Good or bad..I’ve no idea!
Got an email from processor offering 3cpl..if I ‘sign up’. Wondering what’s the catch is all.
Out of interest do ye get any premium for producing milk for Kerrygold?
Assuming it's the casein type, all it means is picking the right bulls for a few years. It's all genetic
Here us some info. Also I think the A2A2 gives higher cheese yield for the processors. The "Brune" breed are mostly A2A2.
Seems to be a few clearance sales in the coming weeks. This one is in Cahir on 6-Jan
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Supposed to be a good few getting out.
The constantly moving goalposts and the availability of off farm work must be a factor
That one above looks like an executor sale.
Nowadays in an average year would a dairy farmer with 40 cows clear minimum wage for the hours worked while back 10 years ago a 40 cow man was fairly wealthy!!
Depends on the cows......
40 cows are a waste of time unless you love it and don't mind the hours.
I had to grass measure this year as part of the dero and upload to pasturebase. I bought a plate meter with gps last year for not a small sum. To get my arse moving my advisor offered someone who'd measure for me and upload the results. 50 euro cash in hand every time. 20 measures necessary to stay in dero. The last few visits I told them I'd do myself. Cash getting low and I'll have to do myself anyway.
It's all the little new things being forced on every year that is browning people off. And it was a pretty sh1te year for income.
Concrete, electricity massive increases. It all adds and makes one wonder what else is out there. The land leasing price announcements is just another sweet to pull the plug.
A2 milk is supposed to not cause as much digestive problems. Has a significant premium in Aus/NZ.
Not sure if it is this your talking about?
The well has been well and truely been poisoned re succession and having the generational renewal needed to keep milk supply ticking over , back 10 years ago their was a real buzz re new entrants etc and the younger generation on existing dairy farms joining the business and driving it forward...
Present day the life is been sucked out of the industry, at farm level the suits still reckon the milk will always be their but by 2030 I reckon co-ops will be screaming for milk
Agree 100%. Local mart here has over 2000 cows on the books for clearance sales in the Spring. No massive appetite for driving on anymore with lads around here. Costs out of kilter, nitrates, constant investment etc etc etc.
And earlier than then with any luck
If they are screaming for.milk they will still be making money. They might become more efficient but unlikely. They will just pay at a level to maintain there margin. If they do not make a margin they go bust. Kerry and Glanbia are getting out of processing because they think the margins are too low
You are just having a wet dream but it's milk on your pajamas
Kerry and glanbia are bullshitting. They have nothing without the foot soldiers
Lads I know are still measuring to get up to 20. They are not doing the walks though. You can just throw down any rough numbers at all and nobody will be checking your homework.
They should have left the lads that want to measure do the measurements and their figures would be accurate. Figures are all over the place now. 50 euro cash for a grass walk is good money. 💰
Really? Kerry farmers rightly told the plc to get f**ked trying to get a fortune for the processing arm that's literally falling to pieces and their 2023 intake versus 2022 is down 6% with the processing side now loss making, and another fun fact their supplier pools average age is mid 60's, I know you've a deluded notion dairy farmers are raking it in and will keep slogging away but your talking about a sector you've f**k all knowledge about
It will be interesting 2024 see Kerry plc trying to sell their agribusiness trying to shore up their share price .
A bit about different milk quality and cheese production
Maybe im wrong but cant glanbia and kerry buy and market product produced in other countries
Be careful what you wish for. There is no existing co-op capable of taking over Kerry's production system. You do not want a ''devil you do not know".
Correct and correct and a Happy New year to you 😊 😀
Every business is about margin. Large companies expect a 20% margin at division level. If its loss making they just close it down
Me I am just a trader. I buy an animal and finish it. I tend not to over think the system. I just buy and accept my margin( maximising it by internal efficiency ) and move on. It took me a while to accept that.
At the end of 2022 dairy farmers began to believe the White Gold myth of aggressive expansion. All businesses are cyclical you just have to survive the GOOD TIME'S
A friend of a customer of mine ended up with 19 walks this year as he started late and was uploading right up to this evening, What is likely to happen in that case?
I think most misunderstand that
UK is further along that road(despite a huge home market) - with a 5% drop in Dairy farm numbers in the past 12 months alone!!. I'm also hearing alot of milk will be looking for a home via NI in increasing amounts next year
And good luck to them with that
I’m going to have to look into it. Their wording isn’t very precise as to what they’re looking for.
Things in milk processing in ireland never happen out of choice it's always nessatity.
