Get peace of mind for your calves... and your milk contracts

[Breedr]

From January, thousands of UK dairy farmers will have to track all their calves – including bull calves – for the first eight weeks of life to safe-guard their milk contracts.

There’s been no easy way to do this without rearing them on-farm; until now.

Join us for our LIVE webinar launch Thursday 17th December at 7pm with dairy farmer Patrick Morris-Eyton and Breedr product manager James Wright and find out how to:

• Find reliable new outlets for your calves
• Prove your calf welfare with certified 8 week calf report
• Add significant value to dairy beef calves

The monthly series will then explore how UK dairy farmers can use our FREE app to streamline their dairy beef production and work with other farmers to deliver a step-change in beef productivity post-Brexit.

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Visit www.breedr.co/dairy for more information

 

[it's not over]

Rear them for8 weeks as opposed to........

 

[s line]

Rear them for8 weeks as opposed to........

But you will have to tb test them ,to sell them after 8 weeks old.

 

[Fergieman]

Rear them for8 weeks as opposed to........

You don't have to rear them on farm for 8 weeks as long as you know where they are going and are going to be reared.

 

[it's not over]

Why have you to prove were they are for the first 8 weeks,surely they are on some government cattle system anyway

 

[Breedr]

Why have you to prove were they are for the first 8 weeks,surely they are on some government cattle system anyway

In Breedr we show this to you automatically, no need to go looking through BCMS we've got a report that has done all the leg work for you!

You don't have to rear them on farm for 8 weeks as long as you know where they are going and are going to be reared.

 

[Tarw Coch]

You don't have to rear them on farm for 8 weeks as long as you know where they are going and are going to be reared.

Presumably this is something to do with Arla?

It’s just the price I’ve been selling beef cross calves for it should be obvious they are going to be reared, presumably the thoughts behind this are regarding dairy bulls.
Do these requirements make any allowance for common sense, ie that calf’s sold for good money are going to be reared or is it just beaurecracy gone mad?

 

[Bald Rick]

Presumably this is something to do with Arla?

It’s just the price I’ve been selling beef cross calves for it should be obvious they are going to be reared, presumably the thoughts behind this are regarding dairy bulls.
Do these requirements make any allowance for common sense, ie that calf’s sold for good money are going to be reared or is it just beaurecracy gone mad?

Where Arla go, others follow. Even Glanbia are chuntering about it.

Makes for some interesting choices when you are a predominately Jersey herd

 

[happycows]

Where Arla go, others follow. Even Glanbia are chuntering about it.

Makes for some interesting choices when you are a predominately Jersey herd

Then Mr Breedr is your man!! That's the calves they are predominantly going to end up with. The bottom 30%. Your jersey or grass rat x's or very extreme worst of the holstein bulls.
The Man that's had my Limo and Blues out of my Fleck x cows for the last three years sent me a little christmas thank you last week. When i rang him to say it was much appreciated he said they have been coming back around the £1500 and he's really keen for all 2021's too. This whole idea of shooting calves is just irrelevant then.

 

[PercyBlakeney]

Where Arla go, others follow. Even Glanbia are chuntering about it.

Makes for some interesting choices when you are a predominately Jersey herd

Red tractor will likely get there before more milk buyers, new standards coming in autumn 2021 look for justification of breeding policies in line with red tractor policy to eradicate the routine euthanasia of calves on farm.

https://assurance.redtractor.org.uk/contentfiles/Farmers-7188.pdf?_=637431221358543130

 

[Sid]

Where Arla go, others follow. Even Glanbia are chuntering about it.

Makes for some interesting choices when you are a predominately Jersey herd

Not been able to dispose of unwanted calves on farm long before Arla came up with their scheme.

 

[Bald Rick]

Then Mr Breedr is your man!! That's the calves they are predominantly going to end up with. The bottom 30%. Your jersey or grass rat x's or very extreme worst of the holstein bulls.
The Man that's had my Limo and Blues out of my Fleck x cows for the last three years sent me a little christmas thank you last week. When i rang him to say it was much appreciated he said they have been coming back around the £1500 and he's really keen for all 2021's too. This whole idea of shooting calves is just irrelevant then.

Small(ish) jersey herds will be fine if they concentrate on producing sellable surplus heifers through bull choice and sexed semen.
Larger herds are going to have to diversify imo

 

[buffalo_soldier]

Then Mr Breedr is your man!! That's the calves they are predominantly going to end up with. The bottom 30%. Your jersey or grass rat x's or very extreme worst of the holstein bulls.
The Man that's had my Limo and Blues out of my Fleck x cows for the last three years sent me a little christmas thank you last week. When i rang him to say it was much appreciated he said they have been coming back around the £1500 and he's really keen for all 2021's too. This whole idea of shooting calves is just irrelevant then.

Then it's relatively easy for you to have the traceability that's going to be needed.

Not everyone has that at the moment and I wouldn't call myself a bottom 30% calf producer either.
I've only got one of the calf buying companies which I'm finding hit or mostly miss or auction as options.