Given your Fortune 500 self worth the cost of a new milking parlour is surely an afterthought, loose change perhaps. Was it 4.5 mil you valued yourself at some recent post, a few weeks ago?
Looks fab Whelan...enjoy every minute of it..
You will walk into what are a lot of handy CS jobs but the money is very poor. Not sure what age you are, the CS is a young man's game, from the point of increments and progression. With the way OAP rules are changing on the lower wage side of the CS there is little or no advantage.
Having said that beef and a part time job works well. I always had huge flexibility with hours and farming. But I always had decent wages and flexibility, mind you I worked for it. I was fairly burnt out by the time the retirement opportunity came along.
Dont know why the big secret .Probably told got gd deald dont tell anyone.Farmersa are whingers no money being made yet u see parloursbeing built and another guy building housewithout mortgate.Its like the mart poor beef and sheep farmer then a fleet of 4 x4s new
I think 30 years is enough for anyone milking cows. Best of luck in any job away from the farm but I'm sure you'll still enjoy farming part time.
Well wear, some comfort for the future.
Must be about 12 years ago was on a plane on the way home from a dairy show in Birmingham and one of the lads from Pearsons was sitting beside me on the plane. A nicer well mannered lad you could't meet. There were two brothers I believe running it, they had just bought an industrial unit to expand the business at the time.
Fairplay, well wear and best of luck into the future. Great to see a bit of progress besides all the shitetalk going on
It's my 7th year farming on my own. Found the whole thing a fair drag alright. Bad spring and sh1t output as a result were probably my biggest problems. Weather was a pain all year and an early finish to the year too. Expensive inputs were probably a bigger issue than the lower milk price for me. Will be milking more cows next year and will be hoping for a better year.
Alot of lads around here pulling the pin and they are dead right. Lads that stayed at home straight from school retiring at 55 and they are dead right too. Life is short.
I doubt I will stick at it of there is another year or two like this one, it's just not worth it for me if you can't bank a substantial amount of money after the year.
there like your neighbours so...
how you with TB?? presume your aware its rampant around us...
It wud be nice if we cud share costs itsca bit like asking a lad howvmuch land he owns onelad told me once i dont know another said not enough
Sure you wouldn’t say how much land you farmed so why would you expect someone to break down the costs of a new parlour for you…
To humour yourself ballpark building work holding area/shed/washing tank for a 20 unit probably looking at 150k, your parlour if going with acrs/indicators/feeders would be circa 6-8k a unit so ballpark another 150k, then the miscellaneous items and unforseen expenses circa 20k
All in greenfield site you'd be looking at in our around 300k incl vat if you went for a rolls-royce parlour near 350k
Yes the less said about the neighbours the better. Was locked up for a while last Spring but OK again. Keeping fingers crossed until next test.
Did u not spend a heap of money last few years seems a waste
Of course it's a waste but sure a good dairy setup has value to others it seems
A freind gave €70000 for a lorry four years ago, bought a house since and now I see him driving a two year old jeep.
Hard to see how anyone would invest so much to milk cows when you can earn it so simply otherwise
See what the ICBF says lads. 2023 looks like it was another highly profitable year .... Good for dairy farmers I guess...
In 2023, the national dairy herd is on average €300/cow/year more profitable than it was 20 years ago. EBI will continue to evolve and contribute towards the profitability and sustainability of the dairy herd into the future.
With this new automated set up, more time to spare, she might be able to combine both.
Easy buy all that without paying for it. Monthly repayments and hefty loan. Still has to work hard to have these things. Nothing comes cheap
What's your friend hauling. Might give us a few ideas
best of luck with it. we doubled up in units 2 years ago and we don't know ourselves. Put in the matts on parlour floor as soon as you can. well worth the money.
i gave up on the icbf along time ago.
Many units Whelan?
The civil service is full of depressed house-cats. The 35k starting salary is scant compensation for a man's self worth.
Icbf ebi is a joke if u look at jersey bulls there figures are made low by false calving scores they should be 100 euro.The whole ebi of breeds bull can change afterv meeting of so called experts carbon index isca new one what if your cows have low are u going to sell all and go to mart to change.Do they not know it taked years or a lifetime to breed a specific type if animal
I reckon 09 was worse. On/off grazing in August. Milk price was very low. But I remember the weather was brutal.
But of course depends what part of the country you were. I thought the north west/ west got it worse in July and August this year.
Very poor productivity across the PS, plenty of stories of money wasting and poor money management, even at 35k we're getting poor value for money
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Your going up in cow numbers but if you get another year or two like this your getting out?,..intreasting plan..sound like a local dairy man around here telling people to give up theirs cows that there's nothing to be made out of them with the costs gone up...but when they do decide to rent their farm give him a shout and he will give them good money for it
Your very stingy with information cost breakdoWn wud be nice thanks
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