New Farming Methods, Arva, Co. Cavan, Ireland 1967

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  • A report on the modern farming methods used on the Mulligan farm in County Cavan.
    In this extract from the series a look modern farming methods used on the Mulligan farm in Arva, Co. Cavan. Brothers Eddie and Danny Mulligan farm 42 acres of unfertile land. They keep cows and pigs and have increased their revenue by using modern farm management methods. Such methods include the construction of cattle walkways on the farm and the housing of sows. This report describes how they have increased their yields.
    ‘Telefís Feirme’ which means ‘Farm Television’ was an agricultural education series. ‘Telefís Feirme’ began broadcasting on 12 October 1965.
    The first series offered 48 weekly programmes on farm education. Programmes were often watched by groups of farmers. Notes for the programmes were printed in the newspaper the Irish Farmers Journal. The Department of Agriculture paid for the rent of television sets for farming groups around the country.
    An article in the RTV Guide 8 October 1965 set out details of the planned programmes and gave features on presenter Justin Keating and producer Sheamus Smith.

Комментарии • 57

  • @grahamburbage8443
    @grahamburbage8443 3 года назад +23

    It's incredible how you could raise a family on such a small amount of land. Supermarkets have a lot to answer for. A perfect example of wealth transfer.

    • @oscarosullivan4513
      @oscarosullivan4513 2 года назад +1

      The European Community has a bit to answer for as well. My Grandad who has only been dead ten years would never recognise a farm in this day and age.

    • @hugostiglitz6914
      @hugostiglitz6914 2 года назад

      Supermarkets with shareholder investors. Their dividends get priority.
      Belittling Aldi and Lidl as some kind of low end shopping when in reality they can sell at low price because they are privately owned with no shareholders.

    • @barkershill
      @barkershill 2 года назад +1

      This all looked so familiar to me, as I grew up on a farm in Wiltshire only slightly bigger than this . But I don’t see how you can blame supermarkets for the changes . Farms were always going to get bigger and more mechanised , I think it’s called economies of scale . And I suppose supermarkets are an example of economies of scale applied to retailing . My dad made a good living off thirty cows and a few pigs , but today you would need a herd of nearly 200 to get anywhere . Farmers living standards and real incomes are undoubtedly higher the work might be a bit or even a lot less physical but the hours are much the same . I have a couple of nephews who often spend twenty four hours at a time sat on a tractor seat when silage making .

  • @Castlebravo100
    @Castlebravo100 3 года назад +8

    Reminds me of when I was a young lad in the 1960's visiting the farm next to my home in County Antrim.

  • @markgannon1279
    @markgannon1279 3 года назад +13

    Farming has come along way thanks to hard working young farmers who wanted

    • @toyotaprius79
      @toyotaprius79 Год назад

      Quite delusional given how badly IFA and supermarkets have squeezed the land and the farmers dry

  • @charliekavanagh1217
    @charliekavanagh1217 3 года назад +9

    Great to look back at the sixties . Happy carefree days

    • @hugostiglitz6914
      @hugostiglitz6914 2 года назад +1

      I wouldn't say that, simpler times but a whole different set of worries!

  • @jamesbrennan9591
    @jamesbrennan9591 3 года назад +4

    Loved this

  • @noelmaher4633
    @noelmaher4633 3 года назад +8

    We all thought the same when we saw the electric fence, if you know you know😁

  • @Epiph5
    @Epiph5 3 года назад +39

    Slurry... with drainage down the hill!

    • @cattlewranglerwalsh116
      @cattlewranglerwalsh116 3 года назад +15

      Better than most councils nowadays who pump raw sewage directly into rivers or the Pfizer plant in Cork pumping their waste into Cork harbour.

    • @jamesbradshaw3389
      @jamesbradshaw3389 3 года назад +7

      @@cattlewranglerwalsh116, Those feckers those lazy councils and Pfizer plant in Cork, they should be stoped, excuse my bad language

    • @tomellis4324
      @tomellis4324 3 года назад +9

      @@jamesbradshaw3389 WYB James I saw a question on a game show today (as it was pouring rain ) that said 71% of all emissions worldwide come from 100 large companies and they mostly blame farmers for it.

    • @edmundhamill2916
      @edmundhamill2916 3 года назад +1

      @@jamesbradshaw3389 yeh ...but if Paddy the mucker poisons all the rivers all over the country its "grand" ..

    • @emcc8598
      @emcc8598 3 года назад +2

      @@edmundhamill2916 Ah but if Tony the Jackeen and friends have all their untreated sewage pumped into the local river or local bay that's all right then ...

  • @aodhaganb2976
    @aodhaganb2976 3 года назад +2

    Wow were did you get that forage it’s Verry intrestion

  • @jamesbradshaw3389
    @jamesbradshaw3389 3 года назад +11

    Eddie and his brother Danny Mulligan, hard-working farmers, changing the farm from cows to pigs, If you told Eddie & Danny how farming would look like in the year 2021 they would not believe you.

    • @denisreidy8106
      @denisreidy8106 3 года назад +2

      They were hardworking James, farming advanced to its max in 2021, the sulpher and carbon laws will put intensive farming in Ireland to a finish, worse than any quotas, we advanced under europe but now they are going to put us on a short leash, fail to comply and your cheque in the post willl suffer.

