Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

you’ve hit the nail on the head there re compliance and then as alps has outlined concerns over me Sweetman

Look its another scheme to help big farmers a small farmer is hardly going to build a slurry tower is he.

You may say that however lack of planning will remain a flaw on title. It doesn't exclude you from building regulations (specifications) and will come to light in any future applications be they for permission or subsequent grant application. Drawing in a risk period of 7 years following each manoeuvre of your business may not be the best management style.

My point is why build without planning and then go looking for retention before 7 years.
It not true about being unable to draw a grant. I got the grant for my parlour and milk tank a few years back as when the planning inspector came out he just wanted to see I had enough tank space. He measured everything and was happy with my tanks, which were all built without planning .

Nail on head re concrete companies been down on orders, factory brothers draw out off is probably only operating at 60% of what cement was going out in 2022/early 23, farm building has all but stopped…

Export market has collasped aswell into england with hs2 been shelved, this company would of been able to export all its cement accross the water till the above was shelved

we’re just going to have to disagree on this Bass. We’re in high tax bracket here and my slatted tank from 2018 is nearing its end in depreciation. Farm income is an awful lot higher than then and will be going forward. This will give at least 2 years with low tax bill to decide if we’re going have to go a company route or not. My business can afford the full cost with out the grant and that’s what we’re doing. I could have applied for the grant if I wanted but after seeing the **** show a local guy had this spring because he got held up with grant for a year I decided not to bother. I haven’t the time to go drawing slurry to a leased yard in late December, this spring I ended up drawing slurry to it in Feb which was a complete pain and I need the feed space. It’s not just being built for the sake of it

PTO generator all the way

Is not the beauty of engine driven that it's a compact stand alone unit that you can wire up an automatic change over system that the power is only off for milliseconds?

The downsize of tractor being there could be something else on tractor when tractor is needed.

I'm saying this myself as I already have a 40kv pto generator but not wrapping taken off it yet. And I was thinking of trading back in for an engine driven one.

Theirs no point putting up a electric fence when the cows are already broke out and in the next parish, charlie is a complusive liar and bulls***ter, with hold-ups in tams applications, trying to get bank approval and then find a builder, derogation will probably be gone and 90% of planned tanks wont be needed…

Its a face-saving excercise by the goverment, they know its pointless but they have to be seen to do something to help "save derogation"

The bigger diesel stand alone generators need to be connected to a mains to have an ant dampner I think. Need to be started more regularly also. Have a Bradley, cheap and cheerful

I bought a 3 phase pto driven one 50 kva 4 years ago …only needed it handful of times but fair comfort knowing it’s there especially with cows when there’s an outage ….I gave 5 k inc vat for it …I’d say you could add 2/3 grand to that for same now

Was advised against engine driven one

Bought off 1 from dealer not far fr us u know de lad 3-4 years ago. Has been reliable bar a few pipes. 310 12 yr old