Their intelligent little b***ds ill give them that
Do lads still believe that CoOp's are run for farmers benefit. The reality is they are for management and employee's benefit.
The IFJ mentions at every given opportunity that co-ops are owned by farmers and run entirely for the benefit of farmers. Sure, managers and executives are only doing us a favour helping to run our business efficiently for us 😂
don’t agree on this ….coops should pay the best price they can to all its suppliers ….no way should it be linked in anyway to inputs sustainability in any way ….its a poor reflection of a coops trading division if it has to try force suppliers to buy inputs to get a loyalty payment ….same for my coop with sustainability payment ….we have to use x amount but we have to buy it from the coop …nothing to do with sustainability …..if coops provide a good service and price products accordingly milk suppliers myself include will buy my inputs from them ….if better prices elsewhere why shouldn’t we make a good business decision and buy there to reduce costs which are crazy atm …milk price should be totally separate
The bone of contention is the need to spend 6c per litre to get top up on milk price, but it's being called a loyalty bonus in the media which is confusing people. DG is only at 75% capacity as we stand and with the age profile(only 4% under 35) and regs coming in milk supply is only going one direction.
Jack had a fair cut of dairygold linking milk price to input purchases in last week's editorial.
Milk price should never be linked to buying inputs from coop. Guaranteed to lead to farmers overpaying for inputs
Against topups as well the best possible price should be returned each month. Make milk pricing as transparent as possible
Coops are far from perfect and loads of examples of bad management but they are the best way dairy farms will ever have to market and sell our milk
Agree 💯 with this point also just a note of caution that coops are the best
......its up to farmers to keep them honest when it comes to our own coops and livelihood
that's ok. it's didn't really get discussed here for some reason. there was push back in the last month but to be honest it didn't find a proper focus till Niall Twomey took it on . it will be dropped in the next week. meetings of the 5 regional committees this week and all meetings so far wanted it dropped. the board are saying they will act accordingly if this is the sentiment. I have no reason to disbelieve them on this
Graise hosting a Nitrogen and Slurry webinar right now
Teagasc did a podcast today telling us all to hold out till Feb and even at that only spread as little as you can. Super conditions for it
grass is growing too
place might be flooded or frozen in February yet
I agree buying inputs or sustainability shouldn't be linked to milk price but i have no problem with buying inputs and them giving you a rebate in the form of a credit note as Dairygold do. I do think they need to get more price competitive but i have sympathy for them because its hard to be competitive and give the amount of credit they give to suppliers. A lot of guys have 6 months plus credit . No other business would give it to you.
that advice worked well last year …think on good grass growing farms with long growing season it is crucial to get slurry out early …last year proved it on a lot of farms that held tough based on advice and didn’t go early when the chance presented itself
On yer typical 100 cow dairy farm with average cows, how much land is typically taken up for silage for a 22 week winter to match the storage requirements. And how much land is then grazed during the year?
I'd be more than a bit concerned about this now
I have no interest in subsidising guys on 6 months credit. They'd want to get their business in order imo.
Got about 60k gallons of slurry out over 2 days. 20 acres covered and the grass is growing. Best ground conditions ever. No poaching in autumn helped. You would wonder where all the sh1t comes from. I have about 15 extra cows this year and it makes a big difference.
My yearling calves that were "worthless" last spring are making some money now. Glad I kept a few. Lads might be more interested in calves this year with the cost of older stock.
Any prices for calves recently?
Going by the met eireann app and their hourly detailed forecast, storm Darragh was the first time I noticed the predicted wind over 60km/h. This one has an 81!!km/h shown at the moment for Friday morning. They'll be serious damage if it comes as predicted
article on badger and TB
hex bulls 80 kg 350
If someone buys something for 10000 and pay 2000 a month for 5 months, is that not a good business thing to do for cashflow? Not just a farming operation, genuine question.
For someone that was in difficulty last year I needed the credit facility. Saying that I'm sure the same chancers have bills everywhere and they seem to get on as well as anyone. As a friend said to me recently only a gobshite pays his bills!!
Madness not to get out with some slurry with good ground conditions. Grass is tipping away so it's not going to waste. It's not as if lads are going with 4-5000 gallons and acre
Credit facilities are very important. I bought half my fert in December for a cash price and put the rest on account. cost me 15 euro a tonne more to do this but someone said fert has gone up 50 euro a tonne since. I probably would not have done this without Dairygold Credit. Now im not going to scream and shout about them not being the cheapest because of this. i could have gone somewhere else bought the fert for a cash price of 5 to 10 euro cheaper and then put the rest on Dairygold trading account and complained about how Dairygold are not price competitive
Sure… anybody can get in trouble but I was more referring to the messers that don't pay their bills and are constantly dodging having to pay.
Bollox's
5 week old hex bulls 340-360
what interest do dg charge for 6 months credit?
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