Amy time I ever saw that happening here, in general, not the odd tisic cow, it was poor quality nuts. It maybe something else but it might be worth getting a few bags of a different product to compare.
I was thinking that also, how palatable is it? Bad batch of citrus or I have seen it before as well with meal designed for a low feeding rate, the cal mag and vit/min turn cows off it.
Na, just too much grass has probably sickened them a small bit. Actually changed from 18% to 15% recently and same thing. Tightening them up on grass a bit now and it is helping slowly. Gave them a small bit of hay at milking time but they don't really eat it
Grass shouldn’t sicken cows if your feeding a well buffered nut ….really good quality silage /maize or wholecrop as a buffer now with really lush grass also keeps stomach right helps butterfat ,inhances protein and will give more milk
Ya, the buffering is great for rumen Ph alright. Few lads in my discussion group have a similar issue. They're coming out of it a bit here now.
how much of drop whelan there not coming with much round here
Kernians and Drummond are similar to that for fairly high spec ration ....nor much room apparently
Up on 100 euros a tonne. Good spec nuts
It's quiet extraordinary. Have we ever seen the price of an input drop so significantly and so fast?
If global feed prices have taken a similar reduction, which they must have, gonna be some feed thrown at cows for the next while, and you know what that means.🫣
410 is as good as I've got for a 14% yet. Another lad to get back next week
I feed 15% nut all year. It is down 100 euro a tonne
I've priced a few and I've seen no 100 euro drop for nuts or ration anywhere
Great thanks for that I presume 14 or 15 percent
Edit sorry just seen your previous reply thanks
3 or 4 around here have dropped
sure Maize meal is now below 300
Maize now at €240
Ground maize or rolled?
Whole ex port.
An interesting word of caution from a miller.
If you buy say 24 tonnes of whoke maize and send it to a miller to be ground, you wont get your 24 tonnes back. They add water to speed the grinding process, so when younget your 24 tonnes load back, they'll have not only charged you whatever fee, but they'll have a tonne or 2 of free product for themselves.
So an ex port price of 240 is expensive
you have to add haulage both ways- grinding charge and merchant margin
Start saving
Whatever happened there? Wasn't that where Devenish had big plans to get their hands around the whole regenerative farming scene?
Debts of €40 million apparently.
They're looking for the sale of the farm to bring in 10 million.
Some waste. Probably all be glyphosated out and tilled up to make an example. ..Kidding.
If there was a just world there'd be a consortium put together of whoever to buy the farm and continue the research. There's so many avenues this project farm could continue down. It was the only friend the typical livestock producer in Ireland could look to and learn from and have their back with facts and figures.
Dreadful loss to Ag. It really was a leading light in low carbon farming when we really needed that glimmer from somewhere.
But as it really the right place to do research on sustainable farming.that is some of the best land in the country and you could do things there that you won't get away with on rock and bogs
You mean it’s the type of place Teagasc might set up a research farm? They think that’s the only type of land in the country 😀
Sure they're designating all the rock and bogs. Then putting solar panels and forestry on good land. Sure there's plenty food anyway
Ai man here had an accident at home the other day will be out for awhile. Busiest time of year
Mine was the same. Lost two weeks but luckily for him it was early enough that he was back in action for May 1st.
is it reality that low input farming isn’t profitable- best land in the country and it’s being sold
on another note nettervile house is amazing- I was lucky enough to supply it with building materials in my old job- I would have been onsite 3-4 times a week- the detail in the house is out of this world
2.85million on 100 acres. It looks a bit too much like a convent for me. I like Victorian but it's a bit much. https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/netterville-manor-on-c-100-acres-dowth-drogheda-co-meath/4697283
My reading of the situation is they are getting skint and getting rid of what is basically a pr exercise as it was never going to wash it s face
