Mr Jones
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- Llancwmbwlchrhydyfoncenfach
Never see a lorry of MV in NCE area nowadays.
Dairy farmers quitting the industry in high numbers.
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endeavour
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- Location
- centre of milky way Carmarthenshire
Noooo gone to see Cow in dale or stay with wynn!!!!!!
One to me yesterday, another one passed the end of the drive this morning!
Yes but it always goes when it wants to!
Cows aren't the sons favourite .But it's a big empire lots of poultry as well as a farm shop .And lots of development land around said farm shop going for housing one day!Guess the farm shop makes a better return
Was that the farm where gea robots were installed as the first ones and had lots of problems ?If it was I remember going to the farm looking at the second hand Parlour!First farm guy was/is on here, believe they ran GEA robots, talking to Kivells during the week about farm availability with all these sales and nobody seems to want to sell up completely, think if interest rate climb market may lose it's heat, but what do I know
No, think they were one of the first with the Gea robots and parlour went in couple years ago, one lot went in near tiverton and were replaced with Lely .
supercow
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- Location
- Dumfriesshire
Barmyfarmer
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Inputs be at record levels aswell, be very suprised if we are much better off than we were
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
Most of the sales seem to be cows around the 9000 ltr level
Are these farms feeding for 10000+ but not hitting that level so have a huge food bill without the output
Are these farms feeding for 10000+ but not hitting that level so have a huge food bill without the output
Whitewalker
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I think we have lost touch with reality and got caught up in survival. Asking a cow to do 9000 litre never mind 10000 plus is a big ask all in the name of cheap food.
- Location
- somerset
but are bred to give more, ours have milked well, and will be over 9, when aiming for 8, very good silage fed, l reckon, yield is more nutrition based, than genetic. Cows can be genetically capable of 12,000+, but nutrition dictates the amount that the cow actually gives.
Whitewalker
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Irrespective of what cows can be bred to give It’s not morally any better than farmers working 120 hours a week for bugger all
Because the bad times will be just round the corner again! Even though production is lower at the moment i expect there will be a fair resistance to more price rises from both consumer and retailer.
- Location
- somerset
both occur though.
and quite right, the necessity to produce cheap food, is the reason for both, and again both would be better off, producing less.
As we see now, shortages of any product, inc milk, means higher prices
produce more, and the price goes down.
less milk, = less work =higher prices =happier wives.
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- somerset
its quite simple, supply and demand, if supply cannot match demand, the price will go up, whether retailer, or consumer, like it or not. Pretty certain milk is going to used whatever the price, and its dirt cheap now.
milk is cheap, used as a loss leader, by retailers, who don't give a toss about producers, if customers want milk, the retailers will buy it, regardless of price.
we'll it makes more sense getting out when prices are high than low.
I'm going to plant trees on some of mine,I won't be bothered one bit.
ollie989898
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Maybe the family just want to retire? No sons or daughter to take the place on. Maybe they are frightened by the high input prices and realise the bigger risks they are facing. Maybe they are facing a 6 figure bill for a new slurry store which will do nothing for their bottom line whatsoever. Any reason is as individual as the next man.
supercow
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- Location
- Dumfriesshire
Agree.