Milk Price- Please read Mod note in post #1

Viewtodiefor wrote: »

Held at 39inc vat!

Oh ye r all up already !

Dutch auction back again this week, falling for the last number of weeks now. Hopefully the guys in Ireland are well sold forward!

Where are Arrabawn?

kevthegaff wrote: »

theyre always late

Board meeting aroubd the 15 of month ,hoping to see price go to at least 39 ,milk still pouring in though and as of end sept coop was over 1.5% over

kevthegaff wrote: »

ya its looking bad drying up 10-15 November. U?

Luckily enough okish for quota .will be tight for second half of march I'd say maby small bit more.goibg to milk till end of November then dry off ,recharge the batteries head skiing in January and start all over again in late jan!i mAy dry off a row in early November mainly heifers and some emptys.serious amount of grass still there though so need to get at least60% grazed before end of month.

kevthegaff wrote: »

any word on price for arrabawn lads, going once a day after today!

Why not stay at twice a day for a shorter period or have you winter milkers? (I lose track of whose calving when)

For them as want to check, Glanbia milk statement for sept is live now.
Very happy. Net milk value 42.86 @ 3.69 p.

Well done you, that's exceptional.
Your constituents must have been brilliant.

Viewtodiefor wrote: »

There's gold in them there hills!!

Just not enough of it ;-)

delaval wrote: »

Must be them cows you bought?????

More likely the ones that need to be dried off.

maxxuumman wrote: »

That's excellent. What are your solids at.

B fat 4.84 protein 3..90

Arrabawn price up to 39 cent vat inclusive.coop 1.6% over quota and supplies still pouring in .full super levy stopped once quota is full for all suppliers.

delaval wrote: »

Glanbia base 39

We came in at 47
Fat. 4.8
Pro. 3.8

Losing on fixed price but luckily only small % fixed. Will exit 1st scheme in Dec
2nd scheme should yield a top up of 3c that's my best stab it it. As the price has passed 36 in July top up should yield 3c

We have none in latest scheme

Fat and p on yesterday collection
F 5.16
P 3.96
With winter bonus of 6c we should be hitting 56-57c for Oct milk. That's presuming no penalty and grazing conditions remain good

That's too class f and p on your last collection. How's lactose hiding up.
We're at p 3.84 f 4.49 and L 4.48.
Both L and F and dropped .1 since previous collection. We reseeded third of cow paddocks and grazing silage ground to make up for it so grass quality is variable at the moment.

delaval wrote: »

Lac is an issue here and I would be watching very carefully. It's 4.45 now but dropping and it dips as low as 4.42 on some collections. We leased extra quota this year for cover and got more than we needed so will push cows and milk closer to calving to fill. Condition will need to be watched as besides the heifers and thinner cows all will only be getting 6 weeks dry. Lact is the one area where the wheels cod come off.

Any suggestions welcome

Do that here when we have the oppertunity. Going that close to calving you will have to dry off the cow in the condition you want her to calve on. What I do is manipulate the protein in the overall diet to ensure the cow is gaining condition while milking. No diet feeding here, just test silages and order ration to suit. Lact was not a problem when cow was gaining condition. Milky cow here so often fed seven/eight kg meal but not unusual to be getting 20 lts up to 40 days before calving. Solids will drop away as you go on silage but at present milk price you will make a lot of money.