https://www.boards.ie/ Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:16:38 +0000 en profitable — boards.ie - Now Ye're Talkin' https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2056964385/money-out-of-dairy-farming Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:09:29 +0000 Farming & Forestry jocotty 2056964385@/discussions
a friend of mine is milking about 40 cows, rears all the calves until there 2 year old, and buys in about 20 cheap calves, and rears them also until there about 2.

He does all his own work, other than silage. He is a one man band, with no help. fixes all his own machinery, etc.

He owns about 65 acres of good land, and rents about 25 acres of bad land for the cattle. His palour is old enough, takes him about 1.5hrs to milk the 40 cows.

he's flat out working every day, with no time to do anything other than work, and to me, it looks like he's not making a penny.

is this sort of farming profitable, or is he doing something majorly wrong?]]>