whelan2 wrote: » I blame the Glanbia rep in Nigeria
rangler1 wrote: » Now glanbia's letting go 40 in ballitore.....will they be able to pay for milk this month at all at all benjy
pedigree 6 wrote: » This what your on about? Efficency.http://www.kildarenow.com/jobs/new-glanbia-venture-will-create-25-construction-jobs-in-co-kildare/53593
rangler1 wrote: » No thishttp://www.farmersjournal.ie/glanbia-announce-job-losses-for-a-quarter-of-staff-at-kildare-factory-207442 ..........inefficiency
awaywithyou wrote: » 30 unit herringbone.... alot of walking..... 50 unit rotary... anything else waste of time
the_blue_oval wrote: » I've done a fair few milkings in a 30 unit herringbone with acrs, dumpline and a few other bells and whistles.. one man at his ease would put roughly 180 cows through it in an hour, clusters would be coming off the first cow just as you'd be putting it on the last cow. Parlour had rubber mats down in the pit which makes a huge difference, legs or feet were never tired after milking in it..
kevthegaff wrote: » Don't give me an ideas!
kowtow wrote: » Absolutely right. The truth is that we just don't know whether or not we have passed through the top of some sort of supercycle... 'tho there are plenty of signs to suggest we have. My concern is not cycles per se... rather whether as an industry we are gearing up for a model which only really has a place one decade in three... the 'global powder' trade. When harvest 2020 was thought through I wonder did anyone even consider the risk that the figures were based on a very unusual decade? And you are quite right we are still well placed to weather the storm. Low debt and the fact that we haven't yet scaled up in a meaningful sense means that family labour and cash accounting will keep most people's heads above water one way or another. It may very well be that the biggest mistake we could make would be to invest hard at the first sign of an upturn on the assumption that prices will return to 30c...it will be interesting to see what the industry and press approach is when that time comes. *The price could, of course, return much higher than 30c in the near term. I'd be surprised, but I am cautious with this kind of thing. It takes about 37 milliseconds to turn a car of futures contracts into cash if the market goes against me. A farm full of cows isn't quite so liquid.
Dawggone wrote: » Forgive me I'm tired. Us dairy men do work so hard....Oh to be a tillage farmer.
kevthegaff wrote: » Better than driving a 20 year old fiat with no heating:-) ill retract my statement they work hard with bad gear and pittance of a sfp happy dawg;-)
Dawggone wrote: » Just turning cows out to pasture and the whole herd just froze...seismic activity. Weird really. Didn't know that animals freeze in position for earthquakes, or is it just cows?
freedominacup wrote: » Did you ever see it before?
Dawggone wrote: » I bought and payed for my SFP at 2.5 times face value. Losing €80kp.a to those pesky young farmers...:) I keep a few cows and a few chickens but the tillage side eats up/into your time. Long hours. See the French love the inside 24/7 dairy model because it industrialises the work kinda like pig farmers, and they can plan their holidays/weekends off 6mts ahead. Brilliant business model or what? To me it's just plain thick.
Dawggone wrote: » There's some low key seismic activity a few times a year, but it's the first time I've seen animals during a rumble. They copped it about 10 seconds before me. Those 10 seconds were quite surreal. Total silence and stock frozen in position, they didn't even swish a tail.
kevthegaff wrote: » Where do u see tillage going in ireland and France in the longterm Dawg? Some v good tillage men in my area.
keep going wrote: » And you being the typical paddy said"what 4he f××k is wrong with ye".
bogman_bass wrote: » Apparently dogs are very sensitive to it
trixi2011 wrote: » was bring in cows for one of the canturbury earth quakes a few years ago they took off straight threw every fence on front of them
Dawggone wrote: » 27mm of rain last night just as we'd finished the silage. Off now to throw plastic over the pits.
Brown Podzol wrote: Better to be born lucky than rich.
