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I’m in same position. Been right royally peed off with my New Holland L320 skid steer. I’m liking the look of Kramer KL25.5t telescopic pivot.

https://arlafarmers.my.salesforce.com/sfc/p/#1r000001pIhU/a/1r000000MvGO/VXqukapcd0TVWMiHTkE75J_C97fSiih.g8L0BXD.ft8 Can talk the talk but can’t walk the walk. That was 5 years ago he could foresee this coming.

They should have been separated off, treated with veccoxan then a Brinicombe cocci bucket a long time ago. We all get them and they just need tlc and good food Admittedly they will probably never pay but if we choose to do this job then we all have to be willing to look after what’s in our care...

I hope they come down hard on him. I know it’s tough at the moment but I find it extremely hypocritical that he can be lecturing the industry at the Oxford farming conference and Ahdb strategic farm on preaching to the rest of us mere mortals on how it should be done while this is going on...

Well you’ve really poked the hornets nest now 😂

Just a suggestion. I use TC86 in the bulk tank which I think is the dogs danglies of chemical. If you’re ever struggling this is the one to go to. I’ve also been caught out with crappy dosage pumps so I have a litre jug beside my tank and a wash uses 600ml. After the tanker had been every time...

Do you think you could zerograze this for? maybe 50% of the forage? Perhaps a more leafy variety. At what levels does taint become a problem?

You’ll have to excuse me but I’m a bit techno adverse these days. (Robot milking back to parlour now) Rope scrapers are good but if you go really frequently you’ll be using some electric and less often you’ll get that tidal wave infront of the blade. 2 of my 3 passages are feed and I’m not a fan...

We built 150 cow shed last year. three passage ways and slurry channel in the middle. It was designed to be able to fit any of the options you mentioned. We previously used skid steer and box scraper. It takes 10 minutes while someone else cleans the beds then we both start milking at the same...

Grass indoors and a round bale of hay here Far from ideal but just taking it day by day. Not looking forward to venturing out this afternoon. Had a lot of rain after white start this morning.

Have you considered Herdwatch app? I know it’s more expense but honestly it keeps everything easily accessible by everyone to input data from. calf passports to dry off treatments and I use it for foot trimming records. Body and locomotion scores. It’s all in one place and at the click of a...

That wasn’t the impression we got at the Arla meeting the other night but admittedly things can change

Markets can be funny places. last year i took in a pretty average fleckvieh bull calf in which was really late getting in due to a puncture and was 10 calves from the end. Got offered £15. took home and went in following a nice run of our Charolais 7 days later. same calf made £155. What was...

From newspaper article She added: "It is also allowing us to use more of the milk pool in this area. We are in the heart of one of the biggest producers of milk, and being able to use it locally really benefits farmers."

I’m sure they are fully aware of the milk profile of the milk intakes. I’m not as convinced it’s as spring orientated as you might think, I think it’s raised a few eyebrows as them not selling as much milk could seriously alter the dynamics of the uk milk market. Who is going to replace...

I was told today that they will be selling less milk to third parties or spot. They are in a fair old milk field area and I’d think if they are going to get milk anywhere then down here is a safe bet.

Arla invests £179m in UK to secure position as key global mozzarella producer The investment in state-of-the-art technology at the Taw Valley site in the UK enables Arla to even better meet customer demands, secure competitiveness and deliver growth in the mozzarella category. That’s some...

The prices I’m seeing are ex docks at that. Can you get it rolled and delivered in at that?

Milk quotas and buildings made of forestry poles and second hand galvanised iron meant the cows went here when I was in my early twenties. Dad told me I’d never milk cows again once they were gone. 12 years of hard graft and learning my trade on someone else’s cows I did get back into it and and...