Dairy heifers post 2015

mf240

Will heifers be a good trade or will every one have their own.

I have a couple of neighbours that run a beef bull with all the cows and buy replacements. Will heifers be available to these guys after 2015 or will guys that are selling heifers every year increase their milkers and drop the "heifers for sale"part of their business.

All comments welcome. Even smart ones!

6480

mf240 wrote: »

Will heifers be a good trade or will every one have their own.

I have a couple of neighbours that run a beef bull with all the cows and buy replacements. Will heifers be available to these guys after 2015 or will guys that are selling heifers every year increase their milkers and drop the "heifers for sale"part of their business.

All comments welcome. Even smart ones!

from what i have seen in the last year or so and it was kind of weather related that this spring a world of men used beef bulls on the dairy herds because of the big drop in fr bull calf price , not much demand for milking heifers during the fodder criss and these sales would be what some lads would be banking on every spring and also drop of price of madien heifers in mid may , not blowing my own ship big but i sold a few british cross heifers for bulling in mid may through the mart and i got 720 happy enough , another man had high ebi hol fr heifers out the same day and 450 was all he could get , this sale would be an annual sale he would have in the mart every year and he often got over a 1000 for madien heifers

freedominacup

A swing of a few thousand heifers for sale either way in a normal year has a big bearing on price so I think it's safe to say that heifer price in 15 and 16 will be high less so after that as new entrants start to bring their own heifers through. I would say most dairy farmers are bringing plenty of heifers through for this period, most would have a road map of their expected expansion in numbers over a few years planned out.

keep going

There will definitely be one or rwo years where heifer prices will go abit mad but a couple of years poor milk prices and the outlook for the sexed semen trial means that heifers might only just cover the cost of production most years.wouldn't surprise me if heifers started to go up in value next year despite quota problems

delaval

keep going wrote: »

There will definitely be one or rwo years where heifer prices will go abit mad but a couple of years poor milk prices and the outlook for the sexed semen trial means that heifers might only just cover the cost of production most years.wouldn't surprise me if heifers started to go up in value next year despite quota problems

The reality is that heifers struggle to cover cost of production any year and this has and will remain the case

RobertKK

keep going wrote: »

There will definitely be one or rwo years where heifer prices will go abit mad but a couple of years poor milk prices and the outlook for the sexed semen trial means that heifers might only just cover the cost of production most years.wouldn't surprise me if heifers started to go up in value next year despite quota problems

Yeah, sexed semen is the future.

Will be a lot of male beef animals in the future coming from dairy farms.

TEAT SQUEEZER

RobertKK wrote: »

Yeah, sexed semen is the future.

Will be a lot of male beef animals in the future coming from dairy farms.

time for a suckler cow support payement so....:D

degetme

Anyone in the know of what incalf fr/ho ai bred heifers calving next jan and feb to dairy ai straws worth? Average ebi around 170. Also what tb and blood test requirments for exporters? There currently 20/21 months of age

Thanks for replies

frazzledhome

degetme wrote: »

Anyone in the know of what incalf fr/ho ai bred heifers calving next jan and feb to dairy ai straws worth? Average ebi around 170. Also what tb and blood test requirments for exporters? There currently 20/21 months of age

Thanks for replies

For export €1400. How many do you have for sale?

I can pm you a number

degetme

frazzledhome wrote: »

For export €1400. How many do you have for sale?

I can pm you a number

Just 8 of them. There just surpless heifers. would have being keeping them if we had a high nic rate. Ya number would be great

frazzledhome

degetme wrote: »

Just 8 of them. There just surpless heifers. would have being keeping them if we had a high nic rate. Ya number would be great

Pm sent

milkprofit

mf240 wrote: »

Will heifers be a good trade or will every one have their own.

I have a couple of neighbours that run a beef bull with all the cows and buy replacements. Will heifers be available to these guys after 2015 or will guys that are selling heifers every year increase their milkers and drop the "heifers for sale"part of their business.

All comments welcome. Even smart ones!

normally sell 60 non next yr

degetme

do you reckon there will be a shortage next spring?

mahoney_j

degetme wrote: »

do you reckon there will be a shortage next spring?

If milk prices go as predicted there's more likely to be a shortage of cash,scanning results seem fairly good everywhere so I reckon there will be lots of stock around