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Action Agri
Добавлен 2 фев 2024
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We are farmers from Co.Tyrone in the North of Ireland, we milk 80 mainly pedigree Holsteins and also have a 16,000 free range egg unit! We are mainly a family run farm with some outside help, We hope to show you what goes on with the day to day running of the farm and the challenges that come with it.
We hope you enjoy watching!
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We are farmers from Co.Tyrone in the North of Ireland, we milk 80 mainly pedigree Holsteins and also have a 16,000 free range egg unit! We are mainly a family run farm with some outside help, We hope to show you what goes on with the day to day running of the farm and the challenges that come with it.
We hope you enjoy watching!
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RESEEDING!! FINALLY we get some FIELD WORK done after a WET 2023!
In Todays video we get some of our land reseeded after getting no reseeding done last year we have some catching up to do!!
We hope you enjoy the video, don't forget to give it a like and hit the subscribe button, thanks!
We hope you enjoy the video, don't forget to give it a like and hit the subscribe button, thanks!
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Видео
SILAGE 2024 IS A GO!! BUT DID WE GO TO EARLY??
Просмотров 6 тыс.2 месяца назад
In todays video we make a start on our first cut! We explain why we are cutting earlier and also we find out what our latest purchase is!
FREE RANGE EGGS! THE INS AND OUTS OF OUR POULTRY FARM!!
Просмотров 2,7 тыс.3 месяца назад
In today's video we walk you through what we get up to on our poultry farm, what it takes to produce eggs and most importantly how we care for our hens! We hope you enjoy the video Please like and subscribe to our channel!
WE HAVE MADE A NEW PURCHASE!! FINALLY SOME WEATHER TO SOW FERTILISER!
Просмотров 2,5 тыс.3 месяца назад
In todays video we FINALLY get on with sowing fertiliser for 1st cut, we also discuss why we made the decision to purchase a new quad sower!! And assessing the damage to our fields after 7-8 months of rain! We hope you enjoy thanks for watching!
TURNOUT DAY!! COWS CALVING & WHY FARMING IS UNFAIRLY CRITICIZED!
Просмотров 1,6 тыс.4 месяца назад
In todays video we let some of our heifers out for the first time! We also discuss about our calving protocols, and we finish by highlighting some of the unfair criticisms aimed towards farmers! We hope you enjoy & thanks for watching!
MASSEY FERGUSON 135 gets some TLC and we crack on with some WET SPRING jobs! (and a welding fail)
Просмотров 1,5 тыс.4 месяца назад
In this video we are doing some repair work on our reliable little Massey Ferguson 135! We are also cracking on with silage pit repairs and the never ending job of dealing with poo! We hope you enjoy the video!
MILKING PARLOUR or ROBOT?? TAKING OVER THE FARM AT 18 AND WHAT I HAVE LEARNED?
Просмотров 5 тыс.4 месяца назад
In todays video we have a look around my milking set up, I explain in the video why I chose to install a milking parlour over robots! Also I talk about taking over the farm at 18 and the challenges and lessons I learned from it! We hope you enjoy the video. Please like, follow and subscribe Thanks!
FEEDING with the newly serviced feeder, my thoughts on the KEENAN after 2 years + some HOOFTRIMMING
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FEEDING with the newly serviced feeder, my thoughts on the KEENAN after 2 years some HOOFTRIMMING
Our New HOOFTRIMMING CRUSH !! Will it be worth it?
Просмотров 8365 месяцев назад
In todays video we lift our new hooftrimming crush, feet is the most important part of the cow if she can’t walk she can’t feed if she can’t feed she won’t milk !
SLURRY, SLURRY & more SLURRY, a wet start to Spring 2024
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SLURRY, SLURRY & more SLURRY, a wet start to Spring 2024
Feeding with our new SCHAFFER & solving our SLURRY Problems!
Просмотров 10 тыс.5 месяцев назад
Feeding with our new SCHAFFER & solving our SLURRY Problems!
Morning milking routine in County Tyrone
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Morning milking routine in County Tyrone
Savage set up lad we run broiler houses down south.
Good choice on seed. Italian needs to be cut a minimum of 4 times. If the ground gets wet, the crop suffers big time and we find if the ground gets damaged during cutting etc, it doesn’t seem to recover. You need to be prepared to reseed it every 5yrs. We are moving away from Italian as the weather is getting to a stage now that Italian is not suitable. Good video by the way. What heavy roller did you buy btw?
Yeah I have heard that , the thing I was worried about was if we got a year like last year and it got waterlogged it wouldn’t recover, that’s interesting you are going back to tried and tested mixtures then. We bought a second hand 36 inch Watson roller really well made although I regret not at least half filling it with water to roll the reseed..
