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Kilkenny dairy farmer Bill O’Keefe is hopeful that the end is in sight for snow clearance on the roads around his farm near Clara.
“The roads are still bad but we’re getting on top of it at this stage,” he said.
“We had some hilly fields beside the road and the snow blew in across them on to the road. You can see grass on the field now after the snow moved,” the Irish Farmers JournalFarmer Writer said.
Bill has three days of milk in the bulk tank but does not have a problem with capacity. He is expecting milk to be collected on Saturday evening or Sunday morning.
“The road should be good enough to get milk out this evening or tomorrow. I will give it another run with the loader myself if it’s not,” he said.
The lorry in the video and photo got stuck on the road near Bill’s yard on its way to collect milk from farmers in south Kilkenny and was pulled out by a neighbour.
Bill is expecting his milk to be collected on Saturday evening or Sunday morning.
The parlour on Bill’s farm did not freeze up with the cold temperatures and the milking routine continued undisrupted.
Cows were at grass full-time on the O’Keefe farm before the snow and have been in outdoor cubicles since Wednesday morning.
“The cows are doing fine. They are clean and there have been no cases of mastitis or anything like that,” Bill said.
Kilkenny dairy farmer Bill O’Keefe is hopeful that the end is in sight for snow clearance on the roads around his farm near Clara.
“The roads are still bad but we’re getting on top of it at this stage,” he said.
“We had some hilly fields beside the road and the snow blew in across them on to the road. You can see grass on the field now after the snow moved,” the Irish Farmers JournalFarmer Writer said.
Bill has three days of milk in the bulk tank but does not have a problem with capacity. He is expecting milk to be collected on Saturday evening or Sunday morning.
“The road should be good enough to get milk out this evening or tomorrow. I will give it another run with the loader myself if it’s not,” he said.
The lorry in the video and photo got stuck on the road near Bill’s yard on its way to collect milk from farmers in south Kilkenny and was pulled out by a neighbour.
Bill is expecting his milk to be collected on Saturday evening or Sunday morning.
The parlour on Bill’s farm did not freeze up with the cold temperatures and the milking routine continued undisrupted.
Cows were at grass full-time on the O’Keefe farm before the snow and have been in outdoor cubicles since Wednesday morning.
“The cows are doing fine. They are clean and there have been no cases of mastitis or anything like that,” Bill said.
Bennettsbridge Limestone’s Cubicle Lime is a unique disinfectant-style product which has been formulated using a blend of superfine limestone powder and hydrated lime.
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