lazy farmer
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- som/dor border
Milk Price Tracker
- Thread starter rc mx110
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- South Molton
Farmer or milk buyer?
True, but Muller do produce butter, must be highly profitable for them as they get the solids for free!
Scholsey
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- Herefordshire
Jdunn55
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- Helston, cornwall
Thought I'd check in case I'd given the impression I was actually milking the buggers
No I'm a bad farmer and an even worse block calver at present and have far too many fresh/mid lactation cows, going to start drying some off once I get my johnes results back though as there's a few gone stale
Calving from february-septwmber next year but only going to serve to calve february-may and august-september the following year and then cut it back so we finish in April the following year and can then maybe see about only being february-march after that but that's a few years away at present
Cows 'n grass
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- Modbury, South Devon
Thought I'd check in case I'd given the impression I was actually milking the buggers
No I'm a bad farmer and an even worse block calver at present and have far too many fresh/mid lactation cows, going to start drying some off once I get my johnes results back though as there's a few gone stale
Calving from february-septwmber next year but only going to serve to calve february-may and august-september the following year and then cut it back so we finish in April the following year and can then maybe see about only being february-march after that but that's a few years away at present
Did you end up putting it OOPF or individual in parlour feeders?
Jdunn55
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- Helston, cornwall
Still got the individual parlour feeders at present but they're sh!t! Been there for many many years and just knackered at this point, landlord has said they'll pay for new feeders in the spring, hoping to get a bin as well instead of the feed loft as all the timber is rotten and needs replacing and I reckon a second-hand feed bin will be cheaper than replacing the feed loft, not to mention it'll save me a load of work and my asthma really doesn't like shovelling cake!
Oopf are in the shed, hoping to put them in once we have the shed up at dad's ready for calving
Martyn
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- South west
Your lucky if your landlord will put money to milking kit, who owns the parlour, you or them?
Jdunn55
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- Helston, cornwall
Them, I've said I'll put it in but will take it with me if they would prefer and they declined which is perfect by me!
2c in January? Is that a guesstimate
- Location
- Wormingford, Essex
When I wanted to put up a shed I was going to have to pay for it all so I said fine, I'll take it with me at the end, landlord then offered 3k towards it on the condition it became their shed at the end of our (short term) tenancy! Wasn't going to be a big shed but three grand didn't even pay for half the frame.
lazy farmer
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- som/dor border
Barbers October.
5.38 bf
4.21 protein
40.64p(including 2.4p seasonality)
apologises it’s slightly less than I stated yesterday. I’d included a non payment result in my calculations.
due to this and that this is our second highest milk chq of the yr. six weeks before drying off !
5.38 bf
4.21 protein
40.64p(including 2.4p seasonality)
apologises it’s slightly less than I stated yesterday. I’d included a non payment result in my calculations.
due to this and that this is our second highest milk chq of the yr. six weeks before drying off !
Jdunn55
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- Helston, cornwall
You still going to dry everything off in one hit considering how well they're doing and the milk price?Barbers October.
5.38 bf
4.21 protein
40.64p(including 2.4p seasonality)
apologises it’s slightly less than I stated yesterday. I’d included a non payment result in my calculations.
due to this and that this is our second highest milk chq of the yr. six weeks before drying off !
Cows 'n grass
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- Modbury, South Devon
Sorry, I just looked it up and it's only 1.5c but solids based so brown cows are fairly rewarded.
lazy farmer
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- som/dor border
Yeap
Time off is priceless.
Jdunn55
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- Helston, cornwall
The landlords have been brilliant so far, got absolutely nothing bad to say about them, very fair, if I wanted a new shed put up they would expect me to pay for it, but if there's something here that needs repairing (unless I break it off course) they're more than willing to have it sorted. The only things of real note that need doing is the feeders in the parlour, rooves which all have sheets that need replacing (the parlour needs an entire new roof
) and the concrete thats broken away in and around the silage clamp But I'm paying what I would consider a very large rent...
Milkcow365
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- Sw Scotland
That’s nuts!Barbers October.
5.38 bf
4.21 protein
40.64p(including 2.4p seasonality)
apologises it’s slightly less than I stated yesterday. I’d included a non payment result in my calculations.
due to this and that this is our second highest milk chq of the yr. six weeks before drying off !
lazy farmer
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- som/dor border
Interestingly( or not)
That’s only good enough for 14th on milk buyers league table. So still money being left on the pitch. Must do better.
- Location
- Northumberland
Is this the 13th Payment your talking about? If so its not paid out till beginning of March not January.
Cows 'n grass
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- Modbury, South Devon
Drifting off the subject of milk prices a bit but in my view you just go split calving now and stick to it. Two 9 week blocks, 60:40 spring to autumn and buy some form of electronic heat detection. If you won't sell or cull empty cows you'd be far better off with two short blocks than one 9 month block.