when you have boards made up of people who don't know what's happening. calibre of dg board is hopeless now compared to 10 yrs ago. we got half cent bonus which we were delighted with but no one on board knew it was coming. what does that tell you? management didn't want to overdo the profit? board yrs ago would have been all over this
In fairness Mike isn't an academic, has lots of real experience. Would doubt he was contradicting himself. They're not necessarily two mutually exclusive systems.
yea
Would you recommend him?
I see my bull is flying up the active list and is in the new AI catalogue. Beyond my wildest dreams when I started farming in my own name 7 years ago. 🤠🤠 It's the small things in life.
Is he an IFA member
One of my tenants claim indoors is the only way to go with robots and he's a terrific farmer., but doesn't have robots .......yet.
I'm an academic part of the week (for now) so I can say this: nothing matters in academia as it's all just theory and playing around. You could say one thing this week, and the opposite next week, and no one would bat an eyelid. That's the environment (pardon the pun) that most of the anti-livestock brigade in the media come from. All that matters to them is winning their argument.
I was on it back in 2017 with WIT but we weren't looking at the dairy side. I think there was a former lecturer in WIT involved in it. When I was there the same man was all for indoors, he seems to be top notch on nutrition. He was trying to get lads to go out to Uganda and work on indoor farms there, unsurprisingly no one took him up on his offer. The same man was on on RTE 1 last week talking about MSS and clover. Fair U turn there.
I would change that, breed and rear a suitable calf
Spot on there, to suggest the co-ops or bord bia would foot the bill or some of it for exporting calves is ridiculous. As always the cost will fall back to the farmer and placing a 1c leavy across the board for every farmer supplying milk would be totally unfair.
I was alluding to people slaughtering calves/dumping calves in Marts etc.
Farmers should be prepared to properly rear calves to a saleable standard for sale at the Mart or off farm which I’m sure you’re doing, again it’s the small minority that cause the trouble for everyone else.
Young farmers and grants acres will keep a floor under prices for rent .Farmers being farmers who being a status thing with how many cows you milk will continue to rent and bid against each other will drive on prices.
Paddy irish rears calves at a loss he pays 90 euro to exporter to get rid of them to europe cus hes not allowed to slaughter.Exporter makes money european farmer gets calf slaughters and makes money everyone makes money except paddy irish farmer who makes a loss
There was a farm very near dunhill castle receiving visits for years. Think it was an all indoor setup
I'm not sure if that's where they're going in Dunhill. It was the man in Scrahan told me the lorry heads for Dunhill after collecting from him.
I didn't know SETU was setting up a monitor farm. They've links with Kildalton for various student courses, but their own place would be useful if they get the go ahead for the new vet courses.
The place with a good whack of Delaval robots?
Based on what I saw today on Twitter concerning the meeting between the EU commissioner and the main EU farming orgs, the likes of Copa Cogeca views such things as "progress" and wants to double down on the policies that brought it about🙄
1500 In 2073?
155,000 dairy farmers in 1975
15,000 today.
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...
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.
The co-ops and media and other vested interests are saying that the prospects for milk price are very good later in the year. 🤣🤣🤣
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.
have they started collecting in dunhill, thats suppose to be WIT (SETU) new monitor farm.....switched supplier used to be a tirlan farm
1c/L across your milk divided by the number of calves you sell.
That is by far the most depressing post on here with years.
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
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
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
