Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Wonder else can the government gets for 6-7m of tax payers money, probably not a great deal! Maybe dairy farmers campaigning for free milk for all primary school aged children would be a good thing!
All things Dairy
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Wonder else can the government gets for 6-7m of tax payers money, probably not a great deal! Maybe dairy farmers campaigning for free milk for all primary school aged children would be a good thing!
- Location
- somerset
college just taught how to get max milk out of cows, feed more conc, 4 feeds a day.
any mention of feeding own cereals at home, just caused a mass of objections from the feed reps, they could supply cake cheaper than we could feed our own cereals.
and they pretty well could, the drawback, which l don't really think we thought about, was what was in them, feather meal, dried chicken shite, rice bran, sawdust, and the big one, animal by products, meat and bone meal, tallow etc.
and where did it all end up, over production, quotas etc, l would hate to know how many £millions left the dairy industry, certainly a massive loss. Then the BSE debacle, another multi million drain.
but the feed reps still seem keen to push conc sales, and production is still linked to pricing, and still up and down like a yo-yo. And l think there are probably more people reliant, on the dairy farmer, than there were back in the day. And that is the problem, to many people feeding from the same trough.
we are highly unlikely to achieve a steady decent price for our milk, guv policy is cheap food, the huge supply/support industry, doesn't want to shrink back, so we are sold increasingly high tech equipment, for better efficiency, add ons, that do SFA, etc, but keep a lot of people employed.
nothing wrong with simplifying systems, plenty on here have done it, very successfully, and plenty run highly complicated tech systems, but damn certain the simple systems are the more profitable ones.
any mention of feeding own cereals at home, just caused a mass of objections from the feed reps, they could supply cake cheaper than we could feed our own cereals.
and they pretty well could, the drawback, which l don't really think we thought about, was what was in them, feather meal, dried chicken shite, rice bran, sawdust, and the big one, animal by products, meat and bone meal, tallow etc.
and where did it all end up, over production, quotas etc, l would hate to know how many £millions left the dairy industry, certainly a massive loss. Then the BSE debacle, another multi million drain.
but the feed reps still seem keen to push conc sales, and production is still linked to pricing, and still up and down like a yo-yo. And l think there are probably more people reliant, on the dairy farmer, than there were back in the day. And that is the problem, to many people feeding from the same trough.
we are highly unlikely to achieve a steady decent price for our milk, guv policy is cheap food, the huge supply/support industry, doesn't want to shrink back, so we are sold increasingly high tech equipment, for better efficiency, add ons, that do SFA, etc, but keep a lot of people employed.
nothing wrong with simplifying systems, plenty on here have done it, very successfully, and plenty run highly complicated tech systems, but damn certain the simple systems are the more profitable ones.
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Whoops, put this in the milk price tracker thread by mistake.
When a Norwegian red cross works. Delta Jacuzzi Red (red Holstein) out of a 1/2 Norwegian red cow.
Baling Hay
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Absolute cracker!
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
That is a very very nice cow
jimmer
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- Location
- East Devon
No tube feeding required here
Gotta love fresh calves guzzling colostrum
Martyn
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- Location
- South west
iv text EXIT several times but still get stupid txts, who seriously falls for sales push like this? Loads of bollox anyway as would just sit as unused feed on end of year valuation
Depends if you tell your accountant it’s been used.View attachment 1169324
iv text EXIT several times but still get stupid txts, who seriously falls for sales push like this? Loads of bollox anyway as would just sit as unused feed on end of year valuation
Only if you put it down as such instead of making out its been used.View attachment 1169324
iv text EXIT several times but still get stupid txts, who seriously falls for sales push like this? Loads of bollox anyway as would just sit as unused feed on end of year valuation
TheRanger
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- Location
- SW Scotland
You're only kicking the can down the road.
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Pds's went well
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Happy hillbily
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- Location
- Uwchaled, North Wales
Milking cow for sale. CHEAP ! 
- Location
- North yorks
She likes to reverse park?
Oh joy!
We find they're tolerable, providing they have a favourite stand.
If they're not fussed where they park up for the night, they tend to have an early morning outing up to market...
- Location
- East Lancashire
So frustrating
better than lying in the s**t.
Not much, at least if she lay in the sh1t she'd only dirty herself, the other way she's making dirty cubicles for others to lie in. Unless she has the decency to lie the in the same cubicle all the time.......
I would sooner clean a cubicle than a cow,I had three flecks that would sit the wrong way round,for some reason they all stopped and started sitting the right way.