A I service charge
- Thread starter Victor
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- Cheshire
I’d have said so
depending on breed you don’t have to spend a massive fortune to get a bull to suit the job
Yep, we had the same letter yesterday. Whilst I can understand basic costs increase for fuel, this is way more than that. Think it's over 4x previous cost. Plus the straws on top obv, but £100 per service is a joke
I was surprised by the number of inseminations they claimed to have done in a year. Looks like they've lost huge market share already. 200 cow AYR dairy could cover a big part of a salary for their own trained AI/hooftrimmer
puntabrava
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- Wiltshire
Who is that with?
Genius
serf
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- warwickshire
That was a Freudian ,
wether on purpose or not think that's what their ironic name will become after this joke ...
Can't really blame the spellchecker
puntabrava
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- Wiltshire
Is a shame, they want to be part of farming but seek to charge non farming related prices.
Holsteinfriesian90
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- Cornwall
Is there any farmers locally that could ai your cows?
Looking at this and another thread makes you think Genus don't want to AI cows,
Aren't there any independent companies/ AI techs in the areas Genus are over pricing?
Aren't there any independent companies/ AI techs in the areas Genus are over pricing?
The ones I can think of got a bull
Beames
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- South wales
I’m in the same boat. Got a load of straws in the flask but the price increase makes it unrealistic to use AI going forward on sucklers.
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- Gods country (England)
Genus, I wouldn’t have them serve me dinner let alone some cows
Not sure where you are but don't Cogent cover there?
They tried to knock our local AI man down to working once or twice a week or something ridiculous like that last year or the year before. They informed all their customers of this as well. Unfortunately the bloke is very good at his job so left and went on his own and took all his customers with him. Now they have a wider range of bulls to use, for less money and you'd rarely see a genus van around here.
They might now! Similar area and I've not seen a Cogent van around but havn't checked with them to find out.
Can see a big increase in number of independent ai techs soon
serf
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- warwickshire
Especially if they can work it around having their own stock , sounds ideal
Definitely. Depending on amount of own stock, size of round or if large chunk of farms are block calving you could think about hooftrimming as well.