Great video.
Thanks Garrett 👌🏻
What a load of crap Milk is soon going to pure poison, dairy men are that greedy and ahead of themselves they can't wait the time for nitrogen to leave the grass and mowing grass with mower lifting slurry from lines left with dribble bar after the last time it was cut.. sooner milk goes back to 16 pence the better, it might educate a lot of farmers
We went this weekend as the contractor was fully booked last week but the crop was shocking heavy. In the space of a week I never seen grass grow like it. Leaving it that extra week has been a bonus but we are lucky that the weather played ball as another week or more, it would have been a disaster for grass quality. Massive stress relief when you get that pit covered.
It is shocking how much grass jumps as you get into may can really catch you out sometimes, I agree no better feeling seeling a pit of good quality dry silage 😎
Support for your channel 👍👍👍.
Thanks Ciaran appreciate it 👍🏻👍🏻
Great set up, what make of equipment do you have? Are you getting many system eggs
Thanks , our system is Jansen and to be fair we don’t get many system eggs but the system belts make having system eggs not a big deal
Im looking to start into poultry but start quite small because i have to fix up some sheds which will take good while have ye any tips?
My tip is don’t be afraid to invest, spend money in good areas like the equipment because the time it will save you is unreal, eggs are a really good market always seems to be stable!
@@ActionAgri thanks lad I have to get a few small houses made first and I think I'll be getting hens in around june
Very interesting video, thanks for posting. Is the free range area outside not dived up like inside the house?
Thanks John, no outside is completely open , hens tend to return back to her colony/pen that she came from !
Thats a deadly set up, interesting when you havnt saw it before. Thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it thanks 👍🏻👍🏻
Brilliant video great content 👌
Fair play to you keep up the good work
Great Video, new Dub here, thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching Tony glad you enjoyed it 👍🏻👍🏻
Great video 👍
I am impressed with your attitude and drive, I agree with almost everything that you said, I started young too again due to circumstances but I am probably older than your father now. I agree about robots, we also spent a lot of time looking seriously at them as an option but decided to go with a new 16 unit instead basically for the exact same reasons as you ( cost, flexibility and just having the job done and over with twice a day) . I know nothing about poultry but I do agree that it’s important to not have all your eggs ( pun intended) in the one basket. Over a lifetime of farming I have made many mistakes and have plenty of regrets but I have never regretted buying any of the land that I have bought, if you get an opportunity to buy land take it would be my advice to any young farmer out there because if you own land you will get twice as much production out of it than any rented ground and I have rented and still do a lot of land.
I agree 100% your own land will always be more productive than rented land ( you are better looking at it than looking for it ) I think there is a place for both systems eg if you have business outside of farming maybe a robot is a better way to go because of the flexibility but I am convinced that if your home full time milking parlour is the best way to go!
Diversifying into hens is the best investment I have made to date, completely changed my business, has took out alot of risk out of investing for continued growth
Enjoying the channel Just in keeping the cows in part, are you not doubling you’re production costs by being inside all the time ? Silage costs twice what grazed grass does and then you have all the slurry to deal with.
Thanks glad your enjoying it so far ! I actually find cows easier managed inside and also have less work than grazing ,eg slurry all the time sowing, topping shifting fences , the extra costs are being offset by the extra milk and we are seeing better fertility because of the consistency of the diet and overall better condition of the cows.
Talking alot of sense but id agree with you in the not to distant future the small family farm will be gone every year there's more and more hoops to jump threw and less and less left when your bills are paid
100% 👌🏻👌🏻
Well said
It’s great to get the proper facts out there. Time people stopped and thought about what’s been done in Ireland and why.
Is it any wonder farming has such a high suicide rate with all the red-tape and BS you have to go through I just watched a friend of mine lose 24 cows to bovine TB 23 of them cows came back clear maybe that's the excuse there going to use for the 200000 cow cull good video mate fingers crossed the weather gets better haven't got the fertiliser sowed yet
Tb is a huge issue, that’s a sin to waste healthy animals for no reason! There needs to be an organised push back against these draconian legislations , we have had enough..
Loved seeing the cows’ joy as they run thru the field.
Any chance of a video around the hens house with some details and facts about it? Also any advice for any young person considering getting into to chickens now
Yes I will do a video dedicated to the hens! Egg price atm is at record levels, the big sticking point is planning permission, company’s are still keen for more houses and banks are still keen to lend, and if you were sitting there with planning approval I would be advising you to go ahead with it.
