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

Barleycorn

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BASE UK Member
Location
Hampshire
Do you think they just spent until all was gone ? private schools will have gave alot of bank balances some grief over the years.
To be honest I lost touch with them years ago. The kids all left home and the parents retired, long dead now. You've got me interested now, will have to ask a mate who lives near to their farm what happened to them.
 

vantage

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Pembs
Who buys the milk? No buyers are interested near me unless its 5000-6000litres minimum EOD.
Where are you based?
In a concentrated milk field it is easier to get your milk collected as tankers probably go past the end of your drive,milk cows in a sparse milk field not so easy.
 

hendrebc

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Livestock Farmer
Where are you based?
In a concentrated milk field it is easier to get your milk collected as tankers probably go past the end of your drive,milk cows in a sparse milk field not so easy.
Dairy farmers of britain stopping ended all the small herds around here. Theres only one big herd of about 200 cows now for probably 10 miles in any direction
 

Kiwi Pete

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Livestock Farmer
A young couple near us milk 8 cows (and 4 in the winter) they sell butter and cheeses and homemade knitwear, meat and fruit pies and all sorts of trees and shrubs from a nursery.
Oh, and breed goats.

30 acres.

They deserve to be well off, IMO (y) that's what you get for not giving your sh!t away "coz it's the easy thing to do."

Lots of ways to skin a cat
 

yin ewe

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Co Antrim
The problem nowadays is we all need 'stuff' in our lives, 2/3 cars is normal for most households, with all the costs involved. A mf 135 with a 4 cwt fertiliser sower behind simply doesn't cut the mustard anymore. Has to be sp harvester, triple mowers, 50' rake, 3no 16 ton Kane halfpipes and a quarry shovel for silage, then we need a consultant to tell us how to put it in the silo and how to feed it to the cattle. We need ipads, iphones, widescreen tvs, laptop computers, the list is endless.
I'm not any better than anyone else of course, it's a vicious cycle that society as a whole is caught up in, and I'm not sure if we are better or worse off as a result, it's just the reason why 25 cows on 40 acres is now the exception rather than the rule.
 

Jameshenry

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Location
Cornwall
The problem nowadays is we all need 'stuff' in our lives, 2/3 cars is normal for most households, with all the costs involved. A mf 135 with a 4 cwt fertiliser sower behind simply doesn't cut the mustard anymore. Has to be sp harvester, triple mowers, 50' rake, 3no 16 ton Kane halfpipes and a quarry shovel for silage, then we need a consultant to tell us how to put it in the silo and how to feed it to the cattle. We need ipads, iphones, widescreen tvs, laptop computers, the list is endless.
I'm not any better than anyone else of course, it's a vicious cycle that society as a whole is caught up in, and I'm not sure if we are better or worse off as a result, it's just the reason why 25 cows on 40 acres is now the exception rather than the rule.
Sadly i think we are worse off !
 

Adam@Rumen

Member
Location
Nantwich/Rishton
Input costs would be one of the biggest changes in my opinion.

Back in the day everything was sourced locally and a small margin would have been made by the supplier over their cost. Nowadays the cost of product for these larger companies is far less important and they maximise profit by selling the potential return of their goods.
 

Hilly

Member
That's what it's for. Could have done worse. Hopefully they enjoyed it and gave the whole family best chance in life.
Agreed, i dont think a private education is giving them any more chance than any other education , them days are long gone imho, and too blow the family silver on school fees would be foolish but just my opinion, if school fees easily afforded and that what wanted go for it but too throw everything including the kitchen sink at it would be silly these days.
 

Frodo

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Location
Scotland (east)
Agreed, i dont think a private education is giving them any more chance than any other education , them days are long gone imho, and too blow the family silver on school fees would be foolish but just my opinion, if school fees easily afforded and that what wanted go for it but too throw everything including the kitchen sink at it would be silly these days.
Your probably right, but equally to, skimp and save, live a live of drudgery, sending the girls to a sink school with no prospects, to allow the son to continue your misery is hardly ideal either.

It's all a bit off topic.
 

Hilly

Member
Your probably right, but equally to, skimp and save, live a live of drudgery, sending the girls to a sink school with no prospects, to allow the son to continue your misery is hardly ideal either.

It's all a bit off topic.
Its all relative to profit tho aint it and how much you want need etc etc so i think its quite within topic.
 

Cowcorn

Member
Mixed Farmer
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
Ah red label. nuts that brings back childhood memories.
Abreast parlour and british friesian cows that never got lame and were rarely sick !
 

Spudley

Member
Location
Pembrokeshire
Who buys the milk? No buyers are interested near me unless its 5000-6000litres minimum EOD.
I want to say Freshways but I am not 100% sure. I'm Pembs/Carms border so there are many tankers up and down the roads round here, they'd have no problem filling a corner in any number of them.
 
The problem nowadays is we all need 'stuff' in our lives, 2/3 cars is normal for most households, with all the costs involved. A mf 135 with a 4 cwt fertiliser sower behind simply doesn't cut the mustard anymore. Has to be sp harvester, triple mowers, 50' rake, 3no 16 ton Kane halfpipes and a quarry shovel for silage, then we need a consultant to tell us how to put it in the silo and how to feed it to the cattle. We need ipads, iphones, widescreen tvs, laptop computers, the list is endless.
I'm not any better than anyone else of course, it's a vicious cycle that society as a whole is caught up in, and I'm not sure if we are better or worse off as a result, it's just the reason why 25 cows on 40 acres is now the exception rather than the rule.
Jeez yin ewe i dont know whether to sell up or double up
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