 2 was 6months + 6 months extension from what I recall, could be tight on a big project if waiting on builders etc...

[Michael Curtin @Robo_Mike]

@Grangecowboy I priced a similar system during the week at €1200, no weight but gives the level of feed in the bin

[Michael Curtin @Robo_Mike]

@ElaineOConnell5 @AIBIreland Managed to login here on the app, but took a second attempt!

[Michael Curtin @Robo_Mike]

@davidmooredfoty @woodtownjerseys @tommywalsh1010 @SalesianAg @shanawayhill @HerdPlus @TeagascSignpost @tirlan_ @TheGreenParty Didn't see it in any of the spec docs looking through them... Good to see they have changed it to allow mounting over spaced sheeting at least

[Michael Curtin @Robo_Mike]

@davidmooredfoty @woodtownjerseys @tommywalsh1010 @SalesianAg @shanawayhill @HerdPlus @TeagascSignpost @tirlan_ @TheGreenParty Where is the 6kW limit coming from?

[Michael Curtin @Robo_Mike]

@GillwallyO @agriculture_ie Not even sampled here yet. Not relying on it this year, will sample as normal myself

[Michael Curtin @Robo_Mike]

@AlanBurton12 https://t.co/XBFsMw7GcX

Simple and effective!