Northern Ireland Milk Price Tracker
- Thread starter it's not over
- Start date
- Location
- Ballyclare Northern Ireland
Botulism risk in poultry manure has nothing to do with the type of poultry / sytem. It has everything to do with how the unit is run.
- Location
- Mid Ulster
I could be wrong, but I think the dung itself isn't a risk from any type of poultry, it's the remains of any dead birds that causes botulism.
Sorry should have read on, you already knew that.
Sorry should have read on, you already knew that.
Back Row Man
Member
- Location
- Co Antrim
Dale Farm's latest fixed price scheme, 28p April to September, 30p October to March. Contracts start Ist January 2022 for 3 years
There's too much uncertainty in the market at the moment to tie yourself up in a fixed milk contract. With meal and fertilizer going the way they are don't think the price they are offering is enough
boumaticboy
Member
Agreed. 30 for 12 mths then maybe. By the time you take off winter and loyalty bonus 28 point something depending on how much you put out during winter bonus
Ballygreenan
Member
- Location
- Tyrone NI
So now I need to lock the Ai van in a secure garage with a guard dog and CCTV cameras everywhere?!
Liquid Nitrogen is fairly volatile, you'd have quare craic trying to fill a sprayer and the wee nozzles definitely won't like it!
Ballygreenan
Member
- Location
- Tyrone NI
You can be sure that if 30ppl is on the table their opinion is that general trends will be higher than that. Can anyone show me an historic fixed milk price scheme where the processor lost more money than the primary producer.........?
Whitewalker
Member
Ah but it’s not about the milk price , it’s about having certainly about knowing what your being paid so you can budget and show your bank accurate cash flow predictions.
I recall a dale farm speaker saying that at a meeting.
it's not over
Member
- Location
- thunder rd co.antrim
Aurivo had a 29p scheme ,29 months,certainly came out on top,I mean I lost less money than I would have
Vet played an Indian trick on me, the bastxxd changed my test to the 6 dec, I never thought till yesterday that its reading the 9th,the day of the dairy fair,
Change it to whatever day suits you. If they don't want to do it plenty of other practices would like your big test. Testing is where the money is.
Same day here but not changing again, was due beginning of October but didn't want to gather everything up so close to housing. Booked for 1st week in November but had to cancel as the hens were going in.
Can't even send anything to the meat plant now, so couldn't afford to buy stuff from the shiny shoe brigade anyway.
O aye and the auld boy announced yesterday that he's going to it with some rural development group for retired farmers, minibus to the door, entry paid and Christmas Dinner paid for on the way home.
Can't be too grumpy hopefully I'll be able to do what I want when I'm his age.
Can't be too grumpy hopefully I'll be able to do what I want when I'm his age.
3rdgenerationdairyman
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Wee unfortunately always seem to put in a couple or 3 houses of birds the same day were testing generally always a row over somthing that week 2 lol
- Location
- Beragh, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Any one any experience with the "Dairy Geyser" water heater?
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
Wishful Thinker
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- Location
- Northern Ireland
What would be considered a slow milker? Bought a heifer wasn’t announced as slow but is taking 12/13mins to milk with a 0.5-0.8kg/min flow rate(delaval). My average is 1.5kg/min.
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Shes slow
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Our average on robots is 2.8kg/min which isn't especially fast, we have a fleckvieh cow doing 55l a day with a m/speed of .7 so she's in the robots an hour a day. She could be replaced by 4 animals giving 200l a day and no extra time