Milkcow365
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Need about 5 kexxtones keep her rightWhat about thinning them? Asking for a friend...
Need about 5 kexxtones keep her rightWhat about thinning them? Asking for a friend...
You need a girlfriendmy poor baby she didnt hav enough to go on the system as apparently they have to be giving atleast 3 litres I'll probably dry her off once I get the Johnes test results back as shes become a bit of a nuisance in the parlour, I know you lot think I'm mad but she makes me happy, although it's become a bit scary when she runs at me for scratches as she literally is the size of a house
Is she incalf now ?
when they pee about like that, usually blame the milker !Do everyone else's cows milk awfully when they're milk recording?? Did mine for the first time last night and this morning, they have literally never milked as badly did brilliantly tonight tho!
For instance 1109 us a second calver normally does 30l a day, did 7.5l last night and 6 this morning so 13.5 total, tonight she did 15.6!
221 also a second calver, normally does 40l a day did 24l total whereas tonight she did 22l! Bloody annoying!
On the plus side, dehorned all my calves today and cut 21 acres of grazing ground that got ahead of the cows, and I think I've finally found a relief milker needs a lot of training as hes never milked a cow before tonight but hes got the right attitude and the improvement from start to finish was really good
just a thought, how much money has been spent, on the machinery above, plus forager, and more trailers etc.Just generally getting in the way todayView attachment 967933
I was thinking that yesterday as 100's of thousands of pounds worth of equipment, triple mowers on 250hp, 4 rotor rake on 150hp, SPFH, was sat in the field of the digester.just a thought, how much money has been spent, on the machinery above, plus forager, and more trailers etc.
compared to the 'old' tailed foragers, or double chops used 40/50 years ago, and profits were higher then, than now.
Somewhere along the way, we seem to have massively over complicated our farming systems, probably by reps wanting to sell shiny paint, and our desire to do bigger/better
Mind the manhole coverView attachment 967932
Quality grass being raked today
I think theres 2 other reasons I can see that have a bearing on that, 1 being milk contracts, to get a new one you need atleast 100 cows from what I found when I was starting up (I know theres people on here with contracts with less and I'm VERY jealous of you but theres no way a new producer would be able to get one - I personally would rather milk 50 cows that 500 but that's just me) and ideally all of them want million litre producers, with my friesians I need around 150 to do that realistically. Then because you're bigger you either need 2 things lots of machinery and staff or less staff and bigger more expensive machinery to get it done quicker, then because you have this expensive machinery OR big contractors bills to pay for you need more cows, then land and then even bigger machinery and thus starts the hamster wheel everyone says aboutjust a thought, how much money has been spent, on the machinery above, plus forager, and more trailers etc.
compared to the 'old' tailed foragers, or double chops used 40/50 years ago, and profits were higher then, than now.
Somewhere along the way, we seem to have massively over complicated our farming systems, probably by reps wanting to sell shiny paint, and our desire to do bigger/better
You used to get 200 acres a day clamped?just a thought, how much money has been spent, on the machinery above, plus forager, and more trailers etc.
compared to the 'old' tailed foragers, or double chops used 40/50 years ago, and profits were higher then, than now.
Somewhere along the way, we seem to have massively over complicated our farming systems, probably by reps wanting to sell shiny paint, and our desire to do bigger/better
Back in the '70s ,There was probably a farmer standing in a field, holding a scythe and thinking the same about your shiny double chop. Times move on. Contractors are brilliant. They can't over charge or you'll get another. Paying for the machinery is not your problem.just a thought, how much money has been spent, on the machinery above, plus forager, and more trailers etc.
compared to the 'old' tailed foragers, or double chops used 40/50 years ago, and profits were higher then, than now.
Somewhere along the way, we seem to have massively over complicated our farming systems, probably by reps wanting to sell shiny paint, and our desire to do bigger/better
Got a flyer through the post from our local JD dealer touting special deals on combines. RRP on the biggest model is over £700,000. I know there’s discount blah blah blah but for pity’s sake what planet are they on. In 1983 as I am repeatedly told by my old man he had to give £135 for barley in May, I bought half my barley for this year @£130 delivered! Slightly on a tangent but it brings things into focus. How much would three have cost and two extra men to do the same job then to compare?just a thought, how much money has been spent, on the machinery above, plus forager, and more trailers etc.
compared to the 'old' tailed foragers, or double chops used 40/50 years ago, and profits were higher then, than now.
Somewhere along the way, we seem to have massively over complicated our farming systems, probably by reps wanting to sell shiny paint, and our desire to do bigger/better
At what point does it become cheaper to pay 2 people extra and have 2 machines from 20 years ago?! Atleast that way if one breaks down you have a spare!Got a flyer through the post from our local JD dealer touting special deals on combines. RRP on the biggest model is over £700,000. I know there’s discount blah blah blah but for pity’s sake what planet are they on. In 1983 as I am repeatedly told by my old man he had to give £135 for barley in May, I bought half my barley for this year @£130 delivered! Slightly on a tangent but it brings things into focus. How much would three have cost and two extra men to do the same job then to compare?
At what point does it become cheaper to pay 2 people extra and have 2 machines from 20 years ago?! Atleast that way if one breaks down you have a spare!