Cows are looking well.
All things Dairy
- Thread starter Cows 'n grass
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jimmer
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- Location
- East Devon
Poor job if a screwfix special can't do 3 months, it'll undoubtedly be lost/knackered or gummed up by next season so buy a cheapo every year
- Location
- East Lancashire
Found out over the last 12 months we’ve had around 12 feet of rain. Which was nice
I’m in the next valley to you and can believe it,I’m ready for a bit of a drought.Found out over the last 12 months we’ve had around 12 feet of rain. Which was nice
- Location
- East Lancashire
I would love a drought
Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
Happy hillbily
Member
- Location
- Uwchaled, North Wales
And here's me moaning about the 6½ft I've had here .Found out over the last 12 months we’ve had around 12 feet of rain. Which was nice
- Location
- East Lancashire
It’s a good job you had that because if you hadn’t, it would’ve ended up here, which would’ve meant 18 ft
frederick
Member
- Location
- south west
But surely all that is is a breast rail rump rail. 1 length vacuum line and 1 length milk line. Receiver vessel sanitary trap vacuum pump milk pump and some form of pulsation.
Still makes a parlour probably over 250 by the time you've put up a building sorted the collecting yard and added some handling
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
Never enough hours in the day or “a farmers work is never done”
- Location
- somerset
simple parlour, simple building, needn't cost a lot.
complicated, all singing and dancing, parlour, cost a fortune
milks the same price from either
which will pay for itself first ?
there's a chap close, who has moved from a 'complicated' parlour, to a farm with a very simple parlour, and loves it.
Grassman247
Member
guy who fitted my Waikato said he’s got no new ones booked In for this year at all. People haven’t got much confidence clearly
Same with sheds etc
Local shed erector and groundworker said January you can usually get booked up for the year,this year nothing at all.
frederick
Member
- Location
- south west
I'm not saying there is anything wrong with a simple parlour. What I was saying that with concrete where it is and everything else electricians etc you will find it difficult to do the rest of the build for less than 150k.
Martyn
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- Location
- South west
Funny how different parts of the country operate our shed builders are snowed under 12-18months of work ahead, lot of covered yards for clean water etc.
Spoken to companies about move Waikato for us all well booked up.
- Location
- somerset
with the variable milk price, future legislation, spending a fortune on any ag building, looks a bit 'chancy'.
but l see your point, and perfectly right for a complete new build, but very often you can attach a parlour to existing concrete etc. We have all added 'infrastructure' to our buildings, over the years, much of it, in hindsight, in the wrong place. To bring ours up to 'scratch', including slurry store compliance, we really would need to start again, then that's big bucks. Takes some justifying, with milk prices rather 'volatile'.
I saw a nice tidy 8 point abreast for sale on Facebook, wasn't very old. Bet that would go in for a fraction of 150k 
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Is the outlook really that bad anyway or is it just not as good as 18 months ago, lets face it that was never going to continue. I have heard of a couple of herds within 30 miles of here selling in the last month but both are down to EA rules and them not wanting to invest rather than milk price. Best time to invest is when no one else is.
.Is the outlook really that bad anyway or is it just not as good as 18 months ago, lets face it that was never going to continue. I have heard of a couple of herds within 30 miles of here selling in the last month but both are down to EA rules and them not wanting to invest rather than milk price. Best time to invest is when no one else is.
I keep getting asked if I want cows,I put it down to high tax bills.I saw a nice tidy 8 point abreast for sale on Facebook, wasn't very old. Bet that would go in for a fraction of 150k
Is the outlook really that bad anyway or is it just not as good as 18 months ago, lets face it that was never going to continue. I have heard of a couple of herds within 30 miles of here selling in the last month but both are down to EA rules and them not wanting to invest rather than milk price. Best time to invest is when no one else is.
Yeh I never understand being shocked or struggling to pay the tax bill, it happens every year at the same time and you must have generated x times the tax in profit to be paying the tax in the first place. We are looking out for some more cows though too so the more the merrier!