The Official TFK Farming Thread

[carryharry]

If World Leaders cared more about schemes like this in Egypt than Wars & Weapons we’d have far less future problems….

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/110728/Egypt’s-irrigation-in-2021-et-highlights-achievements-to-reduce-water

[Tassotti]

please watch this

Sacred Cow

[gaillimhmick]

Does anyone have the current figures for Carbon sequestration in Irish agriculture?

[carryharry]

Apparently not.

It doesn’t seem relevant in the current discussion

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Irish grasslands emit nore carbon than they sequester according to Teagasc

1% of GDP, 37% of emmisons

[carryharry]

CRAG Statement on the 25% Reduction in Agricultural Emissions

[carryharry]

Anywhere or a link to watch this?

[glenshane]

The book is included with audible

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

@carryharry

Teagasc and local authorities do have a lot of questions to answer into how a large amount of dairy & tillage farmers have been allowed to destroy a lot of Hedgerows throughout the country alright.

I see a parcel of Land for example that Coolmore acquired locally here a few years ago.
Grassland of say 150 acres, average but okay ground. Probably 8 decent sized ditched fields.

They roll in with excavators, drain it and in a week or so level every ditch, heap it & burn it.
A week or so later it’s cultivated & arable crops sown.

By all means go and drain it, cultivate it & sow it. But for the 4 acres maybe gained why are they allowed level every hedgerow, ditch & tree?

blaming teagasc for farmers destroying hedgegrows?

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

@maurice_brown

Who voted for the Greens? Who? Fuck all, and power hungry FG along with a desperate FF brought them to the table. Green voters me hole. They think milk comes from a plastic bottle. I’d love to hear their thoughts on the carbon footprint of almond milk.
For every 1 animal culled here there will be 4 bred in Brazil. For every acre of bog closed here there will be thousands of tonnes of timber cut down in Brazil to rear cattle.
That’s Green alright mate.

The intersection between covid oddballs and agri oddballs is remarkable.

Brazil, and the other South American countries, only have permission to sell 99,000 tonnes of beef to EU, at reduced tariffs, under the deal struck. For context, EU domestic production of beef is 8 million tonnes a year. https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2019/july/tradoc_158059.pdf

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

I ask you to withdraw that remark as you are implying that Ryan is a simpleton for allowing farm renewables reductions go to the energy sector

Firstly , farmers will be rewarded financially for doing this

GHGs are counted in the sector they’re emitted & The guidelines for emissions inventories are laid down by IPCC and they set out the categories for reporting.

are you seriously suggesting Ireland should reinvent their own rules to placate the 1% of our GDP that causes 37% of our emmisons?

[Aertel220]

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

Can this be fact checked?

The well kept hedgerows and species rich meadows dotted across the country. Over 40,000 farmers joined the first tranche of GLAS alone.

[carryharry]

They have promoted expansion.

[glenshane]

I take it farmers will be renting bogs and meadows in a bid to increase their paper acreage?

[carryharry]

Who knows…. ( that’s the actual issue )

All I do know is that Teagasc are quick to pay themselves on the back when their advice is correct but quick to state their advice is only “ advice “ when shit hits the fan.

They are going to bankrupt farmers who have invested huge sums of money whilst expanding herds, slurry storage and buildings.

Why are we not talking about diversification of what we have and using waste to our benefit

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Because the emmisons from beef farming are roo high

Farmers should be incentivised to switch to other forms of farming

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Ok, thats an opinion - we are in the middle of a biodiversity emergency mate & agriculture is causing this

85% percent of Ireland’s habitats assessed are now under an “Unfavourable Conservation status" compared to 91% in the period 2007 - 2013, showing an improving trend. 31% of habitats were in decline at this time according to Ireland’s Biodiversity Sectoral Climate Change Adaptation Plan. Today this has increased to 46% of habitats now recorded to be in decline according to The Status of EU Protected Habitats and Species in Ireland 2019 report. Only 2% of habitats are reported as currently improving (DCHG, 2019).

The recently published, 6th National Report to the Convention on Biological Diversity, identifies that such outcomes are the result of land use change alongside increasing levels of production from the agriculture sector

[Tassotti]

all these mono crop fucks advocating for plant burgers and all that shite should be shot dead, soya and corn are killing the planet

Beef
Beef
Beef

Joel Salatin
Joel Salatin
Joel Salatin

[Ambrose_McNulty]

Thank God for our green pixie head morons here, saving the planet.

[TreatyStones]

They increase it by cutting down more rain forest