They haven't changed their online prices? Exact same as last week was quoted 465 for the premium 16% after discount, is still 500 retail like it was last week, I'd say their 14% nut at 365 would basically be floor-sweepings
Not buying of either of them, with another crowd that are alot better value, they've a new price list coming for May so will see then re switching
Shop around. We got a quote until end of Sept
Glanbia dropped 90 to 350
Grennans and glanbia are circa a 100 euro dearer present day prices and no signs of any major drops maybe 20 euro come May
Around 335 I’m hearing
What kind of money for 14 percent decent spec
Are they jersey cross.
Maize expensive to grow this year. Maize man said seed up 30%, sprays up 60% plastic up 70 Euros and acre.
What exactly are you sowing maize and wholecrop silage for if your not going to buffer your milking cows with it throughout the year, only having it for the shoulders of the year and as drought insurance is crazy given what you'll be spending to grow it, even more so on the back of falling milk/ grain prices making the figures growing it with land prices and high fertilizer prices probably not even viable for the 2024 season
Would they be up for a visit- would they disclose all data- calving reports etc
2 herds I know very well are doing 2.5 kgs atm
mine a friend is managing. No messing with cow numbers goes on with either herds and they do either side of 600 kgs depending on the year
Don't need buffer feeding to get cows in calf, unless they are very high yielding altogether. Agree re high N grass but doubt anybody would have put out 80 units with the amount of rain falling. 60 units here, and only follow cows from April on with fert, no blanket spreading. Focused hard on grazing this year and certainly some places should have been better minded but have experienced plenty of years where there was as much poaching done in summer. Some places say they can't get cows out at different times but the tractor be in the same day, each to their own.
Your neighbour has loads of milk but has more work and investment and has no more out of it than the rest of us.
My stocking rate is too low here for buffer feeding I think but I guess I could cut more bales off the MP.
I like the idea of buffering to keep the cows stomachs and everything right. I think I have a bit of acidosis here now on the 2nd rotation. I've lost out on alot of milk this spring and I don't know if I'll be able to claw it back. I have bought an outside block and I think I'll grow maize there next year. Sure what have I got to lose.
Depends on your cow type and stocking rate on MP. Never top here, but would take out the occasional paddock for bales now and again. Dont do on of grazing and would never let cows do any poaching.
A neighbour cut all his farm for bales this week, only lets cows out to aftergrass. Some operator, turning out serious amounts of milk, has big holstein cows.
Big drop in meal price quotes, thankfully
Don’t kid yourself- there’s no lads doing 600kg ms from spring calving without buffer feeding- the lads that are are fiddling the figures- always ask to see may and June milk recording along with all pages of co op report- you’d be surprised how many cows seem to miraculously disappear
Impossible to get graze outs with buffer feeding and nice grass starts to move imo
they just won’t do it cause they know there’s feed waiting for them in the yard
you end up topping then to improve grass quality which is wasted feed
I like to make sure cows are well fed too but for the majority of herds good quality grazed grass and nuts will be good enough. A lot of lads doing 600 plus kgs of ms with spring calving herds that aren’t buffering year round
Started 2nd round 31/3 stocked at 2.5/ ha ar the moment no silage ground closed on grazing block but 2 fields out for reseeding. Pgc 1200, have a blast of ground that was at 900 a week ago so prob around 1150 now maybe. 13 left to calve
going into 3rd round here tonight 1400 on it, it was grazed on the 28th of March cause other ground was too wet
skipped 2 paddocks of 2nd round and will graze last paddock of the 2nd round after next paddock
2k gallons slurry on all paddocks plus 60 units urea to date. 20 units of that went out on Monday
had been feeding silage up till about 12 days ago
What covers is on the 3rd round hardly more than a 1000, your second round must of been 2 weeks and you where around the entire grazing block
That 80 units is madness and so also is anybody on their third round after the Spring we have had. You need to give the grass time to grow. That high nitrogen grass is pure poison. To get cows back in calf you need buffer feeding preferably with maize or wholecrop.
A friend used up the last of his pit silage yesterday. Has heavy ground like me. Feeding since late September. I offered him some of mine
Ya just went with 30 units 3 weeks ago and urea and 18 6 12 again last week. Weather is too unpredictable in Feb and March to lob out heaps of urea
Went out with a bag of Axan yesterday- on all grazed paddocks - first split on grazing ground - all ground got slurry with trailing shoe- I find I don’t need those magic 80 units and it’s only a waste
Growth was 42 last week, slower this week I'd say. Dont like covers so low coming into breeding, 2 days in to 3rd rotation, waiting for dry weather to work on some reseeding.
squeaky bum time on a few early grazing farms.
Anyone well into their 2nd round probably has great covers from early grazed stuff, but ground that was ploughed up in March must be suffering the affects of it.....
Plan to knock all 1st cut and strong paddocks not grazed next week, I reckon we are in for a 2018 weatherwise year, it's been very similar so far
Have u not got the 80 units out like teagasc insist on 😃
All I'm doing is following the cows with a bag of pasture sward this year and I'm getting the same results. My dry level land got slurry of course.
Saw a 20ft broughan trailer on the road with silage this morning full to the gills
pit silage not grass silage
