Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

That Is what I would like like to know, are the veal units paying a lot more this year or are we just getting screwed every other year?

It wouldn't be beyond pssibility that the veal units might be getting paid more for beef the same as here?

What’s a cull bull making at present, or a store bull through the mart, the day you buy is the day you sell, seen a CH bull cull weighed 1040 make 4k online another 2k and a serious replacement bought,

Milkman has started coming during milking here, used to be here around 8.30am now it's 7 30. Very little milk going to drogheda and Virginia it's all being sent down the country

Could be wrong but i think its to do with blue tonuge in europe and fmd

Very unfair time to come on anyone. I know someone has to be unlucky as they say. Usually around here they gather the later lads up until 7 and the earlier men from 8 o clock on.

If the plate cooler was turned off the next morning and milk at 10 degrees upon their arrival they soon f*** off for another hour. Think they've to put it through a plate cooler in ballyragget which adds another hour if they have hot milk. Sometimes best dealing with the milk supply manager rather than the driver.

Pushing end of first round out until 20th. Cows still on 8kgs of wholecrop for another 10 days then i'm out, and i can add maize meal and straw if needed. Luckily stretched my silage as i thought I was going to be out of fodder in March. Any bit of decent rain and everything will take off though.

Rang a guy on donedeal about a 3yr old hereford bull, 5 grand. He might be the nicest most fertile bull in munster but he could still fall and break his prick on the first cow.

How are ye getting on buying bulls

jeez 10 bulls. How many cows 600?!

For f,,k sake what kind of farmers are yey. What do ye need a bull for. Don't ye listen to the experts that say ye should get all in calf to AI and calve all in 6 weeks.

Still a week to go on first round here and buffer feeding silage, maize, distillers and crimp. Have never seen cows as content

Gave 2500 for a yearling Hereford. Gone with heifers. He showed me a lovely bull, he'd let him away for 5k if I wanted. I went to go back into the jeep! I admire these pedigree breeders including fr breeders. They are very passionate and think they have the best of the best. Borderline arrogant sometimes. But without them there would be no bulls for rooters like me to buy!!

Around 200/cow that would be including vat, 40%grant on it aswell

Crunching the numbers on a greenfield system comprising 1/3 of the milking platform out of walking distance of cows, How does zero grazed grass compared to multi cut silage system for buffering the grazing block?