330How much land ?
330How much land ?
Stocking rate?
230 cows, 320 other cattle from two calving blocks.Stocking rate?
Actually I sold 20 stores today, I think, as I haven’t had an email with prices yet.230 cows, 320 other cattle from two calving blocks.
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@lazy farmer has a leader cow
I currently have a follower cow, she is always last out the field, and spends more time on her knees trying to get the last blade of grass under the wire than actually walking home
420kg of pocket rocket with the handbrake on
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If your buying 100 tons you must be doing north of 3 million litres so you only need 1.3ppl to cover N increase.That’s quite correct, but for me an extra £40k off the bottom line is going to take a bit of swallowing. Usually have about 100t +.
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If I had all cows, unfortunately have the handbrake of TB .If your buying 100 tons you must be doing north of 3 million litres so you only need 1.3ppl to cover N increase.
Where do you arrive at the figure of 33t per 1m liters?If your buying 100 tons you must be doing north of 3 million litres so you only need 1.3ppl to cover N increase.
This is where people have to be careful. The dairy has to pay for its nitrogen it can't afford to pay for other enterprises. You may have to suck up your replacements but if the beef can't afford to pay for £700N it has to go.230 cows, 320 other cattle from two calving blocks.
Absolutely. Unfortunately, it’s not so simple now with Arla 56 day calf policy. Could sell them at a £100 loss I presume, certainly no easy answer.This is where people have to be careful. The dairy has to pay for its nitrogen it can't afford to pay for other enterprises. You may have to suck up your replacements but if the beef can't afford to pay for £700N it has to go.
It was more a rough guess from my own fert use of about 2.5 lorriesfor 2.4 million.Where do you arrive at the figure of 33t per 1m liters?
If your having to feed beef animals £45 ton silage and 20-25 ton standing grass then a £100 loss may be a bit better than the next losses.Absolutely. Unfortunately, it’s not so simple now with Arla 56 day calf policy. Could sell them at a £100 loss I presume, certainly no easy answer.
Feed (grass/silage) demand sitting roughly 15t dm/ha? Good going anyway and need that 100t fert I'd say.230 cows, 320 other cattle from two calving blocks.
If your having to feed beef animals £45 ton silage and 20-25 ton standing grass then a £100 loss may be a bit better than the next losses.
I maybe wrong but I don't think beef will be quite so responsive to inflationary pressure.
1 because it's what people do.
2 a larger proportion of world beef is probably produced without N than dairy. So if you have an N reliant beef system your going to be the first hit.
I wouldn’t keep ANY beef if I could sell calves. (Actually I do have an Aberdeen cross suckler cow to produce an animal, usually a BBx for the freezer!)Feed (grass/silage) demand sitting roughly 15t dm/ha? Good going anyway and need that 100t fert I'd say.
Alternatively reduce stocking rate by at least a third to eliminate purchased N???
as might be, and we all have the sums to do, but, almost certainly at the the price N is, there will not be so much used, probably a big amount, globally, and that will impact on production, and not only in milk.A dairy farmer can probably afford to pay more for ferteliser than anybody else.
Grass silage at £30 ton at 25%dm is £120dm.
I can spend a lot more in producing my grass silage before any other feeds become attractive.
Even if grass silage was worth £40-45 a ton it will still be economic as it's replacement's will all be over £200ton DM.
You just have to get your head round the new economics of dairy.