Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

I know …..I’m not expecting much new …costs cutting is inportant but only so much they can be cut ….some of stuff in recent articles in journal re meal feeding etc is some crap

You are still talking about farming are you?

Mine are doing 23ltr on kg5 know plenty gd operators on 18 no meal if you calved late id be higher mooaepk probably calve very early now high dim.Need always look at ull pic percebtafe hf old cows etc

Go and visit Dutch farms yourself, they are every bit as dependent on farm labour and work just as long of hours.

Any dairy farmer with any bit of cop on isn't working 80 hours and driving a 30 year old tractor.

we had a discussion a few weeks ago about companies because farms could not stay as sole traders because there is too much money been made.

There is an obsession in Ireland about playing the poor mouth, and if there is any bit of positivity we have to pretend we are are stone broke. The reality is there is serious money been make on Irish dairy farms at the moment.

and what about the 30 year old tractor, ive a 96 massey ferguson for topping and fertlising should i look to trade in next year or would i being deemed as having little cop on also when i hit 80 hours during calving season will i tell the new born calf that im finished for the week as i hit the 80 hour mark and see you next week or ill have little cop on.

just looked at milk recording results from last week

My winter cows are at 29.7 litres at 250 days in lactation

these are made up of 52% heifers

something seriously wrong with 18 litres

The 96 Massey is the only tractor/loader in the yard?

My point is the majority of dairy farms can afford newer tractors if they want because there is plenty of money to be made milking cows

80 hours a few times in the spring will happen on farms it doesn't make it sustainable in the long term. So again if any owner operator is consistently working 80 hours a week, they have zero cop on and no clue how to run a sustainable buisness

there is but you’re spending it all. No less than here or a lot of places. I’ve 40k spent here so far on slats and a new water heater. There’s a shed to go up over the tank and concrete around it aswell as rejigging scrapers and some extra cubicles , I don’t have any change out of 100k. Couldn’t be bothered going to the bank for it. They’ll only give me the run around