If I rented out my middling scattered farm I could name 5 dairy farmers in surrounding parishes straight away that would jump at it. They will produce what I'm producing handy. The lower production is down to bad weather. Farmers exiting will not make any difference. Units will just get bigger. Be a good neighbour and let this happen. L
Well if its tirlan, suppliers voted to pay for it basically. Sure we'll be paid back.
Why would farmers be paying for unused processing facilities. We live in a capatalist economy. Processors that are uncompetetive will simply fold. Only the strong will survive. Loyalty to a processor is nonsense. I know they will try to sign lads up to "supplier contracts" but if you sign that more fool you.
And the farmers still paying for the processing facilities that will never be used to full potential
Won't mean there won't be opportunities or a good living to be made out of it for those remaining at it, but now doubt we are in the time of serious change.
Agree with the both of you. Can’t help but feel that dairy farming is in a bit of a “death spiral” - 10 years down the line I’d be thinking a good few milk processing plants will have closed.
it already is a downward spiral… the reps that call here have never encountered such disillusionment among dairy farmers… and many they say are just plain and utter sick of it… co-ops wont change what they pay the farmer… they couldnt care less about the farmer…
Well I suppose the gist of it is that the processors are shooting themselves by not paying a viable price. They should sell harder, demand higher prices from their customers instead of passing the misery back down the line to their suppliers.
It will be a downward spiral the way they are operating. No margin for suppliers = diminishing supplies.
He rightly is moaning about the support payments that were offered to cover the bad spring, why Irish processors are not paying and saying the market is volatile while markets are on the up. And he rightly states milk production is down as cows weren't fed, and they weren't fed as farmers knew the coops wouldn't cover the additional costs.
archive.ph is yer friend here. Just drop the independent link in and it will unlock the paywall
Behind a paywall, what's the gist of it
https://www.independent.ie/farming/dairy/peter-hynes-why-im-losing-faith-in-our-dairy-industry/a1112177692.html in the farming indo
She's not that bad. The vet was saying once the toxin in in the bloodstream, that's it. I don't know but I've a bucket of magic powder ordered anyway.
Unless the liver has been damaged.
I'd say it was this angle the vet was coming from.
I might give it a shot. I see they have lick blocks too. She was mad to be milked this morning. Maybe I'll put her on once a day and leave her out at night. Ya, you would think the liver should clear the toxins.
Pedigree Friesian. Had one a few years ago too but not as bad.
Are you going to tell us about the new place at all? Not like you to be holding back 😉
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Ya, something she ate most likely awakened the toxins in her bloodstream and they are there for evermore now I'm told. I don't have too many weeds around or nothing in particular that should cause any harm. Sure of course they love eating the ditches on the way in to milking. Could be genetic too but her mother was a very healthy cow.
I got an outbreak in the sheep when I mistakenly gave too much copper to texel sheep, they got over it with a steroid injection, some lost their ears though
Well "Friesian" isn't really accurate and "Holstein" does carry a bit of baggage, hence all the fudging I'd say.
Given the controlling influence of the HoFr society on the ICBF, isn't the direction of these indices surprising?
I asked a few of them how many farmers did they expect to meet their top 20% KPI targets and they all tried to answer me with straight faces!
Nothing wrong with a small bit of measuring and comparing but you can only play with the hand your dealt after.
That's normally a one off and cures, unless it's a rare form. Conventional medicine won't offer much but if you know someone sound with experience in herbal or homeopathyit can be very helpfulin such cases.
I agree with you on Ming. He got luck to be elected to the Dail first day but has rode his luck. Know his voters and who will vote for him and like Maria Harken targets that vote.
I intensely dislike Mick Eallace and Claire Daly and hope neither get elected. They were and are a disgrace over the Ukraine war. On independents in general especially in the Dail we have too many. I have lost respect for some of them especially the Healy Rae's, one time I taught they were a breath of fresh air. However they never want to go into government or support a government so effectively it a waste of a vote voting for them
I’d vote for Ming if he was in the South constituency. Whether you agree with him or not, he seems to be out there fighting for his constituents and he knows their farming reality.
I think it is an allergic reaction to something toxic she ate, ferns, ragworth maybe. Have had some cases here over the years. They will never fully recover but it won't do them a lot of harm either. No cure for it.
Definitely there some vets new out of college and they are very poor on there diagnosis it's not great.
Is that where a cow is wobbly and goes down due to the sun? Sun burn on white skin? If so she will be fine and no need to cull. What I’m thinking of is also related to what they have eaten. Have had some new vets call this spring time and swear I know more about bovines then they do and me the poorer for it.
I've had a few with it over the years and the one common factor is that they were either Simmental crosses out of dairy cows or suckler bred by Simmental bulls. Do you have any Simmental, Fleckvieh or crosses in the herd?
Could you try a bag of humates on her before you go to think of drying her off?
Vet may have no experience of humates fed to stock. I don't even know if it'd work myself on her. Just going on a hunch that photosentization is cause by toxins in the bloodstream and the humates may take it out and reverse the situation.
Had a look at the price of the bag. Maybe try the bucket first. 😯 It's not much anyway recommended per day. So bucket may do. But then there's a big difference in price per kg. So now I've talked myself back to the bag. Anyway whatever. Humates.
