mahoney_j wrote: » Christ you'll be excommunicated for that last statement !!!think Jackie would be way out of his depth in a place like that as spoofing would get him no where.interesting articles and profiles in the magazine though...
frazzledhome wrote: » Maybe just maybe xbreds are profitable, Hickey lads have bought 3 substantial farms out of them. No land sold to fund either. Before you go off on one, I didn't say Hols aren't
keep going wrote: » The level of risk taken on particularly the hickeys and the two boys in america
Pacoa wrote: » http://www.farmersjournal.ie/farmers-block-road-in-protest-in-england-186073/
kevthegaff wrote: » What did they do kg? Who are they?
Deepsouthwest wrote: » The scariest thing for me is the US's shear capacity and potential to flood the rest of the world with milk. With massive cull cow prices, drop calf prices, cheap inputs and the governments new intervention(which is more or less a guaranteed price for any milk produced). It's puts countries massively reliant on export like ourselves and NZ in a v precarious position. They will control world milk price for the foreseeable future, and I think that's gonna be somewhere in the v low 30's.
keep going wrote: » Are you being optimistic
einn32 wrote: » Milking 480 in a 20 unit double out here in oz. Takes about 2.5 hours to milk. Wash down takes about an hour if you do the collecting yards. It does take it's toll on the body after a while I find but you don't realise it until your days off.
frazzledhome wrote: » Are you a milker or assisting the owner? If you want a few brownie points, suggest putting all the heifers and hi dependence cows in one group. It will mean a bit more work bringing cows to and fro but his solids will increase and his in calf rate will improve. You may even be able to negotiate a small bonus into it, perhaps a $per every 10kgms extra and $10 per every cow less empty. On 450 cows that could become $12/1400 at the seasons end. You'd get a week in a hoor house before you come home out of it :)
einn32 wrote: » Boss man here in oz was talking this morning about farmers selling off heifers to China to generate cash, Chinese investing in a local hay export company, purchasing farms here. Are they going to supply themselves with food?
frogloch wrote: » Ha China doesn't buy milk they buy the farm, the coop, the ships or planes to bring it home. There's no such thing as the dole out there you either work or starve. So why don't you buy the companies that are supplying us with products we need and employ Chinese people instead. Control the product and keep money in Chinese circulation. They don't have the same short term view that people in the west have. Everything is for their country and their thinking is long term 100years, 200years, 500years from now. We threw the doors open to the vice president now president of china 2 years ago when he came to see our dairy farming. He wasn't on a tour to see our products he was on a recon mission to see which dairy system would best suit their own country. He was in the US before he came here looking at their dairy farming systems and they've gone with that model building big dairy units in china and buying heifers in Canada and Australia. People will say our products command a premium in their supermarkets but the government will only allow a certain amount in and that that does get in is taxed so much to encourage spending on Chinese products produced at home or abroad. Food is a tough one to get people to spend money on a premium product, I mean when you buy it you eat it then it's gone. When you buy an audi, bmw, rolex at least you can show it off and people will say God their doing well. I don't mean to be pessimistic but they look after their own and you have to admire them for it.
frogloch wrote: » HORAY got my milk back. I was saying in an earlier post that the milk supply reading on the docket had dropped 20% on the previous reading, the next reading was back up to where it was before. It was only from talking to my neighbour that we realised something was wrong. Then from talking to other suppliers they were wondering what was wrong and were blaming their cows. The milk manager said there was something wrong with the lorry that came to us that day. So just talk to each other you mightn't be the only one having the same problem. HORAY
Timmaay wrote: » Very same thing here freedom with the TBC, random 350 or so TBC fine, immediately onto the milk manager who said he'd look into it, talked to both neighboir
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » Yeah, meant to put that in. There are different types of current problems as well. When my Scc was around 200, i tested for voltage and nothing showed up. Then last year I lost a lot of sheds in the storm and the lights around the yard were acting up and causing the power to trip. So I had my electrician out every week trying to sort it out and it was ok till late in the year when it started acting up again and Scc rose again to 250. Then this spring we lost power for a day due to a faulty water pump further down the line but my electrician said that excuse wasn't right. He told me that there was a problem on my transformer and ring and tell them it was dangerous, which I did. They weren't happy coming out that evening but were very sheepish when they came down the pole after finding a badly installed yokey(technical term) on the transformer. I've had no problems since and all this year the Scc is under 200, bar one period after starting up milking.
kowtow wrote: » China has been securing the means to supply themselves with food for a good while now. I remember a deal about ten years ago in which Chinese technology and manufacturing FDI into one small African nation included unusual terms for concessionary access to a hundred thousand hectares or more of land thousands of miles away on the African mainland - "bread basket" land over which that nation held historical rights. At the time it was widely thought that the tail of the deal was wagging the dog.
whelan2 wrote: » Took bull out from cows yesterday evening-straight to factory- was great this morning not watching my back the whole time. Took about 10 minutes off milking time
Timmaay wrote: » Maize crops suppose to be well back on previous years, the chap growing it for me said he doesn't expect any more than 16/17tons off it.
