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forced to stop milking, advice on making suckle herd from dairy
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<blockquote data-quote="gone up the hill" data-source="post: 6463974" data-attributes="member: 1048"><p>Dairy cattle are selling very well currently.</p><p></p><p>What the OP should do if he/she wants to go into suckler farming is to sell all the dairy cows that don't have faults/ high cell counts etc and re-invest that money in top quality suckler cows that are capable of producing U/E grade calves and creep feed from day one and sell off the cows at 9/10 months old.</p><p></p><p>Keep the problem dairy cows and breed from until you can replace with cows of the above quality ( ie keep them just to help keep numbers up for now )</p><p></p><p>Good quality suckler bred cattle are getting few and far between but there is still a very good demand for top end calves and that is always the case when the store price is generally good or crap ( the latter like it has been the last few weeks ) and will always sell.</p><p></p><p>2nd grade suckler stuff/ dairy x calves are really starting to struggle price wise and that will only increase, especially now that from 2020 all Arla producers will have to ensure that all calves are reared until at least 8 weeks old and that includes all the utter crap from NZ type dairy cows that will end up being reared until they are 2+ years old and then dumped on the store market and thus further reducing prices in this sector of the store cattle trade.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gone up the hill, post: 6463974, member: 1048"] Dairy cattle are selling very well currently. What the OP should do if he/she wants to go into suckler farming is to sell all the dairy cows that don't have faults/ high cell counts etc and re-invest that money in top quality suckler cows that are capable of producing U/E grade calves and creep feed from day one and sell off the cows at 9/10 months old. Keep the problem dairy cows and breed from until you can replace with cows of the above quality ( ie keep them just to help keep numbers up for now ) Good quality suckler bred cattle are getting few and far between but there is still a very good demand for top end calves and that is always the case when the store price is generally good or crap ( the latter like it has been the last few weeks ) and will always sell. 2nd grade suckler stuff/ dairy x calves are really starting to struggle price wise and that will only increase, especially now that from 2020 all Arla producers will have to ensure that all calves are reared until at least 8 weeks old and that includes all the utter crap from NZ type dairy cows that will end up being reared until they are 2+ years old and then dumped on the store market and thus further reducing prices in this sector of the store cattle trade. [/QUOTE]
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