Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

I didn't say drugs but....I won't be posting details on a public forum, but can pm if you require. Maybe it's only local to here but it's a factor. I'm not having a go at you but can't honestly think of land bought around here from purely farming income.

Look at yourself buying land with off farm incomes..

Didn't bother signing up to the national genotyping program this year and typically enough it's one of the rare years I have excess heifer calves. How much of an advantage is having genotype results when it comes to picking the best of what I have to keep for myself?

Well seen as I had bought it 10 years previously I think I was entitled to sell it and it was never going to be a stand alone farm, only an out block and the 230 acre farm was a better prospect and considering the price got for it, it seemed the logical thing to do.

Shares in the ‘worst’ co op in the country would be a big help I’d say lol

I did sign up but pulled out ….everything up to this springs calves bar 5 I think were genotyped ….I will get all my heifersborn this year done at my own cost ….like black dog milk records and family history etc is what matters when selecting out heifers

A fine one it is too. He helped me with a starter for the forklift.

We're all business people of sorts on here.

was that the farm the Dyson lad bought?? ballynatray??

The likes though would see the farmer protests in Europe and think there's handy money to be made. We'll cash in on them.

In Russia all land is owned by Putin's inner circle. You may think you'd own or rent but anytime you can be murdered by the fsb or land simply taken back by the Kremlin.

All the western car companies had factories in Russia bought and paid for, and Putin simply bought them for 5 euros and transferred them to his friends. Real Real gangsters. If they weren't sold and signed over the people involved were unlived.

There was a lad a while back who used to write in the IFJ about all the strides Russian agriculture was making and the great investments to be made. All gone quiet now.

no he bought his huge estate fairly reasonably due to size

was an 80 acre farm, lovely ground......

Let off 5 cows this morning to the factory where 2023 july/aug calvers, still all doing 18-22 litres came into 1200 euro , going back to a spring calving block, wouldn't co-ops want to get their finger out of their h**s and up milk a few cent shortly theirs more money out of hanging them up at this stage then milking them

That's sure, the grass looks greener over the ditch. I'd say farming in Russia would not be all plain sailing.

I'm getting the feeling that dairy farming is going down the pig route. When I started farming we had about ten sows, then no one was looking for the piglet. So I started rearing them to pigs. The costs were more than the price I was getting so we had to let them go. The sad thing about it was the great life the pigs had, the sows were left out every day for a run around and plenty of straw for the pigs to play.

I might knock another few years until the children are working but I can't see the next generation milking 60 cows. It will be interesting to see.