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I was meaning what was your price, wrongly assuming you had a mix of A & B litres. 36.7ppl here, 1/4 of my litres were -19.45p with seasonality though, it seems to of knocked around 4.5p off overall.

What was your average?

Ours doesn’t drop much initially but will be 0.6 down when we hit the second round mid April. It’s averaging around 4.3 at the moment from 4.9 on the first round.

That didn’t work here, ended up with odd ones with one horn to chop off when they were older, went back to the gas. Tried it for 2 years convinced I was not doing it right the first time but couldn’t crack it.

To be fair they don’t get the rain.

Quite happy to let the boys and girls on flat ground with drier climates keep their cows inside, the point is then if you can grow wheat why not make it into bread for people to eat. Grazed grass off marginal ground allows us to a produce highly nutritious food source off of land useful for...

2 grazers would match one fully housed in terms of solids yield, not many housed cows doing those sorts of yields. Let’s entertain the statement for a moment though, I’m going to house all my cows year round, I’ve seen the light, you were right it wasn’t that hard. First problem is I need 3x...

Possibly you just wouldn’t know, or perhaps the other enterprises are carrying the dairy. You’d expect they’ll of been claiming a penny or two of sub on that acreage to.

£40k profit per million litres, head above water but only just. Obviously not the full picture but doesn’t look that flash.

It’s certainly your vets bad, you really should have been given a withdrawal date. Just looks unprofessional asking on here and is fuel to those that think we as farmers shouldn’t be administering drugs.

Probably not a discussion for a public forum.

Pds to, we’ve not had a vet PD a cow in 5 years here, all through the CIS.

Had one back out half way through milking here on Tuesday as the back gate was left open, can’t imagine having a parlour without them. Also letting them in before the front gate was closed would make me nervous, it’s got a sprint down the track written all over it! 🤣

you’ll have to lie the standard sheets out first though?

It’ll be hard work in the wind will it not? You’ll almost need some tyres to hold the sheets down before you roll the big sheet over it all! 😂

Another consideration might be how it overcomes a safety rail, I’m not sure a new clamp like that would be acceptable in the UK?

Can it work inside a building? Some rails above the walls replacing the running gear?

I’ve made a few over the years, dead easy all you need is a 9” grinder and a ballcock. If you can see from the picture one of the top braces drops down to give it more strength and the plastic you cut away can close in the service box, only issue is you get a wet sleeve adjusting the ball height...

I was on my own, we mow and Ted our own so never many spare bodies around before the chopper lands but might have to make it happen if there’s no one to help we’ll probably go without side sheets. Only year we had rats around there was when we put a feild of wholecrop in it, one of the reasons...

Interested in how people hang the side sheets on concrete walls, first year away from earth banks last year and it was an awful job, 4 meter high walls don’t help, up and down the ladder I was pig sick by the time it was done, so much so I’m thinking of going without this time. The buckrake man...