HHave Ye all forgot about nitrates and banding. It wasn't long ago ye were all trying to stay in low bands.
I'll suffer any penalty this year with the high price and cows milking well. First penalty is generally 2-5%as far as I know and on my payment that's not a lot of money, but leaving 5-600 litres a collection behind me is.
I haven't changed my stance on it. Less cows, more milk has always been my approach.
Up 5 liters a cow all year so far. Same feeding only difference is weather and power in the grass.
Theirs a bill coming re the above owed, promised rain after disappearing of forecast here for today/monday , all likelihood silage will be in the diet in 10-14 days time on the majority of daiey farms unless weather forecasts are way of the mark re predicted rainfall levels...
All the same it's beats slopping around in the wet and muck of last year
Grass still jumping out of the ground here. The good land may not be so productive this year
Grass is flying here on the cold wet ground. No need for rain
No need for silage in the diet.
I'd say the sooner the boys sell up those dry farms in the east and move west the better for them. A mixed farm is the way to go now. 😉
from experience topping with a mower makes a grass swarth denser- combined with mechanical weed control grass swarths last 20 years minimum compared to the 7 year reseeding policy of teagasc
I don’t measure but I’m on a 12 day rotation
12 day rotation makes no sense.
go walk your paddocks so …on 14 day round here as growth up to now thru the roof …grazing a 1700 tomorrow that should be bailed but I’m predicting growth will crash this week with no rain …still buffer feeding and ok for grass …sort of anyway but buffer will have to increase …not too bothered as cows still pumping at j2.6 kgms
Walking all the time. I don't poison the place with fertiliser though.
walk paddocks twice weekly and don’t poison place either …growth rates in 90s and over 100 on average last 10 days….battles to manage grass and stay grazing 14/1500 covers 14/16 day rotation plenty but will have to be extended out quickly now with growth rates going to drop off a cliff …which will happen here anyway
Biggest issue will be if lads don't up the protein of nuts to account for having to start extending rotations/grazing heavier covers, the power isn't going to be in the grass, of course the higher powers never accounted for the above with their nap rules
you can feed what ever nut you want. You just need a letter from a nutritionist saying why
I see there going to implement an NAP up north now . Basically same as we have. Banding, fert and feed register
But getting rid of the sfp to work outside the rules isn’t going to work either. There dept of ag is going to have special allowance to fine farmers “over stocking “
I see on O'Neill dairy farms video, their accountant called them busy fools for renting land for heifers. It wasn't the first time the accountant met one I'd say....
Friend of mine in the midlands was advised by his advisor to sell his payments and charge on. Reckons it'll take 8-10 to find another way to fine him once he keeps the yard right and water quality stays good beside him. Lots of farmer doing it. He's not going for it.
Have a nice heifer (suckler now but thought the wisdom…).
Teats not in great nick as attached. What’s the treatment/approach for these? Tie with a string or similar?
if there heifers were better I would disagree but they’re not hectic at them so I would agree.
Ni dept of ag are going to be able to find you if you have sfp or not seemingly. If they can do it up there the same will happen here
It was where the bulk of their silage was been made too, Joe's masterplan to throw a add up on donedeal looking for silage meadows, has the potential to back-fire spectacularly...
Security of supply is very important. And quality too. Some laugh that he got no reply to his ad.
Milk urea levels have plummeted here. Anyone else experiencing this or any idea of the cause?
Grass is low in protein.
snap…grass getting stressed and string and low in protein …you need to up protein in nut your feeding for start and if you e grass getting into lower covers
cold nights, oil in the grass, hinders milk p as well
36 units of n out on the grazing ground since start of year
Lakeland’s first out of the block with an unchanged milk price for April.
Quelle surprise my piss take of how they would justify holding according to their statement that they will “endeavour “ to pay the best price 😂😂
