- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Best still good money over here, best just over £2k for fresh heifers at our local mart yesterday, but 2nd quality definitely less money alot of smaller frailer heifers £1000-£1200
Northern Ireland Milk Price Tracker
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Suckndiesel
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- Location
- Newtownards
Hard to get rid of those extra few cows when you’re getting over 36ppl base for the milk with dale farm
thunderballs
Member
- Location
- NI
A 15 litre cow on the cull list. 2 months milk @ 36 ppl is 324. Minus feed costs approx 50/month leaving 224. Cull the cow get 400 - 500, save 2-2.5 ton silage @ 40?/t= 80 -100. Sell sell sell. Drink a beer.
Suckndiesel
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- Location
- Newtownards
Is 15 litres your cut of point then?
thunderballs
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- Location
- NI
I have to many cut off points to list. No 15 litres was just for the very broad calculation above.
- Location
- Northern Ireland
Same here but I had to cut back on my list or I'd have very few cows left!
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
are you not paid for solids ?
it's not over
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- Location
- thunder rd co.antrim
How many milk sample results did you get last month. We got 15. Have been getting every lmilk tank sample since start of year
jay
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- Location
- Co Down NI
All the buyers here pay a price per litre with adjustments up/down for quality, even the processors that pay per kilo of solids south of the border. They actually overpay for low solids and underpay for high, so no incentive to go much above base.
- Location
- Northern Ireland
Well said. It seems entirely obvious that our processors should price milk properly on solids to discourage thin milk. It's costing us money in extra transport and processing costs. Of course they've all thought about it and had the discussions in the various board rooms, but it seems it's a move none has yet volunteered to make first. It won't be popular with high volume Holstein producers. I think it's really important that our processors begin the process of preparing producers for the change, rather than landing it suddenly some day when a company makes the first move. Many producers have already been working towards it, and frankly it's well past time the industry got on with it.
AndooMooMoo
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- Location
- Co Down, N.Ireland
It's kinda like the global response to climate change. Everyone (well almost!) gets that it's a wise thing to do, however, nobody is going to do anything until everybody else does something. No processor wants to lose the high volume, level supply, intensive producers and they're the ones who'll be most negatively impacted. All the while, the average yield of the Northern Irish cow continues to creep upwards.
it's not over
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- Location
- thunder rd co.antrim
For 2014 it was around 7200 litres.
AndooMooMoo
Member
- Location
- Co Down, N.Ireland
Benchmarking has it around 7800 or so, I think
thunderballs
Member
- Location
- NI
For all dairy farms in NI I reckon it's below 7000
it's not over
Member
- Location
- thunder rd co.antrim
2014 306000 cows. 2.2 billion litres 7200each
it's not over
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- Location
- thunder rd co.antrim
It should be based on milk sold and cow numbers rather than some meal firms ego based fancy calculation
We can talk up litres but mire important is margins/profit per cow
EX95
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- Location
- mid ulster
And yet none of our processors seem interested!!