They seem to be getting popular, and hear good reports about them in general..best of luck with it
Ye 24 have 15 atm
Thanks, pearson
You should consider volunteering for the Samaritans with your level of empathy.
How many units 24?
Best of luck with all
which parlour are you putting in ?
Progress
Biggest first cut here tonage wise I'd say ever, not getting to graze half the farm this spring had at least one benefit
I wouldn't be worrying about anyone else, let them work away...
Now that's just a rubbish statement 🙄
There is no pressure from outside angles. Any pressure is built from within.
Some need a bit more
Some want a bit more
Some can't get enough
Easy for me to say this but just remember it's only cows and it's only money.
I'm concerned for some farmers mental health with all this pressure from all angles. There is life outside of farming. Sounds like the retirement scheme may suit you so best of luck with that.
Highly stocked common enough I'm told
Plus the fact that you have to export more slurry than before also. Can't export to a derogation farmer and there are alot more farmers in derogation. Having to cut cow numbers by nearly half sounds like alot. You must have been very highly stocked or lost land or something.
I'm doing that already exporting slurry etc it's all soil samples off the ground your exporting it to and all that going forward on the stock numbers they don't seem too bothered with young stock it's the cows they want gone asap
Where are these lads getting finance? Banks are gone very sticky now
You'd like to think that's what lads would be at, but penny didn't drop around here yet anyway..more,more,more the motto still
did your advisor tell you your options, ie. export slurry, temporary grazing agreement etc.
bingo. i think the herd reduction in cannonstown and monamore is more to do with feasibility than blaming the nitrates. I see Tom Kelly had a bit in the irish examiner about reducing the herd down, in all fairness he has 350 and it was more of advertisement for the sale than anything else.
Your advisor missed one solution …..contract rearing .milking 100 cows here on band 3 20 maidens and 20 calves to contract rearer ….I don’t know myself atm no stock in any of my outblocks …..there is a fee to pay every month tho which focuses the mind on what it really costs to rear replacements
would of got away without it this year but when a chance conversation took place with a guy I know will do a super job on them I couldn’t let it go
Ya, happy out. And they would always have time to stop and talk.
There’s a few lads like that around here. Could be milking at any time between 5pm and midnight. Cut silage in July, if it’s raining when doing the silage “shur what about it, it’ll water down the slurry!” Maybe only half way through calving at this time of year.
While I can’t tell you if they’re making money or not they’re still going years later and they’re under no pressure whatsoever, some of the most relaxed dairy farmers I know!
I'll be increasing by about 20 cows over the next few years unless I get sick of dealing with the cantankerous bitches.
My adviser told me I would need to cut my cows numbers by nearly half or rent 80 acres I'm looking and hoping for the dairy retirement scheme
Looks like it there won't be room in the marts for them by the looks of it it's all very depressing
Nail on head, have ground rented here the past 8 years 2km from farm that's taken for 2 cuts at 230 a acre with owner drawing sfp on it and grazing it after , was told yesterday, its been put on the market next year for rent and land owner is expecting 450 a acre plus entitlements back, it's moory wet ground that takes alot of minding.....
Will probably have to drop down 60 cows but it's a better option then going broke farming rented ground at extortionate prices
At current milk prices with meal and fert prices. Isint it better to reduce than pay 500 an acre for extra land
Another local farm to him had 240 youngstock for sale last week...is this the start of major reduction sales?
I see Tom Kelly in louth is selling 100 cows in June over nitrites banding etc
Continuing as normal here. Will most likely be in the top band after a good year and switching back to band 2 after a bad year.
Was talking to a man the other day in band 1. They often milk the cows at 11pm because they'd be busy all day like. Just run bulls and if a cow didn't have any calf sure they'd milk her away anyway. The bull would get around to her eventually. Maybe this is the way forward.
