Posted on 09/06/2023 1:10:21 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The European Commission has decided to restrict the provision of flexibility on nitrates rules affecting more than 3,000 Irish dairy and beef farmers from the first of January.
Many farmers may have to reduce stocking rates as a result.
The farmers have been availing of a nitrates derogation that allowed them higher stocking rates on their farms. But that arrangement was dependent on Ireland delivering on a commitment to improve water quality. The Government has failed to do this.
The commission’s response means that, from next year, the farmers affected will have three ways to meet the new, reduced limits on nitrates. These include reducing animal numbers, increasing the amount of land they have, or finding someone to take slurry from their holdings.
The Department of Agriculture had initially said that 7,000 farmers would be affected by the change, but later revised that downwards to 3,000. […]
In response to calls from the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) for him to intervene, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said that the Government has done all that it can. …
(Excerpt) Read more at rte.ie ...
There won’t be any salvation in the US when their famine hits, as we’ll likely have similar limitations.
The impacts are planned. The famines are planned. Make lists of who is to blame for the time when everyone is starving.
Orchestrating a global famine one regulation at a time. I hope the WEFtards and their families are eaten by the folks they are trying to starve.
Farmers could start co-ops.
Dairy farmers buy grain from farmers who take their slurry for fertilizer.
Win/win
So because somewhere in the Low Country there is a problem with nitrate concentration enabling algae blooms, the Irish have to suffer. Just like phosphates here in the USA.
Starvation sux. Where’s the IRA now?
Not everything is bad.
A 2000 cow dairy operation needs roughly 5000 acres to dispose of their manure pond contents. Those acres are then used to grow corn, soy beans, wheat, oats, alfalfa, or barley. The nitrogen has already been applied. Possibly just potash and lime may be needed depending on the crop.
“So because somewhere in the Low Country there is a problem with nitrate concentration enabling algae blooms, the Irish have to suffer.”
Or they could just leave the EU and do what they want.
Nobody in the political class is for leaving the EU. Not even hard-left Sinn Féin anymore.
After watching this play out over the last year or two, it appears the only salvation they have left, and I suggest it be done as a Preemptive Strike, BURN IT ALL DOWN AND SALT THE EARTH, otherwise they are frogs in warm water that is getting hotter.
Potato Famine, Part II, on the way. And not just for Ireland.
It’s for every government foolish enough to follow the green insanity.
And the really sad thing is that this has been done before. We now have the evidence. In 2021, Sri Lanka tried to go green, and their agriculture just didn’t decline. It collapsed.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/05/sri-lanka-organic-farming-crisis/
Then I guess they prefer the suffering.
The political elite certainly does. Notice prime minister Varadkar turning a deaf ear to the farmers.
**The tankers pull a knife plow behind the rig, knife the soul about a meter deep**
A meter?? In IL I grew up on a farm, farmed until I was 46, continued to live on a farm, until moving to TN, then trucking for a farmer 4 years until cutting back to part time 2 years ago.
I have never applied or seen applied, fertilizer knifed in the ground more than a foot. The deeper, the more it gets leached into the subsoil and lost.
The people get the political elite they are willing to tolerate.
Note to any readers....set your manure knifing rig to 18 inches please! For you EU internet farmers, that's only 1/2 meter deep. (Roughly)
Do you want a famine? Because this is how you get famines.
Black 23.
Not always. Look back at 2020.
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