What do you mean? I was just pointing out that in 6 years, output price is much the same now as it was then. Nothing more, nothing less
A very successful buisness man teagasc were right about xbred jersey if sexed semen is used and gd beef bulls problem is solved friesian ebi have terrible feet and thats going to be an issue similar to bull calves
Plenty of hol/fr herd with 20% plus empty rates. Maybe its cross breeding and hybrid vigour they need
Sounds more like management issues
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Everything has cycled it's the average price over a number of years that counts
Have the inputs cycled and averaged out over the same period?
Regardless, the point was that the price 6 years ago is the same as the price now. Which is ****
Inputs have really only rocketed since the war began and they are dropping this year. Over the past few years milk price would have more than kept pace with inflation, which of course is the way it should be
Why are there so many dairy farmers planning on quitting then I wonder 🤔
Fodder beet guys are getting a lot more here 70 delivered and washed
Are they getting it? Thats over 380/tonne DM. I've declined, but maybe I'm wrong.
Ye might get it at 60 65, would maize be better value. Lad was quoting 120 euro a bale
Yes every now and again people have high not in calf rates nowadays but often it stems from a health issue or an aggressively short breeding season.in general over a 12 week season you will get over 90 % in calf.i remember back in the day calving from from January to June and still having alot not in calf.on the whole teagsc bashing,I give credit to teagasc for adopting grazing technics and ideas from new Zealand that revolutionised Irish dairy farming and I still believe that grass based dairy represents the best strategy for irish dairy.thats not to say that there are things we need to adapt in the future but that's always the way. I suppose nothing indicates the influence teagasc had on grass based dairy we need only to look over the border and see the different emphasis that exists there
Teagasc didn’t invent paddocks and rotational grazing. Neither did NZ.
We were at it 30 years ago here and anyone milking cows around us was doing it too.
I’m 100% sure my father didn’t know or didn’t care where NZ was on the map. Unless there was a few pints or a bit of dancing going on there 😂
Andre Voisin a pioneer in paddock and rotational grazing from Brittany France was brought over to Ireland by the authorities way back when.
When people had electric fence technology which developed in New Zealand. Paddock grazing spread.
On farm here I'd say paddocks were here since the 70's.
Absolutely there was paddocks and rotational grazing in the seventies but it wasn't uncommon for dairy farmers to not graze the.silage ground on the home place in the spring or to bring in sheep to graze off the winter grass and keeping cows in until April was nearly the norm.here we have to started to put a renewed emphasis on making quality silage as where we are feeding silage now in the diet 6 months of the year but grazed grass is still in the diet fir 10 months of the year.i don't believe though that trying to fully cows off grass is the way foward given our weather and land fragmentation but strategising the most use of it is still the system that suits irish dairy farming.tik tok over the last couple of weeks wouldn't encourage anyone to go down the maize route anyway
Mr revenue didn't take his money out of my account yet. Current account is looking stronger than what it should be . I wish he would just take it and get it over with.
Isn't it nearly the middle of the month when it's done online
Anytime up as far as 15th November afaik
That's it so I suppose. Thought my accountant said start of November.
I think you're alone in that sentiment
Ya dawg has a point re the stuff that people imagine teagasc came up with.
My father his uncles and Friends had paddock systems set up 45 years ago....... I know this cos it was set up the year before I was born
19 different dairy farms with the 30k 39 hour week obligatory add so they can get in non-eu workers on visas, why don't they at least put down a 40k salary and try at least to entice eu/irish workers.....
Ya can't lean on irish or EU workers anymore.......and that doesn't suit....also 40k for a labour unit! No way possible that stacks up
Look irish farmers dont want irish workers the adds tell this.ALL this hype telling college students of the oppurtunities there is very few most farm are owner ran farm managers are glorified farm labourers.I hope there wont be labour issues where guys are working more hours it cud end up like the calf job.
Inflation?
Farmers were getting the equivalent of 26 cent a litre in 1979. Article from 2009 but it quotes a 1979 price for comparison
Because figures don’t stack up to pay a good decent wage 40 k plus which would be required to get an Irish/eu worker which would((proably)be more competent and up to speed with our work methods and also speak English ….without this cheap labour lot of these bigger farms be in big trouble …..begs the question is bigger and more cows better ….
Haven't heard of anyone quitting.
Clearance sales are usually around April, May when cows look their best.
Private traders like Grasstec, Clarke, Taafe could be anytime.
I'd say alot of it is accommodation on farm too, most eu workers prob won't live on farm
