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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 7964931" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>in the longer term, farmers would tweak calving to adapt to that, so no real difference.</p><p>But does the +seasonality cover the extra costs of autumn calving ? For those that calve late july, august and into september, are adding 2 months of either a lot of buffer feeding, or 2 months tmr, both of those are quite expensive. A lot depends on type of cow you have, more fr or xbred, would produce aut milk, off grass, with less buffer than the hol, that probably need a tmr.</p><p>The other point, block calving does save a lot of money, through efficiency of management, so just following seasonality payments/deductions, is not quite so simple, as nothing ever is. We have gone for a 'hybrid' in the middle, sort of system, which looks as though it should work for us, though a little bit by 'accident', we had to produce an amount of autumn milk, for our contract, and nov calvers, were cheaper than august/sept ones.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 7964931, member: 86168"] in the longer term, farmers would tweak calving to adapt to that, so no real difference. But does the +seasonality cover the extra costs of autumn calving ? For those that calve late july, august and into september, are adding 2 months of either a lot of buffer feeding, or 2 months tmr, both of those are quite expensive. A lot depends on type of cow you have, more fr or xbred, would produce aut milk, off grass, with less buffer than the hol, that probably need a tmr. The other point, block calving does save a lot of money, through efficiency of management, so just following seasonality payments/deductions, is not quite so simple, as nothing ever is. We have gone for a 'hybrid' in the middle, sort of system, which looks as though it should work for us, though a little bit by 'accident', we had to produce an amount of autumn milk, for our contract, and nov calvers, were cheaper than august/sept ones. [/QUOTE]
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