Expansion?
- Thread starter C&Cows
- Start date
- Location
- east Ayrshire
Well ithink I can speak for all beef and sheep farmers and say put a robot in an old Byer and buy 100 dairy cows at let them get on with it themselves and reep the rewards 
lazy farmer
Member
- Location
- som/dor border
Everybody’s answer will be different. So many variables.
age.ambition, opportunity ability.
To name but a few.
here we have most of the fert bought at a relatively good price. Feed bought at a good price. Cows in good nick for calving plenty of grass to go at. So we are going to have a go at doing good job and try not to f it up. Will we produce anymore? Probably not.
Will we make more money ? Yes
age.ambition, opportunity ability.
To name but a few.
here we have most of the fert bought at a relatively good price. Feed bought at a good price. Cows in good nick for calving plenty of grass to go at. So we are going to have a go at doing good job and try not to f it up. Will we produce anymore? Probably not.
Will we make more money ? Yes
dinderleat
Member
- Location
- Wells
Try and make more profit
- Location
- Lorette Manitoba
Here over the past five years a lot of older farmers have retired and the younger generation has taken on land at high rents and farming it with fancy new tackle with hired drivers. The personal touch has gone out the window and I think they are in a worse position scrambling to get everything done. Sometimes it pays to farm better rather than larger to make money. Improving what we already have and make it more productive.
dinderleat
Member
- Location
- Wells
Work smarter not harder
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
33% increase in cow nos, 4 the robot going in as we speak, 19yr old son coming into the partnership as we've recently lost my mother so a position to be filled.
- Location
- South Lanarkshire
Buy a pencil and a piece of paper not a new fendt if the sums work out then get the fendtWork smarter not harder
- Location
- Co. Antrim
Been adding 20/30 cows to the herd every year for the past 6 years as me and my brother both farming now at a stage where the herd can be split to let us do our own things
buffalo_soldier
Member
- Location
- cumbria
Less work, not more is my plan.
With no fert,
No forward cake
And 30% forage stocks left that may be sooner than I realise
With no fert,
No forward cake
And 30% forage stocks left that may be sooner than I realise
- Location
- cornwall
Sanity, not vanityWork smarter not harder
- Location
- cornwall
We should all stay the same production, concentrating on efficiency and improving work life balance. If we did that, milk price would stay up and we could afford the staff and fertilisers to do what I said.
But, we won’t.
But, we won’t.
- Location
- North West
When I was working out there, they were selling that much new kit that when you went to look at second hand kit at dealers. It was all sold as seen they didn't even have time to do a basic service. Too many guys gone on the gas fields and who was left was too busy pdi'ing new kit.
- Location
- North West
Even before covid input inflation was hammering margin. Efficiency only helped for so long before you'd need to expand.
I agree with the sentiment, the higher price might enable us to cut back on feed and fert, so may see a drop in production, but not massive.
There will be a big lift to come when the aligned contracts are re-assessed, no doubt that will allow them to pile more numbers on and crash the price for the rest of us!
There will be a big lift to come when the aligned contracts are re-assessed, no doubt that will allow them to pile more numbers on and crash the price for the rest of us!
- Location
- Derbyshire
There was an interesting podcast on DairyNZ on precisely this... what do the most profitable dairies in NZ spend their money on when the going is good?
How can the aligned have such a massive effect as to be able to lift the GDT auction averages ?
dinderleat
Member
- Location
- Wells
Bigger boat?