Cows 'n grass
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Andre Van Barneveld. He's a Dutch born Kiwi living in Ireland just to keep things confusing. There's a good pasture pod interview with him.
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Andre Van Barneveld. He's a Dutch born Kiwi living in Ireland just to keep things confusing. There's a good pasture pod interview with him.
3.3 cows ha isnt uncommon. Yes rear replacments on smaller parcels of ground.
80 cows is a funny number for labour
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Milking once a day with half a labour unit?
Bit like one of my relief milkers,does 700 cows twice a day,then comes here for evening milking of 200! Young and keen!
BobbySusie
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Ffs.
Unfortunately she was wearing an unbroken band of gold and my virtues are somewhat greater than Boris Johnson’s but that lovely Irish brogue ... bejeezus and begorer
Hardly Mary Phelan, was it. Good looking reporter with the farmers journal
Tough lifestyle
And farmers wonder why they cant retain quality staff.Who in there right mind would want to milk cows like this.
Not me, weve 2 units and no one has ever had to milk at both on the same day. I wouldnt so dont expect the team too.
jimmer
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- East Devon
I don't quite get some peoples view point
When your tractor mechanic comes out to fix your machine, he finishes up and goes on to the next job, it could well be another burst pipe same as yours for example, then by jove a call comes in to another dodgy spool valve, so off he plods to the next one
He doesn't phone in and say I've done spanner work already this morning, so I need a puncture to do please, or go back to yard to wash some kit
If you are a milker, you milk, and quite honestly anyone with that title is often best left to do that, instead of wrecking machinery or attempting fencing badly etc
When your tractor mechanic comes out to fix your machine, he finishes up and goes on to the next job, it could well be another burst pipe same as yours for example, then by jove a call comes in to another dodgy spool valve, so off he plods to the next one
He doesn't phone in and say I've done spanner work already this morning, so I need a puncture to do please, or go back to yard to wash some kit
If you are a milker, you milk, and quite honestly anyone with that title is often best left to do that, instead of wrecking machinery or attempting fencing badly etc
Why did you employ a milker then?
jimmer
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- East Devon
Didn't employ a milker I employed a herdsman, and I haven't enough machinery to wreck something every day
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I wouldn't have an issue with milking across 2 units.
It's the 12 on 2 off, 285 self employed contracts and split shifts that put me off.
It's the 12 on 2 off, 285 self employed contracts and split shifts that put me off.
12 on 2 off isnt great
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No. Nor is the 285 self employed contract.
I think there will be some big shockwaves in the industry when HMRC get around to dealing with all these disguised employment situations.
Dead Rabbits
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- 'Merica
I assure you, with the right personnel, something can get wrecked every day.