All things Dairy
- Thread starter Cows 'n grass
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, who said romance was dead.....
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
Dug a field with hundreds of thistles a couple of yrs ago when I didn’t want to be in the house. they never grew back. Now I want to be in house I’ve gone back to spraying.
- Location
- Co. Antrim
betweenthelines
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- Location
- southwest
New heifer today
Charolais X? Don't put her in calf again and she'll be a nice addition to your collection of fat barreners giving a couple of litres a day.
Princess Pooper
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- Location
- East Mids
In-calf heifers chugging on nicely for August.
Just a pity one aborted last week 7 weeks early. With TB testing this week didn't want to bring her up to slide about on concrete so she now has mastitis. Anyway she's been milked once now, had a jab of antibiotics and metacam and seems ok on her own in the cubicle house. Lying in a cubicle (they are not cubicle trained before calving) - bonus and best thing for her.
One IR on test (severe interpretation) which was better than we dared hope, we are shut down at present and it was our first SIT.
Pictured are a Goodwhone daughter (alone) and two Battle daughters together, In calf to Fantastic and R2D2, all due 2nd half of August.
Just a pity one aborted last week 7 weeks early. With TB testing this week didn't want to bring her up to slide about on concrete so she now has mastitis. Anyway she's been milked once now, had a jab of antibiotics and metacam and seems ok on her own in the cubicle house. Lying in a cubicle (they are not cubicle trained before calving) - bonus and best thing for her.
One IR on test (severe interpretation) which was better than we dared hope, we are shut down at present and it was our first SIT.
Pictured are a Goodwhone daughter (alone) and two Battle daughters together, In calf to Fantastic and R2D2, all due 2nd half of August.
Here is what our beloved government have agreed to in principle with Australia under their Free Trade Agreement:
- tariffs on dairy will be eliminated in equal instalments over 5 years. There will be a duty-free transitional quota for cheese of 24,000 tonnes rising in equal instalments to 48,000 tonnes in year 5. There will be a duty-free transitional quota for non-cheese dairy of 20,000 tonnes. There will be a further duty-free transitional quota for butter of 5,500 tonnes rising to 11,500 tonnes in year five
Whats the milk price in the desert? Nz milk is trading higher than ours, so id guess Australia are similar? So come on baldy, glass half full and let's flood there market with cathedral city
My glass is always half empty .......... Whilst I agree that the Oz deal is a bit of a smokescreen, the real damage will be that the government use it as a template for far more damaging FTAs with other countries.
Dairy might be a bit of a side issue but a flood of beef will kill any calf market here stone dead. Then what?
Where in the world is all this cheap beef?
The real damage is being done by those arseholes in Cardiff bay.
- Location
- Shropshire
Bet they go for strong money
See Brazil are trading beef for £3.50 equivalent
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
pine_guy
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- Location
- North Cumbria
I think if you are buying cows in, you can expect digi as a given
You'll try really hard to keep it out, and then it will come in on a pair or Wellington boots one day.
Your last deal fall through?
Even the lorry delivering the cows in will need to be dissenfected
pine_guy
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- Location
- North Cumbria
Dry cows enjoying their well deserved R&R
Spudley
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- Location
- Pembrokeshire
We never had it till we expanded and bought it in. The first 12 months was a bit of a challenge but I'm on top of it now 
Martyn
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- Location
- South west
We have kept it out, all stock footbathed befor loading then footbathed off the lorry onto grazing feilds which are kept isulated
All staff and visitors have boots kept here, can't do much more, horrible disease