Been told you can purchase the system without grant approval as it is mobile, but I'm a bit reluctant to do it myself without grant approval.
Her Dad was a contractor, uncle on father's side was a dairy farmer and another on her mother's side. She wouldn't have known a goat from a jackass when we got married but would milk now if needed but rathers not be too hands on. She would be very involved in the admin side of the thing and does all the vet runs, coop runs etc.
My lady done the greencert pregnant( her uncles a farmer but wud have no farming background) funny thing is there was another girl the same also.
Do you mind me asking is the wife from a farming background? My better half is a townie, and has no interest in the farm so there's not a hope she would do green cert if I asked her.
Ya it would be next spring by the time partnership be set up fully and grant application in. This spring and next spring as we are so and in with the system ahead of 2026.
I say no brainer if you can get the 60%
I have 60% grant eligibility once the wife comes into a partnership so it's very doable so.
That man is the definition of suffering
Grant reference costs are 2850 roughly for the base station and 112 for the collar/tag/bolus
Collars priced a few weeks ago, 3k base station, 130 per collar all plus vat which isn't refundable unless you get lucky with the base station
They will install waikato if you ask nicely. Starting selling gea robots aswell.
Dairy disaster I'm told by a few
25-30k + VAT. Then both are eligible for grant
Ballpark lads and ladies, collars/bolus and a drafting system for 75-80 cows, how much? I am sick of bulls already.
I remember a few years ago I was having awful bother with milk meters and was told it was only me- after a huge tread on twitter where so many farmers had the same problem - low and behold on the Monday after it a ky reg van arrived from headquarters and swapped out them all- a very large farmer in cork had the same service on the tuesday
Hmmm!
put in their scrapers here 4 years ago, their constantly giving trouble, latest was a part going within a month on all 4 scrapers that cost 250 euro a piece to sort out, was going to put acrs/flush on parlour got quoted 70k incl vat from local dairymaster agent, for 20 units, all that was included was the acr unit/swing-arm/flush system/plusation and new lowline wash noting else, already have dairymaster lw clusters
Not sure if that's the intended picture or who wrote the article, but there's literally a setting when you want notifications if collars haven't sent data in 1h up to 48h on my sensehub, probably same with the others too
Anyone i asked about dairymaster said avoid. They have a base close to me
Funny, dairymaster salesman is on his way here in 10 mins.
there’s a lad from cork that makes daily videos on tik tok with a dairy master. He gets awful bother with the removers, not an old machine either. Think he said it’s one of his biggest regrets buying a dairy master
Wouldnt be great pr for dairymaster, seen him on twitter ranting about wanting to put the tractor through his dairymaster parlour aswell
I'd agree fully on the zero tolerance for bills but I'd extend it to cows too. Unless the husbandry is poor such issues are usually highly heritable imho and better weeded out sooner than later.
He'd be gone here at the first instance of any of that crack. Tbh cows can be way worse than a bull as you'd always be wary of a bull but a cow can get you
There was a bull here a few years ago and it was something else altogether how bad he was. Bringing the cows into the holding yard for milking was like a game of cat and mouse. The bull wouldn’t let me drive the cows in or anything, basically wouldn’t even let me walk down the yard. I think it got to the stage he’d no real interest in cows that were bulling and was more preoccupied with trying to kill me. Personally I wouldn’t see the logic in keeping a bull that ridiculously dangerous
All hereford bull s here and to be fair their temperament has been excellent over the years
Why would you have a cross bull running with the cows. At the first sign of getting cranky get rid of him. There are lots of bulls for sale in Listowel mart every week.
He's going to follow two cows up into the lorry tomorrow now hopefully. 😂
collars here. Only a bull with the heifers, and I hired 2 young ones this year to go with them for 7 weeks after one round of ai. Be gone after that and I won’t have to worry about them
For those of you who do just go on foot to bring in the cows, how do ye generally manage with cross bulls? I’d be thinking I’d be dead 100 times over if I’d to go for the cows on foot. They came back into their paddock today while I was changing the fence, I had the bull sizing me up, the tractor was very far away and I did not like it! 😂
