All things Dairy

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som farmer

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Livestock Farmer

Location

somerset

• Oct 22, 2022

• #56,321

coomoo said:

Neighbour up here was supplying 10k dairy bred animals to a discounter, bought and reared as calves. Seems that’s being pulled and heading back to sucklers, that is up here tho with farm payment schemes to be decided still.

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prime prices 'up north' seem to be higher than down 'west', according to the mkt reports, and there are different payment schemes.

If the suckler herd keeps contracting, dairy beef will replace it, or they import it.
Much of pricing will be down to the consumer, and what they are prepared to pay, logic would point towards mince and stewing steak, rather than prime joints, but nothing ever seems to be completely logical in farming.

We just have to learn to live with changing consumer habits, there's nothing we can do about it, just have to cope with them, they are, after all, our customers, and customers are always right, aren't they ...................................

 

Ducati899

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Location

north dorset

• Oct 22, 2022

• #56,322

Had some rain yesterday….at least the dogs enjoy it

 

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sidjon

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Location

EXMOOR

• Oct 22, 2022

• #56,323

Ducati899 said:

Had some rain yesterday….at least the dogs enjoy it View attachment 1071363

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Hardly looks damp....

 

Spudley

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Location

Pembrokeshire

• Oct 22, 2022

• #56,324

Looks a bit like some of our gateways . Cows had their last night out last night, nearly winter

 

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som farmer

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Livestock Farmer

Location

somerset

• Oct 22, 2022

• #56,325

What is the least amount of machinery, that dairy farmers, on here, think they could get away with. Could be some interesting answers.

 

yin ewe

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Co Antrim

• Oct 22, 2022

• #56,326

som farmer said:

What is the least amount of machinery, that dairy farmers, on here, think they could get away with. Could be some interesting answers.

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Tractor and loader.

 

Blue.

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Livestock Farmer

• Oct 22, 2022

• #56,327

som farmer said:

What is the least amount of machinery, that dairy farmers, on here, think they could get away with. Could be some interesting answers.

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Loadall

 

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upnortheast

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Northumberland

• Oct 22, 2022

• #56,328

Tractor, tipping trailer, telehandler, fert spreader.
We hate machinery

 

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sidjon

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Location

EXMOOR

• Oct 22, 2022

• #56,329

Push bike

 

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Buford T. Justice

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• Oct 22, 2022

• #56,330

som farmer said:

What is the least amount of machinery, that dairy farmers, on here, think they could get away with. Could be some interesting answers.

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Tractor with loader, scraper and grab, fert spreader with crane, mower.

The other bits and pieces make life easier if not simpler. Bucket, quad, bale handler, teleporter, scraper tractor all make life easier but at a price.

 

Dead Rabbits

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Location

'Merica

• Oct 22, 2022

• #56,331

sidjon said:

lots of neighbours selling their suck cows this year as MT cow's, one of them is filling up with cheap weaned calves.

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For the majority of cow calf producers in the US, it’s at best a break even business. That calf has a lot of big bills to pay every year.

 

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Kiss

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Location

North west

• Oct 22, 2022

• #56,332

som farmer said:

What is the least amount of machinery, that dairy farmers, on here, think they could get away with. Could be some interesting answers.

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Can get away with pretty much all of it, you’ll just pay for it in contracting

Wouldn’t want to do it without the parlour mind

 

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sidjon

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Location

EXMOOR

• Oct 22, 2022

• #56,333

Dead Rabbits said:

For the majority of cow calf producers in the US, it’s at best a break even business. That calf has a lot of big bills to pay every year.

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I farm in a upland area, most locally have beef sheep and horses, for most the sub payments is the only thing keeping them afloat.

 

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coomoo

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• Oct 22, 2022

• #56,334

Tractor, feeder wagon, tipping trailer and telehandler

 

easy farming

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Livestock Farmer

Location

God's side of the border.

• Oct 22, 2022

• #56,335

Tractor loader and scraper tractor would manage our system. Other thigs save contractor costs or aid timeliness.

 

In the pit

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Pembrokeshire

• Oct 22, 2022

• #56,336

Quad bike and skidsteer

 

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Wesley

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• Oct 22, 2022

• #56,337

Least I could get away with would be handler. But to make my life easier would also be scraper tractor, tractor & mixer & also tractor & straw blower. Wouldn’t/don’t need as many tractors but I’d rather run a few older ones as there’s always a backup & saves unhitching all the time.

 

Rossymons

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Location

Cornwall

• Oct 22, 2022

• #56,338

Loader tractor and front end attachments.

But to be honest a cement mixer would probably be more to me than a mixer wagon because I'd rather adjust the yard so I didnt need the mixer wagon at all.

 

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frederick

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Location

south west

• Oct 22, 2022

• #56,339

I just can't get my head around how many people have to have a telehandler rather than a tractor and loader.

They end up clocking up ridiculous hours as people just use them as a wheelbarrow.

 

Cows 'n grass

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Location

Modbury, South Devon

• Oct 22, 2022

• #56,340

frederick said:

I just can't get my head around how many people have to have a telehandler rather than a tractor and loader.

They end up clocking up ridiculous hours as people just use them as a wheelbarrow.

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I've managed to avoid owning one up to now but I finally gave in and bought one last week. Upto now loader tractors have suited us because we have four/five separate sites but going forward were down to 3 and 90% of the work/housing is on one site.

I've spent a lot repairing front axle damage in the last few years as well.