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New Zealand way of farming

  • 05-09-2012 9:25pm
    #1
    st1979
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 936 ✭✭✭


    just back from the dairy event in Birmingham which was good show but poorly attended. Met a nz couple who set up herd homes company. They own 4 dairy farms on north island. was very interested talking to him. he came over to the UK a number of years ago for a visit with the nz consultants that were trying to encourage grazing in the UK. basically he learnt more from the UK guys than the other way around reckoned that the farmers over this side of the world looked after our grazing padlock better by not poaching like they were. And all those more extreme nz practises we hear of like all year round grazing no sheds etc are being banned due to pollution and the government gettin serious with an industry that in his words grew too fast too quick. This guy has now put up sheds similar Polly tunnels over slatted tanks.
    I met jack Kennedy in the bar after and mentioned this and he agreed that this is happening over there but more due to them having more cash now. Makes you wonder what sort of advice we were given a few years ago.
    And the other thing is i keep hearing about how the UK dairy farmer work all the hours god sends and makes no money with there huge costs. Well i rarely hear Irish dairy farmers worrying about having to buy a New telehandler before the end of the tax year. I don't know which is system is right but i reckon maybe somewhere in the middle of low cost low output and high cost high output is an easier place to be


Comments

  • #2
    Tipp Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭Tipp Man


    You can't compare Ireland dairy to UK dairy really

    Their production is nearly entirely for the domestic market, year round production at high cost-low margin with predominantly large herds

    They are not the guys to be looking at IMO


  • #3
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    Take a little on board from everywhere and you are the only one that knows your land, NZ systems are lovely but they are living in an alien climate to Ireland. They do have similar grass growth rates but grazing there is a complete different ball game. Regulation is also miles behind Ireland. For instance my dead animal removal bill costs over 2k a year in NZ you still dig a hole and bury the animal. Thats a serious cost saving in my eyes


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