All things Dairy

Martyn

Member
Location
South west
4/500 šŸ˜¬ how many acres??
Iā€™m doing my own 4ft 6ā€ bales but 3/4 is the norm on multicut system.
Did some standard size and reduced density for a neighbour last week as heā€™s selling them on some first cut and was 5.5 to the acre.
Just under 100 into the pit, we run our own welger baler & recon 5 bales to acre with knives in is about financial/quality right on density 9.
 

glow worm

Member
Location
cornwall
Got a in calf heifer with light sensitivity , anyone got any cures/ treatment / old wives remedies for it
Get indoors. We did use handfuls of sudacreme as told by vet and it did stop the bare patches drying up and peeling off before healed underneath.Did try lightweight horse rug but others cows soon took it off! Ours was caused by one st John's wort plant in whole field. Time, indoors, tlc, regular creaming, and nursing I think is only answer.
 
Get indoors. We did use handfuls of sudacreme as told by vet and it did stop the bare patches drying up and peeling off before healed underneath.Did try lightweight horse rug but others cows soon took it off! Ours was caused by one st John's wort plant in whole field. Time, indoors, tlc, regular creaming, and nursing I think is only answer.
We used get an odd case from St John's Wort in yearling stock in older pastures near trees and woodlands when growth slowed and they grazed further in under wires. Treated them like you said there but always took a second animal as well so they weren't stressed on their own.
 

Manney

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Penzance
Keep vigilant foot and mouth might be back!!

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Rossymons

Member
Location
Cornwall
My wife is working part contracted to apha testing cats & dogs across Cornwall/Devon that have come into the country from Ukraine, if you see the hash of a job apha make with that then goodness knows what mess they would make of F&M.

Speaking to a vet friend it was pretty similar for a bird flu outbreak in Devon recently.

Let's hope it's a graduate fresh from Vet school who saw a pig drooling and nothing serious comes of it!
 
Location
East Mids
Preliminary tests came back negative. Just being cautious and rightly so.
Yes, a vet should NEVER be guilty about erring on the side of caution for Notifiable diseases. Given that the big FMD outbreak was over 20 years now and the Pirbright one was much more tightly contained, many vets will never have seen it. Better safe than sorry.
 

som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
Hmm. Wheat down Ā£40 in the last two weeks..
new crop barley Ā£240, know a few that still have old crop, not very happy now
wheat Ā£280, but dropping
protein straights, have eased back, probably a good time to fix some cover
there again, they might drop further, or, go back up again, that's the fun of running a business.
and did read somewhere, 1 processor hopes to hit 50ppl september, can't remember which one, wasn't ours though.
Milk price is going up, because its short, those prices are there, to bribe us, to up production, is there any real pointers to up production ? 1st cut analysis are not brilliant, dry weather now, cull price high etc.
Did hear some dispersals have been postponed till the autumn, milk price makes good sense, to milk through. Does that mean a glut of cows on the mkt, come sept ?
Will cull price rise, as autumn/winter approaches, food prices causing a bigger demand of 'cheaper cow beef' ? Although, dw prices quoted this week, cows Ā£4.10, prime Ā£4.45, would suggest the best, are vey close already. We sent 2 old plain cows on last week, Ā£660, amazing really.
My mate keeps telling me, dry them off, turn them out, and fatten them, not sure that is correct, what would they gain per day, 1 kg ?, for those plain ones, Ā£1.12 kg lw, they went, because not i/c and cc, giving 20 litres, 20 x .40p, == Ā£8, are they going to fatten, Ā£8 a day, dried off ?
 

