More cows, more work, less money.
if dems get in next time I wouldn't expect a major change in policy so I think get used to it
Get out of the cows ta feck
I would stick to twice a day if you can.
Now I'm not a typical regimented dairy farmer. I go for a few pints on a Sunday evening and might milk at 9 or 10 or in the morning I take the kids to school before milking, it's often 10 am before I milk.
I honestly don't mind milking, especially when the heifers quieten and there's no milk to be kept out.
When the calves are out it makes life a lot easier. I know it's early but I'm going firing the stronger one out this week
Friesian heifers that were only born late March, April and May last year and wouldn’t be fit to be put in calf this year - what kind of money are they making in the mart? Have the misfortune of having to listen to a fella trying to tell me he’ll get €1,300 for them 😂😂
https://www.farmersjournal.ie/news/news/dairy-farmers-advised-to-convert-to-sucklers-862481
I see the Farmers Journal found a sense of humour 🤣
As I was lying awake last night watching a 12th calver on the camera I came to the conclusion that those statistics posted yesterday must have been an early fools day joke.
Teagasc/CSO say that the average dairy farmer has 95 cows and works 49 hours per week.
Any dairy farmer I know would be 80 ish hours on average I'd say. If the average is 49, then there must be some lads working 20 hours a week.
Maiden Heifers never really make what they're worth I think. I used to sell surplus heifers as weaned calves for 500ish but I've been keeping them more recently. A hard enough animal to get a good price for unless they are calved down and at that point I think you should get 3k.
I was scanning the picture but stopped when I saw who provided the figures.
Where was this posted anyway? Was it Twitter, Facebook, etc. or at a farm meeting?
I know a farmer name where they were totally on the new zealand (not an ounce of beef) genetics.
Over the last six years they've gone fleckvieh. I see the name selling dairy bull calves in the mart, SI out of SI for 360.
I think it was on the farming independent. It confused me because I usually take CSO information seriously. Then I saw teagasc/CSO. It's not just teagasc's fault. It's the heroes telling them lies is the problem.
I had now cow calve for 8 days and then 5 calved in 24 hours. It's strange how they do that. There must have been a full moon.
freely making 1000 plus atm ….beef price has put a floor on there worth …few lads fattening them or selling them to lads to finish ….there will be little cheap dairy stock next few years
You would need it all. I brought in 23 heifers this year. One is yet to calve, 2 are on 3 paps and one empty. The empty one is worth more for beef so she is being fed in the slatted unit at the moment.
Yes I’d be of the exact same thinking as yourself. Don’t think those maiden heifers would make their true value now. These particular maiden heifers would only average €1300 if you’d a lot of fellas in the mart that day on drugs 😂😂
We’re a bit overrun with heifers now. We’ve over 70 fr heifer calves born this year already, we’ve 36 maiden heifers picked out to not go in calf this year. My argument would be would a person not be better off to sell their 30 youngest/worst calves?
One of the Teagasc poster boys down here got out of cows and into walking tours. Is there a way of looking at it behind the pay wall ?
https://m.independent.ie/farming/dairy/this-farmer-celebrated-when-milk-quotas-ended-he-never-thought-hed-be-retired-from-farming-within-a-decade/a1508577448.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawJYqBtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHVSc2JILU6fuIffliWmPlLcmIAiu7dzW6ylRRUGYXlet1s0roEp-1yxMyQ_aem_fRMJrPRRfj3_phLcbsZzfw&fdfffdd&sfnsn=wa
https://archive.ph/13v6J
Was it all owned ground he was working of our rented, you'd imagen he should of been able to find a share farmer to come in and run the place, and allow him to step back from the farm while still having a passing interest, our is their still cows been milked on it anyways by whoever rented it
Being the tinker i am I bought very handy reared calves last year for 270. Good figures off a highlighted dairy farmer. Fr bull calves making 270 this year. Nitrates has made a bollox of buying a bargain!
It was mainly rented. It's rented out to another dairy farmer in the parish. The new tenant has to walk the cows a few miles between both farms every 2 to 3 weeks. The ground that Walter was renting went back to the owner who leased it out to her niece and husband. They got into cows themselve last year.
Some of his land is now in forestry
He sounds like alot of them, All fur coat and no knickers....
Just back from mart. 8 aa calves averaged 258 euro all under 3 weeks, 1 small heifers calf made 145 rest up to 305. Mad money
Thought u always sold at home seeing alot appearing in mart never seen before abandoning loyal customers sold all my dairy bulls 20 euro same as last year and these decent people will be back next year i dont forget the times i got rid of calves at 2 weeks for 20 while other people got 10 at 6 weeks or couldnt give away.
All repeat customers were sorted before we started going to the mart
You'd think the farming indo would have done a couple of articles with lads who have something positive to say about quota abolition and expansion besides Drennan complaining about workload and the other guy selling up and renting out the land... think myself he should have stayed at 150 cows as he was 50 yrs of age in 2015... bit old for expansion unless there is a guaranteed successor(s)
why are you breeding so many heifers if only have are good enough to breed from. Only the very best of our cows get dairy straws the rest get beef. You’ll get more for a beef calf than a dairy heifer calf
you did in your hole sell calves for 20€ this spring. Mustn’t have been great calves if only getting 20€ last year. We av 60€ for calves last spring
It was a real kiwi set up. Foreign labour, Jersey cross cows, bobby calves, everything was contracted out and it was a real minimal set up with old facilities.
He got out at the right time. He got good money for stock, great money for fodder and for the land he rented out.
The farming indo was once a must read but gone to the dogs the last few years. Theirs 2 bad journalists on it that do nothing but self promote their farm shop business, I hope that gets deducted from their wages for advertisement. That or environment rubbish all I see on it. All you need is agriland. Tells you anything worth knowing or remind you about any deadlines.
A virtual twix bar to whoever can tell me what breed code RW is.
I see it listed on a dairy bull I bought in the ancestry on ICBF. But I've no idea what the RW is.
There's PZ in his ancestry too which is Pinzgauer.
Whatever the set up, it's certainly a great year to be getting out of farming with dairy, beef, sheep and land price's. Someone sitting on the fence this year will never make up there mind!
