James Brennan

Tillage and Beef farmer. New Dairy entrant 2020 on 2 DeLaval V300's. UCD Crop Science MAgrSc PhD graduate. Laois/Kildare border.

[James Brennan @JamesieB]

@TeagascCrops An absolute gentleman. Thanks for everything Dermot. Best wishes.

[Conor O Leary @conorcoleary]

Oil and Gas Methane emissions from just 1 oil production area of the globe, at 440 tonnes per hour, equals the methane production of 32 Billion Cows. There are only 1 Billion Cows on earth.
And oil doesn't eat grass.

[James Brennan @JamesieB]

I wouldn’t like to complain about dry weather during harvest but…..

[James Brennan @JamesieB]

Not a very happy Monday for mother pheasant but it could have been worse.

[James Brennan @JamesieB]

@ArableSam Yeah, it has been a consistent performer over the years but there are better varieties out there now. Straw strength is an issue. This is grown on contract so the premium helps compensate.

[James Brennan @JamesieB]

Like a fine wine. Harvest no. 20 for the CX760 cutting Cassia winter barley under blue skies this afternoon.

[Joe Healy @joehealyfarmer]

Clover to milk with woodland in the background. Typical of Irish dairy farming and reason that we are the most Carbon efficient producers of dairy products not only in Europe but across the world

[Conor Mulvihill 🐄 @conormulv]

🐮On today's #WorldMilkDay remember the outstanding good our world class dairy delivers to every corner of Ireland

💰 Biggest native industry delivering €17.6b
👷80,000 quality jobs mostly outside cities
👩‍🌾Most importantly- built on outstanding work of over 18,000 farm families

[Conor Mulvihill 🐄 @conormulv]

Lets call out *misinformation* when it is in plain sight.

Ireland ranks joint no 1 in drinking water quality on the planet. 👇💧

Hugely ironic and MEP engages in such false smearing of a sector the week in which her leader directly said that farmer bashing should not occur.

[James Brennan @JamesieB]

@CarlowWeather A big difference between your station and Oak Park (49.7mm up to May 26th).

[Nadaline Webster @NadalineW]

Enough of this nonsense. The quality of the data provided by @EPAIreland is poor at best. In this thread you will find screenshots of a chapter from my new book (link also below) that asks whether we have any enforceable administrative standards in Ireland and the

[Frank Mitloehner @GHGGuru]

Thread: Why are most carbon footprint estimates for livestock products so massive? In short: because they are based on a faulty methane calculation. EAT Lancet, Starbucks, Impossible Burger etc are drastically overestimating GHG from livestock and here is why. /1

[Conor Mulvihill 🐄 @conormulv]

Ambassador Tim Grosser of New Zealand references the recent stories of a 200k cow cull in Ireland as ‘utterly stupid’ & ‘madness’ to reduce output from the second most carbon efficient country on the planet.

It would ‘rapidly increase carbon emissions’ as production would move.

[Bill O Keeffe 🐄 @billokeeffe]

Dunmore East beaches were closed yesterday due to a sewage overflow. Nothing about it in media anywhere. If it was slurry overflow from cows causing the problem...
Makes you wonder about all this EPA reporting.

[Conor Mulvihill 🐄 @conormulv]

Interesting when @elonmusk weighs in on the madness of the concept of Ireland culling cows ‘for climate’.

People need to get real.

[Agriland @AgrilandIreland]

https://t.co/ujidLDXULw

[Conor O Leary @conorcoleary]

@farmersjournal The county with the most cows, the most derogation farms...has the best rivers. (Stunning when you consider the amount of raw sewage that still enters Cork's rivers) ..This blindsided style of governance is completly unacceptable, and irreversibly damaging..

[Alan O'Reilly @saloreilly]

The man that has made a living from PR for big Pharma loves to have a go other industries but yet no-one questions the climate journalist on his industry?

[James Brennan @JamesieB]

@MaxPotterton Rainfall figures are similar to 2019 here too but ground conditions are worlds apart thank God.