Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

Farm Theorys next video is going to tell us his cost of production and how he is going to save money. Quite interesting saying he is actually going to have to do milking now to save some money. Three times a week.

IIn Fairness none of us know the full story think Stan has said his farm has to support 3 households… I'd be slow to pass comment til I know the full story

Like the opportunity to double cow numbers, not that many needed do it but loads did. You can milk alot of cows off farm and still be organised at home. If the right opportunity came up id go back to work. Wouldn't say stan is working minimum wage. Money in the account that's all that matters

Hes a clown hasnt a clue cuckoo land lad he was canvassing to get on the board of his co op dont know if he got on but hes the type of lad who are on boards and comittees

In all fairness it looks like greed but most are just trying to make a living on farm its almost impossible to milk cows and have off farm work most beef sheep lads have off farm work very well paid and there renting land isnt that greedy

there’s vultures like that in every parish who don’t care who they walk over ….thankfully in lots of cases around here stories of big money been tendered for plots of land by such lads but they ain’t getting it …often going to underbidders bidding quite a bit less

If you have land taken on conarce you are at the mercy of the market. Land owners are going to want the most they can for the land they own. If the lad with a few bullocks isn't fit to paid the current land rent price, it's hardly the dairy farmers fault.

When lads are selling cattle in the mart they don't tell the auctioneer to stop if they go into a mental price.

As a ball park,how many bales of silage would you want in the yard for 70 cows?..grazing ground is light sandy soils so early out late in but burns up in the summer if we get much heat.

Don't mind him winding you up.

I think the old way was a tonne/cow/month over the winter. My bales seem to be anything from 800 to 1000kg. If your prone to drought you'd never have enough stuff in the yard!

I think you are wrong about me. I’ve a very good job that goes well with farming and my life balance. I’m a lot of things but a begrudger isn’t one of them.

What we are seeing is a return of quota times. Land is not valued by its production capability, it’s measured by its ability to support production. If getting 10 acres of ground allows a dairy farmer keep 10 cows extra and the profit on those is €1k per cow (good long term average figure) then they’re fully entitled to pay what they see fit.

The grass/crop grown off it is just a bonus.

If the beef/tillage man can’t generate a profit of €1k per acre then that’s tough spit with a h.

Like it or lump it beef or tillage farming pays well on a per hour of necessary work basis. Just there’s not enough necessary work in it to justify a living

In the main cost savings come from reduction in repairs and maintainance, developments and stock building. Typically carried out while funds were flush, there really are our only way of buffering price drops and add to tax efficiencies.

You cant really put off repairs on a dairy farm, if a vaccum pump/milk pump water heater etc blow up, you have to replace them...

Had a sore month this august re the above had to install a new water heater, 1500 euro in repairs to well, descaler unit also, and to top it off, 1400 euro for repairs to tractor, all in nearly 6k that i hadnt budgeted on...

Easily 10k a year needed here, for stuff like the above of essential repairs every year

You can put off repairs to fencing, roadways, buildings. You will have the emergency stuff, but I bet most people can halve the 10 year average spend by doing just the necessary. They dont need to be left undone. Milk price will rise again and there must have been a cushion in yhe likes of this year to get outstanding issues up to date.