Great video enjoy watching thank you
Very good setup and layout. Big commitment and investment but well worth it especially the land purchase. Did you price other brands of parlours and if so, was there much difference?
Thank you 👍🏻 yeah we priced deleval aswell they were slightly more expensive but a very good parlour aswell I thought Dairymaster was a better fit for me.
I put in a robot last year after thirty years milking in a parlour and I couldn’t recommend it highly enough milking in a parlour fourteen times a week is pure hardship and misery especially if the weather is bad like at the moment ya have no live at all milking in a parlour
Tell me this, what brand of robot, purchase price, electric cost for the year, maintenance cost for the year and other costs that robot has? I have asked a number of robot men and none of them can tell me so hopefully you are the first.
Let’s just say if ya gave me a million euro or pound I wouldn’t go back some thinks are more important than money life is too short to spend it down in a pit under cows when you don’t have to.i have a de Laval robot and getting the second put in in January first one costs 150 thousand second one cost 100 thousand they run off solar panels on the shed and service kit package is 5 thousand a year which is similar to the cost of a 20 unit parlour there’s nothing to hide it’s all good mate I can tell by your message your stressed out milking in a parlour and you have my sincere sympathy as I done it for thirty years especially in this weather
@@eamonnoneill1340 Not stressed at all. We need 4 robots and I can never get the figures to compare. We have a 20pt and it’s a lot less than £5k a year in maintenance. Only figure I got was from a man with 2 Lely’s and his electric bill was £11k a quarter and that was from his wife. Biggest issue with robots I have is the changing every 10yrs at most with some changing after 6yrs.
The big think i took from that message is WE which means you must have more that just yourself working on the farm but if you were on your own doing everything you wouldn’t be long about getting robots then it’s all just about labour and labour cost at least a robot is reliable as in will work seven days a week 24 hours a day were as people don’t want to work seven days a week anymore so then your fucked when they want a day off every week
@@mikeysky8917good straight questions there. I've a 24 unit parlour in 10 years and I'd say including liners every year and a service every few years it hasn't cost much more than 5k in total. The service charge for robots I've been reliably told also goes up as the robot ages. Hard to get straight answers alright. Yes probably a better way of life but a big cost is there that doesn't get told.
Go robots if you get them right the quality of life is second to none
They are definitely going to be the future 👍🏻
Great video
Who do u supply your milk to
We supply our milk to dale farm 🥛
Great video, can you do a full farm tour video please
Planning on something like that in the next few weeks 👍🏻👍🏻
It’s called copper derm paste and you can get it on hoofshop.co.uk seems to work great
What’s the paste you use for killing dermatitis?
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One issue with the lagoon, we were informed at a meeting last year to stay clear of a lagoon because in the next few years you will have to roof it or cover it of some sort or face a brutal penalty. We were advised to stick to an above ground store with a roof which ticks all boxes for ammonia control. That was from a guy who will be putting forward the evidence and recommendations for ammonia control in NI. Brutal times to come.
What you can get for the lagoon is a “floating cover “ which should cover you
@@ActionAgri Yes it was mentioned but the guy said there was issues with them. I don’t think they will be happy with any slurry storage unless you can separate the urine from the dung and store independently. Whatever happens, it costs farmers thousands. I have learnt to watch what building developments happens at Greenmount as they always do things first.
My advise to the people in charge of regulating farmers is be careful, we can see what has happened in Europe with French and German farmers, farmers can only take so much we need to realise that we have power if we work as a collective at the end of the day it’s us that feed people,not the processors or supermarkets I think people forget that sometimes.
@@ActionAgri Exactly 👍
Very enjoyable! My ignorance is asking how you fill your outdoor feeder with TMR?
Can be a challenge at times ☔️ 😂
Nice job..just wondering why the hot wash before milking
Thank you , to be honest my main reason for the hot rince in the morning is to warm the clusters up for the cows, and also I have found in the past that when I just left my parlour ready for next milking my bacto count tended to rise could be coincidence I donno?
Great video,thank you.Best o luck with the Schaeffer.Have heard very good things bout them,far better built than JCB.
Great video
What HP is your massey.
180hp 👍
Great video 👍
nice video lad
Great video, nice to see another local farmer showing us what they get up to.
how many cows size land story?
80 cows , farm around 150 acres in total about 85 acres owned and the rest rented
Nice modern dairymaster parlour, commander boxes and mat is some job
How many units is it
8 units and stall work left to go to 12
Someone didn't listen!
Gr8 Video, Keep it up
7am good time to start milking Nice 135 👍
Very good video