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Dairy Chitchat 3

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    #6032
    GrasstoMilk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,913 ✭✭✭GrasstoMilk


    straight wrote: »
    5.40. Gave it to the in calf heifers yesterday.

    Was that off a vet? I got it for the same price as you last year


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    #6033
    straight
    Registered Users Posts: 4,688 ✭✭✭straight


    GrasstoMilk wrote: »
    Was that off a vet? I got it for the same price as you last year

    Just off my own vet. They said prices went up but they didn't put them up. I'd say I got it about a month ago.


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    #6034
    Dakota Dan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,764 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    straight wrote: »
    Fine weather coming but it doesn't feel like it today. My cows are gone away back in milk compared to this time last year. Milking around 20 litres, down to 1.6 kgms. They were way up all year so maybe they are just correcting

    There’s nothing wrong with 20 liters in September, your protein will jump.


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    #6035
    GrasstoMilk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,913 ✭✭✭GrasstoMilk


    straight wrote: »
    Just off my own vet. They said prices went up but they didn't put them up. I'd say I got it about a month ago.

    After getting it there for a little bit more than your price there. Couriered to the door by 1pm tomorrow


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    #6036
    awaywithyou
    Registered Users Posts: 1,965 ✭✭✭awaywithyou


    GrasstoMilk wrote: »
    Anyone have a price on salmonella vaccine?
    6.50€ a cow up to 9€ a cow is what prices I've gotten so far


    6.50/animal... did cows and heifers last sat wk while cattle were being checked for tb


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    #6037
    orm0nd
    Registered Users Posts: 4,189 ✭✭✭orm0nd


    GrasstoMilk wrote: »
    Anyone have a price on salmonella vaccine?
    6.50€ a cow up to 9€ a cow is what prices I've gotten so far

    €6 / cow from vet on a/c

    I got a family memeber to collect it as I was busy , would probarbly have done better for payment on day,

    might still wiggle a bit of discount when payin.


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    #6038
    mahoney_j
    Registered Users Posts: 11,152 ✭✭✭✭mahoney_j


    straight wrote: »
    Fine weather coming but it doesn't feel like it today. My cows are gone away back in milk compared to this time last year. Milking around 20 litres, down to 1.6 kgms. They were way up all year so maybe they are just correcting
    More drier feed in the form of ration or silage


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    #6039
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    https://twitter.com/teagasc/status/1171072072711331841?s=19
    The link to last weeks winter milk conference is in that tweet for those interested.


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    #6040
    Coolfresian
    Registered Users Posts: 306 ✭✭Coolfresian


    First of the autumn herd cows calved today, always good to start by getting a fresian heifer. love calving cows this time of the year in good weather.


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    #6041
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,360 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Coolfresian wrote: »
    First of the autumn herd cows calved today, always good to start by getting a fresian heifer. love calving cows this time of the year in good weather.

    3 calves here today. All heifers. Young lads Hereford heifer had an angus heifer calf too


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    #6042
    Gawddawggonnit
    Registered Users Posts: 3,284 ✭✭✭Gawddawggonnit


    Harvesting forage maize now. Excellent quality but back about 4tDM/ha. Getting lots of calls as farmers realize that volume is well back...excellent timing whilst maize price plummeting. It’s an ill wind and all that...


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    #6043
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    And also the booklet from the young farmer grassland winner open day.
    https://twitter.com/teagasc/status/1171476065979469824?s=19


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    #6044
    mf240
    Registered Users Posts: 4,855 ✭✭✭mf240


    Hope the creamerys are looking at the beef protests and learning that you can only ride lads for a certain length before they bite back


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    #6045
    straight
    Registered Users Posts: 4,688 ✭✭✭straight


    mf240 wrote: »
    Hope the creamerys are looking at the beef protests and learning that you can only ride lads for a certain length before they bite back

    Maybe it's time for a dairy plan.


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    #6046
    Mooooo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Gawddawggonnit wrote: »
    Harvesting forage maize now. Excellent quality but back about 4tDM/ha. Getting lots of calls as farmers realize that volume is well back...excellent timing whilst maize price plummeting. It’s an ill wind and all that...

    Do you plant and see what way the market is and pit or sell or do you plant to order?


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    #6047
    Gawddawggonnit
    Registered Users Posts: 3,284 ✭✭✭Gawddawggonnit


    Mooooo wrote: »
    Do you plant and see what way the market is and pit or sell or do you plant to order?

    We plant forage maize to order. One day a year orders are taken and direct debits set up. The rest is for grain maize but most of the grain maize can be used for forage also, so when grain maize is looking at €130/t and forage maize is €1250+/ha it’s probably prudent to sell it. I haven’t over sold (forward) grain maize because I’m hoping for early frosts in the US to drive price...
    Situation like now you’ve only a few days to make your mind up because transport kills forage maize and further than 6-8km of a haul quickly kills it.


