Northern Ireland Milk Price Tracker

[it's not over]

It's only with hindsight you know what the Egyptian plagues were.

Think there might have been ten.

I stand corrected but you get my drift

 

[The Agrarian]

I do indeed

 

[yin ewe]

A grammar school education must be a wonderful thing.

Zs was too busy cleaning out the group in the byre to go to school.

 

[The Agrarian]

So folks. Looks like tomorrow will break nineteen successive days of rain. Yes, nineteen. Things would need to recover soon or the season's over. Grazing is looking very tired here.

 

[Milkcow365]

So folks. Looks like tomorrow will break nineteen successive days of rain. Yes, nineteen. Things would need to recover soon or the season's over. Grazing is looking very tired here.

To be good for me tomorrow going by forecast ? You must get more rain than here

 

[Aircooled]

Met gives it dry for a week. BBC not worth looking at.

 

[yin ewe]

To be good for me tomorrow going by forecast ? You must get more rain than here

We get more rain than everywhere.

 

[The Agrarian]

To be good for me tomorrow going by forecast ? You must get more rain than here

Rain every 24 hour period, reset at midnight. Not necessarily much on some days, but those days demonstrate that humidity is high, so even if it's not raining much, it's not drying either. Just shy of 100mm for the month so far, 101 for July, 112 for June. Pretty wet for summer if you ask me.

 

[Davy]

Got fed up moving dry cows about and seeing them push good grass into the dirt and stuck them in the shed. They shouldn't go ankle deep in there. Won't be calving many outside this year the way its looking.

 

[The Agrarian]

Checked a batch of far away calves on Tuesday. They were grand for grass. Missed them yesterday and I'm just back from moving them. Cripes its not pretty.

 

[Milkcow365]

Rain every 24 hour period, reset at midnight. Not necessarily much on some days, but those days demonstrate that humidity is high, so even if it's not raining much, it's not drying either. Just shy of 100mm for the month so far, 101 for July, 112 for June. Pretty wet for summer if you ask me.

Think il be cutting tomorrow lift Sunday going by forecast

 

[Cowcorn]

So folks. Looks like tomorrow will break nineteen successive days of rain. Yes, nineteen. Things would need to recover soon or the season's over. Grazing is looking very tired here.

August, MUCK , MAGGOTS , and MASTITIS !!! Cows are in tonight and will be night grazing is over i think for this year .

 

[it's not over]

Sean Coyle has been gassed, who will I listen to going to market or wd meats

 

[Wee Willy]

August, MUCK , MAGGOTS , and MASTITIS !!! Cows are in tonight and will be night grazing is over i think for this year .

FFS. You’re really spoiling the Southern fantasy for me.

 

[Cowcorn]

FFS. You’re really spoiling the Southern fantasy for me.

Sorry Willy our heavy ground does get mucky fast but the biggest issue is mastitis which seems to flare up during wet weather .
Very heavily stocked on the paddocks and would be housing at night anyway from Sept . Zerograzer will bring the grass from outside blocks for night feeding
With better weather forecast i will be busy combining so milking times could vary on the late side so easier to let them into the shed . No complaints from them so far and the were lovely and clean with lime not mud on the udders .
Whatever works flexibllity is the thing not to get to stuck one way or another .
A really wet month no matter how dry your land is will puncture any fanasty as well as collapse the milk tank . Keep the faith.

 

[mixed farm]

I've ground ploughed for reseeding, it's mostly dry enough but is sticky in parts. Should I just till it and get it as good as I can or wait, possibly until next march or April?

 

[The Agrarian]

Bottom line. Will it stick to the roller?

 

[mixed farm]

Bottom line. Will it stick to the roller?

I don't think so.

 

[The Agrarian]

It'll be an unholy mess by April.

Is winter crop an option?

 

[Cowmangav]

120 mm for August so far here , and July was 119 mm ( Sinclairston ) , but 6 miles away Stair got 143 mm ( 350 ft lower down but thundery flood ) in July.