Milk Price Tracker

[supercow]

Was more the reference about draff lifting fats , but I appreciate if they were sub 3.8 before
I forget sometimes about white water contracts
Personally I think the standard litre ought to be achievable at any litreage

What do you class as white water? Some people also forget climate is not on our side in Scotland which leads to being forced to house indoor and can’t have the grazing type high fat/protein cow you have south of the border. Housing indoors generally leads to higher yields, well it needs to and I’m pretty sure when our cows are milking well fats drop. Out of interest what are your litres and constituents?

 

[lazy farmer]

What s the point of milking well in terms of litres if the bit your paid for drops ?

 

[kp_n_plghng]

Well its not hard to work out, if your milk goes up 2 litres a cows and price paid goes down 1.8ppl then you're better off - all other things being equal of course.
If you're paid purely on solids as I believe a very small percentage are then it won't make any difference either way.
In my experience its easier to achieve high kgs of solids on higher litres although there is of course a balance as solids need to be high enough to keep your contract I suppose.

 

[jimmer]

Grass silage
3kg wheat
8 kg 18% hdf in parlour
31litres
90 percent Holsteins

 

[supercow]

We are far more limited on the feed choices in the more remote areas. The climate is crap so can really only grow grass and feed barley plus transport costs can easily be £40-50/t on everything bought in. Its a bit of a catch 22 as we would struggle to go low cost grazing as the season is too short and buying in litres is very expensive.

Thank you @bigw you explain it better than me. These southerners don’t know what it’s like north of the wall!

 

[supercow]

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Grass silage
3kg wheat
8 kg 18% hdf in parlour
31litres
90 percent Holsteins

Got them doing well I’d get the bacto and cell count down now

 

[I thats it]

It all depends on your contract. FM liquid contract pays nothing for protein at all and very little for buttefat so it's not worth chasing just keep at the minimum and push litres. There are murmurings of them altering the liquid contract to increase the payment on constituents, @supercow have you heard anything

 

[jimmer]

Got them doing well I’d get the bacto and cell count down now

Very lenient quality bands , I'm well within bonus , monthly average below 200 and blow 50 suits me
No frills here

 

[supercow]

Very lenient quality bands , I'm well within bonus , monthly average below 200 and blow 50 suits me
No frills here

Mental how low other companies standards are. Same with arla with bacto of 50, you’d be able to suck up 5 cows Shiite and still be under 50!!

 

[Martyn]

Nothing from DC?

 

[Martyn]

Nothing from DC?

Glad not only one, hope now Rob left office they remeber to press the pay botton!

 

[Beef farmer]

Glad not only one, hope now Rob left office they remeber to press the pay botton!

Im genuinly gutted robs gone.

 

[Martyn]

Im genuinly gutted robs gone.

Good bloke! always good on phone, best one there

 

[Beef farmer]

Good bloke! always good in phone, best one there

By a mile. Not sure if he left due to the job or just a change, but dc is a worse place for it

 

[paddler]

What s the point of milking well in terms of litres if the bit your paid for drops ?

I do believe that producers in the South West on commodity linked contracts do not understand how liquid premium contracts work.In essence volume pays; compositional quality as long as it above minimum standards has little effect on the price per litre achieved.
PS I am not getting at either jimmer or lazy farmer both of whose posts I enjoy and find very informative.

 

[lazy farmer]

Apologies I was under the impression that @supercow was on a solids contract.

 

[westwards]

Apologies I was under the impression that @supercow was on a solids contract.

He should be as his milk goes into a creamery !!

 

[westwards]

Big changes for FM in Scotland for haulage, Bibby's have lost the contract and its gone to Niven.

Pretty poor given FM leaned very very heavy on Bibby's when FM were in the $hit !!

 

[upnortheast]

Big changes for FM in Scotland for haulage, Bibby's have lost the contract and its gone to Niven.

Bibby lost out to Armstrong in Cumbria
Efficiencies they say

 

[supercow]

Apologies I was under the impression that @supercow was on a solids contract.

I am! Our fat and protein is really crap this year. Whole crop has done bugger all