Dairy Chitchat 3

mf240

Sure whatever lads are happy at, more luck to the lads with bigger numbers. It's probably easier when you have scale enough to employ staff. It's getting to that can be hard work.
The other extreme is a lad on social media that's milking about 40 and he goes on oad for Jan and Feb to make life easier. Fcuk me he's hilarious and dead serious.

straight

mf240 wrote: »

Sure whatever lads are happy at, more luck to the lads with bigger numbers. It's probably easier when you have scale enough to employ staff. It's getting to that can be hard work.
The other extreme is a lad on social media that's milking about 40 and he goes on oad for Jan and Feb to make life easier. Fcuk me he's hilarious and dead serious.

Well most of the work is bringing them in and out, washing up, feeding, etc so not much of a difference milking 40 or 80 if u ask me.

Say my name

mf240 wrote: »

The other extreme is a lad on social media that's milking about 40 and he goes on oad for Jan and Feb to make life easier. Fcuk me he's hilarious and dead serious.

There were posters on other social media getting worried about dairy farmers milking all year round twice a day and burning themselves out on the job and literally their health suffering.
Maybe that guy with the 40 oad is saner than any of us?
#stickingupforthelittlefella

The thing that gets me is there's some that'll never have enough. And it's others that get taken down in their crossfire.
We're literally going down the U.S. and Russian way of largescale farming and that seed was sown on the dairy side by many having their visits of their future in New Zealand.

There's more on social media lately too who saw milking 25 cows in Iceland as regressive and large scale in Ireland as progressive..
I'd be having my own ideas of which system is better but I'd have an idea I'm in the minority.

mf240

Say my name wrote: »

There were posters on other social media getting worried about dairy farmers milking all year round twice a day and burning themselves out on the job and literally their health suffering.
Maybe that guy with the 40 oad is saner than any of us?
#stickingupforthelittlefella

The thing that gets me is there's some that'll never have enough. And it's others that get taken down in their crossfire.
We're literally going down the U.S. and Russian way of largescale farming and that seed was sown on the dairy side by many having their visits of their future in New Zealand.

There's more on social media lately too who saw milking 25 cows in Iceland as regressive and large scale in Ireland as progressive..
I'd be having my own ideas of which system is better but I'd have an idea I'm in the minority.

Not a big farmer here either.

Say my name

mf240 wrote: »

Not a big farmer here either.

Thank you Comrade!

whelan2

Define a big farmer?

giveitholly

whelan2 wrote: »

Define a big farmer?

Someone bigger than 15 stone!!

mf240

whelan2 wrote: »

Define a big farmer?

Over 6ft or 18 stone.

kevthegaff

mf240 wrote: »

Over 6ft or 18 stone.

Lots of them around here meeting the second criteria

Timmaay

Say my name wrote: »

There were posters on other social media getting worried about dairy farmers milking all year round twice a day and burning themselves out on the job and literally their health suffering.
Maybe that guy with the 40 oad is saner than any of us?

OAD would suit me well but I'm too lazy a bollox as is.

Mortelaro

mf240 wrote: »

Over 6ft or 18 stone.

6'3 and 13.5 stone
So I'm big farmer AND fit
Yay \○/

Keepgrowing

wrangler wrote: »

Well,........ have you reached your first thousand cows.
.Btw, well done on saturday morning,didn't expect anything different.
Nearly made me proud to be a farmer ........ and y'know the job that'd be

Thanks boss

Reggie.

Mortelaro wrote: »

6'3 and 13.5 stone
So I'm big farmer AND fit
Yay \○/

Must be nothing to see once ya turn sideways

Buford T. Justice XIX

N/cow to rise to 90kgs from 85kgs from 2021.
https://twitter.com/Deefoley17/status/1230093745904812033?s=19

wrangler

Mortelaro wrote: »

6'3 and 13.5 stone
So I'm big farmer AND fit
Yay \○/

I do tell my fit over 60s friends that when they're looking out the nursing home window i'll be already ten years dead with a heart attack

Say my name

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

N/cow to rise to 90kgs from 85kgs from 2021.
https://twitter.com/Deefoley17/status/1230093745904812033?s=19

You'd wonder why they didn't just increase it to 200 when by doing so they just confirmed figures can be changed to suit agendas?

