Dairy chit chat II

yewtree wrote: »

Not nice to see alright, but you would imagine there will be plenty of interested parties.
Is there much of a northern milk pool?

Bigger milk pool in the north than the south.

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

+1

What is the cause of the crisis? Poor management decisions, overpaying for inputs, underselling of outputs?

There isn't much information out there atm on what happened.

Hard to know for sure. They like keeping farmers in the dark. All I know is when our new CEO came in he promised us the sun moon and the stars. Since then he’s been spending money like it’s going out of fashion. Got rid of a lot of the staff that was there for years and replaced them with his own people. The worst thing is some people predicted this would happen. Seems they were right.

tanko wrote: »

€350 delivered in local store.
18.6.12 €345
27.2.5.5.5 €350
CAN €255.

What were you quoted?

€345 24-2.5-10 delivered to my yard top lift

coolshannagh28 wrote: »

Long term structural problems there , no capital investment for years , outdated and obsolete processing machinery with limited capacity. The new ceo overspent trying to gain scale under poor supervision from the board with inevitable results

Yea ur probably right. Agree with you about the board. How they let it get to this stage is beyond me. This didn’t happen overnight

coolshannagh28 wrote: »

30 years in the making , new board lacking experience to control a driven ceo

What will the outcome be do ya think? Lakeland the most likely to come in??

Would do you good to be out this evening. Lovely warm evening ground drying out, grass hopping. Would remind you why you are farming.

jaymla627 wrote: »

Putting in the new scr tag system here next week for fertility and health, was dreading facing into the messing with tail paint and kamars that used to go with ai'ing

What made you decide on SCR. Did you look at many of the systems? Cowmanager, herd insights or smaxtec
Thinking of ringing a few companies here to see what they have to say and get an idea on prices.

Midfield9 wrote: »

jaymla627 wrote: »

Putting in the new scr tag system here next week for fertility and health, was dreading facing into the messing with tail paint and kamars that used to go with ai'ing

What made you decide on SCR. Did you look at many of the systems? Cowmanager, herd insights or smaxtec
Thinking of ringing a few companies here to see what they have to say and get an idea on prices.

Looked at cow manager, but was nearly double the price of scr and three times the money was required up-front for installation, that kind of swayed it to be honest, scr are dealing in ireland a good while aswell so dealer back-up should be no problem, would be wary of cow manager as so few systems have been put in and down the road the back-up mighten be their....
Scr tag is also a lot smaller and tidier then cow manager so less likely to get pulled off, didn't consider a collar system due to hassle of putting them on and wear and tear that goes with collars

jaymla627 wrote: »

Putting in the new scr tag system here next week for fertility and health, was dreading facing into the messing with tail paint and kamars that used to go with ai'ing

Who sells it in Ireland...

Have been using SCR milking tech here with 15vyears and it is remarkably robust...

gozunda wrote: »

Was on the funkyfarmer site - footage from yesterday. I'll just leave this here ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQifbIWuKlY

They look in great condition.
I let Daisy and her two adopted HEx calves out of the shed today and she did handstands in the yard before heading in a beeline to the paddock kicking her heals on the way and leaving her calves abandoned in her wake :mad:
A few minutes later (seemed like a age at the time) she remembered her responsibilities and returned back into the yard.
She collected her calves and walked sedately into the paddock where the three of them then preformed complex aerial displays

Have a heatime system here find it great but the collars do break and you'll be replacing a percentage of them each year. Biggest problem with the system is the price as it is not sold directly to EFS but goes through Fabdec in the UK as far as I'm aware... Those collars your buying are what 180 each?

jaymla627 wrote:

It's a tag system being used just brought out the past few months would be a similar size to a bvd retest size tag, 75 euro for a replacement tag if they lose it

Ear tag? That sounds good. Problem with the collars is the are continually banged against the head rails etc. Unbelievable system for heat detection and they remove the dangers of a bull.

blackdog1 wrote: »

jaymla627 wrote:

It's a tag system being used just brought out the past few months would be a similar size to a bvd retest size tag, 75 euro for a replacement tag if they lose it

Ear tag? That sounds good. Problem with the collars is the are continually banged against the head rails etc. Unbelievable system for heat detection and they remove the dangers of a bull.

Scr heat time pro plus is what it's called looks to be a brilliant system, will go with a automatic drafting gate next year if it works out, will really take the work out of the ai season, the health monitoring side of it will be a great bonous too

Mooooo wrote:

How does it work, do they need to walk past a receiver etc? Are they accurate from those of ye that have them? Chinball and vasectomised bulls here for after the first 3 weeks

Mine, they walk under a scanner, the new ones get read out in the field with a radio beacon... Much easier. The thing guys have to remember is there is an upkeep cost to this technology, its not like a bulk tank in that you buy it and it'll do you 30 years.

awaywithyou wrote:

Moo monitor by dairymaster has a 5 euro/collar/year charge..... Is ur system similar?

Similar but I wouldn't touch moo monitor as you have to change the battery pack every so many years and it's about €10 a pack and the collars will still breakdown. I'm gonna stick with what I have until they come out with something more affordable.