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Culls in oz is nothing new, they have big culls in times of prologed droughts.
on a 100 acre farm with less than 100 milking cows, how is 7k going to soften a blow when you're easy 5k a month down? cloud cuckoo landI dont think its something we even want to see become the norm over here, the last year has been hard for dairy farmers with many having to cull their cows BUT thebvast majority have seen it through and come out the other side, largely thanks to those support payments to soften the blow
@Bossfarmer Why is sending cattle to the slaughterhouse a welfare issue?
maybe to you but to some its enough to live on, if you think 7k is peanuts you must eat a lot of nuts and they say you are what you eaton a 100 acre farm with less than 100 milking cows, how is 7k going to soften a blow when you're easy 5k a month down? cloud cuckoo land
It's peanuts
it wouldn't even keep the bank manager happy to cover some of these massive debts dairy farmers have racked upmaybe to you but to some its enough to live on, if you think 7k is peanuts you must eat a lot of nuts and they say you are what you eat
on a 100 acre farm with less than 100 milking cows, how is 7k going to soften a blow when you're easy 5k a month down? cloud cuckoo land
It's peanuts
I know someone that kept 70 on 70 acres and didn't buy in silage, just concentrate and lots of fert100 ish cows on 100 acres ... who are you houdini or jesus.
100 ish cows on 100 acres ... who are you houdini or jesus.
best of bloody luck to them if that is their attitude, no sympathyit wouldn't even keep the bank manager happy to cover some of these massive debts dairy farmers have racked up
you would never see it long enough in the account to live in, it's barely worth thinking about
half way up the hill in SomersetTop ground in Bedfordshire
half way up the hill in Somerset
I know someone that kept 70 on 70 acres and didn't buy in silage, just concentrate and lots of fert
Do you think Murray Goulburn's f@#%ed up payout has a lot to do with that?
no ideaAye and 5500 litres
good postNothing wrong with 5500 litres per cow. Ran 180 all year round calving british friesan herd averaging 6400 litres until 4 years ago, and before you say it, profitably, miss it a fair bit. Not money why we went out, was me mum and dad, who are now 79, doing it with a guy 2 days a week, with 1200 ewe lambs lambing and 100 sucklers. Couldn't find staff so something had to give. What you don't spend you don't have to earn, and cows in calf in 2.5 months and no vets bills. !0,000 litre herds have always been the ones moaning theyre losing money
Nothing wrong with 5500 litres per cow. Ran 180 all year round calving british friesan herd averaging 6400 litres until 4 years ago, and before you say it, profitably, miss it a fair bit. Not money why we went out, was me mum and dad, who are now 79, doing it with a guy 2 days a week, with 1200 ewe lambs lambing and 100 sucklers. Couldn't find staff so something had to give. What you don't spend you don't have to earn, and cows in calf in 2.5 months and no vets bills. !0,000 litre herds have always been the ones moaning theyre losing money