    • @jamesbradshaw3389
      @jamesbradshaw3389 3 года назад +5

      ​@@denisreidy8106 Thank you for your reply, I agree with what you say yet I do not live in Ireland, I know that it is totally crazy that people are not allowed to cut their own turf in places yet turf is been imported into Ireland from lands across just across the sea but still on planet earth, it has been said many times that the Law Is an Ass and that has been proven to many times. Without the hardworking farms the people would starve including those who have strong opinions against farming

    • @burnsnight1
      @burnsnight1 3 года назад +2

      @@denisreidy8106 They punish the Irish farmer and tried to bring in cheap beef from south America. Luckily it got vetoed.

    • @jamesbradshaw3389
      @jamesbradshaw3389 3 года назад +2

      @@burnsnight1 Most people who are not farmers do not know or understand the hard works those people do. it is a 7 day week x 52 weeks per year job and no weekends of especially of the farmer looks after livestock, they do a almost brilliant job and most of them are the salt of the earth, this comes from someone who never owned a farm

  • @radharcanna
    @radharcanna 3 года назад +11

    Those poor pigs.
    A slurry pit with drainage down the hill. No EPA in those days!

    • @grendel_nz
      @grendel_nz 2 года назад +1

      And ~50 years of runoff now entering the waterways , promoting algal growth killing the river systems. Sea lettuce at the beach :(
      Shame they didn't make good compost. Makes you appreciate a hose or waterblaster!

  • @hugostiglitz6914
    @hugostiglitz6914 2 года назад +1

    This is the type of Agriculture that gives the rest of nature a fighting chance. Unlikely they would survive now adays without some kind of second income!

    • @oscarosullivan4513
      @oscarosullivan4513 2 года назад

      The Aran islands agriculture practices were deemed inefficient in the 1970’s by the EEC.

    • @toyotaprius79
      @toyotaprius79 Год назад

      ​@@oscarosullivan4513the ECC ruled by IFA like minded businesses made absolutely destitution of the health of land, nature and farmers across Europe

  • @Johndonvan861
    @Johndonvan861 10 месяцев назад +1

    Exceptional farm for 1967, away ahead off its time , it doesnt truly represent 1960s Ireland

    • @TheGkev
      @TheGkev 26 дней назад

      ..it does represent 60s farming. Gearing up for eec membership, also Lemass and whitaker developing ireland was a total projext from city to countryside..

  • @jimmymcjimmyvich9052
    @jimmymcjimmyvich9052 3 года назад +7

    Mooooo

    • @AImeriia
      @AImeriia 3 года назад +1

      🐮

    • @johnquinn4098
      @johnquinn4098 3 года назад

      Not even kinda funny

    • @znome8500
      @znome8500 3 года назад +5

      @@johnquinn4098 shut up

    • @saoirse1184
      @saoirse1184 3 года назад +5

      @@johnquinn4098tis a bit, got a good chuckle out of it

  • @samuelpepys2108
    @samuelpepys2108 3 года назад +9

    There is a lot wrong here, especially in the pig house !

  • @owenmartin3307
    @owenmartin3307 3 года назад +6

    Slatted shed has done away with the dreaded slurry pit. Manys a child died in them.

    • @denisreidy8106
      @denisreidy8106 3 года назад +1

      To a point, many modern units have open tanks walled on 4 sides with chain link wire around them resembling lagoons, good capacity easy to agitate but the rain water is their downfall

  • @HaiderAli-j9v4m
    @HaiderAli-j9v4m 2 месяца назад

    Hello sir how are you my name Haider my age 22 year agriculture experience cow farm experience lam interested

  • @joenavanodo3780
    @joenavanodo3780 3 года назад +11

    “No ill effect” he narrated, on the pig in a space so small she can’t turn around , and now the boy can build himself a big, grand house.

    • @rahawa774
      @rahawa774 3 года назад +11

      Yes, because it's a FARROWING pen - not a permanent home.

    • @sydneywood4511
      @sydneywood4511 3 года назад

      Do you want to lay in it for a fee months?

    • @sydneywood4511
      @sydneywood4511 3 года назад

      *few

    • @johnflynn1639
      @johnflynn1639 3 года назад +4

      120yrs before this lrish people were dying in the ditches of starvation

  • @henrymellard5647
    @henrymellard5647 3 года назад +9

    Pig prison amoral

    • @cattlewranglerwalsh116
      @cattlewranglerwalsh116 3 года назад +2

      Maybe check out spike Island prison in the late 1800's many prisoners would think they were in heaven if they were in a pig pen like that as opposed to be chained up in a dark cell 24 hours a day with barely enough clothes and rats crawling at their feet, that was only 80 years before this clip was made.

    • @henrymellard5647
      @henrymellard5647 3 года назад +1

      @@cattlewranglerwalsh116 pain is pain their suffering changes nothing about the pigs

    • @cattlewranglerwalsh116
      @cattlewranglerwalsh116 3 года назад +3

      @@henrymellard5647 Except they weren't suffering

    • @henrymellard5647
      @henrymellard5647 3 года назад +1

      @@cattlewranglerwalsh116 the prisoners or the pigs . You are lying if you say that those pigs were not suffering from spending all their time on earth on a concrete floor between iron bars. How detached can you be. What a pig has evolved to experience is not that. That's hell . Yes man has caused worse suffering to more noble animals but that is not an excuse. You may say that they don't suffer from cold and cramp and all the things which they do but you lie to me and I don't believe you. Are you stupid enough to believe yourself?

    • @newspaperface
      @newspaperface 2 года назад

      Eat the prisoners of the pig prison!