farisfat wrote: » Would a low cost seasonal calving system work in France.
Gawddawggonnit wrote: » I’m letting an employee go here... Excellent worker, absolute demon to work. Honest, reliable and an excellent timekeeper. Brilliant attitude and always in good form. A pleasure to have around the place. Has a partner and young child of one and a half, so would need good accommodation. Fluent in Romanian with broken French and only one word in English (begins with f...). He won’t be left go until I find something suitable for him. Pm for details.
Mooooo wrote: » Strep uberis lads any of ye get control of it?. Ophelia opened the door I think and have acc issues now. Was 150 avg of Jan, bulk tank over 300 now. Vet reccomending mamyzin and double course of tubes sensitivity tests suggest synulox or ubro yellow should do. Tylosin will be no good
Gawddawggonnit wrote: » Loaded question. What does low cost mean exactly? I Farm a low cost system but not your typical Teagasc/Nz/Greenfield narrative... No point trying to practice topiary on an oak tree...
farisfat wrote: » OK a simple grass based system without the feed wagons and all the hassle associated.
Sillycave wrote: » End of an era here and a very sad day, decision has been made to get out of dairying as the auld lads health has unfortunately detoriated and can't see a sustainable living for myself and the parents. Will be a very tough time and the day of selling them will be extremely tough for everyone especially the auld lad who has farmed all his life Just hope it is the correct decision and to be hopefully that the auld makes a recovery (ps sorry for the ramble just needed a release as its a tough time)
Timmaay wrote: » Grazing season far too short in France, drought will completely stall grass growth from may to Sept, only way around it would be to irrigate the hell out of the grass, but that adds significant cost I'd imagine, both economic and environmental.
charolais0153 wrote: » Why you letting him go?
Gawddawggonnit wrote: » Harvesting rainwater is an environmental cost? Explain please Tim.
Timmaay wrote: » You not tell us before you harvest your water from a local river?
Gawddawggonnit wrote: » A low hassle system? A low work system? Like Greenfield? NO.
farisfat wrote: » Block calving....milk the cows of grass or a forage crop and dry them of and have a few weeks off. With a roof.
Gawddawggonnit wrote: » Milking cows off a forage crop and you’re on a hiding to nothing...look to the Kiwis...only bad farmers make forage!
Gawddawggonnit wrote: » farisfat wrote: » Block calving....milk the cows of grass or a forage crop and dry them of and have a few weeks off. With a roof. Milking cows off a forage crop and you’re on a hiding to nothing...look to the Kiwis...only bad farmers make forage!
jaymla627 wrote: » A lot of the geniuses out their where caught this year, when the drought hit and their was no buffer to get them over the hump.... Fonterra cracking down on feeding pke meant the get out of jail free card wasn't playable either
farisfat wrote: » So the answer is no.
Gawddawggonnit wrote: » . You’d want to be the ultimate ****tard like me to even contemplate dairying outside of Ireland. I’ll quote ‘the man’ in the ICMSA... “Because it’s Agriculture,Agriculture, Agriculture in this economy we don’t have an easy way of diluting our emissions, but we are the most efficient dairy producers in the northern hemisphere”. This was just before he was quoted as saying “We had 30yrs of quota restrictions, and there can’t be environmental restrictions just lumped on the sector now”. These quotes are doing the rounds in continental Europe now. Nice.
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » Any link to the article that quote came from, Dawg? Not saying it wasn't said but yesterday seemed to be Irish 'make up sh!t on the internet day' so I'm wondering if it was misquoted or simply made up to suit a narrative.
Gawddawggonnit wrote: » Will do. It’s from an article by either Agriland or the like. It was quoting a guy called McCormack. I didn’t know who he was until I saw him on the 6-1 news last night. I thought the ICMSA man was called Comer... Agriland etc don’t realise that their articles are immediately translated and published over here. Maybe they have sister companies here? There’s also a pic of lots of dead Irish calves from a road traffic accident in Holland doing the rounds... Small world now...
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » Yeah, saw that crash. Pretty horrific tbh. Just pulled a weanling out of a cow here. Had to shorten the ropes and then move above the knees. Biggest calf I've ever pulled alive and cow up and milking now. Good night's work.
Gawddawggonnit wrote: » Nice one. It’s daytime Chief!! Get milking. Can’t link the article as it’s from a blog type thingy. Here’s a screenshot.
blackdog1 wrote: » have it keeping it under control. liming with 10% hydrated dipping with Valiant barrier and hitting it with terrexine, metecam and tylo. last cow that had it now has scc of 44k ( 8th calver)
