Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

The no fence collars would probably solve the issues with a new herd, but the cost of restocking now would be crazy I'd doubt the compensation money would cover like for like replacements even if you could source them

I'm not saying anything. But I see on a US farming forum a teacher/farmer had rigged up a pipe from a lawnmower exhaust with a dribble tap valve that held diesel that would slow dribble into the exhaust pipe. They were using it for gophers or some other underground critters having sealed up all earth holes. Commentators were replying he must have German heritage.

Just comparing forums and jisting of the different places on earth. Man had the lawnmower spray painted gold.

Was done on a neighbouring farm here re the smoking out, issue was when smoke started bellowing out of holes 100 odd ft from entrance, a main badger set is a enormous structure, that in some cases could be a 100 odd years plus old..

The worst thing any farmer could do is let the department know where the sets are on their farms, best to do any clean up jobs in house, heard of a case last year where a neighbours dog ended up caught in a snare, department pulled pin after that happened and haven't done any control since and a few farms are down in the area still

With machinery inflation anything bough then that was actually needed and is been kept in good nick/not wrecked was a great investment, loader bought here in early 24 is now 14k plus the vat dearer to buy today, know a man that bought the same model loader in 2021 for 20k less plus vat than what I paid in 24...

Tractor bought here in 2020 for 65k incl vat is still worth 60, issue is to change her for a similar model with the same hours as when bought 5 years ago would be 115k, can't really justify it will run her on and hope theirs no nasty repair bills but have money set aside if they do occur

Not against buying machinery at all. Just making the point that people in reality weren't in a position to spend money were getting finance on a temporary high milk price. Farmers can be bad business people aswell!

How are lads for winter feed and grass around the place?. Here in north Cork we're in a fairly problematic drought. Most people with very little 2nd cut done , and grazing what they have and I was talking to my advisor and he said serious amounts of pk being fed .

4 to 5k repayments every month,

Are you forgetting that we are not all, like yourself.

I personally, would prefer not. It wasn't long ago milk was mid 30s.

Every farmer/ family is at different stages in life. Il hopefully will be sending children to college, helping getting them on the road. So other than the pension to save tax I'm not spending much on the farm.

Another question is do you really need what your buying, the more you have, the more you have to look after. There's a lot of machinery that will rust out before it will ware out.

Over the last few years anyone buying decent good machines has done quite well and when the shxt hits the fan, machinery is fairly liquid compared to land or cows.

have heard that re north cork south tipp over to kk Carlow ….polar opposite here steady strong growth most of summer …lot of reseeding done and a mountain of silage and good quality dry silage too made with lots more over coming weeks ,and bumper crop of maize as well ….if you end up tight over winter /spring drop me a dm

don’t really need it at all tbh- but I’ve zero interest in buying land

Reality is there won’t be a next generation milking here as I wouldn’t wish the 7 day week to anyone- wife is a secondary school teacher and she has some serious time off

land repayments are a long term while machinery is only 4-5 years

Oh feck, I'm very sorry to hear that, was that an annual test,