Feed to yield instead of batch feeders

[More to life]

I feed a small amount of compound in my out of parlour feeders then the rest is straights,I only buy calf starter ration for use till weaning,the rest get straights.

I'm on a special price with my compounder,I know the biggest buying group around can't match the price,purely because I'm one on the doorstep of the compounder and I always deal with the top man,a rep can never give you the true "best price"

I'm not doubting you eulb but how do you know the group price ?

 

[Blue.]

I'm not doubting you eulb but how do you know the group price ?

A relation is in it.

 

[dinderleat]

So you get a group price without be in a group

 

[Bossfarmer]

Minette Batters, "DEPUTY PRESIDENT" of the NFU has called for the removal of farming subsidies as they are a waste of public money, she has literally thrown UK farming businesses under the bus and started negotiations with the UK government from a defeatist position accepted that "these payments would all but disappear once Britain left the EU"

THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE from one of our farming leaders she should be backing us from the outset in these negotiations and driving a good deal for farmers so ensure their survival in the difficult years ahead,

I have already phoned the NFU to issue a complaint and ask for her removal, I STRONGLY urge fellow farmers on this forum to join me in this and pickup the phone to make a formal complaint about "Minette Batters" or by email, WE MUST NOT LET THIS GO UNCHECKED!!!!!!!

All farmers please do this we need to stick together and not let our leaders forget about us!!!

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[Beef farmer]

What's that got to do with batch feeding cows?

 

[Beef farmer]

And if you want to start a new thread I'll comment further, but I agree with her.

If subsidy was the route to profitability brittish Leyland would still be going.

 

[multi power]

Minette Batters, "DEPUTY PRESIDENT" of the NFU has called for the removal of farming subsidies as they are a waste of public money, she has literally thrown UK farming businesses under the bus and started negotiations with the UK government from a defeatist position accepted that "these payments would all but disappear once Britain left the EU"

THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE from one of our farming leaders she should be backing us from the outset in these negotiations and driving a good deal for farmers so ensure their survival in the difficult years ahead,

I have already phoned the NFU to issue a complaint and ask for her removal, I STRONGLY urge fellow farmers on this forum to join me in this and pickup the phone to make a formal complaint about "Minette Batters" or by email, WE MUST NOT LET THIS GO UNCHECKED!!!!!!!

All farmers please do this we need to stick together and not let our leaders forget about us!!!

https://www.nfuonline.com/about-us/contact-us/

General Enquiries: 024 7685 8500

Press Office: 024 7685 8686

NFU member? Contact NFU Callfirst: 0370 845 8458

Would you not be better to go and live in a council house and draw the dole and leave the rest of us in peace to farm

 

[Rossymons]

Wasnt sure where to stick the following but didnt fancy starting another thread on it either so here goes...

Parlour is getting old and electrics starting to fail but mostly with the feed system - motors, cards, wiring etc. We already have OOPFs that just need a bit of tarting up so my plan was to get these working again and rather than keep mending the parlour system just rip it out and replace with batch feeders.

Anyone have any idea on price for the feed system?

 

[Beef farmer]

Parlour size?

 

[Manney]

We paid £200 a point for Collinson equity feeders. The feeders themselves were £60 each, it's all the other bits that add up.

I sold all my oopf's so ended up pretty much break even cost wise.

 

[Rossymons]

16/32. Was looking to break it down into 4 lots of 8 (2 each side) to make life a bit easier.

 

[sidjon]

we have coretime and were £120 each which included every thing, was in 08 so a little out of date...

 

[Baling Hay]

For me I like to keep it simple. 6kg flat rate most of the year. My high yielders have all the grass they want to eat. I want high yielders eating lots of forage not just being grain burners.

If the high yielders can't handle the 6kg grain and eat enough forage to sustain themselves they can go up the road.

Top yielders peaking over 60lt.

Really?

 

[linga]

Really?

Is that about 45 litres from grass/forage?

 

[Baling Hay]

Is that about 45 litres from grass/forage?

Mustn't be far off it! Or maybe 20 litres from bodyfat????

 

[In the pit]

Mustn't be far off it! Or maybe 20 litres from bodyfat????

Clay52 was in Australia ,so different feeding to uk

 

[More to life]

Clay52 was in Australia ,so different feeding to uk

He was an argumentative chap but very interesting just disappeared into outer space.

 

[Cows 'n grass]

He was milking big Holsteins on irrigated grassland in SE Australia. I seem to remember that heat was an issue in summer but it is a far more predictable climate than the UK with very few cold wet days.

 

[In the pit]

He was an argumentative chap but very interesting just disappeared into outer space.

He disappeared from the forum few years back

 

[Baling Hay]

Clay52 was in Australia ,so different feeding to uk

Ah makes a bit more sense now....a bit.