Going rate for Relief milking?

[Cowgirl10M]

What's the going rate for relief milking? I milk at various different set ups ranging from 8 a side swing over to 12 a side double up....cow numbers vary from 70-250, but everywhere I go I get the cows in, set up parlour milk and wash down....wondering what I should be charging to match others?

 

[thewalrus]

Rate will vary by quite a bit depending on area

 

[Iogijones]

I pay £35 for milking 160 in 11/22 parlour just over 2 hours work

 

[dinderleat]

Depends on how good you are/experience, but ranges from £35-£100 per milking around here

 

[Davy]

Depends on how good you are/experience, but ranges from £35-£100 per milking around here

£100!! Sign me up!

 

[Aircooled]

£10/hr for the low cost farmers.

 

[pappuller]

£100!! Sign me up!

That makes robots look cheap !!

 

[kiwi pom]

£100!! Sign me up!

I'd check how long it took first

 

[Youngdairyfarmer]

Depends on farm but I charged £25 a milking

90/100 cows in a 10-20 parlour
Farmer brings cows in to collecting yard and puts them out
1 hour 20/30 minutes start to finish

 

[vantage]

I pay £40 per milking,180 cows,16/32 parlour,milkers collect cows,milk,autowash,go.
Rates £50 + for 250 cows.

 

[dolf_lundgren]

To get an accurate answer you really need to go and buy some string, measure it, divide the number by 3 then double it, the square root of that is usually pretty accurate.

 

[sheep600]

I do a lot of milking from 750 cows to 100 its better to charge per hour fair for everyone should be £16 to £20 ph

 

[holywell farmer]

£100!! Sign me up!

Sod driving tractors or dumpers if that's what milking cows pays !

 

[holywell farmer]

I pay £35 for milking 160 in 11/22 parlour just over 2 hours work

Do often use a relief milker ?

 

[dinderleat]

I do a lot of milking from 750 cows to 100 its better to charge per hour fair for everyone should be £16 to £20 ph

Exactly at £100 a milking was a 6hr milking where as £35 was only an hour milking

 

[coomoo]

Don't know what area your in but in sw Scotland there's a shortage and it's getting worse so I'd say aim high. Here 100 cows gathered into collecting area for milker through a 10/20 will be forty quid if you can get someone.

 

[foul mouth phil]

Don't know what area your in but in sw Scotland there's a shortage and it's getting worse so I'd say aim high. Here 100 cows gathered into collecting area for milker through a 10/20 will be forty quid if you can get someone.

If you have to get the cows in for the milker you may as well do the job properly yourself for the sake of an hour or two.

 

[coomoo]

If you have to get the cows in for the milker you may as well do the job properly yourself for the sake of an hour or two.

It's a quick job done along with feeding calves and beef cattle here.

 

[Headless chicken]

£25 a milking we pay, cows in yard when he arrived wash and go until we slow down with drying off then he fetches cows and someone normally sets fences in the morning so just an easy job for him then. I don't want to pay more than that so us fetching cows works. Me and dad have every other weekend off. Dad works with the relief milker so just milk and go, I work with another lad who helps me do the jobs I need more hands with. Works well for us.

 

[Zoofarmer]

Don't know what area your in but in sw Scotland there's a shortage and it's getting worse so I'd say aim high. Here 100 cows gathered into collecting area for milker through a 10/20 will be forty quid if you can get someone.

A lot of people here in Ireland saying that labour availability is the new quota, along with land availability. Chatting to a guy this morning who is going to buy two mobile homes, stick them in the yard, and head to Eastern Europe to try and get staff.