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<blockquote data-quote="Cowabunga" data-source="post: 7219981" data-attributes="member: 718"><p>Could well be but as I said, herd performance has nothing to do with your overheads. 4000 litres even at 38ppl brings in £1520/cow income, less £300 of concentrates to give a margin over purchased feed of just over £1200 at a wild guess. No idea why 4000 litres needs a ton of cake, but there you go.</p><p>I do about 8200 litres on about 1.8 tons of cake at £0.27 = £2214 less £387 for feed which gives a margin over feed per cow of £1827 and I keep a cow per acre. Which is very average indeed these days.</p><p></p><p>All kinds of things impact on whether a living can be made at this level, either level of course. These include how much rent is paid, if any. Capital repayments and interest on debt, if any. Amount of labour hired in, if any above family. The number of cows. The number of acres farmed in total, although any concentrate grown on the arable side should be sold at commercial prices to the dairy enterprise.</p><p>There's all kind of management reasons why you may live better than I or I better than you and it isn't the performance of the cow. Although all other things being equal it certainly is the performance of the cow and the milk contract price that brings in the dough to pay the bills.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cowabunga, post: 7219981, member: 718"] Could well be but as I said, herd performance has nothing to do with your overheads. 4000 litres even at 38ppl brings in £1520/cow income, less £300 of concentrates to give a margin over purchased feed of just over £1200 at a wild guess. No idea why 4000 litres needs a ton of cake, but there you go. I do about 8200 litres on about 1.8 tons of cake at £0.27 = £2214 less £387 for feed which gives a margin over feed per cow of £1827 and I keep a cow per acre. Which is very average indeed these days. All kinds of things impact on whether a living can be made at this level, either level of course. These include how much rent is paid, if any. Capital repayments and interest on debt, if any. Amount of labour hired in, if any above family. The number of cows. The number of acres farmed in total, although any concentrate grown on the arable side should be sold at commercial prices to the dairy enterprise. There's all kind of management reasons why you may live better than I or I better than you and it isn't the performance of the cow. Although all other things being equal it certainly is the performance of the cow and the milk contract price that brings in the dough to pay the bills. [/QUOTE]
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