25 cows and making good profit... 40 years ago!!!

startinghandle · Aug 9, 2018

I know this means nothing now but it is true 25 cows and good profit, always Hereford bull AI calves sold at 2 weeks black calves sold better than red and made better price at Shrewsbury than Welshpool well worth the longer journey and always used BOCM red label nuts , finally all the cleaning out was done with shovel , broom and wheelbarrow

Henarar · Aug 9, 2018

21 years ago we had 35 British Friesian cows and made a decent profit from them

Spudley · Aug 9, 2018

I know of three farms, within 10 miles of here, all milking less than 40 cows in a cowshed. I admire them very much.

Hilly · Aug 9, 2018

Henarar said:
21 years ago we had 35 British Friesian cows and made a decent profit from them

Why you give up ?

kfpben · Aug 9, 2018

Spudley said:
I know of three farms, within 10 miles of here, all milking less than 40 cows in a cowshed. I admire them very much.

Where’s here? A surprising number out there milking under 50 still.

In Switzerland I think the average herd size is about 20!

betweenthelines · Aug 9, 2018

kfpben said:
Where’s here? A surprising number out there milking under 50 still.

In Switzerland I think the average herd size is about 20!

Yeah, being outside the EU really makes farming hard.

vulcan · Aug 9, 2018

Milk around the 40 to 50 mark here and do ok find alot of sales reps don't hang about when they find out how many cows we milk mustn't be big enough for them to deal with me!

Henarar · Aug 9, 2018

Hilly said:
Why you give up ?

Dad died
also the kit was well out of date and had just about had it and I wasn't really that keen on the cows back then

Henarar · Aug 9, 2018

runny egg said:
They had a choice of sell them or retain them, they decided that sell seemed attractive but didn't know why, so they decided to wait and see and not put a plan together for what to do next until they had sold them as no one knew what selling them would mean.

actually it was one of the last things Dad told us we should do but as you think its funny then ha ha

Farmer1001 · Aug 9, 2018

Henarar said:
Dad died
also the kit was well out of date and had just about had it and I wasn't really that keen on the cows back then

Sorry @Henarar I made a stupid attempt at humour.

yin ewe · Aug 9, 2018

vulcan said:
Milk around the 40 to 50 mark here and do ok find alot of sales reps don't hang about when they find out how many cows we milk mustn't be big enough for them to deal with me!

I would say that's a good thing. We milk 65ish here on a robot and hardly ever get annoyed with reps unless the ones I contact. I find that round here the more reps with fancy motors in the yard, the more cows you need!!!

Hilly · Aug 9, 2018

Henarar said:
Dad died
also the kit was well out of date and had just about had it and I wasn't really that keen on the cows back then

Oh sorry, i bet you miss him, and the dairy cows, i grew up with my older brother milking i often think about them milking cows and i wasnt that old then.

Spudley · Aug 9, 2018

kfpben said:
Where’s here? A surprising number out there milking under 50 still.

In Switzerland I think the average herd size is about 20!

Pembrokeshire

Irish NZ · Aug 9, 2018

I was raised on 35-40 cows. New car outside the door every few years. Wanted for nothing and quadrupled the size of the holding...

Henarar · Aug 9, 2018

Hilly said:
Oh sorry, i bet you miss him, and the dairy cows, i grew up with my older brother milking i often think about them milking cows and i wasnt that old then.

Yes I do
I liked the cows well enough just didn't like the milking
Most seemed to milk a few back then up through here now there is only one left

Barleycorn · Aug 10, 2018

I remember a family in a neighbouring village on about 150 acres. Put 3 children through private education and regular new cars and tractors etc. Don't know where it all went wrong, it would be an interesting thing to study.

Hilly · Aug 10, 2018

Barleycorn said:
I remember a family in a neighbouring village on about 150 acres. Put 3 children through private education and regular new cars and tractors etc. Don't know where it all went wrong, it would be an interesting thing to study.

What happen`d to them ?

Barleycorn · Aug 10, 2018

Hilly said:
What happen`d to them ?

Long gone now, I did meet one of the daughters a few years back, she had married a Scottish farmer and moved north.

jendan · Aug 10, 2018

Spudley said:
I know of three farms, within 10 miles of here, all milking less than 40 cows in a cowshed. I admire them very much.

Who buys the milk? No buyers are interested near me unless its 5000-6000litres minimum EOD.

William Mellor · Aug 10, 2018

My grandparents used to milk 25 cows tied up in a shippen on 40 acres until about 15 years ago, they toke over from their parents around 15 years before that.
Until recently they still use to have a milk round and they are both in their 70’s! They made a decent living off both the cows and the milk round but getting older and more red tape has had it effect. They rent all the land out now to sheep farmers

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