All things Dairy

[som farmer]

Has ea actually ever stopped anyone milking cows? Most farmers use it as an excuse. As long as you don’t pollute ea can’t do anything.

they are going around all farms, saying do this, or that.

courtesy/advisory visit, first offence warning, 2nd, they prosecute. That is what they say.

if they use the rule book, trouble, if a softer approach ...............

they seem to want to be strict, its only a ploy to deflect blame from the sewage dischargers.

mate tells me, rather a lot of 'talks' re dispersals, esp from tenants.

has the potential to really hit hard, just depends on how they implement it. At xmas, my relation in there, says 'strict', but he retired at xmas, so nothing more from there. Lots of votes to be gained from making rivers cleaner.

saw the photo's of a flooded cubicle house, EA inspected discharge of slurry into river, decided it was flooding, so no fault, then sent the bill, for the cost of 'investigation'.

 

[som farmer]

Didn’t realise you’d ventured into the milking beef job at some point,every days a school day

only when we restarted, and needed the milk.

not the best of ways to increase volume ! Learnt a lot from them though, there's very definitely a big difference between dairy and beef cows, in temperament, in yield, in constituents, and stubbornness.

 

[Spudley]

Dead tractor seems to drive more dairy farmers out of production than EA, mainly by grinding them down with pettiness. (This actually affects smaller farmers that care about animal welfare, but they seem quite happy to let large multi site operators with major animal welfare issues keep farming)

See the previous threads about large scale fraud on a pembrokeshire dairy farm and evolution farming

 

[Wee Willy]

Mother was bought incalf,

she calved,

I went to register her and she was down as male so couldn't,

I sent off passport and then got it back, didn't realise they don't automatically just send out the passport for her (she was all registered within 27 days but over the telephone so is fully registered)

Went to sell her with the rest of the group and realised I didn't have a passport

Sorted that but then tb test ran out and couldn't be bothered to retest 1 animal in truth

6 months later she was retested and pd'd 7-8 months incalf to friesian bull which wasn't surprising as she was running with the bulling heifers of the same age

She's just calved and had a friesian heifer so don't want to leave the heifer on her and can't be bothered to fight with her to get a beef calf on her so will milk and fatten up

She did 15 litres on her first milking

15 litres?? You've either left out a decimal point or your milk meters are broken.

 

[Beef farmer]

Dung spread, sand spread and by tonight 1.5m gal will have flowed through the dribble bar. 6 big tankers running non stop for last 2 days

Check out the herbal ley

 

[Sambo]

Dung spread, sand spread and by tonight 1.5m gal will have flowed through the dribble bar. 6 big tankers running non stop for last 2 days View attachment 1178833
Check out the herbal ley

Ferrying to a holding tank and umbilical or spreading themselves?

 

[Wesley]

Dung spread, sand spread and by tonight 1.5m gal will have flowed through the dribble bar. 6 big tankers running non stop for last 2 days View attachment 1178833
Check out the herbal ley

Stopped for a tea party, posing for a photo or just coincidence?

 

[More to life]

Stopped for a tea party, posing for a photo or just coincidence?

They move in packs

 

[Headless chicken]

cow viewing platform paying dividends. Little bit of warmth and all the winters sins would be forgiven

 

[Spudley]

Great view!!

 

[Headless chicken]

Great view!!

If you stand ontop of the mountain and wave I think we’ll just about see you

 

[kiwi pom]

Has ea actually ever stopped anyone milking cows? Most farmers use it as an excuse. As long as you don’t pollute ea can’t do anything.

I've wondered that, when I was working on UK dairy farms in the late 80's early 90's the talk was always, we are being forced to have more storage, more regulations etc and the authorities will shut us down if we don't spend millions. Some did spend and tidy up; some should have been shut down back then. Fast forward to today and there are still the same farms milking with bugger all storage, chucking slurry on the same few acres and have barely upgraded the dump of a place but they get away with it.
As you say, sounds like an excuse for getting out of the job rather than the actual reason.
Not that there's anything wrong with packing up if you want to.

 

[Beef farmer]

Stopped for a tea party, posing for a photo or just coincidence?

No, 4 can fill and 3 can empty at once, just couldn't seem to split them up all day.

 

[Beef farmer]

Ferrying to a holding tank and umbilical or spreading themselves?

Holding tanks

 

[Jdunn55]

Bit of a population explosion!

 

[Jdunn55]

When it's not raining moving this lot is by far the best job of the day!

 

[Jdunn55]

Bit of a population explosion!
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And another one thats 30 on milk now

Yesterday's calver, 3rd calving frieisan

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

And another one thats 30 on milk now View attachment 1179485
Yesterday's calver, 3rd calving frieisan
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She is a cracker. Who is she by?

 

[Jdunn55]

She is a cracker. Who is she by?

Chad

 

[DairyNerd]

U going to be selling lots of fresh cows soon then @Jdunn55 ? Or will you keep one block and sell the other fresh?