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<blockquote data-quote="frederick" data-source="post: 9213952" data-attributes="member: 11063"><p>Or looking at it slightly differently.</p><p></p><p>Spring calvers produce milk for about 1.2-1.5ppl less over the 12 month period but that penalty I would believe is far less than the savings a spring system can achieve. Arla then have other options to deal with the peak milk because it wasn't as expensive.</p><p></p><p>Autumn calvers can get the headline price or just about maybe a bit more if they are late summer calvers. They then keep winter output up.</p><p></p><p>All year round calvers can alter their profile slightly to take advantage of the scheme and help fill the summer trough.</p><p></p><p>The peak and trough problem will never be solved by block calvers moving but by the rest changing a bit because they can.</p><p></p><p>I think the carrot and stick is about right. 1.2-1.5 I would think is about only half to a third of the saving that an efficient spring Calver can make over a housed autumn system and its capital requirements.</p><p></p><p>The system you choose will still be far more dependent on the farm you have rather than the price you will be paid.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="frederick, post: 9213952, member: 11063"] Or looking at it slightly differently. Spring calvers produce milk for about 1.2-1.5ppl less over the 12 month period but that penalty I would believe is far less than the savings a spring system can achieve. Arla then have other options to deal with the peak milk because it wasn't as expensive. Autumn calvers can get the headline price or just about maybe a bit more if they are late summer calvers. They then keep winter output up. All year round calvers can alter their profile slightly to take advantage of the scheme and help fill the summer trough. The peak and trough problem will never be solved by block calvers moving but by the rest changing a bit because they can. I think the carrot and stick is about right. 1.2-1.5 I would think is about only half to a third of the saving that an efficient spring Calver can make over a housed autumn system and its capital requirements. The system you choose will still be far more dependent on the farm you have rather than the price you will be paid. [/QUOTE]
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