your neighbour is selling out.... will ya b knocking a gap?
I put up a post about Taaffes sale last week and how it averaged 2300
nobody commented on it because people don’t like reality and how good stock is worth so much more
I suppose Denis brosnan would be a large dry Kerry coop shareholder... probably looking for his shares to keep their value somewhat intact.
I can see why a person would think that but I’d seen a list before of the largest shareholders in the co op and his name most certainly was not anywhere to be seen on it. If I was a betting man I’d wager he isn’t a co-op shareholder.
Maybe... wouldn't stop his wider family having large holdings of coop shares....but I'd fully agree on his view though.
Can buy any amount of good stock off farm cheaper. I Dont like buying stock from marts. Prefer to see them at home ,not pumped up and unmilked
It's to prompt lads to sign up out of the fear that it might drop further.
Exact same tactic the meat factories use when they are tight for beef or lamb and want to flush out numbers.
Farming is a funny one - the only industry where the customer can drop prices to get more supply 😜
You would want to be getting 2k really. They make 500 as weaned calves like and there is alot gone into them since.
Most of those high priced holsteins are calvef at 2.5 to 3yrs old they have generations of top expensive american bulls they have generations of vg or ex.The ones brought to sale are usually the pick of a batch of heifers your correct alot has gone into them if ud a 2.5 yrs old angus yud be looking at 1400 to 1500 so yud want to be getting alot more for those heifers.
Ballintosig herd in corrin tomorrow
I seem to be bombarded with lely robotic stuff lately on YouTube and tiktok and I ve noticed once they get in the yard they seem to be sell everything into that yard,scrapers,silage pushers latest one is a vector in offaly. They seem to a massive number of sales reps and I m just wondering are they real hard sellers or are those people more predisposed to buying that type of stuff
I suppose they aren't in the yard unless invited in, so the farmer has some interest in the gear. Once there, they will try upsell as best they can. You wouldn't expect anything less from sales people.
Thought that was sold last year?
I have a scraper can't say I have been bombarded with sales calls since to be honest. I suppose my little outfit wouldnt be worth chasing re a vector or milking robot I suppose in fairness.
There was a dispersal sale of 55 incalf spring high ebi cows in Carnaross today they averaged 1050 euros
in the cull cow ring I know of a farmer who had 30 cull Holstein cows outta the parlour and he averaged 150 more
Cheap in Nenagh too
empty heifers making good money too
BALLINTOSIG
herd clearance sale of in-calf heifers @ Corrin mart Friday January 26th
@11am. Heifers up to 327 EBI.
Snap shot of sale in nenagh today .these are some of a bunch of 30 3 way cross fr/je /nor red in calf heifers all due early feb to sexed semen ..lots went for 1000/1100
Incalf heifers like the above that lads where histroricallt breeding for sale to turn a few quid at a time of year to boast cashflow is now as much a liability and cost as a dairy bull calf, given where rearing costs are at, points to a serious lack of new entrants/expansion when the above aren't clearing 1350-1400 especially when incalf to sexed
The likes of the well bred pedigrees are making the money due to their breeding lines and the vast amount of feed they’ve received to get to their size. I remember relief milking for a guy who sold incalf heifers every spring for big money like what’s been quoted above, his spring heifer calves were getting 3.5kg of a 19% heifer grower ration by mid May thought it madness, you’d want to be getting mad money for them when it comes to selling them.
Mine get no meal from June to September as calves
all these myths about high yielding cows needing huge looking after
feed to yield is all that required
Ok the cows were sold last year
Have you no diet feeder ?
Gwizz stan,you don't half sound like a fella that has a good bit of stuff to sell.sher maybe I m wrong
No don’t do private sales
just telling lads the truth which it seems hurts.
as it quashes a lot of myths
Yeah of course
most efficient way of utilising forage and purchased concentrates
What’s in your typical mix for the Milkers in Nov/Dec when you’ve the autumn calvers and cows you’ve carried over milking alongside the fty in parlour?
35kg silage
20kg maize
5kg brewers
Only drying off march calvers this week
42 days dry is the norm here
