Northern Ireland Milk Price Tracker

[The Agrarian]

It doesnt need to cut 50%. If milk was cut by 5% in europe alone it would be at least 10p a litre more

So you raise global milk price by a hypothetical ten p. What then happens to production in the rest of the world? It grows to fill the 5% European void, and when it's filled, price comes back down again. Who were the winners? You've just given away market share to ex-EU producers

 

[3rdgenerationdairyman]

Lambs to the slaughter comes to mind for anyone thinking less work and more money lol.

 

[3rdgenerationdairyman]

Also you would just had to have been involved into rhi scheme to see what the people in stormont work. They don't give a dam who votes for them or what they have promised you or they dont care you have 1 or 500 cows they just want to collect the salary

 

[Mouser]

I sowed CAN middle of March, was for mowing last week with the two good days we had here but got grass tested and it still had too much nitrogen in it. Would Urea prevent that?

How much did you sow?

 

[Stuart1]

How much did you sow?

Two & a half bags. It was borderline too much nitrogen left but I didn’t think I’d get the wilt quick enough so never mowed.

 

[surprisefarmer]

I put 1 1/2 bags of CAN on 2nd March and the same again on Good Friday. Tested grass last Thursday when it was still reasonably wet and the Nitrogen had gone.

 

[Wee Willy]

Has anybody bought grass seed lately? A man told me today he paid £74/acre. The last i bought ,September '19, a mix of Abers from Germinal was £48/acre.

 

[it's not over]

Coburns seed was £60/acre

 

[3rdgenerationdairyman]

Last I bought August sep last year was 49 a bag for barenbrug and in 19 was buying dlf for 35 bought 50 bags tho

 

[3rdgenerationdairyman]

And they all seemed to establish poor keys have grass in the ground 20 25 years so I'm told would out yeild it no problem and a far denser sward !

 

[Davy]

Has anyone any good news regarding the weather?

 

[Wee Willy]

It's sunny and warm in tropical Mid Ulster.

 

[Aircooled]

Ground conditions good. Soil temperatures low which gives longer harvest window until the weather settles. No topping required.

 

[Wee Willy]

According to the Ardboe fishermen,on the day of the spring equinox the wind was in the north so cold weather will last for 90 days. Last year it was unusual hot on spring equinox and it stayed hot and dry into June.
Sorry

 

[Conrod96]

200 acre cut yesterday lunch time and lifted after 6 last night, run thru twice with the Tedder and all in before 2am.
No juice running out of it yet I imagine some will come but very happy to have 2/3 of it in now

 

[surprisefarmer]

How did the ground hold up?

I have 130 acres to do, but thinking of bailing 50 acres of it now to at least get some quality captured, some of my lesser fields would look sore trying to carry a trailer at the minute.

 

[The Agrarian]

Heavier ground is without doubt tender.

 

[Conrod96]

Had no trouble with ground conditions but think we’ve missed lot of that most heavy rain recently

 

[Davy]

We've caught a lot of rain this week and dry grazing land is showing it

 

[Conrod96]

We've caught a lot of rain this week and dry grazing land is showing it

We’ve been lucky enough then this week by the sounds of things slaps still hard and dusty in places where the cows going in and out