Northern Ireland Milk Price Tracker

[Ballygreenan]

Back on track with milk prices, any word of how milk trader ni is going? What price are they paying? Did the whole thing get off the ground?

 

[yin ewe]

Back on track with milk prices,

Spoilsport.

Someone told me that milk trader NI never got started collecting milk, but not sure. Would have been hard for them to recruit many producers on a rising market?

 

[Back Row Man]

Dale Farm Red Tractor base price for February supplies 25.8p (25.5 + 0.3 members loyalty bonus) This is the same price as was paid for January supplies

 

[thunderballs]

Lazytballs

 

[it's not over]

Aurivo. 25p increase in Base of .5p

 

[Davy]

Getting on for over 22mm of rain in the last 24hrs here. A March turnout of any stock is looking very doubtful.

 

[it's not over]

Getting on for over 22mm of rain in the last 24hrs here. A March turnout of any stock is looking very doubtful.

On that subject how's your silage stock. I've enough for 4 weeks

 

[thewalrus]

On that subject how's your silage stock. I've enough for 4 weeks

2 months plus here.

Lot of silage in paper. bales 15/18 pounds also plenty of clamp silage

 

[Back Row Man]

On that subject how's your silage stock. I've enough for 4 weeks

You'll need it all!

 

[Wee Willy]

2 months plus here.

Lot of silage in paper. bales 15/18 pounds also plenty of clamp silage

Them bales are what some people call "Black party bags"...you don't know what you are going to get inside them.

 

[thunderballs]

Bit like a bag of revels, only 95% are coffee.

 

[The Agrarian]

Can't remember when was the last time we had cattle out in march, so no change there. Ground here is no better than it was mid Feb, slightly worse in some spots. Fair risk now of there being too much grass if it doesn't take up soon.

 

[thewalrus]

SNOW forecast for Monday night Tuesday morning then it's too clear up

 

[Aircooled]

Can't remember when was the last time we had cattle out in march, so no change there. Ground here is no better than it was mid Feb, slightly worse in some spots. Fair risk now of there being too much grass if it doesn't take up soon.

Too much grass? what do you think of this idea for grazing platform. No sheep - rest ground from start of nov. Slurry as soon as conditions allow in feb. Let cows out asap when ground warms/dries up then give them as much as they can clean up. Heifer ground and some silage ground if they need it in early april. Too wet keep then in at night. Then follow cows with a bag/acre. No sowing before cows. Stocking rate will be low so not much damage. Simple stuff I know but not many try it.

 

[thewalrus]

Let's cows out asap? Generally that's April round here!(by the time the ground will take them)

 

[Aircooled]

Let's cows out asap? Generally that's April round here!(by the time the ground will take them)

Sorry not great at explaining. Usually April here too.

 

[The Agrarian]

I take it then you can access your whole farm with milk cows? If so, you'd be thoroughly unique in my locality.

On the soils here, cows are generally the last thing we want on the land at the shoulders of the year, and during wet spells. Spread them thinly if you like, but the foot still goes in four inches and the hole still fills with water.

It's a nice idea, but there are practical reasons why its not a reliable strategy on this farm.

 

[it's not over]

Where can I get entitlements

 

[it's not over]

Where can I get entitlements

Need 16

 

[yin ewe]

Where can I get entitlements

Some advertised in the farming life I think. You leasing or buying? Is clean ground worth anything?