Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

Majority of the mebership would agree with you here. The day of the "farmer on the ground" being capable of commanding in such situtations is long past.

Certainly the person with "skin in the game" works for negotiations, but not necessarily for media.

Being trained not to get caught out with a question is not good enough to also being able get you point across in pursuasive terms.

Many on here are well able to get their point across though. Some here know everything and they know everyone else is wrong...about everything...

Incredible talent, when one considers they have never attended, partaken or are in the loop with such organisations.

On the media professional ….couldn’t agree more ….current president is a man I’d want in my corner fighting for anything farming related …..but he’s poor in front of a camera ….Brian rushe is very accomplished both as a speaker and what he dose on ground and ultimately would of made an excellent president but for understandable reasons he’s out of running

Farmers jump up and down screaming the minute they hear of someone being paid.

🤣🤣🤣Too true

Anyone have slurry channels?

They could make sense for me but a narrow passage with a base 1.5m above the slatted tank floor strikes me as potential for s**t to harden after a month or two while the tank catches up to its level. I assume they've a decline towards the tank?

I suppose it'd make sense for them to be near agitation point the better?

How do you manage it?

They're just over the 50 limit, vet reckons they'll be fine to keep in the herd. We've been good about not mixing colostrum to dairy calves and these two have only have had beef calves so I'm hoping that if it's just these two it can stop there

3 & 4, I'll be doing a dung test. The older lady was just under the limit the last two years

delete

Nothing like pulling 2 tankers of dirty water and letting them off together at the same time. That would give some flush to any channel

"National Genotyping Programme now open for signup on ICBF website. Go to slvr.be/A6vI. Limited availability, for more info refer to this June management notes"

What kind of shite have the IFA signed us up for now. All the heads in the ICBF. so no doubt it will end up costing farmers money. I see money is clawed back if you pull out before 5 years.

Are there still cases of BVD I wonder.

1+1=3...🤔

The journal on the propaganda trail re the reduction scheme

meanwhile in a country where processors are short of milk this occurs

It's amazing how processors can cough up a nice few extra cent when milk is in short supply

I genuinely don't, I thought the main way of transmission was through beastings? Can it run through adult to adult?