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    Milk Price Tracker

    How do they work out ingredients price. With commodities prices on the up and spot up, should the price not be higher than is quoted?
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    Milk Price Tracker

    What are other Muller Suppliers thoughts on the changes to the seasonality schedule and the increase in the % milk to ingredients price for April to June, seems they want to give an extra 1ppl from money gained from spring milk price penalties and not from their pocket or the market.
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    Welsh Sustainable Farming Scheme AND Protests

    He seems hell bent on trying to turn the public against the farmers. With the 300million pound that the public are giving to the farmers comment. Idiot. And then farmers having to do their bit for climate change and Net Zero, has the farmers land not been capturing any carbon until now then...
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    All things Dairy

    Sassafras has worked well here, also Jingle has worked well. From my smallish sample 36 and 38 pregnancies from 50 straws each purchased. Applejax has however been disappointing, had 21pregnancies out of 50 to the first 50 purchased and had purchased 50more before realising this.🤦 Now I only use...
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    Bovine TB

    Sefyllfa warthus ir teulu. 😡 Unbelievable, having to put that many animals down on your own yard, when there was another option available. Deaf ears at the welsh assembly. Look at what is happening with welsh industry, farming, steel, and the welsh infrastructure.... Then to top it off welsh...
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    Recommend me a pre-dip

    Used this when we had an e coli problem a few years ago. Did help a lot, but increased the milking time quite a bit, to wipe the teats dry. Now back to dry wipe only and all ok, silage is not so potent so cows are cleaner. Was £170 for a 200l barrel 2yrs ago, suspect it has gone up a lot like...
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    Infested ... and helpless. Ideas?

    Just a word of caution. Had a banger here going on random 3 years ago. Then the Genus rep called and said they had known of s few abortions in cattle due to the bangs. The cattle are not scared at all, but it can affect the unborn calf. So I got scared and stopped. Then I had 2 abortions in the...
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    All things Dairy

    Just lost a cow this morning that was dried off on the weekend with sealant only. Gutted, must have infected her during dry off process. Or she had infection prior. But cells were 120 last recording 2 weeks ago. Lesson for me is to cmt before dry off now also. Very meticulous with cleanliness at...
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    What do you do all day?

    Winter is usually filled by checking for bulling activity, try to have 15 to 20 mins after morning milking(breakfast), lunch time and afternoon milking set aside for this job. Looking at cows and their behaviour is very relaxing. DIY AI also so breeding takes its time. But only 9 weeks during...
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    Holstein Bulls

    A photo of one of the heifers when she calved at the end of August. At 24 months old. Has just been classified VG85.
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    Holstein Bulls

    Have a few Topmodel heifers milking here now. Very pleased with them, and make nice strong dairy type heifers from dumpy friesian type dams. Bull is from mastergen.
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    All things Dairy

    Yes definitely a herd of 5999 litre cows next year, and still my stocking rate will be to high. Won't be buying or renting any more, just ease numbers back. Will help with my slurry storage capacity also, probably getting me from 4 to 5+ months storage. Will see the lay of the land with things...
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    All things Dairy

    This is a different animal to ours, and can see the need for a different approach.
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    All things Dairy

    Tonight is the first night my cows have been offered silage since mid April. They seem to be doing fine, and the milk constituents are good at 4.4bf and 3.8pt with just grass and 6kg hdf cake. 50% herd calved in last 4 weeks. Been a rough few days, and they looked a bit empty this afternoon, so...
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    How many kg of concentrates?

    We gave done 3 cuts so far this year, but the gap between cuts have been 6weeks and 7weeks. Dry weather after 1st hampered growth then no proper breaks in weather to take 3rd. People in this area are still trying to gather 3rd and 4th cut this week in trying ground conditions and unreliable...
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