ollie989898
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I believe this may have been discussed before by the multitude of crops for a relatively small herd is gonna be a perennial pain in the chuff. You will be in a tractor virtually all year round with grass, reseed, kale, cereals for wholecrop, maize and also beet is being discussed? This is gonna be quite a pick and mix of stuff and all small acreages too. Your contractor is gonna be keen to come to you spraying virtually several times per month for your cereals, maize and 3 acres of beet? He must be in love with you or something.
There will be members on this forum with high yielding cows who grow none of it besides the grass. Keep your life simple and look at margin per litre as well as margin per cow. With the proposed system and trying to do even any of it yourself you are gonna be hopping on and off a tractor month after month and tractors are not a source of income to most of the dairy farmers I know, they are an expense. If you really and truthfully like tractors there is no shame in that but do you really need to keep cows for that?
There will be members on this forum with high yielding cows who grow none of it besides the grass. Keep your life simple and look at margin per litre as well as margin per cow. With the proposed system and trying to do even any of it yourself you are gonna be hopping on and off a tractor month after month and tractors are not a source of income to most of the dairy farmers I know, they are an expense. If you really and truthfully like tractors there is no shame in that but do you really need to keep cows for that?