Mature bull maybe but if doing no AI a second would always be advised
One bull would be a big risk. Prid and ai them if short on time, then run a bull. I have had good sucess with prids
Thanks for the replies.
I’d be selling all the calves and not breeding for replacements yet, so was just thinking of leaving an AA bull to them. But there’s nothing stopping me putting an AA straw into them I suppose and then letting off the AA bull to catch any that don’t hold.
did he plough up the land last year and grow barley on it?
There was no competition
....that was the issue ....that's nearly sorted now though pile of lads got out of it and the fact that glanbia coop as opposed to glanbia plc is skint has helped a massive amount on the liquid side ......only one coop acting the ejeet now apparently 👍👌🤞🤞🤞🤞
Think they are going string as far as I'm aware whelan
got it in one!!
You're worse to believe it lad, From milking cows to 50 an hour on a site 🤣
The work is there ,the money is there but you are not paid by the hour but how much you are prepaired to do .
You must not have priced a tradesman lately
man in question had a very tough time of it with TB.. awful really what happened to him... he was always into the building work with his brothers when he had less cows.. he went up in cows after quotas going and farmed fulltime for a while.. as i said got a bad doing with TB... so stayed out went back building and ploughed up the land last year... these guys are not afraid of work... there actually great men to work... mans daughter has a great interest in cows... shes in NZ milking at the moment...
Never, ever trust one bull SS....no matter how tempting. Golden Rule😉
Prid them
or do the 7 day estrumate programme Siamsa
thr best advice I was given on heifers was it’s the one time in there life you can dictate there calving date
good research out there to show the longer they gave between calving and there next breeding the better
if it was me starting off I would spend the few € on the prids and get your foundation herd good and compact and have milk going early
I mentioned here a few weeks ago of a couple of fellows that were getting out for 1 reason or another.
I heard a deal was done for 1 herd privately over the holidays. Bought by someone that was depopulated with TB.
Also heard that most of the land will be planted and a few acres used for hobby farming around the farmyard and dwelling house.
A small out block going to sold, possible development options subject to planning.
A pity to good land like that going to forestry, but none of the family have an interest
Brilliant economic choice turning land from being worth 10k+/acre into land worth 2-3/acre after planting just to draw forestry subs
Dairy farmer bought 40 acres good ground for 15k an acre recently. Other farmer had it rented for years
I see in the Farming Indo today that the slurry storage requirement is going to be increased from 0.33m3 to 0.4m3. This will knock lots of people into non compliance and will be another cost to deal with in order to add more capacity just to stand still. Plus with banks bawking at lending if you are above 170kgN/ha, it's another cut to the already thousands applied for Irish dairy.
U based in South Tipp?
And the when it's put into forestry after tge forestry subs are drawn it's worthless.
I never get this no successor or no family interest. Often its becathere is only one income full time off it so children get careers and move on. Then some farmers are unwilling to change there system from dairying to drystock.
Former local Dairy farmer was speaking to me about this. He changed to drystock about 5-6 years ago. He said he had a significant fear that it was not viable. He said he should have done it 5 years before he actually did.
Then the successor goes over 35 and stamp duty kicks in that is 75k to be found for a million euro farm. Now TBH I would live with it but some lads have a fear of borrowing a fiver. It peculiar actually lads often will borrow 25-30k for a car over 3-5 years but have a mental block of maybe forking out a couple hundred thousand ( maybe to sort out parents or siblings) for a business capable of a 30-50k income every year
whatever they can do to get farmers to spend money they will do it.... is going from 0.33m3 to 0.4m3 a europe wide thing... or is it just here in little oul ireland.... the quarries will be delighted....
lads will sooner or later start to look at the SFP and wonder is it worth it...
350-450 gallons of extra storage per cow depending on area your in and type of slurry storage installed, with building costs and if you can't get grant aid with current interest rates 160 cow farm for arguments sake would have to take out probably 75k just to get a tank up no shed, just slats and tanks, on a 5 year term you'd have circa 1500 euro a month leaving the account, our nearly 2 cent a litre added on to production costs, nice kick in the balls with the year just gone and the majority of dairy farms hoping to recoup some of their losses and build back up a rainy day fund
This will be included in the water framework directive. It will be a legal requirement...storage capacity, comply with spreading dates, no runoff etc.
Giving up SFP will be of no benefit with this one.
I'm surprised it's not a lot higher.
A 106 cow emits 2kgN per week (supposedly), and if slurry contains 2.4kgN/m³, then you should require 0.83m³ (2÷2.4) per week storage.
Someone got a formula across that the 106 cow emits just 1kgN/week during the housed period.
Amazing how my cows emitted 106 last year and only 92 this year. 🤔
It's all implausible made up figures just to keep the boot in and close of any options like existed re slurry exporting before they took a few watery slurry samples and used them as their basis point to come up with the n figure we are at, if the civil service put in half the effort and f**k-wittery they are pulling on us into the health service they'd have it turned around in no length
are there any plans to allow lads to test their slurry for N..? we have all our tanks roofed here.... got slurry tested out of curiosity... came back at 5.9kgsN/m3...
Edit. misread post.
But let's be honest.the current requirement is probaly not enough in practice. We ve a fairly rain free winter accommodation and we are just about enough.now I will say we are doing a bit of straw bedding in theory but it wouldn't about to 10 % in the overall scheme of things.anyway that always been the story with milking you're always spending
Looks like they want that new concrete levy to be big to pay for them mica houses to be rebuilt.if you believe that that tax money will see people in Donegal getting new homes 😏
My buddy told me that he received the Dairygold Milk Purchasing Conditions in this morning’s post. 38 pages of regulations he said.
Would certainly serve as encouragement for any suppliers thinking of selling up…..
Just ai for 3 weeks youll surely get 50 percent worst case scenario and some well bred heifer calves.The bull will surely catch the other 15.
