Northern Ireland Milk Price Tracker
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24 litres is a lot of milk for this time of year at grass. Have you many stales? You must be in the land of milk and honey, with a big dry grazing platform. If your cows are hard wearing and easy looked after with that amount of milk from grass you're also on the pig's back.
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it's not over
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One third are dry which is high no for me. Cows in at night around mid sept. This allows a 42 ish day rotation of 3 acres for 100 cows. The grazing theory now is keep them moving as cleaning grass has a bigger influence on production now. Thurs Fri rain has dropped them a litre never mind yesterday. Grass and ground conditions excluding yesterday are still being influenced by the great summer.i stopped fert 1st Sept. No tmr yet as bales are a bast@$%. I need them cleared up a bit. The midden is full of bales plus the small silo I use for storing lorry tyres
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- Northern Ireland
All the slurry out?
Bogeyman
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- North Antrim
All tanks are empty, some grass lost because of that, but better than the worry of the past spring when tanks were full and nowhere to go.
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- thunder rd co.antrim
Aurivo looking for suppliers to get rt approved
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- Northern Ireland
To sell milk into artigarvan presumably in the event of a no deal?
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I wasn't there when he arrived. I'll presume you're right. They'll be an 11th hour fudge
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- East meath/dublin
The day is fast approaching when all milk will be paid for on solids and many farmers in NI will have to rethink their breeding and feeding.
When our buyer moved to theABC system the milk recording results showed the value of the milk produced by each cow. The reality was watery milk was worth far less and litres mean nothing without solids. Maize Silage or fodder beet are the only thing that come close to good grass for solids. My AYR herd are currently on 22 litres on grazed grass zero grazed grass at night and 4kgs of rolled barley and corn gluten mix in the parlour.
Solids are 4.6 fat and 3.8 pr
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- Northern Ireland
Has been discussed for a very long time, with no company making the first move.
Different factories have differing requirements though.
Different factories have differing requirements though.
Youll love the extra hassle thatll give you. Make sure you get the no smoking signs up in the parlour for them cows on the regal filters.
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- Northern Ireland
Open day on Wednesday on first farm in Northern Ireland with gea monobox robot.in Strabane
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- M6 Hard shoulder
You going ? Any pics would be good
thunderballs
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- NI
Yes
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- Northern Ireland
Surely though those in the environment agency that actually care about the environment are bound to be frustrated by the rules too? They know it's not the answer to improved water quality.
Happy at it
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- NI
Will they be likely to change in the future though? I put 100000 gallon on heavy before the weekend and you wouldn't even know you'd been in the field today. It's madness....
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You can spread any day but rem the 11th commandment.....thou shall not get caught