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Dairy chit chat II

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  • #5402
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    straight wrote: »
    Trying to get it flowing the right directoon is the problem. 😉

    The big trick is to have the pipe coming in at least slightly bigger than the pipe going out.


  • #5403
    5 wheel drive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38 ✭5 wheel drive


    Snowfire wrote: »
    Just wondering, if I buy empty cows in milk, will I be able to get access to those cows info, such as milk recordings etc through herd plus on icbf..?

    I’m wondering the same if anybody knows!!


  • #5404
    yewtree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 811 ✭✭✭yewtree


    5 wheel drive wrote: »
    I’m wondering the same if anybody knows!!

    Yes you will if you are using herdplus.


  • #5405
    Mooooo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,577 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Those of us that use woodchip is it ok to use freshly cut timber? Some of this will be going under calves. Have a grove of trees have destroyed after Ophelia so thinking of cutting it down and chipping it for bedding


  • #5406
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,807 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    yewtree wrote: »
    Yes you will if you are using herdplus.
    Does the previous owner not have to be on herdplus as well?


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  • #5407
    visatorro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,859 ✭✭✭visatorro


    mahoney_j wrote: »
    Fierce hung up on numbers ,don’t matter how many cows your milking as long as the basics are tight and your making profit ,I find it insulting lads writing off anyone milking less than 100,personally I’d hate to be milking a couple of hindered cows and managing staff and dealing with those headachesc

    I agree 100% with you, I'm just stating what is happening around here.


  • #5408
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Mooooo wrote: »
    Those of us that use woodchip is it ok to use freshly cut timber? Some of this will be going under calves. Have a grove of trees have destroyed after Ophelia so thinking of cutting it down and chipping it for bedding

    Surely be easier and cheaper to buy in woodchip and cut the trees as firewood instead?


  • #5409
    alps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,287 ✭✭✭alps


    Mooooo wrote: »
    Those of us that use woodchip is it ok to use freshly cut timber? Some of this will be going under calves. Have a grove of trees have destroyed after Ophelia so thinking of cutting it down and chipping it for bedding

    We've chopped timber from coillte straight onto beds Mooo, and it's perfect. The only difference with your stuff is it would have cones and pine needles etc....not sure if that could be problematic, but I shouldn't think so..

    Nice to have the timber to do it, as it was just too expensive to buy..


  • #5410
    George Sunsnow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭George Sunsnow


    6 out of 10 suppliers on my road have moved from Glanbia to Strathroy in the last 3 years
    The latest being a new entrant
    Two more look like going
    That’s some indictment


  • #5411
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,807 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    George Sunsnow wrote: »
    6 out of 10 suppliers on my road have moved from Glanbia to Strathroy in the last 3 years
    The latest being a new entrant
    Two more look like going
    That’s some indictment

    Will you join them?


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  • #5412
    Mooooo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,577 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Timmaay wrote: »
    Surely be easier and cheaper to buy in woodchip and cut the trees as firewood instead?

    Have a few hardwood trees that went down in the storm here that will supply plenty firewood for brother and sister, use feckall timber here have an oil system in. Trees will have to come down before they are knocked by wind anyway as road and drive way alongside it. All pine tress


  • #5413
    George Sunsnow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭George Sunsnow


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Will you join them?

    We’ll see
    Up to now I’ve said how long more will I be farming in my own right so do I want the change
    It would certainly improve my pocket
    It’s a no brainer for my successor

    Speaking to one of the strathroys yesterday and they’ve been paid consistently more base than me and have the one page statements to prove it


  • #5414
    Coolfresian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 306 ✭✭Coolfresian


    George Sunsnow wrote: »
    6 out of 10 suppliers on my road have moved from Glanbia to Strathroy in the last 3 years
    The latest being a new entrant
    Two more look like going
    That’s some indictment

    Anyone I have spoke to that moved to strathroy are very happy. No regrets. From the outside they seem to do what I as a farmer want, to be paid the best possible price for the milk supplied monthly. Not top ups, add ons, co op bonuses or feed or fertilizer rebates, fixed price schemes etc etc. Just pay a decent price for milk. Simples. Fair play strathroy.


