Rosy Lane Dairy

[Beef farmer]

AHDB have been on for a few weeks doing meetings with RLD, has anyone been?

They have an article in the farmers weekly this week, and reading the farm facts i wonder what pearls of wisdom they have been here sharing?

1075 cows 950 cows in milk.
20 full time staff plus 4 partners.
720 ha of maize and alfalfa
7 services to conception
1.1ppl vet cost. Was 3.2!!!

Wow.

That said, they sell 13757l per cow at 4 and 3.9..

49% milk from forage.

Cant see what theynare doing is so special, so can someone put me straight please.

 

[Will Blackburn]

Whilst UK dairy people are “learning” from these folks the rest of us will do well.

 

[Hotspur]

Breeding for health and fertility for 12 years plus by using genomics combined with a excellent setup and top staff.

 

[More to life]

AHDB have been on for a few weeks doing meetings with RLD, has anyone been?

They have an article in the farmers weekly this week, and reading the farm facts i wonder what pearls of wisdom they have been here sharing?

1075 cows 950 cows in milk.
20 full time staff plus 4 partners.
720 ha of maize and alfalfa
7 services to conception
1.1ppl vet cost. Was 3.2!!!

Wow.

That said, they sell 13757l per cow at 4 and 3.9..

49% milk from forage.

Cant see what theynare doing is so special, so can someone put me straight please.

You would think the 7 services is a miss print

 

[Hotspur]

1.7

 

[Beef farmer]

Bredding for fertility for 12 years and still at 7 services.

 

[Hotspur]

Average lactations per cow is 4.5 I think

 

[More to life]

Bredding for fertility for 12 years and still at 7 services.

It’s not shabby started with 50 cows, your not impressed because you know someone doing better.

 

[Beef farmer]

It’s not shabby started with 50 cows, your not impressed because you know someone doing better.

Wow, jim started with non.
I cant understand the need to fly them over for what looks like just a well run operation. But nothing to write home about, thats why i was wondering if ive missed somthing

 

[pappuller]

Wow, jim started with non.
I cant understand the need to fly them over for what looks like just a well run operation. But nothing to write home about, thats why i was wondering if ive missed somthing

Mom and pop all paid for holiday to lil old England maybe ?

 

[Will Blackburn]

Breeding for health and fertility for 12 years plus by using genomics combined with a excellent setup and top staff.

They have 1 salary to pay per 45 cows!

 

[Hotspur]

Wow, jim started with non.
I cant understand the need to fly them over for what looks like just a well run operation. But nothing to write home about, thats why i was wondering if ive missed somthing

What would you like to see that would make their operation more impressive to you?

 

[pappuller]

Wow, jim started with non.
I cant understand the need to fly them over for what looks like just a well run operation. But nothing to write home about, thats why i was wondering if ive missed somthing

Mind 5 years ago you didn't have any of your own milking coos and now I believe you have around 600 ? Maybe you should be put forward for an exchange visit to the US ? The footwear would fit right in [emoji6]

 

[Hotspur]

They have 1 salary to pay per 45 cows!

They must be making a bit of profit as Calf rearer was on 45k salary

 

[Beef farmer]

What would you like to see that would make their operation more impressive to you?

There are farmers in the uk producing 2m liters with just ocasional milking relief, so in answer to your question, if they had 7 staff member inc 4 partners then yeah it would be intresting. If the services to conception is a mis print then that is unfortunate in thier behalf.

170k vet bill seems pretty poor. Or is that normal spend on this yield?

Growing maize and alfalfa, are they irrigated? Because its a big patch of land for 1k cows.

 

[Beef farmer]

They must be making a bit of profit as Calf rearer was on 45k salary

£45 or $45?

 

[Hotspur]

There are farmers in the uk producing 2m liters with just ocasional milking relief, so in answer to your question, if they had 7 staff member inc 4 partners then yeah it would be intresting. If the services to conception is a mis print then that is unfortunate in thier behalf.

170k vet bill seems pretty poor. Or is that normal spend on this yield?

They need the staff numbers as only have a 24/24 parlour which runs pretty much all day, also have a contracting business which takes 4 staff I think.

Vet spend must be low because they don't use them, only buy vaccines and Vet sorts SOPs

 

[Hotspur]

£45 or $45?

I think it was $55k

 

[Headless chicken]

I had a chat with an incredibly interesting American chap about a year ago. He was set to build his 4th dairy having started from nothing and moved all over the country when the building firm collapsed with his money in it. He back a rep for something called diamond V which was feed Addative I think.

Anyway the interesting things he said were:

A heifers performance in her first year directly limits her second year I think it was that on average she wouldn’t increase by more than 7l on her first lactation peak.

But the number one highest thing on his list was attention to detail. Get the small things right and the rest follows

 

[Hotspur]

A heifers performance in her first year directly limits her second year I think it was that on average she wouldn’t increase by more than 7l on her first lactation peak.

Rosey Lane put up their yields per lactation and the 3/4 calvers were a fair bit higher than the heifers, they were the cows making the money. Their aim over the next couple of years was a 15% cull rate so they didn't have big heifer rearing costs and the cows lived longer to produce big lifetime yields.