same company gave me 10 euro a calf before
not expensive
Wow, I assume you agreed, of course a word of mouth deal,
I'd take it.
It depends on the weather too, only 1 fr bull calf here so far. Hopefully that'll be all
yeah and it was cash two years ago
Will you get paid leaving the yard?
shipper offered 180 for fr bull calves for the whole season yesterday
21 days old minimum and must be 50kg
Alot of these headlined prices are for top quality outwintered stock calve will be no dearer when the glut comes theres simply too many calves at one time.
grand little Charlie calf for a decent enough cow who did 902kg ms last year and has a lifetime calving interval of 364 days
the auction never happened
calves will be worth money this year
there was an auction advertised. Not sure if it went ahead though. Someone said to me locally here that it was cancelled but I’m not sure. He’s only a few miles from me here but I don’t know much about him.
what happen to the machinery he had for sale I was interested in one or two bits
Re the bull calves for shipping we are the only country bluetongue free. They can,t get them anywhere else.
Would they be the "worthless" calves that he's after..... I got sick of selling mine for feck all last year. Kept a handful of them and my only regret is that I didn't keep more.
a southwest based calf exporter arrived into our yard a couple hrs ago practically begging us to sell him our bull calves… he was never before in our yard…. guaranteed us a fixed price for our bull calves for the year…
At present day machinery prices starting from scratch, I'd say it's negligible any cost savings, hitting a sweet spot here with tractor/slurry tank/ twin mowers and fertiliser spreader all paid for this year and all touchwood will do a good few more years without needing replacement, but to go out and buy the above from a standing start, you'd be looking at 200k of a investment/4 plus k a month in hp repayments
I'm a year older this year. Might bite the bullet and get parlour pit mats. Are they all the same. Easy fix, parlour paints? Someone told me the alfco ones are away softer?
I though he went to the US at cows
While I know we ve often seen strong prices pre Christmas in the past and a collapse with the spring tsunami s arrival do people think that the calf trade might be better this spring
Still haven't the roof finished on the milking parlour, theirs a serious tale of woe behind that place
Am amazed they told us at all
Yeah got that as well. Make you wonder how accurate their testing is.
Plus you need plenty cows/land to get enough use out of any expensive machinery.
I doubt I'll be buying a trailing shoe for my 50-60 cows here.
Breakdowns can be costly too
I had my own old lad drafted in for a bit of freezebranding today. He had a right laugh with the branding man. He's sending me a bill for bank holiday rates.
Young lads around here just drop at the mart and go or pay a haulier. The old lads like mine love going in for the social side. There's a phone call then every evening on mart day with a "mart report" and he'd always be in great form after it.
I dont know anything about this farm but the amount of farms put up for sale that arent legally ready for sale is a disgrace.Banks have to be happy and if your borrowing you have to pay there solicitor.
You're totally missing the point though, the fuel, time etc all adds up doesn't matter who's bringing them. 10 euro to a lad to bring them seems cheap. I'm sure there's been plenty of trips were the price has been way lower
lads the smile on the face of my father today was priceless- it wasn’t the high prices that he got that made him glow
It was the feeling that at nearly 80 years of age he’s still a valuable asset to the farm
It’s the feeling of being wanted that keeps him going
