A million to get into 100 cows …..jaysus won’t be long going broke if true
Cows went way back on intakes with 3 days. Tank went down nearly 15%. Their dungs went very liquid and jet black. Intakes back up this am and tank recovering. Dungs back to correct color.
Any ideas what happened?
Wasn't a whole lot in place, including reseeding, cows, roads, parlour,cubicles etc.. obviously it's estimate but that kinda figure is the general story around here..I haven't given it enough thought to actually break it down.
A local baby formula producer had 9 Polish milk tankers arrive at 10pm last night. They’re a JV between a Chinese and French Co. Half my milk goes there and they’re crying out for milk, but they’d rather pay over the odds for Polish milk…that’s what you’re dealing with.
Poznan is the closest Polish city to here and it’s over 2000km by road. Surely €4000 per tanker? Great medicine.
A couple of years ago tirlan thought I was to small of a supplier to have a liquid contract, this fall milk manager asked if I would consider calving cows in the autumn again. Looks like they don't know what they want! If brains were dynamite...
Yet they're offering lads money to get out of liquid milk
The abolition of blues cards should not necessity mean the end of the blue book (it possibly will but that is another matter).
If you buy or sell cattle even farm to farm you get mart dockets and movement forms so you should be able to update the blue book from them.
I have a couple of BIL( single men neither farming) who are totally resistant to technology, however its getting the better of them now.
Recently I had to go to the bank to make an inter bank transfer that could not be completed online. It took an hour. I am now after finding out that to add my sons name to the joint account I need to go into the bank again. I am going to try a different branch. TBF the staff within the branch were excellent its just the system in place and the number of staff at the customer support section in BOI125 O'Connell Street in Limerick.
I had started using 125 as it was hand to lodge cheques if I was in town Saturdays and Sundays as its open I think for 10am-8pm
But that is a side issue. If blue cards go it will reduce my workload I will no longer have to sort cards for putting cattle into the factory, have them available for a Board Bia inspection sign the back of them( mind you I have not done that for years)
Maybe I will have to print off a transfer document for the factory but I doubt it. No more worrying about the couple animals with the same last four digits as you sort cards
I use online a facility a bit. I always print off a copy of the herd early in the year and use it for tracking which cattle are starting to go over age ( I use there DOD to filter the print off) and as they are slaughtered I use a highlighter to indicate they are slaughtered.
Agfood.ie is grand but the menu now when you log on is ridiculous
So are you telling me that I can filter the data base on agfood herd profile by dob .
when I log-in ro agfood on laptop ,it only lists the animals in the herd numerically 10 per page am I missing a trick somewhere
I think you can export your full herd onto an Excel file. Easy to sort them then.
So will we just have to wait until all the older generation die off until we start using technology to make the rest of our lives easier? Time stands still for no man I'm afraid, there was resistance to motor cars when they first arrived too!
Classic ibr
I think you can do it on ag food itself before export however you maybe right.
You can filter by DOB, sex, breed, date of arrival, tag number ( it uses the complete number and is how they are set up on the data base)
massive development happening in North Kerry at the moment.... 300cow cubicle house.. 60unit rotary.. calf housing.. silage bases.. etc all being built on a greenfield site... and its being put into the side of a hill which had to be dug out before they started any concrete work... Grasstec did plans/planning permission for it etc.. i expect a video of it will be up when it is fully completed... the land is owned by a billionaire yank whos mother is from north kerry
So who’s paying for the new setup
The Bull McCabe won’t be happy when he hears about this.
this place was sold for 11m during the summer by the guy that owned panda waste
there’s 3 year old rotary in it but the existing yard is going to be demolished for a completely new greenfield site over the road in the middle of the farm
The Yank.. he has a farm manager in place to run it...
go onto google maps there and look up 'The Tankard Bar & Restaurant'... development is just north of it.. almost on the tralee-fenit greenway
Yes you can by clicking on the column header little arrow.
You can also click on the 10 and change it to a larger number or "all" to view all animals in a single table by DOB or Sex or whichever column suits.
Actually @ginger22 I think you are right and if I remember correctly it's Agfoods own calf reg app not the other software providers that you cannot use in the DNA program.
No it was owned by a German family
Winter dynsentry I'd say, was rampant in the UK and Ireland last winter/spring, had it here and the symptoms above are what happened
Yea, a local doing similar on two farms, had to buy both farms as well, A forty unit rotary on one farm, I've seen the foundations for that parlour and I believe robots on the other farm
They laughed at us last Xmas when I asked about getting a winter milk contract, would of been averaging over a 100k a month from Oct to February sent in....
Culling most of the summer/autumn calvers as we speak, going back solely spring calving, they truly believe we are basically sock puppets that will keep the taps on
Is that the farm that Corbally manages with his father
1000 cow unit been set up locally here, first phase is a 80 unit rotary, with a 500 cow cubicle shed/calving shed, my digger man has a few months work in it, showed us the plans, theirs over a 1000 feet of slatted tanks going in....
Gas thing is its a concrete man developing it, he reckons he'll have no bother getting labour, had good feedback from the locals re working their, having a crew to run these units from the get go is more important than any other consideration when investing millions of euro into a dairy unit
The soft jobs are being affected 🤣😂🤣. Alot of the younger generation are well educated and won't be working like slaves.
If you need to feed your farming habit, a bit of beef farming or a few sucklers will do that for you. Less investment in facilities and labour.
Yeah
There'll surely be a few planning objections to that
They might have the very "sweet man" hired as an advisor and bypass all those objections.
