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- Northern Ireland
Z I thought you where old school what’s this diet feeder all about? I didn’t think you’d go making work for yourself!
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Z I thought you where old school what’s this diet feeder all about? I didn’t think you’d go making work for yourself!
I’m paying £261 for 21% nut. Neighbor paying £285 for Thompson 20% nut.
When talking about costs some farmers never include those meals or milk replacer. You’d think they didn’t have to pay for it!
Feeding calves and young stock here probably accounts for about 25%- 30% of our meal bill during the winter months. Rearing replacements is certainly not cheap.
Ok. Yes paying £270
- Location
- East meath/dublin
Each to their own z but having been where you are believing that volume drove income i took sone convincing before changing. I can now assure you that cost control and milk solids drive income and good silage and maize or fooder beet will work out cheaper than large meal bills . Finally Grass is king either zero grazed or grazed nothing like it to put money in your pocket. I still milk ayr but am taking the scenic route to spring calving and wii cut back on autumn. Unfortunately the bonuses for winter milk dont cover enough of the costs to make it really profitable . Currently i am feeding rolled barley [ my own ] value 230 euro ? Soya at 355 soya hulls 200 beet pulp at 250 and corn gluten at a price not yet agreed. Half my milk cheque goes to the bank so no way could the meal man get the other half.
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
Where do you farm?
Sorry got distracted by z's meal bill which is far more interesting than my carreer path!! I can't complain about it, have been there 16 years and quite a lot have been there 20+ years. Never really worked in the production side- prefer to be out and about. Keeps me in sweetie money, gets me off farm and is only 10 mins from home.
Do you think maybe he's a closet 4 ton/ 10000l man
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- thunder rd co.antrim
Sorry to disappoint but 8000plus on 2 ton
lazy farmer
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- som/dor border
This is nothing against z but why do you all talk about lites when your not paid for them ?
- Location
- East meath/dublin
East coast of ireland not to far from Dublin.
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- thunder rd co.antrim
We are paid for litres, no a+b-c
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- East meath/dublin
I remember when we changed to milk solids payment and the milk recording data showed the value of each cows milk . That fairly conentrated the mind on solids and litres were irrelevant. Currently our herd average 650 kilos of solids on 1.5 ton of cheapish meal
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- thunder rd co.antrim
Jeez man weve made some advances, Im not all on the dark side
jay
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- Location
- Co Down NI
Because as Z has pointed out, all the dairies in NI pay per litre with adjustments for components, even the ones that pay on kilos of solids on the other side of the border. Whether they should is a different matter.
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
But your base price not hav to meet certain solids criteria ?
jay
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- Location
- Co Down NI
Prices are adjusted up or down compared to base (around 3.8 & 3.15). The adjustments mean that low quality milk is overpaid and high quality milk is underpaid compared to your system, so the driver is more for volume & reasonable solids than for less dilution.
If that's not clear basically if two farms had the same kg of solids, the one with more volume would be paid slightly more. Not particularly sensible given our product mix but none of the dairies want to jump first.
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- Northern Ireland
Wish they would hurry up and get on with it. We're stuck in the time warp.
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- thunder rd co.antrim
No rush here,my best quality was Oct. 3rd cut bales,autumn grass,less than .2kg/litre. No fibre really. Can you explain