Barmyfarmer
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Feeding a top end powder we are roughly £9k better off than feeding whole milk on 150 calves or each calf costs £60 less to rear, whichever way you look at it, powder is more cost effective
What are your calculations, 60 quid sounds alot, l know each farm would be different cost for whole milk and probably varies between powders as well, next-doors a calf rearer and have stopped as can't make it pay (they would be rearing B/w bulls) ,with the price of powder as it is.Feeding a top end powder we are roughly £9k better off than feeding whole milk on 150 calves or each calf costs £60 less to rear, whichever way you look at it, powder is more cost effective
B milk is still low 30's and I got a lot of it, so Currently cheaper, but guessing milk powder will have a lag with price too?Milk powder £2850.
150g/l , 42.75ppl.
Feed cold, or warm. Bit of electric.
Cheaper than whole milk.
But only in the last day or so!
Only feed milk. 45 cows, flying herd, so all beef, sell all calves at about 3 weeks on average. Do use some that could go in the tank but most would be dumped anyway. Mixing powder is another job, very happy with the calves on milk and don't think it's worth it on our farm but think it depends on your situation.Just forward bought some milk powder for autumn block, which made me baulk.
Who here is feeding whole milk? Only to beef calves or heifers too?
Do you pasteurise?
TIA
To the same standard?I’ve just worked ours out. 36ppl……
I think that's illegal without proper terms and conditions tell him to go to the same place as your rep mate.Can someone charge interest on an incorrect invoice (unpaid due to it being wrong)
Now on my fourth invoice from them and still wrong but are trying to charge me £200 of interest (10%) on it
Yes this is the relief milker still
Oh and he's lost another relief milking job since me under similar circumstances to how I was treated
I think that's illegal without proper terms and conditions tell him to go to the same place as your rep mate.
So maybe a couple rows of tyres around the outside to keep things secure, then sidewalls over the rest would be OK?We use a secure cover and side walls touching each other and the wind will lift them but we do get a fair strength of wind from time to time.
£2500 to £3000 depending on what you go for...And how much is milk powder??
We have no issues with wind taking the side walls off here.So maybe a couple rows of tyres around the outside to keep things secure, then sidewalls over the rest would be OK?
Yes, the thought of not being showered in stale tyre water is appealing.Compared to tyres, I bloody love 'em.
Yep, the stuff out of fresh calvers that would otherwise be thrown away.Feeding whole milk at 50ppl?
All on farm visits should be by appointment only. If you need to make a sign for your driveway then do so. Hold people to it and eventually they all get the message. It’s up to you as to how you deal with the ones who forget or are unawares of the policy. Threatening to invoice them for your time during an unannounced visit seems fun. Whatever works. You may need to get less polite with the one who repeatedly calls.How do I politely tell a parasite to p*ss off?
I have 1 who phones me every other week trying to sell me stuff (my answer is always no and if I want something I'll phone you)
If I miss his phone call he turns up here an I have a job to get rid of him
I've had a load of problems this morning and really haven't got time today so just need to get him gone asap
All on farm visits should be by appointment only. If you need to make a sign for your driveway then do so. Hold people to it and eventually they all get the message. It’s up to you as to how you deal with the ones who forget or are unawares of the policy. Threatening to invoice them for your time during an unannounced visit seems fun. Whatever works. You may need to get less polite with the one who repeatedly calls.
I’ve had 1 unannounced visit of a sales person in 7 years on the places I’ve been on. It’s either not really a common practice here or they all got the message years ago. We don’t use any fairy dust so we must not be good potential customers.
Semen sales guy lives 5 hours away, talk to him twice per year. Dairy supplies are ordered via text and delivered once per month or shipped. Commodities is through a broker. Seed is bid out each year as well as minerals. Vet supplies are ordered by e-mail and phone and shipped.
Don’t regularly need much other big ticket items
So maybe a couple of long sandbags on the leading edge to stop the wind getting underneath?Its more so when the pit is open as the wind will get under the sheet and flip the side walls back.