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

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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.

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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

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Livestock Farmer
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Anglesey
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
 
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.
 

Bald Rick

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
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
 
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cumbria
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.
 

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Expanded and improved Sustainable Farming Incentive offer for farmers published

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Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer from July will give the sector a clear path forward and boost farm business resilience.

From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and The Rt Hon Sir Mark Spencer MP Published21 May 2024

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Full details of the expanded and improved Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer available to farmers from July have been published by the...
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