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 North Tipperary Vintage & Machinery Club When it comes to local generosity and sheer fund raising ability, for both local and national charities, no single organisation can surpass the capability of North Tipperary Vintage and Machinery Club.
The organisation is pictured here presenting a cheque for €2,200, to M S Ireland‘s community worker Ms Carol Mackenize, in Corcoran’s Pub, Two-Mile-Borris, Thurles, Co.Tipperary.
John Dunne, the Club’s Chairman, was loud in his praise of, in particular, the local population who supported their fundraising events through the past year.
Carol Mackenize of M.S. Ireland stated that this funding would now be used to assist community work, currently being carried out in the Nenagh and Thurles area.
Photo courtesy G.Willoughby.
 Golden Vale Hunt Guide Dog Presentation Christmas came early to the national charity “Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind,” here in Thurles, when the organisation were presented with a cheque for €1,000 from members of the Golden Vale Hunt Club.
The money was raised by club members, following an organised charity ride, held recently, cross country from Drish to Moyne.
Presenting this funding, and picture here left are members of the Golden Vale Hunt Club named as follows:-
Front Row, L – R :- Pat Cantwell, Moyne; Eoin Mockler, (Whip) Upperchurch; Billy Shanahan, Thurles, (Irish Guide Dogs) Michael Shanahan, (Whip) Rahealty; and Jim Russell, Two Mile Borris.
Back Row, L – R :- Diarmuid Molumby, Loughtagalla; Tony Cantwell, Moyne; and Donie O’Connell, Holycross.
Presenting the cheque, Golden Vale Hunt Club’s Michael Shanahan expressed sincere gratitude, on behalf of his organisation, to the many members of the local farming community, who supported this charity ride, by granting access through their property.
Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind are a national charity dedicated to helping persons who are blind or vision impaired and families of children with autism, to achieve improved mobility and independence.
Irish Guide Dogs receive over 85% of their income through voluntary donations and fundraising, through a network of volunteers across Ireland. The remaining 15% is provided through statutory bodies and government agencies. It will cost just over €4 million to run their organisation this year.
(Photo courtesy G.Willoughby)
 €30m Milk Super Levy Bill Warning With a €30m Super Levy Bill looming, 5% of suppliers have already filled their quotas.
October milk supplies have crashed by 10% to 15% compared with the same week in 2010 as farmers begin reacting to over quota warnings.
The Irish Farmers Journal reports that some co-ops have seen volumes drop in October, by up to 18% per week, as farmers switch to once-a-day milking and dry off cows, having already filled their available quotas.
Latest figures from the Department of Agriculture show that the country was 2.41% over quota at the end of September.
This is a marginal improvement on the end of August position of 2.82% over and 3.76% over at the end of July. However, the country was 4.08% under quota at the end of September 2010, but still came in just 0.4% under quota at the end of the 2010/2011 milk quota year.
If the country finishes the year at the current level of over-supply, the potential Super Levy fine could exceed €30m.
Co-Op’s at Arrabawn, Centenary Thurles, Dairygold, Drinagh, Lisavaird, Tipperary and Wexford are all reporting October supplies down by between 10% and 15% week on week compared with last year, with Glanbia experiencing a slower decline in supplies, with their volumes down 8%.
 Mr Thomas Cooke Mr Thomas Cooke, a Tipperary Dairy and Beef farmer has been appointed to the board of Teagasc by the Minister for Agriculture, Mr Simon Coveney TD.
Mr Cooke is based in Renaghmore, Grange Barna, Thurles, Co Tipperary, and is also a member of the National Council of ICMSA and a former chairman of the ICMSA’s dairy and rural development committees.
Currently Mr Cooke is Chairman and founding member of the Irish Wind Farmers’ Cooperative Society (Meitheal na Gaoithe). Active in many other community organisations, he is Chairperson of Barrow Nore Suir Rural Development Ltd. Thomas is also the ICMSA spokesman on renewable energy and represents the independent wind energy development sector on the government sponsored “Renewable Energy Development Group,” which is a national body with advisory functions to government on the renewable industry generally.
Thomas also owns the company Biogas Environmental Tipperary East Ltd – B.E.T.E. and he is currently in the process of developing a biogas plant on his farm.
Mr Cooke will replace outgoing Mr Joe Fitzgerald on the board.
 Clonakilty, Agri Student, Miss Nadia Ross The 2011 Teagasc National Pig Conferences took place on Wednesday, 19th October at the Horse & Jockey Hotel, Thurles, County Tipperary.
The conference, locally directed by Thurles born Ciaran Carroll, (Teagasc Moorpark) provided a great opportunity for all pig farmers to meet fellow producers and to get the latest advice and research results from the Teagasc Pig Development Department.
Attendees at the event learned that the pig sector in general had been through a difficult year since last year’s conference, due mainly to high feed prices which impacted on the profitability of Irish pig production. The issue of feed ingredient, both supply and price prospects, was addressed in detail at Wednesday’s conference.
Latest updates emanating from the Teagasc pig research programme at Moorepark were presented by Teagasc staff reporting on their recent research, while also addressing the costs of pig manure treatment, together with an update on the GM Safe Food project, which is researching the use of GM feed in pig diet.
The Conference provided guidance on the key ingredients of good loose dry sow housing systems and provided a presentation on what is the optimum sow culling strategy and the economics of earlier culling. The “Two Tonne Sow,” first coined at the Teagasc 2009 conference was again revisited.
Presentations from representatives of two of Ireland’s main banks, on the financing of pig production, were particularly relevant to attendees at this conference, taking into account the existing and current pig producing climate.
Closing this conference, Teagasc Director, Prof. Gerry Boyle, presented certificates to attendees of the first ever FETAC level 6 Pig Course, which was run at the Teagasc centres of Moorepark, Clonakilty and Ballyhaise.
But it was Clonakilty agricultural student and attractive conference attendee, Miss Nadia Ross (Pic above), who possibly carried the sentiments of us all, clearly printed on her huddie jacket.
Picture courtesy G.Willoughby, Thurles.
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