Dairy chit chat II

charolais0153 wrote: »

Angus look like jersey.
Belgian blue are 'hard calved' for holstein and peipleare afaid.
Everyhing else has too long a gestation

B.B. very easy calved off hol ,great calf value and better value as stores especially heifers .agree on angus but main issue there is lads messing registering jex as angus
Around here the best market is for Hereford stock

whelan2 wrote: »

Ye. Alot going on around here at the minute. Baled yesterday evening. Bales were the last thing on my mind. All in now

Good stuff.

https://www.independent.ie/business/farming/dairy/the-day-of-not-prioritising-the-environment-is-over-warns-dairy-boss-36955588.html

freedominacup wrote: »

I stopped reading after the bit about NZ being world's "biggest milk producing nation". If he can't get that right his opinions on everything else wouldn't be worth much.

Pity really because his pronouncements on milk price were well received over on the milk price thread....:) lol.

mahoney_j wrote: »

A pure breath of fresh air in comparasion to every other ceo atm .there all doom and gloom talking price down and been pesemestic .im betting the ceo of Dairygold and glanbia in particular are pure loving Conor for that statement !he has done a serious job turning things around in Arrabawn in last few years

He’d want to wash out his foul mouth Mahoney...:(

...one is supposed to tiptoe around the elephant in the room using euphemisms like, “not going the right way”...ffs!

mahoney_j wrote: »

A pure breath of fresh air in comparasion to every other ceo atm .there all doom and gloom talking price down and been pesemestic .im betting the ceo of Dairygold and glanbia in particular are pure loving Conor for that statement !he has done a serious job turning things around in Arrabawn in last few years

but he didn't rule out further cuts which I presume means a sash for may, our peak month

I'm worn out from haggling with the f£$%*g sheep factories since last monday so I leave it to young lads like yourself to sort out the co ops :rolleyes:

Mooooo wrote: »

Vasectomised two yearling bulls today, have a few calves I could keep on as well for the same job again next year, do many of ye keep bull calves for that? Got the news our best vet us leaving the practice as well, will be a massive loss.

Yeah did 3 here and 2 are hurt already and we're not at week 6 yet
Hopefully they'll recover

whelan2 wrote: »

Some amount of lads looking to buy bulls this last few weeks. Seems to be a shortage, on the other hand it's very late to be sourcing a bull now

The bad spring affected the bull sales in the Marts in March, April. Basically buyers never turned up. I know some bull sellers who factoried bulls on account of this. Buyers depressed and sellers depressed.

Now with the fine weather and moods have lifted and finances better the search starts for a bull.

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

What's the full cost per cow for the year and how long will they last? Would be interested in something like that in the future

how did the moo call thingy work for you?

It's p,ain obvious when you hear Ryan this is an ACTUAL co op not a business who everyone wants their piece. Interesting to see where arrabawn and ryan will go in the future

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

What's the full cost per cow for the year and how long will they last? Would be interested in something like that in the future

Works out around 100 euro a cow for tag, base station and all set-up costs, full 3 year warranty, and it costs 70 euro to replace a lost/broken tag....
Good finance packages available over 3 years with a 20% deposit upfront, was going to go with cow manager tags from wws but it was 9 grand up-front and 270 a month indefinitely as long as you used the system but full warranty on everything except lost tags which where 30 euro