Christopher Cahill

Dairy Farming in Partnership, Business Owner @ Cavan Grassland Consultancy

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@JerryMoloney1 NZ bulls are international 😉 sneak a few JEX in there somewhere 🤣

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@bryanjdaniels Takes Pressure to form diamonds and all that 🙈

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@bryanjdaniels Ah very good! Just the way you were talking about the rotovator I figured if it was yours the tractor must be too!
Jesus ye are busy so with just two of ye there and all going on!

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@bryanjdaniels Finally trade in the Valtra @bryanjdaniels?

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@TrevorFarrell12 BB7221 Moneyman. No hard calvings, good calves
Bb4438 An de Beauffax. Calved themselves. nice calves.
Bb8019. red gene carrier. lot of red blue this year from xbred cows.Can be bit harder calved, really have to pick your cows.
Ch4321 Lapon
Ch6292 Opal. Neither CH hard calved

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@sprinkles785 What bulls are you going for out of interest Catherine? Thanks!

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@TrevorFarrell12 @kierangalvin88 …at least if it was consistent across cows you could account for it! I raised the issue with @progressivegen and was told someone would call me back. That’s 2 weeks ago….

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@TrevorFarrell12 @kierangalvin88 Have noticed up to 10% of a difference between MR and tanker collections. Was there last year and seems to be there again this year. I rang PG and wanted to know if that was 10% across each cow or variable as I’m trying to use the info for breeding decisions, (1/2)

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@JerryMoloney1 What is in total Diet Jerry? Intakes prob 23/24 kg DM for that production?

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@TrevorFarrell12 @MullinahoneCoop @CormacTagging Trevor. Changed when took over the farm here 5 years ago. Reckon if I have 1-2 missing tags in a year that’s it at an absolute push. Some years there’s none at all. Normally in a cow that’s 3-4th lactation on so they’ve had a bit of wear and tear too!

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@finbarmcd @rayofoghlu Comparably good quality/value food - no. I don’t think i would be overstating by saying that Irish ag are adhering to the tightest food quality regs in the world!

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@finbarmcd @rayofoghlu I assume when you mean fully free trade you are talking about importing from all over the world, and if it’s purely cost driven then that would likely be mercosar countries. It’s been proving that the same standards of food production do not exist there, so cheaper food - yes…

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@finbarmcd @rayofoghlu The cost of food to the consumer would actually be much greater, therefore exacerbating the high food prices consumers are paying! (2/2)

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@finbarmcd @rayofoghlu Hi Fionnbarra, Just a quick note so you are aware. The subsidies that you speak of (CAP primarily) were introduced to keep the cost of food low, in many cases below or at cost of production. Without those subsidies, and if farmers were paid a fair market price for their food(1/2)

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@Williecarroll37 Are you rearing them on that the whole way through Willie or do they go onto auto-feeder/group feeders etc

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@2pintpaddy @MunsterBovine @MullinahoneCoop @HerdPlus With high levels of concentrates and silage and that is a bigger upset to the cows diet at that time compared to now or early Feb! Agree the transition from calving to milking has to be right too! 6 years working as a nutritionist and it was one of the biggest issues I saw around

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@2pintpaddy @MunsterBovine @MullinahoneCoop @HerdPlus I agree with you that you are certainly not the only one doing it, and they are countrywide. I just feel the way the last few springs have gone that people who are grazing too early seem to be running tight on grass around end march beginning of April and having to go back in…

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And that’s a wrap! Last of the cows dried off and officially on their holidays! Looking forward to a few weeks of quit(er) time before the madness kicks off again. 4 years done as a dairy farmer. 2025 will be remembered as one of the better ones! #dairyfarming @IrishGrassland

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@JonathanParke87 Any issues with mastitis on that bedding system? Or do you to anything abnormal to avoid it? What m2 would you allocate per animal on a bedding system like that?