Tim G

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Livestock Farmer
new crop barley Ā£240, know a few that still have old crop, not very happy now
wheat Ā£280, but dropping
protein straights, have eased back, probably a good time to fix some cover
there again, they might drop further, or, go back up again, that's the fun of running a business.
and did read somewhere, 1 processor hopes to hit 50ppl september, can't remember which one, wasn't ours though.
Milk price is going up, because its short, those prices are there, to bribe us, to up production, is there any real pointers to up production ? 1st cut analysis are not brilliant, dry weather now, cull price high etc.
Did hear some dispersals have been postponed till the autumn, milk price makes good sense, to milk through. Does that mean a glut of cows on the mkt, come sept ?
Will cull price rise, as autumn/winter approaches, food prices causing a bigger demand of 'cheaper cow beef' ? Although, dw prices quoted this week, cows Ā£4.10, prime Ā£4.45, would suggest the best, are vey close already. We sent 2 old plain cows on last week, Ā£660, amazing really.
My mate keeps telling me, dry them off, turn them out, and fatten them, not sure that is correct, what would they gain per day, 1 kg ?, for those plain ones, Ā£1.12 kg lw, they went, because not i/c and cc, giving 20 litres, 20 x .40p, == Ā£8, are they going to fatten, Ā£8 a day, dried off ?
I think it is freshways hoping to be 50p for September milk, but everyone else might be that for August, maybe July for some, so is it really that attractive?
 

coomoo

Member
new crop barley Ā£240, know a few that still have old crop, not very happy now
wheat Ā£280, but dropping
protein straights, have eased back, probably a good time to fix some cover
there again, they might drop further, or, go back up again, that's the fun of running a business.
and did read somewhere, 1 processor hopes to hit 50ppl september, can't remember which one, wasn't ours though.
Milk price is going up, because its short, those prices are there, to bribe us, to up production, is there any real pointers to up production ? 1st cut analysis are not brilliant, dry weather now, cull price high etc.
Did hear some dispersals have been postponed till the autumn, milk price makes good sense, to milk through. Does that mean a glut of cows on the mkt, come sept ?
Will cull price rise, as autumn/winter approaches, food prices causing a bigger demand of 'cheaper cow beef' ? Although, dw prices quoted this week, cows Ā£4.10, prime Ā£4.45, would suggest the best, are vey close already. We sent 2 old plain cows on last week, Ā£660, amazing really.
My mate keeps telling me, dry them off, turn them out, and fatten them, not sure that is correct, what would they gain per day, 1 kg ?, for those plain ones, Ā£1.12 kg lw, they went, because not i/c and cc, giving 20 litres, 20 x .40p, == Ā£8, are they going to fatten, Ā£8 a day, dried off ?
Iā€™m selling cast cows as a regular thing which is phenomenal the now. Few cow men with facilities and abattoir ties up here are buying everything barren they are very seldom wrong.
 

som farmer

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
I think it is freshways hoping to be 50p for September milk, but everyone else might be that for August, maybe July for some, so is it really that attractive?
needs to be more, but then, we have said that for yrs, this time, prices are into new territory, and 50p is certainly getting closer.
But, what is enough ? Ā£1 a litre ? these higher prices, are dictated by 2 things, the first is a shortage, the second, is how much do they need, to bribe us, to increase production, with the aim of reducing it, asop.

@coomoo lorry driver told us, unloaded culls at abattoir, next pens, were decent looking cows, straight out of a dispersal. Its an unusual thing to see milkers, from the lower half - not culls, going to kill. @as Beef farmer pointed out, young cows yesterday, -ve rwb or nw+ve, looked dear to me, at Ā£1500 but as milk and kill, cows, probably he is correct, and some would be i/c. We all have to adapt to the 'new normal'
 
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needs to be more, but then, we have said that for yrs, this time, prices are into new territory, and 50p is certainly getting closer.
But, what is enough ? Ā£1 a litre ? these higher prices, are dictated by 2 things, the first is a shortage, the second, is how much do they need, to bribe us, to increase production, with the aim of reducing it, asop.

@coomoo lorry driver told us, unloaded culls at abattoir, next pens, were decent looking cows, straight out of a dispersal. Its an unusual thing to see milkers, from the lower half - not culls, going to kill. @as Beef farmer pointed out, young cows yesterday, -ve rwb or nw+ve, looked dear to me, at Ā£1500 but as milk and kill, cows, probably he is correct, and some would be i/c. We all have to adapt to the 'new normal'
I would bet strong money that nothing we are seeing currently is the 'new normal'.
 

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