Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

I wish you were right where I am anything reasonably good or better is min 400 an acre bad land is still less old leases are still 150 to 200 an acre but as the leases are being renewed they are all min 300 to 350 and they are being agreed with no outsider having an opportunity and offering to rent it but anything to let publicly is min 400 and auctioneers are not hyping up figures these are ego farmers bidding against each other in fact any auctioneer I've spoken to about renting land seem to be quite worried about whether some of these lads will continue paying for the duration of the leases

A rough figure for 2 cuts of silage is 600 an acre plus rent of 400 is 1000 an acre to operate this extra land before anyone shoots me down about my figures their is huge variables in cost of making silage like distance from your yard for drawing slurry whether your paying a contractor etc

I use the commercial lease register to find the real land rental figures and it's frightening what some people are paying now that's assuming they pay

Would it be a plan of some cute hoors to pay big money officially on long term leases with the landlord getting the money tax free and not effecting their own tax band situation. Then returning a portion back to the farmer in cash. The farmer paying the big money is using the big money paid to reduce their own tax situation whilst still receiving their money back in cash. The word is put out of the big money leases and it puts their more honest neighbours and competitors under pressure who they'd be hoping to profit from their downfall with less competition for land and possibly rent or buy the neighbours land. Auctioneers would then be none the wiser or possibly are but it's a short term gain and they see it as winner all around except for the honest renters who would be squeezed out of business.

McDonnell's original article was about conventional semen and how it wasn't working on his farm. He was correctly pulled up on it, his suggestion was the product was faulty. The same semen was being used on thousands of farms successfully. The article was nonsense and probably libelous to the ai company supplying the semen.

Progressive genetics then had a product female advantage which was rubbish and resulted in no greater percentage of heifer calves in comparison to conventional semen, they compensated farmers who used it, ourselves included.

Sexed semen is a completely different product. Which none of the ai companies were too bothered about as there business model was very profitable. The initial teagasc trials were what pushed the ai companies to sex more of the bulls and the 1st sexing lab in Ireland was in Moorepark.

The problem with that will be that you will be in higher band with less cows that will not suit teagasc partners, like fertiliser companies, ai companies and some of the big farmers down south

Dont knock the black. The blacker the better. Great bunch. The second heifer in the first photo is the one.

there is nothing to fear, with the help of god ill be in the top band in a couple years with less cows but teagasc dont want our type of cows jay and thats the reality. When you see them getting rid of the finest herd of cows i ever seen in Pallasakenry, for 300 high ebi you know they have no interest in developing and researching high production herds, before someone jumps down my throat i know about lyons farm but is that ucd moreso than teagasc.

always liked big strong black heifers ….not the hex type ones 😜😜🤣🤣