degetme wrote: » Doc feeds are 245/255tonne
Timmaay wrote: » Hmmm I was thinking 270 well off the mark. Local Glanbia is 290 tho!
mahoney_j wrote: » Are there nuts/ration still dusty as fook??,when buying a ration nut buy it on ingridents/energy content .um paying 260 for a hi maize 16% with 0.96 ufl and very good ingridents list
orm0nd wrote: » pre mowing heavy covers here since last weekend b/f up .2 and p. up .15 yields holding the same maybe it's just coincedence
mahoney_j wrote: » Arse has fell out of my fat and p high ,yields holding steady ,9on after grass .3.54 fat 3.62 p 30.4ltrs
AntrimGlens wrote: » I see figures released here this week show that milk from forage figures for the NI herd have dropped by 1700 litres per cow in the last 14 years to around 1400 litres now. They costed the replacement concentrates at up to £170 per cow, so it's not hard to see why margins are tight if even existent at current milk price, if that's your starting base. A direct result of men chasing numbers me thinks.
jaymla627 wrote: » Alot of them boys have been sheltered the past couple of years from the realities of their system with high milk prices and relatively low concentrate prices, the craps going to hit the fan big time come autumn up their when they start calving down cows and start to do the sums when the high pr concentrates needed to balance their winter diets are running above 25 pence kg dm with milk sub 20..... Does be amazing when visiting these places even in the middle of summer with whole herds housed including calves maidens and dry cows and their utter refusal to put them out to grass
AntrimGlens wrote: » There's at least three men who had installed robots (1 man had 2 and the other had 5 that are being dispersed here in the next month or so. I think the servicing costs and maintenance contracts just sent them over the edge, and theres a lot more dairy herds that the auctioneers have ready to sell only they don't want to flood the market and scare the bejaysus out of everyone. :eek: I've heard of a few men who aren't even making silage this year, planning to sell the cows in the autumn.
kowtow wrote: » What is significant about those figures is the relationship between the average milk price for the year and the full economic cost of production. What they tell us is that even in a peak milk price year like last year, the "income line" ... the point at which farmers made a rational economic return in the form of wages & rent equivalent for their own land fell somewhere below the top 25% of farmers in the sample. In a peak milk price year a fair % of farmers could be said to have scraped by. At the other end of the spectrum, the top 25% can be seen to be putting away a buffer profit, even after their wages & their own land are compensated. I suspect that if we costed Irish production honestly, taking into account the rent equivalent for own land, average yield etc., we might be surprised at how similar business performance actually is both sides of the border, regardless of the system employed. The bottom 25-50% in Ireland just as in the UK will be hanging on in a good year, and pulling out (or turning their inherited equity into debt) when prices become unbearable. That is reassuring, because it is precisely how one would expect a free market to work. For all the talk about systems, the variable cost advantage we think we have is a Chimera, because it will be capitalised into increased land costs. * It's also worthwhile remembering that although we grow a lot of cheapish grass, almost everything else in this country from polo mints to Prime Ministers cost a good deal more than they do elsewhere. In 2014 for example it took 97 Irish cows to pay Enda Kenny's salary, but only 59 English cows to pay David Cameron's.
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » In the spirit of talking about the true cost, Cameron had accommodation included as part of his package while Kenny didn't:pac:
frazzledhome wrote: » Sent a guy spraying under wires this morning. He went one direction I went the other on the quad. Brand new 3 nozzle boom fitted to Kobuta atv, 100m boom in shyte. Let him off with jeep to move heifers after dinner and he returned with the back side panel of my pickup in shyte. Wasn't quick enough to open gap and heifers chasing after him. Pulled up and they ploughed into him. Ffs, lads saying you shouldn't be doing the €10/hr work yourself.......my hole
