90 euro for every calf I sell, they can feck off
For goodness sake wouldn’t ye keep your powder dry until you’ve got a good reason to strike.
Solidarity isn’t exactly a good reason to strike.
Yes. Crazy idea..!
Media love to talk down calves before there's any even born, usual craic this time every year.
What tulip said that?
Wouldn’t name and shame them…some people would actually welcome this because they’d rather die than rear a non replacement heifer calf.
It's the kiss teagasc blueprint in fairness plus you'll never achieve your 8 hour work day rearing a lock of bull calves...
Question re HerdPlus if that’s OK.
Can you record heats in heifers (or cows) on the app?
I can see where to enter AI serves on the app but not heats.
Thanks
That’s over the top and unfair …I contract rear my fr heifers from 3 months to November pre calving all fr bull and beef calves sold thru mart and off farm ….nitrates /derogation and banding forcing my hand …this allows me concentrate on what makes me money and not reduce there numbers to carry beef ainmals that are break even at best ….I did it for years and if I was locked with tb I have facilities to rear all of them
Where did u get the 90 euro figure from …I know the cost of flying calves is higher than shipping but it’s f this took off and happend it would be at scale and savings could be made plus get coops bord bia etc to buy in …..win win for everyone inc beef sector ….if and when exports stop we have huge problem
due to volume ..no ammount of sexed semen …cbv dbi etc will make a differenc
Yep, people just can't seem to understand that. Sexed is not the answer.
Menu, record events, heat and ai serve
And there is always a gullible fool that will jump up and say he can do it in 7 hours a day. He will be promoted then as a deadly man altogether to try and drag the rest of us into line. I have to laugh at these lads led by the nose on podcasts and the likes. The interviewer has all the questions in front of them and they are ticking off all the "correct" answers as they go. Shameful 🤣
207503 calves exported last year. The high and mighty on here, might not be too haughty if they were still hanging around the country. When the boats "break down" or there seems to be a storm every week in march and April, there will be people on here giving out about no demand for calves.
Every avenue should be explored
From too much milk to not enough within 2 years
i was hoping arrabawn would put on the extra lorry down here for you:)
Thanks for that. I was using the ICBF WebApp app instead of the ICBFHerdPlus app
I'm using the mullinahone stomach tube which is quick and easy to slide down the throat. It's disposable and may work 10 times before leaking. Is there any like it tho that lasts
I saw the Arrabawn lorry passing the entrance to our yard last week. I think it passes as it goes from Scrahan to Dunhill and then onto Dunmore
They where down nearly a quater of a billion litres for 23 vs 22 when they thought it would be a reversal and up 200 plus million litres, the crazy thing is cow numbers increased in the glanbia catchment area in 23 versus 23...
Has to be serious repercussions for their plants going forward if milk supply keeps tailing off, been shy 800 plus million litres for argumentsake if derogation was pulled would seriously impact their ability to pay for milk going forward with plants running at half capacity our lower for most of the year
Are any of the co ops getting worried yet about dwindling milk supplies ,4 x50 cow men gone this year so far locally and good share more of them pusing on for the pension with no one following on.Kerry agri put a share of staff in the factory on short time 2 weeks ago.
what spin will the pricks put on milk price for the year
That is by far the most depressing post on here with years.
1c/L across your milk divided by the number of calves you sell.
have they started collecting in dunhill, thats suppose to be WIT (SETU) new monitor farm.....switched supplier used to be a tirlan farm
But what can be done, the latest rise in cost of living has squeezed the smaller lad, just as it always did before.. add the bullshit factor of being vilified like some kind of criminal and the never ending red tape, it's not hard to see the appeal for lads to exit.
I bought some cows off a man getting out this year..late 50's son not over keen, lost some land as he couldn't compete when it came up for lease again against the lad that got into milk with 200 cows 4 years ago, on the back of a monster SFP built up 20 years previous..it's hard to see how quotas going done anything for the smaller farmer..land was always a bigger quota for small lads like us anyway.
The co-ops and media and other vested interests are saying that the prospects for milk price are very good later in the year. 🤣🤣🤣
I think the coops are the biggest rogues in farming at present. They have detached themselves from the reality of a farmers yard. No empathy for the slavery that will go on over the next few months. Paying peanuts for produce produced 7 days /week. Farmers can't afford to compete against other industries for labour and they come out with state ment like Straight has posted above to lure farmers into staying at it.
statements arent working though.... guys dropping out of milk production is nothing new but it definitely seems to be gathering pace... and the herds being sold are getting bigger and bigger... a 180 cow herd for sale by denis barrett near listowel coming up soon... the changes around our area in last 5 years are now plain to see... and its only going one way... lads who stay in milk production should have no problem accessing land in the next few years... whos to blame?? dont know the answer to that...
155,000 dairy farmers in 1975
15,000 today.
1500 In 2073?
