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  1. Hill Dairy

    New Pembrokeshire creamery , Haverfordwest

    Must have offered more than fm to get the arla milk. Which is a positive for arla.
  2. Hill Dairy

    Welsh dairy farming.

    That's the positive bit. Then there's the politics 🤪🙃. For us probably the lack of any common sense with tb vectors being the most detrimental.
  3. Hill Dairy

    All things Dairy

    https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/051016060/?da=1&TC=GS-051016060&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA5fetBhC9ARIsAP1UMgGDQrzgsiV_DlgJfnoUXRqjZ285jhNcidBAmLkFkaCrByl5qd6-NoYaAgvEEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds We run one of these on a remote control swich with float cable tied up.
  4. Hill Dairy

    Permanent electric fencing?

    https://www.electric-fence.co.uk/5x-voss-farming-allround-metal-post-galvanised-120cm.html These save alot of time on corners/ends and its easy enough to make your own if you want more.
  5. Hill Dairy

    Total Farm Supplies

    No only got the PayPal receipt.
  6. Hill Dairy

    Total Farm Supplies

    I orderd some items off them a couple of weeks ago. Moneys gone but not heard anything from them and can't get a response by phone or email....
  7. Hill Dairy

    Rotary parlour slurry production

    We definitely use more water, maybe double what we were using in the herringbone. Just more area and units to wash.
  8. Hill Dairy

    Rotary Parlours

    Ours and other recent local ones have all been shipped in one container from NZ. All welded together on site then. Can't fault Waikato for build quality and for larger block calving herds one man rotarys should be looked at. Our has been in 16 months or so and it's a game changer in every way...
  9. Hill Dairy

    All things Dairy

    235mm for Oct here in mid pembs. Almost 100ml more than Oct last year.
  10. Hill Dairy

    Arla

    The extra cost of green energy was greater than the arla points gain when i did ours recently. Ended up with British gas who will now pay the same as octopus for energy produced if you buy from them.
  11. Hill Dairy

    Wanted Gascoigne mellote cranked 50 degree rump rail

    We have a Gascoigne 30/30 that I've been meaning to advertise for parts. Still pretty complete with rump rails and most other parts.
  12. Hill Dairy

    Electric usage

    Well that's at 50 to 60ppkw just done a elec last week at nearer 28 and 19ppkw so longer payback atm
  13. Hill Dairy

    Electric usage

    Yeah just over 3 years.
  14. Hill Dairy

    Electric usage

    2x a day 410 cows spring block. 40kw solar, heat recovery, ice bank and vari speed drives. 55000kw year. Dropped from 75000 with solar.
  15. Hill Dairy

    Arla

    That's exactly what my wife said. Leaves you feeling tricked. If all us supplying farmers are switching there's no hope for the general public...
  16. Hill Dairy

    Milk Price Tracker

    Arla 30.61 4.09 3.28 Top bands -3p seasonality
  17. Hill Dairy

    Protected urea, should I spread with this hit and miss rain forecast?

    We've just trailing shoed 2m gal of dirty water at 4-6k gal acre, and the response is very noticeable within a week.
  18. Hill Dairy

    Milk Price Tracker

    Arla april 42.12ppl 4.53f 3.68p almost identical to last April's price here.
  19. Hill Dairy

    Tracks

    Maybe not modern but there's still some about small dozer may do the same thing. The self propelled roller comes after and leaves it really nice. Both are not always easy to find..
  20. Hill Dairy

    50 vs 63mm water pipe

    Can you move the header tank to the top of the land? Then feed everything off it?
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