Was talking to the accountant yesterday with FDC. He was saying what they were finding it was the lads with the Jersey cross cows had the biggest reduction. I said that wasn't the fault of the Jersey cross but more the mind set of the owner of the Jersey cross. They expect them to milk on grass and fresh air.
We were actually up 11% in supply last year.
Valiant base versatile d once your not supplying tirlan
surprisingly enough we were up aswell, im putting the drop off down to management and breeding strategy. There are allot of lads focussing on solids at the expense of litres.
Had the supplier of the calf boluses I mentioned above here a few days ago.
This time last year he was saying there's a shocking amount of cows in the country.
The very first thing he said on opening the window a few days ago was there's a shocking lot of farmers in Wexford after getting out of cows. He couldn't understand it.
He was so sure of the situation last year in his head and this year he couldn't understand the situation. I thought it funny in a perverse sort of way. Outside observers are not always observant.
This was in the ifj yesterday, a lot are deciding not to work for nothing.
the far right are at it again
I'm supplying tirlan unfortunately 😅
How many of ye have planned to have 9m2 of shed space per cow?
Using duocell here and finding it very good but I'm not on straw, deosan teatfoam is another good one but stupidly dear.
It doesn't come at a cost of 12.5%, it will all even off with capital allowances in the medium term anyway
Dairy farmers arguing about tax reminds me of a story from the eighties. Myself and my father were at the local garage, there was two local dairy farmers there complaining about all the tax they had to pay. When we were driving home my father said that if their fathers (both dead) could hear the sons moaning about paying tax they’d have some laugh. I asked why, he replied that neither of them had the arse in their trousers.
I have Outdoor cubicles so no problem!!@
Is it easier to use cash in a company?
Where are you getting the cash Kev...
Well if you make a profit of say 20 k in 23 you will pay 2.5 k in tax on it.if in 24 you decide to use it for on farm development there is only 17.5 k available. You can then subsequently use your capital allowance on 24 and preceeding years.correct me if I have it wrong
Have anyone heifers/cows off of fr5860
i have six ready to calf, and training them to the parlour. I have some also from my own bull, which I could bring in to the dwelling house with me. The fr5860 heifers could easily run in Cheltenham while in a Spanish bull fighting ring. The most frightening yokes I have ever seen. Never have I seen such nervous heifers. Anyone else have that breed ?
I had one cracked yoke, you know one of these that have a crazed look in the eyes. I dried her off straight after calving as couldn't chance it with kids around the parlour. Just looked her up there and lo and behold sire is fr5860! I must look up later to see if any more because in fairness the rest of the heifers are very placid.
This weather would want to turn soon.messy weather on cubicles and hard to keep bedding dry nevermind the ground is sopping.
That's right. There's no cost to that money though. You wouldn't have more profit by borrowing the money instead
If your finished with capital allowances would ye be better off incorporated
The thing is if you are using the ltd to buy land are you going to have more capital allowances down the line, due to extra stock and future slurry storage requirements. Depreciation of this might be an issue say if they are done on a farmyard that is leased to the company
Dairy show and sale in New Ross
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It hasn't been raised as a issue yet in our set up maybe it's to do with the length of lease
Some farmers have put to yard into the company for this reason.
New calf/calving shed we are at the last two months, just about done probably the last major project that ill have to do in my lifetime bar extra slurry storage depending on any new regulations....
Probably puts us over the million spent on infrastructure etc since I started dairying back in 2012
Are the shippers buying calves these days.
Had some in the mart today made from 80 down to 40, one Brown Swiss lad made 175.
Were 3 weeks old on ad lib milk.
I wouldn't like to be trying to keep them going. The thoroughbreds of cattle.
The fellow who bought the Brown Swiss won't get caught again, they can puff up great on the first month but they're only brown holsteins after.
It's a weird path alot of pedigree holstein irish breeders are at, type and getting ex cows comes before actually breeding a good robost solid holstein with good bf/pr, it's almost impossible to get a nicely breed American holstien bull with good fertility/bf/pr their all still chasing type,my heifers of Irish holstein stock bulls are alot more extreme/fragile than my ai breed stock
Below example is a westcoast river incalf heifer of a jabir dam
Really functional dairy cows
What's the yellow n bars in the middle
