Deepsouthwest wrote: » The man that likes the bales is using the shear grab again at the moment cos he has two pits from last yr that he needs to feed, and he's missing feeding the bales! On a slightly related note, feeding all cows after calving a 50/50 mix of first cut precision cut silage(with Brewers grain through it) and maize at the moment, and they're pumping out milk on it. There's dry cows on the other side of the same shed getting ok-ish bale silage, but if I throw any few pikes of the bale silage to the milkers they'll nearly fight over it, even though their own mix is heaped up in front of them. I've said it before, and now I'm even more convinced, cows are mad for the longer chop grass, and all the silage analysis in the world will tell u there's no difference, but believe me if cows could talk they'd say the same!
frazzledhome wrote: » Sounds like hell Those NZ'rs are some whingers. Not a word about subsidies in EU while they could do as they pleased during quotas. Now it's the big bad EU's fault. Drown them in milk, I say
einn32 wrote: » Any Oz/NZ farmer I've met or worked for have actually been quite positive. They whinge about the processors....sound familiar?? I suspect a lot of it is media/farmers unions blaming someone. They have to be doing something! But I can't deny that after years of expansion in NZ it ends up sour at present. It wasn't supposed to be like this! On the other hand you're on your own out here in Oz and to make a living you get big and yes borrow and work hard until you make it based on backing your skills as a business man in farming. Ironically Ireland is heading down this NZ route too which I don't think they should have! We had a great position for a niche food market but it got lost in this milk powder rush. Wait until a few years and the guy who went up 50/100 cows after quotas went (because he had the land anyway but not the quota) decides to go land shopping to go up 100 more. This is when the real expansion expansion starts I think. Oz farmers just don't understand why a business would be subsidised. But subsidies also keep EU farmers in line with environmental, animal welfare legislation etc. There is always a risk of removal of money for a farmer. Subsidies have to soften the blow of low milk prices though. Everyone just has to keep going in their situation!
Greengrass1 wrote: » Weather looking very nice for the coming wk.
Timmaay wrote: » Crap phone signal around the house and yard though ughh. However ya got me thinking now, and after checking google what I need to try do is get a good outdoor wifi bridge, and try do something like put one end of it connected to a 3g router on some part of the farm with good 4g, and beam it back to the yard. Finding somewhere with power on the farm will be my problem I think!
RightTurnClyde wrote: » Grease up the spreader, fill her up with diesel, turn on the fencer, 'tis go time.
mahoney_j wrote: » Fill the spreader with diesel ,interesting concept !!!!!
frazzledhome wrote: May be time for share milkers to cash in allow things rebalance and re enter at the new base line in 2 yrs?
frazzledhome wrote: » Nice to get an on the ground perspective. A huge advantage or perhaps mill stone in the absence of CGT. Buy a farm wait for land appreciation and sell with out paying and tax on the gain. This leads to s complete bubble with banks becoming central and actually driving this speculation. What happens when demand for land drops due to milk price? The bank's just this week dropped the values of milking stock from a breeding/milking value to a cull value, $1800 down to $1200 Now the number of share milkers strong enough to borrow falls therefore the number of guys feeding into the middle of the dairy farm chain drops. A share milkers only assets are some gear and their cows. If they are taking a 25% hit on the value of their greatest asset it's a fairly strong one that'll be in a position to take on a new farm or even continue on the one they're on. May be time for share milkers to cash in allow things rebalance and re enter at the new base line in 2 yrs?
0lddog wrote: » Not as sh!te as it should be. :P
WheatenBriar wrote: » Remember too that a phone with its wifi hotspot turned on upstairs or in a part of the house or even on an outside window ledge will give good coverage around a house for a laptop or pc No need to pay for satellite broadband Just find the sweet spot and place the phone there Same story down the yard,thats what we do here There are gadgets to that will plug into a lan port and receive the phones hot spot signal delivering it to a camera or a pc so its got a web connection Tethering like that usually isnt allowed but impossible to detect on Android phones Do not do it with an iPhone because they have software specifically designed to report tethering /hotspot use It's going to cost less than getting a mobile broadband device for say the house but yeah have one of those for the calving area alright but use the phone to find the 4G sweet spot
Greengrass1 wrote: » Is that why our iris lad from kk sold all his cows last fall and just went working for some one? Seen what was coming down the line?
Timmaay wrote: » Ported over to Vodafone this morning, time to find a signal somewhere close by. I tried it with 48months (who are on the 3/02 network) before, and no data around the yard or house at all.
Timmaay wrote: » Coming from 0.25mb, wow! [url] http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/1757226607[/url]
frazzledhome wrote: » Now the number of share milkers strong enough to borrow falls therefore the number of guys feeding into the middle of the dairy farm chain drops. A share milkers only assets are some gear and their cows. If they are taking a 25% hit on the value of their greatest asset it's a fairly strong one that'll be in a position to take on a new farm or even continue on the one they're on. May be time for share milkers to cash in allow things rebalance and re enter at the new base line in 2 yrs?
Panch18 wrote: » Say a share Milker has 100 cows and sells them for 130k, how is the share Milker going to avoid tax on his animal sales??
frazzledhome wrote: » Don't know tax codes in NZ. No CGT on land and property sales, that I'm sure of. If he pays tax he's made a profit IF the income is taxable.
Greengrass1 wrote: » Left one cow with her calf last wk for 4 hrs because we were busy and never took it away after feeding. Never again!! Cows beside house tonight and the bitch has the place torn down bawling. Never seen anything like it before.
Milked out wrote: » We only take em away whenever next milking is, only a few of them go like that, even when calf shed is right next to cubicles. There is always one that might go thru wire tho if they get that worked up esp at night.
whelan2 wrote: » Good shock in the fence. Good gates. Problem solved. Imagine what they are like after a week with calf. Get the odd lunatic but they quieten down after a day or 2
Greengrass1 wrote: » Shes at this for a wk now. Drives me cracked at milking. Comes into the parlour and starts roaring. I went out and put up another wire and gave them a fresh break. That cured her
blackdog1 wrote: » Anyone hear having any Rota virus problems? I'm vaccinated for it but I'm finding I still have the odd case and it takes 4-5 days to clear so not too severe but a pain in the arse. Was talking to the vet about it and he said it's everywhere this year and 2,other herds that vaccinated were having same issues.
whelan2 wrote: » How long are the calves getting the treated biestings for?
