Ballygreenan
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I'm 41...........?!
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Will I text you his number or will you be able to find it yourself?
Ballygreenan
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I'll Google it!
it's not over
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Aurivo new fixed price contract 26.5p 12 months, fpc before Christmas was 27p,12 months, used both of them to light the fire,
Wishful Thinker
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What did folk make of the dale farm email in today?
Looks a good idea but I just get the feeling it will turn out like everything else and be another rod to beat us with.
Looks a good idea but I just get the feeling it will turn out like everything else and be another rod to beat us with.
Ballygreenan
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Can you enlighten any non Dale Farm folks?
Wishful Thinker
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Deal between abp and dale farm for bull calves. Use their selected aa sires on some of herd and they will pay bonus on these animals.
Ballygreenan
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Sounds like a good idea. As long as its Ai Services AA bulls!! Contact your friendly rep for excellent deals!!
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It’ll be a tie in with ABP’s blade farming scheme where the calves are contract reared and then contract finished. Probably ok for the dairy men, not good for the beef men.
Not seen the email, what will they pay for calves and at what age?
Do you have to do a % with aa?
Wishful Thinker
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It’s very vague, letter with more detail to follow in coming days.
Finish them yourself, cut out the middle men.
Ballygreenan
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OK, if you have spare accommodation. What beef sires are most folk using? Presumably almost all now using sexed dairy on a % then beef on the rest.......
it's not over
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If you're in beef use a beef bull,if you're in dairy use a dairy bull,anything else is a waste of time in my opinion, if you want the wee girls you have to take the wee boys,its as simple as that
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Current choice if I recall is three from AI services, one from genus. They have actually tested performance of these on their farms and want these sires.
At the crux of this is the matter of Holstein bull calves, and their early demise in some cases. Whether or not this scheme would work for you is one thing, but the executive and the board have obviously decided it's right for Dale Farm to be proactive in creating this opportunity, so that it's there when the big retailers inevitably ask.
At the crux of this is the matter of Holstein bull calves, and their early demise in some cases. Whether or not this scheme would work for you is one thing, but the executive and the board have obviously decided it's right for Dale Farm to be proactive in creating this opportunity, so that it's there when the big retailers inevitably ask.
Ballygreenan
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I presume they've spoken to Ai Services and Genus to secure stock of the chosen bulls......?
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I wouldn't know those details, but when a bull is done, he's done anyway, and ABP will have something else lined up.
Triple mix blue, but only on a small number of stragglers. Very little sexed used so plenty of Holstein bulls about, all kept and finished at 28/29 months. Need more housing and ground, but it is available and if we didn't keep the bullocks we'd have to keep more cows and that would be bad for all of us!!!!
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Why would you need more cows?
Turnover is vanity profit is sanity
If no bullocks extra land and housing would be available, can't give up ground in case the neighbour gets it and can't have sheds lying empty can we.