Headless chicken
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- West Wales
£1 per 100 gallon I supply diesel
All things Dairy
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I always wondered who it was with the Fergie 35 and 4000 gallon tanker!
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
Day 21 over and we have reached 62% which places us ahead of last season
170 calved
167 live calves
8 milk fevers
2 mastitis
0 vet visits.
170 calved
167 live calves
8 milk fevers
2 mastitis
0 vet visits.
2x day milking next monday?
dinderleat
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- Location
- Wells
Still raining
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
Have been for ten days. I ve got a shed ,tracks and HP to pay off this season. Time waits for no man
Cows 'n grass
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- Location
- Modbury, South Devon
Better than me. I'm only a little over half way in 21 days. Cows and calves all very healthy except for a sh!t load of mastitis cases and I have no idea why which is infuriating.
lazy farmer
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- som/dor border
Don’t worry the other 38 % will take 6 weeks!
Are you teat sealing ? We now do everything it makes such a difference
Definitely. Direct pumping is fair value for money. Moving it a distance is where the bill gets big.
Cows 'n grass
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- Modbury, South Devon
Yes, dad was organic for a long time so we have probably sealed everything for 25+ years. I can't pinpoint anything we've done differently this year. They're all clearing up very quickly with AB but it's irritating.
- Location
- Northern Ireland
Would be interesting to know the cost per 1000gl of moving slurry by road tanker on clear diesel, vs tractor on red.
Princess Pooper
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- Location
- East Mids
Hmmmm ..
Still more work needed to find out what's causing the high bactoscans. Don't think we've EVER had higher bacto than SCC other than the odd one off blip! There's always something with dairying... just commending ourselves on SCC being best ever and we get 2 toxic E coli in 10 days, almost lost one of them but vet intervention saved it although we have lost the quarter. When we had higher cell counts we only had a bad E coli once every 2- years. Both over 100 days in milk too.
Shows how good the collars are! (Silent Herdsman). Blue line is eating, green is cudding. Drop in both at time a good indicator of a poorly cow. Orange line at the bottom is motion (for heat detection) and a red line at bottom indication of increased activity - the 'red loop' is when we put her back in with the others after her being in critical care unit for a few days. She was feeling better so then obviously scoffed for so long she didn't have time to ruminate and then caught up by doing a lot of ruminating!
Still more work needed to find out what's causing the high bactoscans. Don't think we've EVER had higher bacto than SCC other than the odd one off blip! There's always something with dairying... just commending ourselves on SCC being best ever and we get 2 toxic E coli in 10 days, almost lost one of them but vet intervention saved it although we have lost the quarter. When we had higher cell counts we only had a bad E coli once every 2- years. Both over 100 days in milk too.
Shows how good the collars are! (Silent Herdsman). Blue line is eating, green is cudding. Drop in both at time a good indicator of a poorly cow. Orange line at the bottom is motion (for heat detection) and a red line at bottom indication of increased activity - the 'red loop' is when we put her back in with the others after her being in critical care unit for a few days. She was feeling better so then obviously scoffed for so long she didn't have time to ruminate and then caught up by doing a lot of ruminating!
Headless chicken
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- West Wales
They have special dispensation to use "cherry" on the Sainted Isle!
Why do you think it had to be a weekend
- Location
- Northern Ireland
Good luck to haulier running on red! High stakes game.
Headless chicken
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- West Wales
I can get an artic running a flat trailer in for £50 an hour. Not sure what them having a tanker instead of flat means but fair size bigger amount moved
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
That's the spirit, flat tet mat
- Location
- Northern Ireland
29,000l is 6444gl
Glanbia Cheese producer meeting last night the CEO of whom, Paul Vernon, is the current chair of Dairy UK so used the opportunity for a private chat whilst the news relaid the fact that our glorious MPs are about to nadger up politics forever ........
Anyway, the gist of the conversation was that whenever he met with Government over the past 12 months, NZ & US officials had always just been and are pushing VERY hard for favourable trade terms. On the back of that, any WTO terms are likely to have ZERO import tariffs attached to them by us (this is the position of Phil Hammond) to encourage cheap food. Ergo, a no deal scenario will decimate UK agriculture within a short space of time. We will know later today when HMG publishes its position on tariffs under a no deal
He also thought that price cuts in Q2 & 3 where inevitable due to oversupply (with an element of Brexit stockpiling being released on to the market in the case of a deal)
Anyway, the gist of the conversation was that whenever he met with Government over the past 12 months, NZ & US officials had always just been and are pushing VERY hard for favourable trade terms. On the back of that, any WTO terms are likely to have ZERO import tariffs attached to them by us (this is the position of Phil Hammond) to encourage cheap food. Ergo, a no deal scenario will decimate UK agriculture within a short space of time. We will know later today when HMG publishes its position on tariffs under a no deal
He also thought that price cuts in Q2 & 3 where inevitable due to oversupply (with an element of Brexit stockpiling being released on to the market in the case of a deal)