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Dozer1 wrote: »

Excluding the few full time beef lads the rest of us are at this as a hobby..Lads I work with golf or cycle or play computer games and they spend **** loads of income on their pastime nobody asks what return a top of the range road bike is giving them..they'll never win the tour de France but it's their release.

We farm to enjoy producing good stock or just to be mucking about at cattle it's not bottom line critical.

It's not like switching to calf or store beef from dairy herds are going to make much difference. Yes some are into using a calculator...others not so much....and when the next generation of us can't be bothered I think our countryside will be a poorer place..just my 2 cents

Is this post a joke...holy God. Beef is finished.

Sami23 wrote: »

Its no joke at all. Same here some of my friends play golf and others cycle for their pastimes where as I farm a small farm and work full time.

No one questions how much they spend on new golf clubs or club membership or the other lad buying multiple bicycles that he doesn't need.

I may not make much from the farming but like Dozer said we enjoy it.

So true, I see it every year, they don't care what hey pay for cattle in the spring and they don't care what they are paid for cattle in the autumn.
God help you if you need to make money and are in the market buying and selling the same time as these boys are

It would be wrong to call my farm a hobby, but I don't depend on it for my bills. Yes it is making money for me if it wasn't I wouldn't be doing it the way I am but it also provides an outlet for me in the way golf or cycling does for other people. I love walking through my stock admiring them especially the suckler cows & their calves. I love when one of the neighbors spots the good one in the field & says it to me. I have always had an interest in cattle their weight & their value and from I was about 8 I could nearly all guess correctly to within a few £/€ or kgs an animal. The value thing is harder to guess now until you see the number of movements, age & date of test. My brother on the other hand loves the machines on the farm and enjoys fixing them. That element of farming drives me made as all I ever see is money been spent & nothing coming in. Where as with the cattle I know if I can pick up 1 at value I will make a few bob on it.

CloughCasey1 wrote: »

Its a happy medium Bass. There is value out there.
I bought a lmx weanling for 480. had it 24 mts hung at 1704 last month at 29mts U-3=.
Bought an aax suckler bullock in April 840 died 1550 last week 21 mts old R+4=
I bought 2 aax suckler bullocks at 24 and 21 mts in April for 780. 390 and 400kg live weight. They will be going in a few weeks. Horribly done. Never seen grass never mind a dose id say. We'll see how they do. They will be going with an elephant of a chx I bought as a 6mt old for 580 that just won't stop growing and put flesh on to kill. He will be 30 mts in Dec. Had an aax dairy bullock for 980 in March kept for 82 days and did 1330. Two aax and a fr for 590 in April 2019, killed a year later for 1550ave. Value is value no matter the age whether it is long or short term.
Those all bought on farms.

Those 2 aax went this week. Did 1.2kg per day weight gain on average since they came here and killed O+ & R- 300Kg DW was actually June they were bought not April when I looked at the cards The CHX killed out R+ 482DW but the surprise package of the bunch was a LM 25mts old U= 482.2DW

cute geoge wrote: »

What sort of management have ye all to get them results ,is is like 21day rotation like the dairy cows stocked tight like over 1 animal to the acre or have each animal a big roam .Is it prime land reseeded or older type grass

Something similar.
All 1.2 to 3 acre paddocks. Get them out early as possible. Rotate them for summer. Ive 2 areas of land with areas that I can feed cattle meal. They are fed meal from July on. If they are finishing early in the year they would be getting 2kg per head per day with the good early grass. From July on id slowly increase meal as the year progresses and the grass proof goes. Towards the end id supplement with high dmd silage with the grass and the meal, again fed in the feeding areas not to fcuk up the land. I dont finish anything from the shed no matter how late it gets. Ive a lot of reseeding done. I possibly put a bit too much thought into shoulders of the seasons grass and I get a bit burnt up then in the middle of summer. But as Say My Name says the brix is high on grass that has plenty of sun and they thrive on feck all with the sugar content off that. Ive had to feed silage 2 of the last 3 years due to burning up. Have lashings of grass early and late on ant that helps. I've a dry shed so rotate fields for FYM yearly. Super stuff for getting life back into the soil. Have got a lot of tips from Leslie Dwyer in APS Bio Ag on improving the fertility of the ground so I can cut back on fert. Starting to show good results and hopefully I'll be better prepared for next summer and with a deeper root structure I won't be burning up as much and producing fields of stem from lack of moisture stress.

Haven't had a vet in the yard this year apart from the herd test, first time i've managed that. Every vet visit is going to be €100 of a cost at least. Prevention is better than cure in every way.

Is marteye working for people?

I deleted it and downloaded again, working ok now.

whelan2 wrote: »

Have 4 aax fr second calvers to sell. Calving in the spring to an aa bull. Plenty of milk and stars. What are they worth?

My guess is €1000 - €1050 a head without seeing them.