Exodus

[pappuller]

all going into the sucklers im afraid

Do your sucklers turn a tidy profit ?

 

[Bossfarmer]

Do your sucklers turn a tidy profit ?

depends wat u call tidy, bn better the last couple years and produce plenty dung for the crops

 

[frederick]

With a milk price of 35 ppl there will be some people pushing towards a profit of £1000 cow let alone gross margin.
Personally still a bit to go.

 

[Bossfarmer]

With a milk price of 35 ppl there will be some people pushing towards a profit of £1000 cow let alone gross margin.
Personally still a bit to go.

no chance of ever making that with sucklers

 

[Hilly]

no chance of ever making that with sucklers

Buy 1 robot and enough cows for it and give it a try, keep us informed on your journey.

 

[ollie989898]

With a milk price of 35 ppl there will be some people pushing towards a profit of £1000 cow let alone gross margin.
Personally still a bit to go.

Don't go telling folk that!

Tis a bit odd mind.

Folk get out of dairy, then go into beef and complain there is no money to be made????

There will be people leaving the world of dairy, as the prospect of reinvestment or retirement looms. The majority of people I know are very committed and endured the last era of low milk prices because they knew the cream would be coming to offset it.

 

[buffalo_soldier]

Now we are talking at levels of 35p!

Price for most now is just crossing the 30p barrier. Its October now, so it sure as heck isn't going to be this years average.
Plus the jobs getting talked down for next year.

 

[frederick]

There will be quite a few arla farmers looking at 35ppl plus due to their constituents

 

[Bossfarmer]

Buy 1 robot and enough cows for it and give it a try, keep us informed on your journey.

its more cost effective to buy 2 at once apparently

 

[Bossfarmer]

from what ive seen the larger dairies seem to get contracts easier and better priced ones

 

[Beef farmer]

from what ive seen the larger dairies seem to get contracts easier and better priced ones

Buy 20 robots then

 

[Beef farmer]

Boss man, found a cow to base your figures on. Stick her milk price @35ppl, easily achievable with good constituents, get those robots bought

 

[7610 super q]

I think some need to go back to page 1 of this thread again........

 

[Ducati899]

1 cow like that and milk it by hand...

 

[Hilly]

its more cost effective to buy 2 at once apparently

Well buy 2 then and enough cows for 2 and give it a shot.

 

[Martyn]

Boss man, found a cow to base your figures on. Stick her milk price @35ppl, easily achievable with good constituents, get those robots bought View attachment 592290

Thats equivelent to 7 of our cows, wander what goes in the grub to get those fats! cant all be genetics

 

[upnortheast]

very impressive am i right in saying its 130k per robot? lets say 15% extra then since uve improved conditions too, that would give an extra 1350l per cow which at 25ppl and 55 cows per robot it an extra £18,562 income per robot, one man per 100 cows saved at £25,000 a year is £13,750 added to the £18,562 gives £29,612, call it a 6 year payback including interest??

Neat summary, You would make a fortune as a robot salesman

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Don't go telling folk that!

Tis a bit odd mind.

Folk get out of dairy, then go into beef and complain there is no money to be made????

There will be people leaving the world of dairy, as the prospect of reinvestment or retirement looms. The majority of people I know are very committed and endured the last era of low milk prices because they knew the cream would be coming to offset it.

It is a completely different market for milk products over here, but your post neatly sums it up.
You still have newer entrants that came in at $8kg/MS who wonder why everyone isn't a dairy farmer, deck the halls on borrowed funds; then it goes below $5 and you don't even see their dust.
Basing on a 5 year average payout or better yet 10 years, you get to see a truer picture of profitability - and it's not too shabby.
The key to surviving the $4.80 years is to not go too hearty when you get $8.10, know your COP and what factors influence it the most within your system, and stick to the basics as much as possible - no point starting a bad habit.
(Basing this on NZ's average farm's average cows)
The low cost guys happily divulge their costs; the high yielders talk about their yields, and the top operators keep very very quiet!

 

[jackrussell101]

106 milk producers left the industry last month, that's just over 3 a day.

 

[Stuart1]

very impressive am i right in saying its 130k per robot? lets say 15% extra then since uve improved conditions too, that would give an extra 1350l per cow which at 25ppl and 55 cows per robot it an extra £18,562 income per robot, one man per 100 cows saved at £25,000 a year is £13,750 added to the £18,562 gives £29,612, call it a 6 year payback including interest??

I wish you where my accountant