Mooooo wrote: » Dried off 32 more cows and housed last of weanlings, down to 3 rows till the end off Jan now
Mooooo wrote: » Hydraulic hose burst on shear grab no answer from garage. Yeah Xmas is close alrite
Base price wrote: » Can you rob one off another implement to tied you over.
mahoney_j wrote: » Cows dried off ,everything dosed for lice and worms over last 2 days ,half weanling heifers in other half out and out they’ll remain 7400 Ltrs and 590 kgms sold average milk price over 39 cent for year Looking forward to break
Mooooo wrote: » Thanks for suggestions, lad answered there will be there till 12 so sorted. Neighbour has similar loader so our attachments would fit his and vice versa so wouldn't be stuck but don't like to be borrowing this week as wouldn't like to be disrupting whatever plan/ timetable he has himself
Gawddawggonnit wrote: » Cops rang at 3am saying that my incalf heifers were out on a busy road...phuckin charolais suckler cows, so not mine. Ended up giving them a hand. Locked them into a field of mine. Funny that nobody has claimed them yet. Lazy suckler farmers...!!
Bo dearg wrote: » Great results mahoney. Do you think 600kg solids is as far as you can go? And if you dont mind my asking how many kg of meal were they fed
freedominacup wrote: » Be sure to get two of them. Something we always have a spare of here is hoses for the sheargrab. One blew yesterday evening. Going again in five minutes. Got two made and replaced another that was looking a bit suspect this morning.
Keepgrowing wrote: » Why do guys quota output from milking block? Surely it should be from whole farm
mahoney_j wrote: » Milk block is where milk is produced ????,I don’t know with all the mickey waving figures thrown around these days hard to believe anything ,only figure that interests me is profit after tax and all bills paid and what’s sitting in my current account
Keepgrowing wrote: » Sorry I asked
Keepgrowing wrote: » My thinking on milking block opposed to whole farm is that young stock are reared on whole farm. Silage and increasingly zgrazer grass is coming off whole farm. This can allow higher Sr.on milk block leading to inflated figures being quoted. The figures aren't wrong but don't tell the whole story. A lot of bought feed can also distort this figure. That's all I meant
Injuryprone wrote: » Out farms are often also farmed less intensively but the fertiliser allowance transferred back to MP to pump more grass from there which also inflates the figures.
Base price wrote: » I'm not well up on dairy or how ye calculate your litres/hectare/acre but I would assume that dry cows kept on a out farm would skew figures too. Is rented land also included in the figures e.g. land used to grow silage/maize silage.
Timmaay wrote: » Yes definitely. All land associated with your dairy enterprise. Only land you could argue over would be for the likes of bought in maize or silage crops, you don't quote them in your financial/pm figures because you'll have costed the crop anyways, however it's slightly questionable to claim your stocked at 3lu/ha overall but on the other hand your buying in 100% of your winter feed. All in all you need to be quite specific when quoting any per ha figures. It does sometimes turn into bit of a willy waving event, bit like the milk recorded/305day against milk delivered per year.
mahoney_j wrote: » Hence my earlier comment only true figure is profit after tax and all bills etc accounted for ,that’s why I have little interest in cop or profit per he /liter etc cause none are true figures .so much other things going on with those figures and so many ways to skew them
