Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

carry 150 cows on it nothing goes wrong every year you make 150k a year take out rent 85k. Pay yourself the average national wage of 45k a year and you’re down to 20k with tax and all to be accounted for, your well down below 20k probably closer to 10k profit without outside help how does that ever stack up for the privilege of owning 150 cows and plenty of hardship

You should still have 150k left after rent by my calculations

Put the land at 250€ /ac or even 200€ /ac

You’d get very little built now for 40k repayments/ year. Have none of ye built anything in the last 3-4 years. Someone will take that

160 cows doing 6k litres will bring in 500k there next year at the current milk price.

Im making a good living and half our land is rented. You’re working off farm aren’t you and you own most of your land? Square that one for me

rent is costing me 375 euro per cow- but then at a 40 cpl base price output per cow is over 5000 incl sales

it’s one way of doing it for sure. If my father wasn’t the age he is I would have gone out on my own and leased a farm to milk on. I know a few ppl at it in various different scenarios and they’re all very happy

400€ per acre is too much for it, 300€ is more like it

😂😂 you’re some troll lad.

There’s a few on here that would know who I am personally. I’d be called out if it was all bs

We put 180k into an 2000sq ft extension over 2 years in 2022 and 2023. Previous to that in 2017/2018 we renovated a 200 year old 800 square ft stone building that is no part of what we built in 2022. No loan for that whatsoever Neither me or my wife have a mortgage because the title deeds for the land are tied up with a mortgage my parents took out in 2004 to buy the farm and we didn’t want to go giving money to solicitors to separate it off. My wife didn’t borrow any money for it because she or me don’t own the land. When the mortgage is paid in 5 years time we will split it off then

My wife has a good job, I’ve never said it was an unbelievable job. It has good perks. We’re expecting baby no 4 the end of January and she’s going to be taking a year off work

And yes I do use ebi and genomics to select my bulls. I’ll post up my bull selection from ICBF to prove it if you really want. I don’t use the top bulls because there figures are driven by the fertility figure. I pick my bulls on %, milk yeild and Maintenance figure

Ah come on GD.

Go out and run around the house.

Make sure the referee can see you but he can’t hear you….

Insult his mother,

Insult his grandmother,

His sister

His family

Insult every generation of ‘em

Insult the shite out of him

He hits you, you hit the ground and he gets the line and we get the free!!

I’m just wondering how much meal you dairy farmers give your weanling heifers in the shed for the winter and what percentage protein nut do you go for? And also do ye prefer a nut or ration?