Once you go over 10 rows it's hardship. No one is going to want to relief milk for you so you're stuck at it yourself
Though They never mention them as that would take the shine off their own halo.
No all he needed was a small bit of cop on and put in a parlour 7-8 years ago and milk 150 cows in a bit of comfort.
Put in a 20 unit here in 2018 full cost of project was 140k after grant. Last payment is on it this December. There is another 20 years work left in it yet. Some people can't tell the wood from the trees when it comes to farm investments
Ya. Ut the funny thing is we all know that they are there...... with the best set up in the country one man/woman is still only capable of milking 80 cows max on his own.
My dad is 80 soon. He does a few bits around the place. I text my mam at 8.30 each morning if we need him to give us a hand, maybe moving calves or taking out a few dry cows. If I forget to text I'll get a call by 8.45. In the winter he does the cubicles. Every bit helps
Where's the holiday home in kerry? Sea view? The wife here is on the lookout for a place...
That’s my point most 60-70 dairy farmers are those who were always at that rate and didn’t expand so don’t carry the big loans you seem to be fascinated about. The big dairy farmers you love to tell everyone about who have the big loans have a hell of a lot more than 60-70 cows.
There you go again with your snide white gold comments. Do you realise this thread mainly consists of dairy farmers.
Can you address my point as to why you keep coming onto a thread that is intended for chit chat for dairy farmers to bounce things of each other, share information, share problems etc, each day you effectively keep telling everyone they are 1. Greedy and 2. stupid and then tell them how they should be running their business and how great you are. You have admitted you have never had a large dairy operation so seriously what experience / qualifications have you for your daily high horse / sneering posts.
Seriously every time I see you posts on this thread especially when things are tough for dairy farmers there is a stink of smugness of your posts.
few gone with tb ..lost 2 recently to bloat and unknown …dried up 2 with feet issues and fattening them ….will milk on everything else …will milk through again (oad from early December to mid janurary .suits me
Unfortunately never had help from parents as farm far from home place, they advice and overlooking would have been a huge benefit when I was making mistakes left right and centre. Some lads take it for granted with help from fam
You make it sound like only dairy farmers have to spend money. I took over here and had 30 cows at the time along with beef and tillage. I worked far longer hours compared to milking 130 now for a fraction of the money made. When the sugar beet went and barley making €75 a ton I put everything into grass and never looked back. All buildings apart from the parlour was done from cash flow. Your comparing everything to your own system which is fine for a man your age but a young lad wanting to go full time farming will be a little more ambitious.
Might do the same if price increases, what do u think of the rumours of the takeover J?
I'm farming an outside block too so my parents left me at it alone. Of course they kept a close eye on me which was no harm. What about the Polish one? Surely she gives u a hand....
Bit of antagonising from you yet again, I'll leave it that.
Will send PM
I don't know will she get much of a free holiday from bass reeves.
Cheaper to send her to New york for the week
You are saying he lost 400 on sending the cows to the mart. Would he have got a fixed price from an agent or how would he do it
You carried it out through organic growth, everyone gets to my age and the last thing you want is serious debt. Beef is about 30% of the investment costs. But costs is what it's all about. I not sure which I would have ended up of I had got a mixed farm in my late 20' or early 30's.
In beef you need no farm roadways except to the yard and maybe 1-2 ways out to fields, fencing can be boundary and fields only you can split permanently with reels and pigtails. No cubicles unless you are really into sucklers, no milking parlour, no underpass.
Much easier to invest within the TAMS system. Nationsl teserve was the virtual perserve of dairy and tillage farms until 2 years ago as external income limit was loaded against parttime lads children.
5 years ago I would have tended towards 100% dairy on a fulltime dairy lads farm. Now I am tending towards limiting investment
Ya weights were shite, and even if they were right he was 250 back off factory price
Cool down, jayus I am only on my second Coors in Baileys Corner. You were the one that threw jealously at me.
Ya I am thick I never realised a thread with dairy farmer chitchat woukd be mainly dairy farmer wanting to pad each other on the back.
As an auld lad at the mart said to me yesterday keep telling your son "f@@k concrete, steel (machinery) and Continental cattle buy land" by the way I would not have posted that but I am.on my second pint it came about in a funny context.
The better half went down yesterday and will stay most of the week. An unexpected event has put kibosh on me staying too long. Tryin to get forage rape in as well
It was a genuine question. You have a wife but no off farm income so I was just asking does she not help you with the farm. Don't worry about it if you're offended.
My one would just about stand in a gap for me of I was stuck. Never really worried me.
What stopped you pollng on the price ,worst could happen you would bring them home and get factory price if they were that far back.I always taught the deal with cows in the ring was when the dealer got his turn he had to bid on if anyone followed him or he would not get a turn again so you left the 400 after you
Same here, suits me fine too.
Chief here farmed with no help from their parents. When we have a row about something and it calms down they would turn around and say at least you have someone to talk to here, I had no one. Wasn't easy I'd say
You'd start to talk to yourself in that case. Not that I'd know anything about that. Or walking along the farm roadway and saying "I must top that paddock" or "I must spread slurry in that one". Anyone like that would only do it out the fields though. In the yard your at risk of being caught out by someone. So they tell me.
No problem paying bills, the problems only happen when the hoor tries to cash the cheque.
😁😁the honest truth
I play soccer with a guy in the local AIB he was saying there’s an awful lot of farmers coming in for loans for feeding for the winter ahead
This is a dangerous time of year for dairy farmers. Lads have forgotten the challenges of spring weather and of getting rid of calves. They are falling back into the sell everything at 2 weeks and just carry more cows.
It's good to have different opinions here from fellow dairy farmers and from other people whether people like it or not. Echo chambers are good for nobody imo.
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