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    #6048
    Keepgrowing
    Registered Users Posts: 2,485 ✭✭✭Keepgrowing


    straight wrote: »
    Maybe it's time for a dairy plan.

    Oh sweet Jesus, wash out your mouth.


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    #6049
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,360 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Keepgrowing wrote: »
    Oh sweet Jesus, wash out your mouth.

    I'm sure the beef lads would be the first to help out...


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    #6050
    alps
    Registered Users Posts: 4,976 ✭✭✭alps


    Gawddawggonnit wrote: »
    forage maize is €1250+/ha .

    Standing crop of forage Maize for 1250€/ ha?????

    And we rabbit on about our competitive advantage?


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    #6051
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users Posts: 6,939 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    Fair aching today, put down a bit of concrete yesterday for gates a scraper bed, a few holes in the yard(had too much leftover). Satisfying when your finished tho


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    #6052
    straight
    Registered Users Posts: 4,688 ✭✭✭straight


    Keepgrowing wrote: »
    Oh sweet Jesus, wash out your mouth.

    Well all other farming systems have been destroyed and they seem to be going the same way with dairy. Gone from 60,000 dairy farmers to 17,000 and all we read about are the new entrants and those expanding. Primary producers are getting screwed all over the world.


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    #6053
    freedominacup
    Registered Users Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    straight wrote: »
    Well all other farming systems have been destroyed and they seem to be going the same way with dairy. Gone from 60,000 dairy farmers to 17,000 and all we read about are the new entrants and those expanding. Primary producers are getting screwed all over the world.

    And the only thing that will keep the 17,000 going without a big lift in output is a milk price north of 40c/l and climbing.


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    #6054
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,360 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    I am in the johnes scheme. Part of it is you dung sample any positive or inconclusive ones that show up on the bloods. I got 11 dung sampled 3 weeks ago. I got an email of the top 5 results. Apparently under the scheme once they get 5 positives they dont bother with the rest. Had ahi on to me this morning about my vramp and I asked about getting the results from the other 6 that were sampled. I would like to know if they were positive or not. Seems a bit silly that you dont get all the results


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    #6055
    Gawddawggonnit
    Registered Users Posts: 3,284 ✭✭✭Gawddawggonnit


    alps wrote: »
    Standing crop of forage Maize for 1250€/ ha?????

    And we rabbit on about our competitive advantage?

    Unfortunately that price is in the pit...

    21 pits to do ranging from 4ha to 38ha.

    Price is normally €1k in the pit for 22tDM/ha. Thing with maize is it’s easy and cheap to grow...and the yanks can produce it cheaper than us with gmo.


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    #6056
    Timmaay
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    #6057
    GrasstoMilk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,913 ✭✭✭GrasstoMilk


    Gawddawggonnit wrote: »
    Unfortunately that price is in the pit...

    21 pits to do ranging from 4ha to 38ha.

    Price is normally €1k in the pit for 22tDM/ha. Thing with maize is it’s easy and cheap to grow...and the yanks can produce it cheaper than us with gmo.

    How many ha does it take to fill a 38ha pit?


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    #6058
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    whelan2 wrote: »
    I am in the johnes scheme. Part of it is you dung sample any positive or inconclusive ones that show up on the bloods. I got 11 dung sampled 3 weeks ago. I got an email of the top 5 results. Apparently under the scheme once they get 5 positives they dont bother with the rest. Had ahi on to me this morning about my vramp and I asked about getting the results from the other 6 that were sampled. I would like to know if they were positive or not. Seems a bit silly that you dont get all the results

    Just finished scanning here and I will have a few spares incalf to replace any Johnes/Neospora culls that show up.

    Better result than last year anyway thankfully. I was expecting a disasterous scan, tbh, we had a load of cows come bulling these last few weeks so wasn't expecting any of them to show up incalf. We must have counted 15 cows and heifers more than 10 weeks incalf showing signs of coming bulling in the last few weeks, supposed to be fairly common by the man doing the scanning. A few late calvers in calf and a few early calvers showing nothing at all:(

    I can relax a bit now and start ordering the first round of rotovac.:)


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    #6059
    alps
    Registered Users Posts: 4,976 ✭✭✭alps


    Scanned yesterday. 5 MT plus 4 for May....but disgusted ..

    10 in calf to twins...

    Of 120...


    How the phuq is that?


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    #6060
    mahoney_j
    Registered Users Posts: 11,152 ✭✭✭✭mahoney_j


    alps wrote: »
    Scanned yesterday. 5 MT plus 4 for May....but disgusted ..

    10 in calf to twins...

    Of 120...


    How the phuq is that?
    That’s not bad neighbour had 14 sets out of 98 cows calved this spring


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    #6061
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,360 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    alps wrote: »
    Scanned yesterday. 5 MT plus 4 for May....but disgusted ..

    10 in calf to twins...

    Of 120...


    How the phuq is that?
    Sure at least you know.


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