mf240 wrote: » Biggest mistake of my career (for want of a better word) was sighing that fecking msa.
mahoney_j wrote: » My understanding is exactly that darragh ,22 cent plus solids
Bass Reeves wrote: » Do not bet the house on it. 2017 will be one of the trickiest beef years in a long time. All those 2015 calves that were not exported ( sucklers and dairy) will be coming on stream as beef cattle. As well as is alluded to here to lots of cull cows. Only one way drystock prices will go and that is downhill. You might be better to sell the BB calves for export and take the hit on the cows, If there is a good cull cow price at the end of the year I be flogging them. Remember 2014 the way beef prices were take another 10% off them it could be as bad as that.
jaymla627 wrote: » Given the hammering cows are after taking this spring which will have a knock - on effect on breeding you could see a lot of cull cows next bank-end.... In the position here that I will have to many cows all going well next spring , planning on selling any cows that have issues like low yields/solids/feet etc with Belgian blue calves at foot as a double suckling job....Should clear well over 1300 a cow with calves at foot will be a get out of jail card the way things are looking at the minute for next spring, and will tidy up the herd nicely and bump up milk solids sent per cow
darragh_haven wrote: » Does this mean glanbia are paying solids bonus on a 22 cent base?
WheatenBriar wrote: » GIIL 24c Which includes1c from ornua bonus and 1c from glanbia coop Ex Vat and the various funding nechanism' they've used for fixed milk ,GiiL getting the milk for about 20c now
Milked out wrote: » Thing is a lot of lads, me included, have the replacements there to come in for next two years so part of that cost is already gone out so not sure if such a drop will happen. A lot of lads with young herds too due to culling old girls with quota issues
blackdog1 wrote: » I've said it a million times the French are the only country that look aftert their YOUNG farmers.
jaymla627 wrote: » Doing 4 weeks dairy ai here and only top 30% of cows will be served to sexed dairy sires with a few getting conventional straws , going all sexed on maidens so will adequately cover replacements, along with fr stock bull covering repeats..... I reckon come 2019 you could put the house on dairy cow numbers dropping nationally, the mood out their at the minute given milk price and the spring we are having to endure has opened alot of lads eye's to the risks of hiking up numbers and the folly of carrying extra replacements through at massive cost hoping that Talbot and Co will throw you down enough crumbs from the top table to stay going
Milked out wrote: » Most lads in group using 5/6 weeks of dairy ai max then in with bulls or beef ai. Now that could change given bad start with weather conditions for mating but wouldn't surprise if that holds true for most. I'll go 8 weeks ai as locked up and only have one bull so need to give him some chance
Dawggone wrote: » Maybe I should throw in that we have a written guarantee of an average minimum price of 35cpl between 1April 2016 and 1April 2021. Amazing what a little pressure can achieve. The pressure here came in the form of herd dispersals...
whelan2 wrote: » At least we know before we start serving for next spring, I think there will be alot more beef straws used this year, I am off to moan at my local Ifa meeting :cool:
freedominacup wrote: » Could have been worse. This thread had an effect. The only way to keep any manners on them is to keep hammering your board members. Plenty of them love their fees and the threat of taking their seat will keep the focused. Bergin and Talbot had at least double that cut in mind.
whelan2 wrote: » sickner of a text to get at the end of a long crap day
Water John wrote: » FYI, I asked the Mods about the Dairygold Expulsions thread as I am the OP and I could not find it. They said they knew nothing of it but to contact, named person, who's in the office as that person had 'stood down' the thread. Contacted her with query, what happened and reason. She replied that she had done this to check was their any defamation on the thread. She would edit it and then put it up again, amended. I take it, some very specific contact was made. This contact wasn't with Mods as per usual by anyone reporting. Quite disturbed by this development in light of the reasonable freedom afforded by and to all of us by the forum for fair comment. But will not comment further for the moment. Will see how it pans out. Feel free to copy this elsewhere, fellow posters.