  • #5415
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    Coolfresian wrote: »
    Anyone I have spoke to that moved to strathroy are very happy. No regrets. From the outside they seem to do what I as a farmer want, to be paid the best possible price for the milk supplied monthly. Not top ups, add ons, co op bonuses or feed or fertilizer rebates, fixed price schemes etc etc. Just pay a decent price for milk. Simples. Fair play strathroy.

    Tempting alright, would be a bit worried what will happen post brexit


  • #5416
    alps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,287 ✭✭✭alps


    simx wrote: »
    Tempting alright, would be a bit worried what will happen post brexit

    You could unwittingly end up on the right side of it😎


  • #5417
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,807 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    How are liquid suppliers fairing out with strathroy?


  • #5418
    visatorro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,859 ✭✭✭visatorro


    whelan2 wrote: »
    How are liquid suppliers fairing out with strathroy?

    Fella beside me with holstein herd started milking 3 times a day. Wouldnt buy cows but wanted more milk.


  • #5419
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    alps wrote: »
    You could unwittingly end up on the right side of it😎

    Why the reason for such a thought I'm intrigued


  • #5420
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,259 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    I think any processors affected on the, supply side (milk), by Brexit will have some alternative plans, in place.
    The worry for all processors is the market for the manufactured goods.


  • #5421
    Keepgrowing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,485 ✭✭✭Keepgrowing


    Are Strathroy 100% liquid milk?

    What do they do with their surplus supply or do they have any?

    If they get more suppliers what's their plan re dealing with manufacturing milk?

    Personally I think they've been a great addition.


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  • #5422
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,807 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Was talking to milking machine man today, he was with a farmer earlier who had his fencer unit plugged in beside his automatic scrapers, there was a short in the fencer, scraper unit box went on fire and oil tank beside it, 1500 euro to replace them. Would a fuse not go before they'd go on fire?


  • #5423
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    Keepgrowing wrote: »
    Are Strathroy 100% liquid milk?

    What do they do with their surplus supply or do they have any?

    If they get more suppliers what's their plan re dealing with manufacturing milk?

    Personally I think they've been a great addition.

    Strathroy have an evaporation unit. They have contracts for evaporated milk at peak milk supply in France and Holland. That's the little I know about their operation.


  • #5424
    alps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,287 ✭✭✭alps


    darragh_haven wrote: »
    Strathroy have an evaporation unit. They have contracts for evaporated milk at peak milk supply in France and Holland. That's the little I know about their operation.

    Also took quiet an amount of milk to North Cork all through the summer..


  • #5425
    alps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,287 ✭✭✭alps


    simx wrote: »
    Why the reason for such a thought I'm intrigued

    No basis simx.....just you've seen stranger things...imagine if you had a route to the UK market while the rest of us were locked out...


  • #5426
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    alps wrote: »
    Also took quiet an amount of milk to North Cork all through the summer..

    Glanbia were bringing to West cork. A lot of co-ops transport milk to competitors processing facilities


  • #5427
    atlantic mist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,309 ✭✭✭atlantic mist


    when coops send milk to other processors how do they pay each other for the milk?

    do they wait until the 17th of the following month for payment or is it 30 days credit?


  • #5428
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,259 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Carbery were helping out as Bellview was broken down, a long time during the summer. the favour was reciprocated with milk going north. Very far north when Carbery had a short term problem.


  • #5429
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,682 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    Isn't selling animals within the withdrawl period not allowed under quality assurance?
    As per DAFM as per: https://www.agriculture.gov.ie/animalhealthwelfare/veterinarymedicinesresidues/informationforfarmersaboutanimalremedies/on-farmaspects-storagerecord-keepingdisposaletc/#C6


  • #5430
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Base price wrote: »
    As per DAFM as per: https://www.agriculture.gov.ie/animalhealthwelfare/veterinarymedicinesresidues/informationforfarmersaboutanimalremedies/on-farmaspects-storagerecord-keepingdisposaletc/#C6
    Thanks, BP, I meant to check today but things got a wee bit busy.

    So you must keep the animal till the withdrawl is up so there should be no selling of stock that has been treated with a drug, never mind stating there is a prescription rug in their system?


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  • #5431
    alps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,287 ✭✭✭alps


    https://youtu.be/MXZFjXa2LUA

    Random interest piece on injection site


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