whelan2 wrote: » Was surprised as lad I ordered them off said Wednesday at the earliest. Thats the worst of the meal bin , you dont have too much warning that you need to order
visatorro wrote: » 3.83 fat, 3,33 prot, 153 scc, 22 urea. 16 litres and falling! Zero grass. Very middling silage with 1 kilo of soya hulls and 1kilo of four way mix thru wagon . 4 kilos of 16% hi maize in parlour. Water supply seems to be holding. Half winter herd, they have struggled badly for yield. Scanning the end of the month. Covered half the farm with pasture swarth today.
Mooooo wrote: » Some going, dairygold are 6 to 8 days. Just flatout
whelan2 wrote: » Ordered a load of nuts at 11am and they are being delivered now .
Mooooo wrote: » When are you calving in the winter? Perhaps consider drying off the winter milkers? What's in the four way mix? If all silage perhaps up the protein, see if you can get a quick sample of the silage tested and try have the diet at 16%p. Your scc is good considering, a lot better than mine. Not used to urea results, maybe others may saying that indicates if dietary protein is ok? Cow condition is most important so if that's holding ok you are on the right track.
kowtow wrote: » Does anybody here use Deosan Mastocide (the thick blue teat dip)... and if so how do you get it to work in an Ambic teatsprayer system (the usual one - Jetstream I think).. does it need some kind of conversion kit? Just comes out of the gun in blobs so far....
whelan2 wrote: Ordered 10 boxes of milking gloves last week size medium. Opened the first box this morning and they are all xl. First time milking with no gloves in years. Felt weird. Will have to check the order later. Disaster
alps wrote: » Some very interesting reads on the cotswold seeds website, with most of the mixtures linking to a farmer first hand video like this..https://youtu.be/8fOdnVjhzSw
whelan2 wrote: » If you agree a price though that price should be on the paperwork
whelan2 wrote: » It's a long time since I used farm relief services. Is there an annual fee you pay to them. Or how does the membership work?
Say my name wrote: » I used to think that way too but then I won't make one hell of a difference either way. So I roll with it instead now. There's plenty of posters on this forum even who it wouldn't effect them one bit if their farming business went wallop on both ends of the scale. I'd put the blame more solely on the Eu for the emergence of the tillage barons just in our county alone. They're a product from legislation. We now have the emergence of dairy barons in this county now lately too with 600 being reached this year in place/places. Everyone is scrapping now for everything in this county, land, fodder, etc. Give it a few years though to calm down. Athough by that stage there might be no small farmers left with managers and slaves working on estates. Anyways I digress... On the payment I think that's standard practice now with most companies to give themselves some leeway to reward the early payers and cover themselves against the late payers. On paper first and payment are two different animals.
GrasstoMilk wrote: » I'm sure you'd go to Alfie for the new case?
GrasstoMilk wrote: » I know plenty who do get on very well with them, but when ye strike a deal for an artic load of fert and then get the bill the next week for what was taken off it soured me aswell as that they didn't send fert for ten days and paid on the nose. Have various other reasons aswell, one being farming is only a hobby for Walter and he's stopping young farmers or anyone for that matter from expanding there business. It doesn't sit right with me to be subsidising it
Say my name wrote: » I'd be lost without that company now at this stage. From the fert deliveries to plastic and grass seed. Two different salesmen for different parts but each very easy deal with and both top-notch. I know this sounds like a sales pitch for them but that's just my experience. They're a godsend to the usual Glanbia.
GrasstoMilk wrote: » They are and I will not deal with them. Dealt with them once and not again.
Gawddawggonnit wrote: » €12k of squarrosum quadriglia going into the ground, in one way or another, from Mon morning...enough skin in the game? . When do you need to get the cover off before reseeding?
Gawddawggonnit wrote: » Yes! Reggie’s machine would be better than a broken gate for planting covers.
Reggie. wrote: » Or me gawd
freedominacup wrote: » You're adamant that these will germinate without moisture everyone I talk to including people you have mentioned is just as adamant that without rain being at least in the forecast it's a waste of money. You obviously have no dog in the fight but have plenty of experience with these crops. I'm going to burn off a failed reseed and get one of the mixtures you mentioned and see what happens.
whelan2 wrote: » The only advantage of heavy ground. Often look at photos on here and elsewhere of lads with cows out in February, we can only dream here. In fairness I have alot of brown fields at the minute too
