Is anyone putting all their chips in and increasing cows then ?
Fertiliser Price Tracker
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supercow
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- Location
- Dumfriesshire
We are keeping hold of our cows, milk price will get to above 40 pence this year can’t benefit from the increased milk price with no cows ! Never know there could be a crazy shortage of milk and reach well above those levels. A poor growing summer could be a disaster
Cowabunga
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- Location
- Ceredigion,Wales
Several large dairy farms in this area are in dire straights. That’s a fact.
However, one large scale multi-site dairy business who rented a large farm locally and invested heavily in tracks, water systems and parlour, but open air cubicles in a very exposed site, gave up last year. Only for another similar multi-site operator to take over the lease and carry on doing the same. This one employs one man, a new Fendt with loader and a fairly medium capacity new trailer, full time carting bought silage about ten miles and to other farms about 25 miles away from the clamp. Not sure how their calculator differs so much from mine, but there you go. Calving flat out just now I imagine. Possibly finished.
Every business is different and if there’s money in his madness, and I assume there must be, good luck to him.
My next thread , the great drought of 22
supercow
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- Location
- Dumfriesshire
You keeping numbers up? A lot of uncertainty at the minute
oh dear!
supercow
Member
- Location
- Dumfriesshire
Are reservoirs not low for this time of year because of the lack of winter rainfall?? Summers are getting drier
Cowabunga
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- Location
- Ceredigion,Wales
Yes I’m keeping numbers up and have just spread 30 tons of AN.
Cowabunga
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- Location
- Ceredigion,Wales
Last Summer wasn’t drier here. We had the best grass growing Summer that I can remember, with rain just at the right times to avoid any of the usual short [and long] droughts that are usual on this coastal farm. Too wet for many damper farms inland.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Don't worry! The govt will help us out and aid it's farmers!
www.fwi.co.uk
Oh.
UK to lift 25% tariff on imports of US maize - Farmers Weekly
Maize imports to the UK from the US will no longer face a 25% import tax from 1 June. The removal of tariffs should help to reduce rising on-farm feed
www.fwi.co.uk
Oh.
- Location
- Darlington
I wonder if USA are giving anything back in return?Don't worry! The govt will help us out and aid it's farmers!
UK to lift 25% tariff on imports of US maize - Farmers Weekly
Maize imports to the UK from the US will no longer face a 25% import tax from 1 June. The removal of tariffs should help to reduce rising on-farm feed
Oh.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I used to like spreading fert, but not this year
I’ve just been driving up and down with the spreader on, so all the neighbours think I’m wealthy enough to put fert on grassland.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I was told, several weeks ago, that Sainsbury’s suppliers are already on 40p.
- Location
- NE Derbyshire
county down
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- Location
- downpatrick
milk should be 50pence per litre ex farm and for sale in supermarkets at 80 pence per litre sure minerals are dearer than that per litre
livestock 1
Member
We’ve been on the last two or three days ive had a few sarky comments ‘you must be loaded’ -‘you must have had some left from last year’ was going to tell them ive turned the regulator down a fair bit but couldn’t bring myself to say it after hearing that.I’ve just been driving up and down with the spreader on, so all the neighbours think I’m wealthy enough to put fert on grassland.
Too late..........
Actually, it's the driest spring I can ever remember. 1984-ish maybe ?
Drought 2022.
Looks like 2 weeks without much rain.......:cool: We'll pay for this later in the year, probably during haymaking / harvest... :rolleyes:
thefarmingforum.co.uk
- Location
- East yorks
Just a shame winters seem to be wetter
- Location
- South Wales UK
Lot making the most of it around here and on the silage already???Too late..........
Actually, it's the driest spring I can ever remember. 1984-ish maybe ?
Drought 2022.
Looks like 2 weeks without much rain.......:cool: We'll pay for this later in the year, probably during haymaking / harvest... :rolleyes: