Dairy Farm For Sale

[Baling Hay]

Will it grow grass like south west? Or West Wales.

It can grow a lot of grass but in a shorter window

 

[Martyn]

It can grow a lot of grass but in a shorter window

No good for 3 months winter farmer like me

 

[lazy farmer]

It can grow a lot of grass but in a shorter window

Milk contract

 

[Baling Hay]

Milk contract

Take your pick, Caledonian cheese is popular for block calving with no spring penalty

 

[dairydurham]

Take your pick, Caledonian cheese is popular for block calving with no spring penalty

Western Ayrshire looked ok but Southern and Eastern are grim with some parts in the East resembling a nuclear holocaust !!!

 

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Milk contract

First milk/nestle
Arla
Grahams
Lactalise
Muller
Caledonian cheese
Meadow?

 

[lady muck]

Western Ayrshire looked ok but Southern and Eastern are grim with some parts in the East resembling a nuclear holocaust !!!

I wasnt aware there was a Western Ayrshire. I think we call that the sea. Some of the best dairy units are in East Ayrshire.

 

[dairydurham]

I wasnt aware there was a Western Ayrshire. I think we call that the sea. Some of the best dairy units are in East Ayrshire.

Area near New Cumnock was desperate, never seen an area so deprived ,even the timber on the boarded up houses/shops had been on so long it was rotten

 

[lady muck]

Area near New Cumnock was desperate, never seen an area so deprived ,even the timber on the boarded up houses/shops had been on so long it was rotten

yes but east Ayrshire covers a wide area and there are tremendous dairy units making good money from Kilmarnock across to Mauchline and Ochiltree.

New Cumnock, Cumnock and Auchinleck are mining areas. Prince Charles has invested heavily in these areas through Dumfries House. some of the farms in this area are booming on Co-op contracts.

it’s easy to criticise areas but there are good and bad in every area.

 

[coomoo]

First milk/nestle
Arla
Grahams
Lactalise
Muller
Caledonian cheese
Meadow?

Maybe a Jersey contract with Graham’s but that must be near saturated aswell

 

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Maybe a Jersey contract with Graham’s but that must be near saturated aswell

Just personal opinion but I think there is going to be a lot of musical chairs between milk companies over the next couple of years and opportunities for new entrants.

Also any dairy company wanting to go net zero will need to have enough land (managed properly) banked through the dairy farmers that supply them. Or they will need to source carbon credits elsewhere.

 

[coomoo]

Just personal opinion but I think there is going to be a lot of musical chairs between milk companies over the next couple of years and opportunities for new entrants.

Also any dairy company wanting to go net zero will need to have enough land (managed properly) banked through the dairy farmers that supply them. Or they will need to source carbon credits elsewhere.

In Ayrshire??

 

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In Ayrshire??

Yep.

 

[Sparky270]

It can grow a lot of grass but in a shorter window

You spend more time looking over the gate at it then making use of it !!

 

[Baling Hay]

Area near New Cumnock was desperate, never seen an area so deprived ,even the timber on the boarded up houses/shops had been on so long it was rotten

It is bleak round there, yes. Ex mining area.

Down closer to Ayr is where you need to be, either that or go down to Dumfries.

 

[Baling Hay]

You spend more time looking over the gate at it then making use of it !!

Nah get the cows to push it into the ground....recycling organic matter

 

[lady muck]

I think the important thing to remember is that some farmers have a £1M to spend on a dairy farm and some have £5M, some want robots with cows inside all year around, some want cows out grazing on a forage system. This area like Cumbria still has family farms and farmers that milk their own cows. If you don’t like that system don’t come here. Bare silage land where I stay may be cheap to buy but good farms are still in demand and are scarce.

 

[coomoo]

I think the important thing to remember is that some farmers have a £1M to spend on a dairy farm and some have £5M, some want robots with cows inside all year around, some want cows out grazing on a forage system. This area like Cumbria still has family farms and farmers that milk their own cows. If you don’t like that system don’t come here. Bare silage land where I stay may be cheap to buy but good farms are still in demand and are scarce.

What was the last good dairy to come on for sale in Ayrshire? Always looking but don’t remember many for years

 

[dairydurham]

It is bleak round there, yes. Ex mining area.

Down closer to Ayr is where you need to be, either that or go down to Dumfries.

Dumfries looked the business for farming

 

[lady muck]

What was the last good dairy to come on for sale in Ayrshire? Always looking but don’t remember many for years

Raith was the last memorable one on the market since Sandyford and Myremill. Other blocks such as Auchincruive would have made a great green field site. Farms like Attiquin not dairying at moment but will return into dairying in the future. Quite a few 200 acre units have sold. Usual private deals too.