Judging by your lack of grammar, bad spelling and no punctuation I'd say you were a very young person in 2008.
Usually has a dose of small man syndrome
Yawn maby you really are john gibbons in disguise 🙄🙄and what a bitter man he is
Left school when i was 16 after the junior cert was slow learner but compared to some of the farmers getting into a mess i was probably fairly bright.
How many cows do u milk
Theres something wrong if you cant make a living of 90 cows
You could also lease your farm 500 acre to some half wit.Then get a job say even 30k year mcdonalf or supermacs wud pay that yud halve 84k per year then yud be going places lad
Have you no cows to milk?
Or are you one of these clowns that can milk them in a half an hour?
On about truth. You wouldn't know it if it hit you. You came on here posting you're a big dairyman with just the land your daddy left you. Then it changed to you bought land for 5k. But it must be miles away because you don't knock holes in ditches. And you don't lease land.
You've failed badly as a troll.
You had this idea of what you were going to post against. The bad dairyman. Woman is never mentioned. Or new entrants to dairy. That doesn't suit. And now it's changed to derogation farmers. Derogation keeps more dairy farmers from the lease market which now you're giving out about too. Why I don't know.
An F for Fail.
I inherited land then i also bought some is that a criminal offence to buy land once you also inheritied.
at a guess an acre of land now entitles you to produce about 5.5 to 6K litres provided you sell calves and outsourse heifer rearing. When you do your figures you have to calculate what will the average milk price for the duration of the lease. Kerry group fixed price for next year is 33.5c/L 6.9% solids. are we looking at a 2-2.5K/acre five year average gross output+ culls and calves.
At 400/acre it puts the cost per 7c/L for land rental at that cost for this marginal milk. Add your replacement cost at 3-4c/L. At this level of output/acre it definately limits expansion.
100 cows per man would be ideal.
So why do people want 100 s of cows a recent post has a 24 unit parlour going in
If you are a large dairy farmer, given that the average is about 90, why do you want them? Then apply that logic to others.
I don't have hundreds of cows, just making life more comfortable for myself , have posted here before anything over 10 rows does my head in. Will never have 10 rows in new parlour. Each to their own
Maybe because there is 2 generations or 2 families making a living on the farm? As for the parlours, fair play, comfort and less time in the parlour is worth a lot. One of the best investments u can make.
Not that many dairy farmers that were in derogation will be in trouble either as u think. In derogation here and if it went altogether to 170 kg could still add on 40 cows. Keep all calves on farm to finish here and I know a good few farms with same setup.
You must have plenty of spare money i can milk 10 rows an hour i hope u wont be protesting with the ifa yud get no sympathy from me
How many units/ our are you still working out of a tie-up brye your grandfather put in
I asked a question but instead of answering youve asked me the same question no wonder u derogtion farmers are in a mess
How many units you have then apply same to others
Lad ur not making any sense your in derogation yet u will be able to keep 40 extra cows if derogation goes am i missing something
You must have a fair few cows to justify 24 units you were better leaseing the land at 500 and getting some sort of a job for yourself
Not in derogation laaaaad.
Gd lad
You must be milking goats so. My cows are middle band and no way you'd milk them in 6 minutes a line.
Fair play your good at trolling, while fairly obvious to some your getting a rise out of a few.
Plenty of sense, finish all calves to beef on farm. Will just get rid of the beef enterprise, can send heifers to contract rearer, and load on 40 more cows and still be at 170 kg. Make sense now??
I know plenty farms like that, so ul be disappointed if u think it l be a mess on all farms.
Open the popcorn
I said derogation farm can u read lad
Seriously no acrs 10 rows per hour from july onwards all spring calvers
My farm is in derogation, stocked at 220 kgs with the beef enterprise alongside the dairy. Can u understand how it works now?? Less beef cattle, land on more cows. Get it??
