Milking cows

PLW17

Rate for milking 250 cows in 14 unit parlour, working alone.Usually 8 hours work a day just milking. Mainly weekend work.
Thanks

whelan2

My first reaction was no amount of money could pay you for that. 8 hours.... You'd need at least 150 euroat the very minimum

farisfat

I'd be thinking 200 Euro if only weekend work.

Dakota Dan

18 rows :eek:

whelan2

Dakota Dan wrote: »

18 rows :eek:

Ten rows makes me cry....

trixi2011

Wouldn't think anyone in there right mind would be paying 200 a day for relief milking . Would of thought if you were getting 15 euro an hour you would be doing quite well.

Markcheese

trixi2011 wrote: »

Wouldn't think anyone in there right mind would be paying 200 a day for relief milking . Would of thought if you were getting 15 euro an hour you would be doing quite well.

15 an hour would be doing well, but I doubt you'd get any one half decent to keep doing it for long.

farisfat

trixi2011 wrote: »

Wouldn't think anyone in there right mind would be paying 200 a day for relief milking . Would of thought if you were getting 15 euro an hour you would be doing quite well.

I don't think anyone in there right mind would spent 8 hours in a parlour on Sunday for 15 Euro a hour.

PLW17

Currently get €12 and then pay tax out of that

Mooooo

Are you doing it regularly, on your own? Much experience? Ask for more if you're not happy. 15 as said above prob ball park.

PLW17

Mooooo wrote: »

Are you doing it regularly, on your own? Much experience? Ask for more if you're not happy. 15 as said above prob ball park.

Most weekends and it’s always on my own. Yes I have a lot of experience

whelan2

Was talking to someone today. He knows a lad who milks 300 cows for a farmer. He gets 50c per cow per milking. He's a good lad and the farmer reckons it's money well spent.

Panch18

whelan2 wrote: »

Was talking to someone today. He knows a lad who milks 300 cows for a farmer. He gets 50c per cow per milking. He's a good lad and the farmer reckons it's money well spent.

That’s 150 a milking or 300 a day

Better than owning any cows

whelan2

Panch18 wrote: »

That’s 150 a milking or 300 a day

Better than owning any cows

Both winners at the end of the day imo

Panch18

whelan2 wrote: »

Panch18 wrote: »

That’s 150 a milking or 300 a day

Better than owning any cows

Both winners at the end of the day imo

Really??

Milker is doing unbelievably well out of that, hard to know if the farmer is

kevthegaff

It's all relative, a lad could have a rotary with 300 cows and finished in an hour or 100 cows through a 6 unit taking two hours, I believe per hour is a better indicator. Farmer A has invested big time in ifrastructure so that should be a saving

the_blue_oval

Panch18 wrote: »

Really??

Milker is doing unbelievably well out of that, hard to know if the farmer is

He’d want to be doing a hell of a lot more than just the milkings at that sort of money.

Say doing 450 milkings a year, which is 10 or 11 milkings a week, he’s earning €67,500 a year just to milk the cows and do nothing else...

visatorro

kevthegaff wrote:

It's all relative, a lad could have a rotary with 300 cows and finished in an hour or 100 cows through a 6 unit taking two hours, I believe per hour is a better indicator. Farmer A has invested big time in ifrastructure so that should be a saving

Yeah but there's no incentive for relief milker to come in for per hour rates either.

There's also bringing in cows etc. Grey area. I don't think 50cent a cow is unrealistic. If it takes two hours to milk 100 you'll be doing well to get anyone regardless of price!

farisfat

My thoughts on relief milking are 50 Euro for a 2 hour milking.

whelan2

I'd never heard of anyone being paid like that, he also does the ai. Dont know anything else. I'm assuming 300 cows is only for a few months.

popa smurf

Haven't milked a cow in 20 years used to milk for a lad back than for 30 pound a milking 150 in a 12 unit feed calves and do all the bits i didn't mind the milking at all. Went on the building sites that was the end of the milking but looking at these prices might get back into it, has much changed in 20 years would it be hard to get back into it,

Timmaay

popa smurf wrote: »

Haven't milked a cow in 20 years used to milk for a lad back than for 30 pound a milking 150 in a 12 unit feed calves and do all the bits i didn't mind the milking at all. Went on the building sites that was the end of the milking but looking at these prices might get back into it, has much changed in 20 years would it be hard to get back into it,

If anything milking has got a lot easier, Tams grants have given many farmers nice modern parlours with plenty bells and whistles to make life alot easier, alongside things like auto drafters etc. That price of 50c/cow sounds very generous I'll admit, here with me it's basically 30c/cow, however very straightforward milking, with just over 8rows so working out roughly 17e/hr.

Never wrestle with pigs

Panch18 wrote: »

Really??

Milker is doing unbelievably well out of that, hard to know if the farmer is

Hard to get good millers for big herds like that. More money and an easier job to milk in two or 3 smaller 60/100 cow herds than the bigger ones. He's obviously happy with the deal or he'd be milking his own cows.

Wildsurfer

whelan2 wrote: »

Was talking to someone today. He knows a lad who milks 300 cows for a farmer. He gets 50c per cow per milking. He's a good lad and the farmer reckons it's money well spent.

I would presume that's just the very odd milking though when both the farmer himself and his full time employee are off?

whelan2

Wildsurfer wrote: »

I would presume that's just the very odd milking though when both the farmer himself and his full time employee are off?

I dont know but it's an eye opener

_Brian

whelan2 wrote: »

My first reaction was no amount of money could pay you for that. 8 hours.... You'd need at least 150 euroat the very minimum

Ive seem people work much more mundane and tougher jobs 8/hr days for years on end. It’s about attitude really.
Most farmers aren’t wired to do that sort of routine but if you look at it on face it’s just and industrial job, no different that milking jobs in NZ or Oz

Semi skilled work, €15-20 am hr depending on equipment and operator experience.

PLW17

Ok thanks for all input. After this Feel I’m definitely being hard done by with €12 an hour on my own in a very poor set up. It’s an awkward spot to milk in aswell, as it is built on a town and there is around 20 people an hour from the town walking the lanes through. They open wires etc and lots don’t close then right and have had close calls with wires left open and cows breaking away