Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

ours dose ..!not specific ebi but top 50%. I think and ebi gain per year …it’s part of the options needed …either way I don’t place muchb if any emphasis on it as I use international bulls ……interesting my he’d ebi is still up around high 2/0z I think

Philip Boucher Hayes is the posher sounding version of John gibbons.is he still driving his gas guzzling Land Rover?

empty box home ….5 k was far as I was willing to go …2 I had picked out made 6800 and 6400

It was a savage sale of real top quality farmers stock with records and top end breeding lines to boot …full clearance …in calf heifers averaged over 4500…..heifer calves from 1700 to 3200 ….no shortage of buyers …lads thinking market will cool may be in for a shock …waa disappointed to come home with nothing but very little cows empty and loads of heifers this year to come in

aye. You’re the biggest whiner on here about dairying and you got handed one and you told us a few weeks back both your parents inherited land, how much easier do you want it?

I know from my own farm that’s ran on leased land and paying a mortgage on the milk block that there’s money in it. If I and others can make good money paying for every acre while also improving it why can’t you and others that own majority of your land ?

proper farmers stock …no extremes but very obvious tgat stock and farm is managed very well ….vast majority of these stock are calved 24/25 months ….they have sale every year and always command very high prices and repeat custom ….smother plus is c10 for tb ….this is a farm and a family that would have so much to offer when it comes to breeding and management of stock ….farm with actual stock and actual figures and actual top end prices …no fiction

6400….6800 …5600,…heifers all in calf and very good scan with cows ….i didn’t need to buy but have bought great heifers there last few years I knew prices would be strong but not to level they went to ….they were a credit to Henry and Liam tbf ……its a fair nice touch financially at end of year

Anyone can spend money how they wish but as you said you didnt need to spend the money. I don't think anyone that bought cows there needed to spend money either. Bit of vanity going on at some of these sales. Even in a good year that 4500 would be better spend around a farm in a lot of the buyers own places. This coming from a clown that has to buy for winter milk but not at that money!

leases don’t and bitter old land owners don’t usually get on

What your parents did and what those two muppets from Cloghroe were two very different things.

They had full time jobs with cash built up. They rented a fine farm fairly well set up. Kept their well paying jobs and going people to do the actual work. They have treated the farm as a business which is 100% correct.

Imo what the young farmer of the year award should be about is not young farmers going out spending a heap of money. But people who use best practise to maximise return from what’s available to them to drive on.

Last year’s winner was much more deserving in my eyes. There was a time that a farmer would have a house built andmarried by 24. Now you can still be classed as a young farmer by 32 years of age which is stupid.

The main problems facing young farmers is land accessibility and finance accessibility. Finance would not have been an issue in this case with full time alternative wage paying jobs.

I’m not sure what happened in this scenario but did her in laws not rent that farm 10+ years ago and they morra yeah took it over in 2021/2022?

Personally I feel there’s a touch of FarmTheory creeping into the advice. What I mean by this is; it is remarkably noticeable that farm theory milks 180 cows so as that he can justify minimise actually working with cows. How many 300 cow heroes are only milking that number of cows so they can minimise the amount of time they actually spend farming? They’re dead right if they can get away with it; but is that not an awful attitude to be encouraging?

Farmers should be applauded for actually farming; not acting like executives overseeing everything being done by their “team”

You have time and time again told the very admirable story of what your parents did in building up the farm and you seem to have inherited their work ethic. We could all be farmers of year if we’re watching everything being done for us. But that’s anadvisors job. Real farming should be focused on how you get through your daily routine in an efficient manner while still implementing best practise. Telling people to do it works; but it’s hardly a skill that needs rewarding/awarding?

And run out it will next year. Nothing to stop milk price dropping into the low 30's or beyond. As long as there is cheap grain in America the dairy game is bo,,,,,d. No point giving out about CoOp boards. The reality is at the moment milk price is set by the bit of surplus product looking for a home.