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So what are your plans for 2018

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    #62
    squinn2912
    Registered Users Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭squinn2912


    squinn2912 wrote: »
    Get reseeding done that we missed last year.
    Do AI course and get some experience at that with the replacement heifers. Consider turning the bull into sweeper.
    Try out some first cross dairy stock.
    Improve book keeping and work on benchmarking.
    2 non farming ones;
    Run a 2:55 marathon.
    Maintain 100% pass rate in school.

    Ok didn’t do the course. Couldn’t get it arranged.
    Wee dairy sim girls are 350 odd kgs now can’t wait to see how they do.
    Benchmarking done. Not bad.
    School good grades.
    Dublin marathon: 2:54:59 😂


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    #63
    Timmaay
    Registered Users Posts: 11,394 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    GrasstoMilk wrote: »
    More cows and more young stock and get a better work routine in place.
    300 ft of feed passage for go in.
    More reseeding and finally finish the house we've been at all year
    Sticking with straw bedding for the foreseeable. Have gotten a straw blower and it has made winter a lot easier. The new feed passage will mean all the cows will be in 2 sheds beside each other instead of being split between 4. And the feed passage will make it much easier to buffer feed cows aswell as feeding during the winter

    You fairly blew all them targets outa the water and achieved plenty more ha.


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    #64
    GrasstoMilk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭GrasstoMilk


    Timmaay wrote: »
    You fairly blew all them targets outa the water and achieved plenty more ha.

    Yeah we sure did.
    Tough bloody year though! Went from growing 16t in 2017 to 9t this year.
    Double the meal fed.
    Good year saying that!
    We finished the house, living in it for nearly 4 months now.
    We dug a new silage pit, which needs to concreted still.
    We did 1km of farm roads from our own stone.
    We put in 116 cubicles and a 100x20 tank aswell as 260ft of feed space. Still have cows on straw but we'll get there next year.
    We managed to reared 8% of the platform even with the drought.
    Hectic year with no break or holiday but enjoyed every minute of it.
    We also left autumn calving and winter milk, was it the right decision? Don't know yet but I think so!
    Bring on 2019!!


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    #65
    emaherx
    Registered Users Posts: 5,959 ✭✭✭emaherx


    emaherx wrote: »
    My main aim this year is to tidy up the yard and cattle handling facilities (on the smallest budget possible, so some guntering on the way). Need to make the place as time efficient as possible.

    Think a few extra cameras will be needed as my house is a bit away from the yard. Might install some smart switches to turn on and off the lights remotely so I won't have to buy the most expensive night vision cameras. Would also be handy to add the electric fence to this also.

    Well.......
    I sort of started some of this :D


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    #66
    mahoney_j
    Registered Users Posts: 11,071 ✭✭✭✭mahoney_j


    mahoney_j wrote: »
    Small increase in cow no’s,Sr on milk platform 3.6 and that’s as far as I’m going ,workload ,lack of Labour limiting
    Sell 600 plus kgms per cow
    Cover my outside cubicles ,no fault with them bar ,slurry storage .i either dig another tank or roof it ,decision made to roof .plans drawn up and ready to submit next week
    Get a bull calf into ai
    Did the increase in cow numbers ,fell about 40 kgms short of 600 spring and drought fecked that up.outside cubicles now covered and not a day too soon ,bull calf made reserve list but not final cut ,must try harder !!!.anyway last of cows dried off today well earned rest ahead


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    #67
    Dunedin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,225 ✭✭✭Dunedin


    Dunedin wrote: »
    Putting up a 3 bay slatted shed with creep for calves. Starting it ASAP once weather takes up in spring.

    5 acres ploughed since August but weather broke and didn’t get it sown so that’s priority in spring.

    May do another 8 acres in August but will play it by ear.

    Built a 4 bay after. All finished just in time to let stock in.
    Reseeded the five acres on 7 may. Drought affected it a little
    Didn’t even think about the 8 acres.


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    #68
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,078 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    whelan2 wrote: »
    2018 Will be a big year here, new milking parlour and cubicle shed going up , plans are in the process of being drawn up at the moment. Will be a big change.

    Got planning permission.. Pricing around now.


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    #69
    tractorporn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭tractorporn


    tractorporn wrote: »
    Formally register the farm partnership with DAFM

    Apply for TAMS on a few safety bits and pieces around the place.

