powerharrow not do a job on that?
personally i think there s too much made of people finishing milking.its tough enough way to make a living while you may go on holidays or what ever you can never really switch off 100%.the healthiest scenario for the industry is have people coming and going and the bigger worry would be how unattractive milking has become relative to other available careers.
I’ve been offered a fairly lucrative 9-5 job with weekends off
It’s very attractive and the time off if tempting
Regulations are destroying my love of dairying
Leaving aside the hours and wages, what are the people like that you'll be working with?
really sound and funny
your becoming ceo of boards and head of moderation …..we’re a right sound bunch and funny as hell 😲😂
How many cows would it take for 1 person to earn a wage of €50k a year on good quality owned ground?..allowing €250/per cow yearly to cover investment to meet regulations and improvments..
The 50k would be strictly income before any personal or domestic exspences eg house esb,insurance personal car use..etc.
What year are you talking about ?
2022 bumper ,2023 the pits
votality in milk price is probably the biggest factor in the future of dairy farming .Fixed milk prices offer's by some of the dairy companies are 'heads i win ,tails you lose'
Entirely depends on performance of farm. We had an advisor years ago who maintained there was 100k profit between best and worst farmers on 100 cows
Where debt repayments are below €250 cow and decent production and over 50% land owned 80-90 cows should be able to do it comfortably
if you re margin is 10 cent ,500000 litres.forget about cow numbers.think margin by volume.edit if you really want to analyse it divide by hrs labour.
true… but some people/families can just through an awful run of bad luck or accidents/tragedys that other people/families dont ever seem to be affected by
What about a 3 year avrage 22,23,24..what would be the average price..40-45c/liter?
So 80-100 cows depending on production realistically?
And depending on a big dollop of luck ......
As with all farming these days unfortunately
Yes agree with you there the beef and sheep game is dodgy because it is low margin and low volume output and bank balance wise (you need a lot of lambs/beef to gather up a bundle of cash) and dairying because it'slow margin in comparison to most other businesses and it's also a high imput business in comparison to other farming sectors
hardship here this morning
6 fresh calved heifers
10 cows dried off
5 cows Ai
40 heifers injected with cidrs etc
No feeding done yet
Calves just finished with milk
really looking forward to a break when I’ve to do the school run later
That's not hardship for fecks sake! Your going soft in your old age
if i m not right now i will be in the near future.the price of milk is one thing but its costs that decide everything.we ve very little labour or contractor because we ve big land cost s running to 7+cent litres. increasingly milking margin is becoming the work of it especially if there is rented land in volved to some extent but i know you re not including that.
Not going to give exact details but breaking that consistently the last four years on between 60 and 72 cows. My advice would be a very simple parlour with enough units, no need of bells and whistles. Keep the money and buy the best cows you can afford.
https://www.farmersjournal.ie/farming-news/dairy/55
Dairygold suppliers not happy
Sher it all depends on yourself and the amount of hours you want to work.
I do all the jobs here, except the pit silage and the actual baling. My machinery is very basic. I don't hire labour except the odd day. When you live in west cork you don't want to go away from it. So 50 or 60 cows and the subsidies, acres SFP ect.
On the other hand, if you need all the mod Cons and you want to be more manager than labourer, you will need a lot.
After finding a thousand ton plus of topsoil on the last bank that was cleared, neighbour always reckoned that it was a former mine-site with capard house been built from the sandstone out of it, he was on the money by the looks of it, to think it was manual labour that made that deep and wide a hole and then to draw it up to the bank took 100's of men
for talks sake. If you have 100 acres, good facilities, sheds for 100-120 cows/ heifers. Would you get 500/acre to lease and let someone else do the work.
If it was next the milking platform maybe but 300 per acre would be tops around here at the minute for what dairy farmers are paying for grassland.
A sale that was eluded to months back on the thread from south wexford.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/12GqucYKUsU/
The kealy sale is on today too in Tullow. (Doing very well atm). Nearly should be able to buy a farm from the proceeds.
Crazy money been made, definitely heading for well over a 3k average, he has savage yields in fairness but % wise noting special, had to be a good shot of feed going in to achieve the liters though
Damping off a bit with older stock now. Best of luck to them anyway. Stock look well.
Some exceptional yields of his lwr bred cows, who goes back to oman, quiet noticeable how less dairy and smaller the younger cows are in comparison, with lower yields....
Where the maiden heifers sold yet they could make serious money given their figures
Year 23 and 24 heifers still to go.
top price so far …there a great herd of cows tbf but making crazy money ….there’s obviously a shortage of cows out there due to tb and breeding less replacements ….hopefully lads breeding good stock continue to get rewarded like this for there efforts
