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Where's the new tillage moderator, not a wet day in the job and the whole place is a shambles 
nashmach
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Where's the new tillage moderator, not a wet day in the job and the whole place is a shambles
You can't get the staff these days :scratchhead:
I probably bet him to it that's all. No one us superhuman!
Ozzy Scott
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Will you go out and get a saucer of milk for the lads aswell
nashmach
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Blackwater boy
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I'm unable to use this new technology, I'm being sent on a training course on how to move posts next week, it's actually In Las Vegas which is a nice change from the local Parrish hall. The perks eh....Where's the new tillage moderator, not a wet day in the job and the whole place is a shambles
kverneland es 80
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Remember being on that tractor in my youth. His son liam is with aib in the south east afaik .would live to see the full article
kverneland es 80
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Not sure they were based near gowran anyway. They had a big kv plough that needed a garda escort .my dad knew Tommy through match ploughing
laoisfarmer
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I think Liam walked crops for us years ago before went back to collage and then onto the bank , was a good agronomist, might have been with Quinns at the time
kverneland es 80
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He worked down here too after qualifying in college worked in barryroe for a yr
diesel power
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Are the family still farming on a large scale?. Thats some amount of ground even by todays standards.
Blackwater boy
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Have you got the full article? The author of the piece shares the same name as a merchant in south KK, might be the same Man.
6600
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Brother I think, have the article somewhere will fish it out.
thats it alright , there was a story back then that he forgot to harvest some land he had sowed one year
he,s like most smart young lads from farming backgrounds in that he realised there,s more money in talking and selling to farmers than being one
Blackwater boy
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Those type stories seem to be everywhere. There was a big operator back in the 70’s in east cork too and the same story was said about him also.thats it alright , there was a story back then that he forgot to harvest some land he had sowed one year
gone
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He forgot to harvest the farm sown with W.W. next to land I farm in KK back in '85/86.thats it alright , there was a story back then that he forgot to harvest some land he had sowed one year
Anyone who had W.W. in '85/86 will understand how it could happen.
jd-baz
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@kverneland es 80 may know more but i think two nephews of his are still at it,i sold them a machine a few months back and only realised lately that they were related to that man,as i heard that tractor has since returned to Kilkenny,and when i enquired who owned it originally i was told he was an uncle of the two lads that were here.
Iggy
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'85/'86 put an end to a couple of tillage farmers around here. No basic payments, small slow combines, lots of bank and merchant credit and two wet harvests (hurricane Charley)
Jimmy Brett used be on television and I think went home to the family business. Phelan got into financial difficulties and was supposed to have said he wanted to be the biggest farmer in Ireland but said he ended up being the farmer with the biggest debt. Liam Quinn backed him and I think it all turned out all right in the end. I know a Quinn rep that started out delivering chemicals down to him . All very tidy farms down around Kilkenny and a lot of OLD money. Are some of the Phelan,s the last men standing after the Greenfield Debacle. They were around before Glanbia and they will be around when Ballyragget is a rusted rookery.