    Finish off the transfer of the land into my own name.

    Downsize the sucker cows to the BDGP reference or maybe just above it to be on the safe side.

    Resurface the silage slab. Might try and widen it as there no wall on one side.

    After that plod along for another while and apply for every scheme going. Have plans for another shed but that's for 2019

    Out of that list I've only the one item ticked off

    Sold 8 cows over the course of the back end down to the BDGP reference.

    Land transfer should be completed come Easter 19

    Have a man asked to do the shed.


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    #70
    carrollsno1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,187 ✭✭✭carrollsno1


    Ive done a fair but of travelling as planned, but ive being partying a lot in the last year since i gave up milking so if i was to get into cows in the morning id be milking one old shorthorn that wouldnt last the bo raibeach on a tie up byre. However ive work lined up on a new tunnel in the new year, football and rugby is starting back up aswell so i reckon tbe midweek sesions are gone thank god and hopefuly the cow fund starts looking healthier by the end of 2019

    Better living everyone



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    #71
    davidk1394
    Registered Users Posts: 4,043 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    Travel to Australia. Experience a bit of the world. Set up a farm partnership with my parents.

    Managed to do the traveling and setting up he partnership and achieved a few extra things


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    #72
    josephsoap
    Registered Users Posts: 649 ✭✭✭josephsoap


    Keep Sluicing wrote: »
    Just looked at my post (in my previous moniker) and i did as planned on the farming side, bar changing the day job. Still at the travelling for work. Over 8 years at it now.

    Do you have much to travel everyday?


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    #73
    X6.430macman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭X6.430macman


    X6.430macman wrote:
    Simple, Spend more hours driving gear than ever before..


    Definitely happy with how I did, got to drive three quadtracs and a few challengers, happy out


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    #74
    K.G.
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,034 Mod ✭✭✭✭K.G.


    didnt hit any highs but have come through the toughest year since 09 .while 09 was tighter financially this was mentally and phyiscally tougher.8


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    #75
    Keep Sluicing
    Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭Keep Sluicing


    josephsoap wrote: »
    Do you have much to travel everyday?

    It not daily travel. I can work from home one, maybe two days a week. But then away on sites throughout the UK for 3 days a week.


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    #76
    K.G.
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,034 Mod ✭✭✭✭K.G.


    Keep Sluicing wrote: »
    josephsoap wrote: »
    Do you have much to travel everyday?

    It not daily travel. I can work from home one, maybe two days a week. But then away
    noticed you were gone missing.


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    #77
    Keep Sluicing
    Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭Keep Sluicing


    K.G. wrote: »
    Keep Sluicing wrote: »

    It not daily travel. I can work from home one, maybe two days a week. But then away
    noticed you were gone missing.

    Took a break for 4 or 5 months


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    #78
    stantheman1979
    Registered Users Posts: 435 ✭✭stantheman1979


    stantheman1979 wrote: »
    Priority no1 stay the top side of the ground!! After that I plan to reduce sucklers from 130 to 50. Ive 80 in calf cows going in the new year. Buy a stabilizer bull and move to complete autumn calving. Plan to increase the ewes from 800 to 1700. Im finding year after year no matter how tight you try to keep costs there is very little money in sucklers. Even though it warms my heart seeing the cattle every day the sheep are making money.
    Also need to manage grass a little better, more smaller paddocks etc but need to improve my roadway to get the full benefit from this. Try to get to some more farm walks, events I find I generally take something positive away
    I’ve managed to achieve my top priority and am still here. Sucklers down to 25. Have a limo bull with them at the minute so hopefully will start calving in August. Reseeded 16 acres, got a lot of fencing done over summer. Increased ewes to 1200. Lambs grew well despite ground being burned badly all summer and lamb prices stayed good. Had a few nice holidays and generally happy with my lot.
    A lot done more to do!!!!


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    #79
    pat73
    Registered Users Posts: 177 ✭✭pat73


    Hopefully pay off my 2018 bills in 2019.


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    #80
    alps
    Registered Users Posts: 4,927 ✭✭✭alps


    Gonna take things far more serious next year...

    So....

    I have already booked Sunday 18th of August off for the match, and the following 2 days for the celebration...


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    #81
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,113 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    For some reason Alps, I thought you lived in Co. Cork. If so, you'd want to start on the Novenas.


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