Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

Was talking to a lad in frs and he maintained the slower growing trees from Scandinavia make better stakes. Irish conifers grow fast

And how much food had that a,,,,,e produce in his life. Amazing the way the likes of him can knock everything but has no solutions. Perhaps if farmers were paid a viable price for their products our vegetable growers wouldnt be quitting.

Was that not the tullamore show ??

Nice to see he's wearing all his clothes this time.

Looks like lads wont have to flood their drained peat land after all. https://www.independent.ie/business/farming/news/i-humbly-apologise-for-misleading-you-eu-farming-expert-admits-his-evidence-to-oireachtas-was-incorrect-42089649.html

In some ways I'm not surprised seeing how Copa Cogea go about their business as lobbyist in the EU ie. a crowd whose real agenda is often at odds with smaller/medium sized farmers

I thought that discussion was among tds and farming orgs on the basis of what they heard from yer man who made the apology mentioned above??

That makes sense….So realistically the 40 cow man can’t make €1000 a cow due to poor economies of scale and is making maybe €700 a cow ?

still a good income from a 50 acre farm. And payments on top of that, it would take a lot of sheep to make 28k on 50 acres and you would need to sell 5 acres a year to make it out of sucklers !!!

You've answered you're own question there. Not everyone is making those returns and a lot depends on farm development layout etc. Breaking it down to per hour worked can show a different story at times also. most of those margins likely include the sfp

i wudnt get carried away with this year, we will never see a year like this again and wudnt believe everything you hear, eg yesterday i was talking to a farmer telling me he is getting 77c for sept, he never me told they milked 11lts/day. i would look at 5 or 10 year averages, that kind of money is achievable but will take 15 years+ if you are good enough. when you are expanding, you are always reinvesting. you dont need 100 cows either, the best herd of cows my milk man collects is 60 cows

Behind a paywall but it appears a nuclear option could be taken according to Aidans headline, that really would put the cat among the pigeons,

They don't seem to have the authority to obtain it under Gdpr, the co-ops/icbf seem to be the only third parties they can obtain it from so unless one of these get milk suppliers to agree to let them provide the department with this, they can whistle for it, it seems....

Knowing glanbia they'll probably pass a motion for next years milk supply purchasing document that they're allowed to provide the department with your milk supply details but then again after their f**k up a few weeks ago they mighten either