Farmland and environmental protection

[TAFKAT]

Plenty of foxgloves here too, @scoffcruddle lucky the windscreen wiper was on the other side or I would have missed them

 

[gone]

Had to google it, but yes, that's it - Wood Sorrel with the heart shaped leaves rather than the round leaves that clover has.


Again, I got this pic from google. If I remember correctly, it will be there all summer, but early summer ones tend to be sour whereas when they get into August, they are much tastier. The flavour was in the stem of them rather than in the leaves.
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I had never heard it called "Cuckoo Charlie", but was just an educated guess from your description.
I love it early in the spring when it is very sour, very refreshing.

 

[Bog Man]

Beech trees I planted under bigger trees. They will be bonsai until the other trees are cut and will lep out of it then .

 

[Bog Man]

Beech trees planted in the wildflower patch.

 

[Blackwater boy]

A Hedgehog at the headland of where the cows were grazing today.
Edit I’ve never actually seen one on the farm before

 

[Déise]

Cabbage White butterfly laying eggs on nasturtium leaf.

 

[Arthur]

Had a visitor in the cab..

 

[jf 850]

I dunno how well this will come out , or can ye see it . Letting back out the cows , I saw this lad peeping out , then he crossed . Very common here.

 

[josh]

I dunno how well this will come out , or can ye see it . Letting back out the cows , I saw this lad peeping out , then he crossed . Very common here.

Pine martin?

 

[jf 850]

Pine martin?

Fairly sure that's what it is . Ruthless buggers
Killed hens here a few years ago.

Some may remember last year , I was lucky enough to get a picture of a pair of them , along a bank , on a piece of land we own a mile away .

 

[Rusty Spade]

I dunno how well this will come out , or can ye see it . Letting back out the cows , I saw this lad peeping out , then he crossed . Very common here.
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I've only ever seen them once, in Kilmeedy in Limerick while I was driving along a back road. A mother and 4 youngsters traipsing along the road in front of me, not a bother on them.

 

[Déise]

Michael Mann – Author "The New Climate War"

Correction: In this interview, Michael Mann suggests that livestock farming is responsible for 3% of global GHG emissions. He has corrected this to livestock farming being responsible for 7% of global GHG emissions, with beef responsible for 3%. Agriculture in general is responsible for about...

www.rte.ie

Professor Michael Mann of Penn State University was on Countrywide this morning and had a very interesting points on climate change and agriculture. Please give it a listen to. It’s only 10 minutes long. At the 5 minute stage and on, I feel his most significant point is and it should be used in our defence of agriculture.

 

[Blackwater boy]

 

[Arthur]

 

[Bog Man]

I was verge trimming the buffer strip s and I ended up chasing these guys.

 

[jay gatsby]

I fear the findings of the epa report on water quality today are probably indisputable. Environmental impact studies for expansion or building works to be the norm soon?

 

[TAFKAT]

I fear the findings of the epa report on water quality today are probably indisputable. Environmental impact studies for expansion or building works to be the norm soon?

Is there a link to it online?

 

[jay gatsby]

Is there a link to it online?

Monitoring & Assessment: Freshwater & Marine Publications

This report sets out the latest assessment of the health of Ireland’s rivers, lakes, canals, groundwaters, transitional (estuaries) and coastal waters. The analysis is based on the assessment of over 4,000 surface water bodies and 514 groundwater bodies over the period 2016-2021.

www.epa.ie

 

[Bog Man]

I fear the findings of the epa report on water quality today are probably indisputable. Environmental impact studies for expansion or building works to be the norm soon?

It was no accident that it was featured on all the local radio stations . The launching of the report was stage managed .

 

[Burdizzo]

How do they work out what portions to attribute to agriculture vs urban & domestic waste water?

 

[drew]

How do they work out what portions to attribute to agriculture vs urban & domestic waste water?

And does the urban waste that is land spread and probably ends up causing some problems counted as ag or urban?

 

[headcase]

How do they work out what portions to attribute to agriculture vs urban & domestic waste water?

All depends on how big their agenda is..

 

[Burdizzo]

All depends on how big their agenda is..

Thats what i was thinking!

 

[Burdizzo]

Heard a news report on the radio saying that there 4 main causes to the polution but the only one they mentioned was agriculture. Hhhhmmm, how convenient.

Heard IFAs Tim Cullinan give a very poor defence for agriculture on the radio this morning. I know its not great that water quality is getting poorer but I'd be spreading the blame around and asking about all the sewage flowing into rivers and how they manage to apportion the majority of it to farmers!! How to they know what nitrates are from bovines and what nitrates are from humans?

 

[josh]

Been using this app for a while, a few different species active for the past 5 minutes.