K.G.

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

N/cow to rise to 90kgs from 85kgs from 2021.
https://twitter.com/Deefoley17/status/1230093745904812033?s=19

Must say btj your a great srouce of news even its not good news

straight

Mortelaro wrote: »

6'3 and 13.5 stone
So I'm big farmer AND fit
Yay \○/

Under fed and over worked maybe.

straight

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

N/cow to rise to 90kgs from 85kgs from 2021.
https://twitter.com/Deefoley17/status/1230093745904812033?s=19

The end of high stocking rates is getting closer every day. Just think of all the surplus slurry storage we'll all have.

Buford T. Justice XIX

straight wrote: »

The end of high stocking rates is getting closer every day. Just think of all the surplus slurry storage we'll all have.

I don't think so. I'd say the quantity of storage needed will be increased fairly soon, something along the lines of 1 week earlier stopping spreading and 1 week later starting and more storage needed per livestock unit.

Until the N&P results from rivers stabilise and start reducing, we're prime targets for blame and solutions to the issue.

Now, if the councils upgraded their facilities that are overloaded atm and allow no new buildings until adequate treatment facilities are provided, just like we have to do, the problem wouldn't be long in reducing, I think. At least, around us anyway.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Say my name wrote: »

You'd wonder why they didn't just increase it to 200 when by doing so they just confirmed figures can be changed to suit agendas?

They're clamping down on derogations while seeming to support them.

And, like you say there, it probably won't stay at 90kgs for too long once the precedent is established.

Buford T. Justice XIX

K.G. wrote: »

Must say btj your a great srouce of news even its not good news

We'd get a fair bit of info early at county exec meetings about what way the discussions are going and what's coming down the tracks as regards new directions officials are looking to head down. And Twitter has a few very good accounts to follow as well.

Next up, getting prescriptions for dosing and vaccinations will be needed from next year so that will clamp down on online purchases.

And provide more boxes for someone to tick to justify their existence:(

I wouldn't hold my breath for good news in the short term, I'm afraid.

Mooooo

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

They're clamping down on derogations while seeming to support them.

And, like you say there, it probably won't stay at 90kgs for too long once the precedent is established.

The output of N per cow is supposed to correlate to milk output so is that the reason for the 5kg increase to shown the new average yield.? Thats why the higher yielding countries have higher n per cow

Panch18

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

We'd get a fair bit of info early at county exec meetings about what way the discussions are going and what's coming down the tracks as regards new directions officials are looking to head down. And Twitter has a few very good accounts to follow as well.

Next up, getting prescriptions for dosing and vaccinations will be needed from next year so that will clamp down on online purchases.

And provide more boxes for someone to tick to justify their existence:(

I wouldn't hold my breath for good news in the short term, I'm afraid.

Crap milk price
Crap beef price
Crap calf price
Crap grain price
Cuts to BPS but no cuts to BS rules
Cuts to stocking rates
increased slurry storage requirements
reduced slurry spreading dates

Is there even a glimmer of hope on the horizon for anybody in farming

Snowfire

Panch18 wrote: »

Crap milk price
Crap beef price
Crap calf price
Crap grain price
Cuts to BPS but no cuts to BS rules
Cuts to stocking rates
increased slurry storage requirements
reduced slurry spreading dates

Is there even a glimmer of hope on the horizon for anybody in farming

At least the weather is good....!

Reggie.

Snowfire wrote: »

At least the weather is good....!

Is it?

straight

Panch18 wrote: »

Crap milk price
Crap beef price
Crap calf price
Crap grain price
Cuts to BPS but no cuts to BS rules
Cuts to stocking rates
increased slurry storage requirements
reduced slurry spreading dates

Is there even a glimmer of hope on the horizon for anybody in farming

Doesn't look like it. Any of ye see prime time last night. Farming is getting shut down.

whelan2

Reggie. wrote: »

Is it?

In Australia

Reggie.

straight wrote: »

Doesn't look like it. Any of ye see prime time last night. Farming is getting shut down.

Was it the programme about the calves?

Tonynewholland

Reggie. wrote: »

Was it the programme about the calves?

I didn’t see it all but saw the part of growing beef in a lab I don’t think it was about calves