Milk Price III

I dunno I must be in a different industry.

Average milk price here for 2025 will end up around 62 c/l. Add on top of that record calf and cull cow prices. Average price of dairy feed was sub €300 t. It's as good a year as we have ever had on the farm here.

Weather from grass growth point of view has also been very good, have going for two winters of feed in the yard.

Financially dairy farms should be going into 2026 in an incredibly strong position.

There will be plenty of lean times in farming but right now definitely isn't one of them

Your a top 1%, model farmer, that we all inspire to be, what are your % to hit 62c/l avergage price you must be well north of 5% bf and 4% pr, average price here will be best case 53 c/l at 4.5bf and 3.6pr...

The preaching and blowing is grand, but belittling the averge supplier, that might be going through a tb outbreak, unexpected nursing home fees, our the 1000 other things that can derail a dairy farm really gets on the nerves….

A tiny bit of empathy, is a great trait to have

There is endless negativity on here about dairying I have a different perspective about it that things are very good. People are perfectly entitled to have a completely different view

My point is that on most dairy farms things are very good financially, maybe things will be terrible next year and we are heading into a prolonged downturn but recent history suggests they don't tend to last that long.

Our solids are just a bit over 5% fat and 4 % protein. 9.1% combined. Aurivo pay a protein bonus on top of base that is worth about 2 c/ litre extra and our base would have been ahead of tirlans for most of the year. Our kg milk solids are will end up about 520, so plenty of lads on here have much higher production so much higher output cow.

Join a purchasing group, any well run will have nuts delivered under 300 this year. We fed a 13% .96 ufl it was €295 once loads over 8t. Have seen a docket from same nut from the same mill price was€345.

We are in dero 210kg\ n just over 3cows/ ha on milking block

Not all of us can get this in our coop"Aurivo pay a protein bonus on top of base that is worth about 2 c/l"

Id love to join a purchasing group round here but if you haven't 150 cow's your not looked at.

It's swings and roundabouts, the protein bonus is worth about €120/cow to us but farms with FR cows would easily make that up on sales of their calves and culls.

Can only speak for the group I am in and there is no minimum herd size.

I would suggest the reason more groups don't work is farmers unwillingness to work together. Suppliers don't want purchasing groups and will try and pull them apart by giving deals to individuals so the group fails.

Weve had a good year of it here, kerry supplier, compared to dairygold and glanbia. Probably softing us for contracts next year

36.08c/l tirlan nov price, no annual supplier meetings scheduled for this year, management are giving them a break for the year:) big saving for all farmers there not having to waste diesel to attend

2 cent drop for Arrabawn/tipp….base now 38.39 inc vat and sustainability (0.75)

Drinagh: The milk price for November has reduced by 3.5 cents per litre to 38.05 CPL including SCC bonus & VAT.

The most damaging talk is the nonesical theroy, co-ops, teagasc etc seem to be parroting is we are low cost producers and will outlast the intensive herds in america/europe/uk, with feed cheap, the 1000 dollar beef calf value in the US, the biggest fear is milk supply internationally powers ahead in 2026, and current commodity prices stay our go below the 27-33 cent range depending on a co-ops product mix....

Another factor will be fonterra farmers are in for 300-500k payday next year from the sales proceeds of their consumer brands, which will keep cow numbers from dropping off....

Irish co-ops know anything less than a 40 cent base price for a prolonged period puts huge strain on their average supplier, at 30 cent its carnage

That's your opinion. They still have to read the room. If they're able to hold at 32c but we've a doom & gloom parade egging on 25c then the PR is already done for them in the next drop. You're making their life easier.