More to life than money. Maybe you will see that someday.
You're the same lad who is on here whinging that you left a 60k a year job and didn't take a wage for four or five years, like some martyr, but at the same time you don't feel like cutting costs and you're not interested in profitability. That makes zero sense to me but sure its your farm
This would be my view also, I find the good lads are very happy to share their information with you. As you say how else can you improve, everybody needs a benchmark to work towards.
It's all there.
Don't worry about it lad. You seem to be misunderstanding me somewhere along the line. I'm not in farming for the money and I'd imagine most others are the same.
I want to get as close to 600 kg solids as I can out of as close to 1 ton of nuts as I can. Costs are very much under control here so the profit looks after itself. The money management in dairy farming is fairly straightforward like. It's not exactly a multinational I'm running here.
If the hero over the road has topless cubicles, feck all slurry storage, stocked at 5/Ha and is more profitable on paper than me then that's fine. Pile on the cows and look after the rest later as they say.
What’s a good lad 🤔🤔🤔🤔a good lad to me is a lad doing the basics well ….the grass …the cows …the calves ….soil fertility …work life balance etc etc ….just cause a farmer has a bit of publicity or is peddled by tegasc etc dosnt make him/her better than the lad u don’t hear/read about
We're all in it for the money. Own boss working from home being the main advantages. Disadvantages are cover for holidays days off If money away from the farm was that easily got lads would take it.
I'm not in farming for the money and I'd imagine most others are the same.
I doubt most others are the same but we've had this argument before, you don't consider wages an expense of the business where I see them as the first thing that needs to be paid every month
Its ok to have a different opinion. If everyone was the same it would be a funny old world.
Are people spreading fert still, or is there any point with the ground so hard?
Its like you're living in a different country
Has rained solidly up here for the last month
Stopped spreading around 10 days ago or more. We've no rain got only a drying wind the last week or 2.
Just look at the rain radar for today, all falling up the North and West but refusing to come any further to those that need it!
No fert out here with over a week..Nothing in stock only straight Urea...Is eve 15 units a complete waste?
Did u not get that nice soft rain all morning kev …bag sweetgrass /acre right up to behind cows and calves/heifers …unexpected but v welcome ….added plus no sun and no wind 👌
Feker
2 plus mm …..small but welcome ….the icing in the cake was no sun /wind
A bit of slurry out from the tower at a light rate. Looks like mo rain down here for a bit tho. Fed heavy at 6kgs for the last week to 10 days but looks like its paid off in terms of getting back up. Will try and get reseeding finished this week
Reseeds peeping up here....hostile reception though.
Got nothing
What nut is everyone on lads? 14% fertility or something similar I assume?
13 %
got some nice rain y/day however wind back up north this morning and I don't see too many flies about.
decided to give out bales this evening
5-7 days buffering should do if the weather comes any way middling
costly exercise but essential
15% hi energy with nis ,fats buffers etc …2.32 kgms today
I'm on 15% all year round
Not a drop of rain here in Sth Wicklow yesterday, boiling all day
Got some nice Hay made though
The coastal SE is burning up for the want of rain,its really stunting growth now
Common enough in these parts in June and July though
14% of our own mix here, last load was 448/tonne... was 425 before the last few
Cows doing just over the 2 kgsms on poorish grass and 6 kgs had silage in for a few days last week as well. Hopefully a bit of after grass in a week/ 10 days time but strange for us to be so dry even after having showers last week
Cows doing 2kgms here and buffer feeding silage hard this last 2 weeks. Grass will be all but gone in 3-4 days. Feeding 5kgs in the parlour. Cows eating about 25kgs silage per day.
Is zero grazing from an outblock an option for you Grueller? Any contractors nearby at it?
I am in complete drought Mooooo. What I had been planning to zero grazer was mowed on 24 May. I have had 8mm rain here in the last 17 days and that was followed by an east wind that took all that moisture back. I am kind of in a micro climate here where a hill splits a lot of the rain and makes it miss me. That out block is seriously struggling with the drought now.
I have a lad that will bring it in but there will be no lasting in it due to the lack of growth with the drought. I have 110 good quality bales and I will be locking them in a paddock with access to the feed barrier and feeding silage ad lib and up to 6.5 kgs in the parlour from next Friday or so.
It's a mad country. We've had nearly nothing but rain. Lucky to get our silage done last week. Grass growth excellent
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