Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

All week long, we hear "uncertainty " is killing the markets. Its hard for you to plan what AI you will use, if you don't know whether you want to stay milking.

You have the hardest down, those heifers are trained for life. No more investment just stick to what you're doing.

start off the next video with a catchy thumbnail "IV MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE" it'll get loads of views and by the end of the video after talking thru everything you'l have talked yourself into staying at it!! on a more serious note you could have started out last year, bad price and worse weather so things could be worse. your never finished spending money at this milking craic or farming in general so i wouldnt let that put you off either

started sync plan for heifers Thursday ..all been served next Friday …start cows next Saturday …using all sexed fr straws then mix of Hereford limos and Charolais with Hereford bulls to mop up

He’s after a tougher spring than most of us. Milking all heifers. It’s a Medal from Michael D he should be getting after that ordeal

if carlsberg did springs 😎

Did they break in the silage field that was saved from September again

welcome to the sunny south east 😅

The school meals were only ever going to be an exercise in public waste.

While it might make sense in inner city or schools in very deprived areas, its simply mindless waste elsewhere.

I don't know how anyone thought this was a good use of the national education budget.

For a change, I'm fully with Hannah on this one!

My young lady ate school food for around 8yrs. Five courses with a choice of meats/fish for main course. French fries served once a year..and very little demand for them on that day.
Taught her to like vegetables anyhow.

You hit the nail on the head. Lowest common denominator tendering was the approach in Ireland. No means assessment. No local sourcing. No local employment. No cooking close to consumption. Typical of the Irish civil servant "throw yer arse to it" approach.

True.
Everything must be sourced from a 20km radius of the school, except fish of course.
There’s an organic farm for sale that milks 100 Montys and creates desserts from the milk. There’s 23 employees. Their main contracts are schools.
The ebidta is consistently in excess of €800k, and there’s nobody to take it on.
Anyone interested?

There were some concerns a few years back about the fish being sourced by the canteens. Seems the fish were from the extreme deep and could be up to 80yrs old. I don’t know how it finished up.

High potassium silage and fat cows which were dry too long is cause on most farms