634 sold last year- should finish up at 670 this year
Buying cows from cash strapped spring men at 200 a head is an easy way to make money tbh
Would you not be worried about bringing TB into your herd?
as far i know Stan has a very limited amount of owned land around the parlour.. he is also farming on the north dublin/meath border.. not too far from gormanston college... id imagine the land market is quite competitive and he is paying alot more than 250/acre for renting land especially if maps are going wit the land... shure you see what the lads around our area are forking out... and we are not competing with the big spud men and veg men that have the dublin market on their doorstep...
I have a nice few crossbreed and I sold twenty back end from 300(boners) but mainly 800 to 1100
Don't worry about it lads, as I said before pick a system that suits you and your farm. I'm one of those 380kg ms sold farmers, I keep the calves so they drink another good drop. But I know from previous experience that driving high yielders up the hill to graze around the rushes don't work. On the other hand, health and durability are very underrated. I have MOX cows 13 to 17 years old that always go in calf "first pick".
Fair play to stanflt, I don't know him, but his cows would not last one year on my type of farm.
tbf he said in an earlier post that he suffered a bit in 2022 due to drought.... output should be measured over a multi year period rather than just one year... we all have good years, great years and an odd bad year... might be better to compare the average output of the last 5 years with the 5 years before that...
on the milking thru the winter.. i really cannot understand why lads have such a problem with it... we are doing it with years and dont mind it one bit... your going to be in the yard doing the feeding and liming cubicles... milking a few cows surely isnt that big of a deal...
Fair play you lad for putting up proof but i dont know how ur making money lets say 160 cows 8kltrs at 40cents say 450k milk sales.To achieve this u need feed 3 tonne all north men do feed 3 or more to achieve yields 8k .So about 200k goes meal.100k rent esb,,silage fert tractor contrator id admire ur work ethic and id say uve super cows
Didn’t see any 200€ cows sold around here. 90c/kg was the the lowest I saw
I was looking at lucky day competition, I sometimes enter the odd machinery competition. But can anyone tell me, what I'm supposed to do with those two if I won
Heard the other day that the milk we are producing from milking through the winter is now going to Lee Strand. Kerry are some shower of F*****s if that is true and the miserable price they are paying us for it.
No seperate sheds on seperate farm with seperate herd no
They'd be a fair liability to be bringing them home.
watch The Wolf of Wall Street.. youll get a few tips from it... just dont watch it with K.G. he'll put you to sleep talking about carbon being like fugazi
In late October early November the northern factories stopped killing cows and local factory was paying 2€ a kg for p cows
if you don’t believe me you can ring Carnaross mart
there was a 2/3 week period there in november cows in listowel were given away... i know of lads who bought them and the plan by them was to milk them away over the winter feed them well... factory them before calving starts.. they were adamant they were going to make money
Similar here, don't think high yielders wud last here. My Co op report is an inverse of Stans!
just home after been in the in laws for the dinner ….young lads had me up at 8 ….gave till 11 in house making up a few yokes ..mother called …face timed a few family members oversea etc …went down yard at 11 …milked 42 cows (no fresh calvers )empties ,culls and cows 50 days to calving ….did cubicles ,threw out dry cow minerals shoved in silage have 10 minutes looking at shite in tik tok 🙄🙄….back in house at 12.50…..will send in about 24 k litres this month milking oad …..easiest cheque of year I’ll probably ck up for frig all extra work …..everyone to there own farmers are no different to doctors nurses guards etc ….we all work holidays etc …we can set things up to do bare essentials days like today …after tomorrow farming back to normal
read back through this page great entertainment
A few interesting slides- the genetics one was done before the re evaluation of the milk ebi so -200kgs milk now would be delivering 7200 litres
Where are you getting 3 ton of meal from
8250 litres sold will only use around 1.7 ton meal
feed to yield means only 0.4kg meal is used to get 1 extra litre of milk
grazed grass and forage need to support the first 5000litres
lads in the north don’t graze and cows are housed all year round
would have thought your replacements would be 100% AI bred
No we use 1 round of ftai on heifers and then bulls go out- no heat detection
Sorry lads in north do also graze 3 tonne is normal for your yields.Thats the reason theres only a small minority of famers doing your system its the meal that kills the profit even if you say 2 tonne u still cant make much profit.The majortiy of farmers in the country arent stupid if there was the money in ayr calving wed be all at it.Also you need top notch silage which u have but it means u have a huge area in spring kept up to take a light cut
How ye get on with de in laws ;-). Ya not much extra work to milk em really. If ur going on a long holiday at Xmas, prob makes sense to dry em off
Avg milk price so far this year was 48.3 to end of October so for the year it should avg 49.5 cpl
1320000 at 49.5 is 653400€
1.8 ton of meal at an expensive price this year of 345 avg for 160 cows is 99360€
a hell of a different scenario to what you. Mentioned
You have to have it to them, from the outside looking in they’ve serious business set up.
what I wonder is it all an act with sammy, does she really Know nothing about machinery ?
Rep we deal with from the Mill we get our dairy nuts from told me recently that the guys who feed the most nuts are the best to pay...
Put them cleaning and liming cubicles and bottle feeding fresh calves.
Sound bunch ….great cooks in that house and we’d be lost without them when it comes to helping out with childminding etc …only 20 minutes from us so handy
I always find it hard going back calving at de end of January cold, easier if your still milking
