- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Same here, that's why we targeted dairy grazing snd largely ran dairy beef crosses. With the stocking rate doubling and variable costs reducing to nearly nothing, very few people can match the profit per hectare for the time input.Given the number of dairy farms in the UK using all the land they can get for milk prodiction, so not keeping their calfs. I expect traditional cow/calf setups can't complete with buying dairy calfs unless land too hard for dairy calfs.
With our "deluxe" technosystems - no fences to make, no water troughs to eat time, 2 hours per ha per year is achievable
Milking farmers is easy work, despite claims we spend the bare minimum, really a fallacy. People in general pay for convenience, and farmers are people ! Hence the false economy of temporary electric fencing