Production

[lazy farmer]

Following from @Headless chicken s thread. Lots and lots and lots of farmers particularly in the southern half of the uk are seeing lower yields than last winter. So my question is why isn’t production down more . Last winter folks where chasing milk as prices were high this yr is very different so why not higher falls Overall ?

 

[jimmer]

They're still carrying the extra cows from the 50p bonanza I guess

 

[Conrod96]

Made better silage this year so cows are milking better feeding the same level of concentrate cows went from 9900 litres last winter to sitting up at 10,200 now just purely because of silage

 

[More to life]

Following from @Headless chicken s thread. Lots and lots and lots of farmers particularly in the southern half of the uk are seeing lower yields than last winter. So my question is why isn’t production down more . Last winter folks where chasing milk as prices were high this yr is very different so why not higher falls Overall ?

How good is the data will it get revised down later.

 

[Cows 'n grass]

I'm 150k litres (5%) up on last year because we a grassier summer and I have f##ked up quite as many things as usual.

 

[buffalo_soldier]

Gotta milk more to keep the milk cheque up….

 

[pappuller]

Gotta milk more to keep the milk cheque up….

Amen brother, keep on sending it

 

[sidjon]

I'm down 2% on last year, would've been more if it hadn't been such a wet summer, the wet spring really buggered us up and was a year of catch up.

 

[Chimera]

Gotta milk more to keep the milk cheque up….

I haven't yet figured out how to keep up with my (large) mortgage without sending lots of milk. Especially in the short term.

 

[Princess Pooper]

Following from @Headless chicken s thread. Lots and lots and lots of farmers particularly in the southern half of the uk are seeing lower yields than last winter. So my question is why isn’t production down more . Last winter folks where chasing milk as prices were high this yr is very different so why not higher falls Overall ?

More changing to autumn calving?

 

[Headless chicken]

I haven't yet figured out how to keep up with my (large) mortgage without sending lots of milk. Especially in the short term.

Unfortunately there’s lots of us in the same boat.

 

[pappuller]

More changing to autumn calving?

Do we think that the time will come when the ayr pretty level profile farm will attract a premium for their milk ?

 

[Devon lad]

I'm down 2% on last year, would've been more if it hadn't been such a wet summer, the wet spring really buggered us up and was a year of catch up.

Snap ours is 10% down though, wet March and April poached the ground and pushed all air out of it, in May/june drougt baked it so hard cracks were as wide as your fingers, 1st cut quality poor as contractors were flat out playing catch up and some went too dry. Paddocks were thin, crap August onwards no sunlight cows started rejecting grass, proper discontented. Rained then for 35 days straight, cows then housed 3 weeks early and fed on crap silage. Decided to dry whole herd off 1 week early as I wanted to cut my losses, reflect on the crap year and plan 2024

 

[frederick]

Do we think that the time will come when the ayr pretty level profile farm will attract a premium for their milk ?

A lot of the 365 housed herds are in aligned contracts so already do.

 

[Yale]

Snap ours is 10% down though, wet March and April poached the ground and pushed all air out of it, in May/june drougt baked it so hard cracks were as wide as your fingers, 1st cut quality poor as contractors were flat out playing catch up and some went too dry. Paddocks were thin, crap August onwards no sunlight cows started rejecting grass, proper discontented. Rained then for 35 days straight, cows then housed 3 weeks early and fed on crap silage. Decided to dry whole herd off 1 week early as I wanted to cut my losses, reflect on the crap year and plan 2024

Could be worse, you could have suckler cows.

 

[lazy farmer]

Snap ours is 10% down though, wet March and April poached the ground and pushed all air out of it, in May/june drougt baked it so hard cracks were as wide as your fingers, 1st cut quality poor as contractors were flat out playing catch up and some went too dry. Paddocks were thin, crap August onwards no sunlight cows started rejecting grass, proper discontented. Rained then for 35 days straight, cows then housed 3 weeks early and fed on crap silage. Decided to dry whole herd off 1 week early as I wanted to cut my losses, reflect on the crap year and plan 2024

Sounds awfully familiar

 

[Grassman247]

Do we think that the time will come when the ayr pretty level profile farm will attract a premium for their milk ?

Even if block calving is penalised it will still be way more profitable. We see a big difference between spring and autumn. Mainly because most of the spring milk is directly from grass

 

[Beef farmer]

Even if block calving is penalised it will still be way more profitable. We see a big difference between spring and autumn. Mainly because most of the spring milk is directly from grass

Why do you have an autumn block? Have a unit that doesn't suit spring?

 

[More to life]

Why do you have an autumn block? Have a unit that doesn't suit spring?

produce a level profile

 

[Grassman247]

Why do you have an autumn block? Have a unit that doesn't suit spring?

A milk buyer who would let us go if we didn’t have it. Otherwise it would be all spring