Dairy-Tech 2022

[Hanspree]

Looks very quiet.

 

[harrysmith]

car parks were full !

 

[buffalo_soldier]

I've never even heard of it

 

[buffalo_soldier]

Tons of parasites

You're very lucky really. It takes most of us years and years to be as cynical as you seem to have been born

 

[Hanspree]

car parks were full !

That's probably the people working on stands.

 

[harrysmith]

I've never even heard of it

it was riddled from the ashes of the old Dairy Event , its a good excuse for a day out

 

[Mark Hatton]

Was a very interesting day to be fair, very very busy at times, given the challenges the industry and sector are currently facing, It was good to hear the positive views being discussed, undoubtedly there will be a lot of changes to whole industry now and in the longer term, farmers on the whole are incredibly resilient, we know it’s hard, if was easy everyone would be doing it, its in the interest of the supply industries to support farmers, they rely on you to survive, its very easy to criticise these events if you don’t attend them, without visitors they won’t happen, you never know just what you might learn by going next time.

 

[O'Reilly]

You would think from some of the comments on here, that this forum is populated by farmers who only feed grazed grass from permanent pasture that is never reseeded or fertilised, don't own a tractor, milk by hand, the calves are reared on their mothers, and the only purchase they might need is a new bucket or stool.

 

[Sid]

Was a very interesting day to be fair, very very busy at times, given the challenges the industry and sector are currently facing, It was good to hear the positive views being discussed, undoubtedly there will be a lot of changes to whole industry now and in the longer term, farmers on the whole are incredibly resilient, we know it’s hard, if was easy everyone would be doing it, its in the interest of the supply industries to support farmers, they rely on you to survive, its very easy to criticise these events if you don’t attend them, without visitors they won’t happen, you never know just what you might learn by going next time.

Who advertise

 

[vantage]

You would think from some of the comments on here, that this forum is populated by farmers who only feed grazed grass from permanent pasture that is never reseeded or fertilised, don't own a tractor, milk by hand, the calves are reared on their mothers, and the only purchase they might need is a new bucket or stool.

You mean you don’t?!
Actually I’m debating whether I can afford a new leg for the milking stool!

 

[buffalo_soldier]

It'll be yonks ago now but I only went to the of dairy event twice.

First time was when I was going to buy a Parlour, looked at a few, left me details etc. Only Vaccar came back to me.
Returned the year later when Parlour was done to look at kitting out the rest of the shed that went up, cubicles, mats, troughs, ect. Looked at and left me details with just about every manufacture. Not one came back to me.
Kinda puts you off.

Fast forward a decade or more and I went to that Telford event last year, looked at and ordered a mollasses tank and some stainless troughs. Neither have turned up.
So not much has changed

 

[Mark Hatton]

Who advertise

lots of business find advertising helps them sell their products and services, if they didn’t customers wouldn’t know about them, pretty much part and parcel of any business is a marketing strategy, but hey, what do I know!

 

[Chris F]

i thought there was more cheifs than indians| ! , cant believe how may people are making a living off a litre of milk

i spoke to farmers that said they could easily and ones that said they were finding it tough.

You get the same in all walks of life. However all were in good spirits. But we were all t
at the bar, so that may explain it.

 

[Chris F]

A company I had not come across before. From Germamy based on the curry wurst they served at lunch.

 

[Martyn]

You would think from some of the comments on here, that this forum is populated by farmers who only feed grazed grass from permanent pasture that is never reseeded or fertilised, don't own a tractor, milk by hand, the calves are reared on their mothers, and the only purchase they might need is a new bucket or stool.

Producing milk is incredibly basic, humans are just very good at making it complicated & expensive. Legislation adds another major cost factor, lots of us these days are driven by simple systems that arnt so reliant on outside forces of market places.

 

[In the pit]

You would think from some of the comments on here, that this forum is populated by farmers who only feed grazed grass from permanent pasture that is never reseeded or fertilised, don't own a tractor, milk by hand, the calves are reared on their mothers, and the only purchase they might need is a new bucket or stool.

It’s called kiss. ( keeping it simple stupid) and 99 times out of 100 it works best

 

[Grassman247]

Haven’t been to any events for quite a while, looking for some new equipment so thought it was a worth while trip out. All 4 of the slurry people I spoke to had a quote in my email by the following lunchtime which was fantastic considering how it used to be, the other things we looked at they gave me a price there and then. We really enjoyed going

One thing that particularly bothered me about the event was company’s selling products where farmers end up on a treadmill of service and maintenance costs. I have some calf gear which does just that so I fell for it too. You could tell which stands they were from a mile off. Says a lot when there bigger stands than the feed and semen firms. About time farmers stopped buying there products and kept more of the money they earnt in there own pockets.

 

[chloe_p]

Wolfenden Concrete Ltd also attended DairyTech.

It was lovely to see lots of new faces and faces that we also know. Hope to see you again at the Great Yorkshire Show 12-15th July.

 

[Sid]

Bit later than planned this year, its 7th April next week. We will be there on stand B102 just on the right as you enter Hall 2 (straight on as you go in the front door). Do say hello if you are coming along.

Floorplan is different this year:

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Anyone off this year?

 

[cattow]

Anyone off this year?

I’ll take the kids if all the teachers are on strike, only one has confirmed on strike so far