smelly milk ?

[coomoo]

I’d be flat out helping Arla not getting independent’s involved, pretty sure Yew Tree would take

 

[Christoph1945]

Celtis man,

Wow, what an education for this farm ignorant townie. Very often, when travelling home from Manchester Airport, I used to travel behind a Rigby's milk tanker and often wondered about the contents that had been collected from North Western farms.

May I ask how many gallons were rejected and at what cost to you the farmer? Oh, and what happens to the milk once rejected?

 

[Sid]

I know last year, OMSCo was having problems with silage taint, (and on milk ending up in Travarrian too) and they reckoned dry bales could be just as bad. one recommendation was to open bales several hours before using.


Mind you when grazing brassicas I've had a hell of a smell of the milk before, but it was more like cabbage than anything else

Never had an issue with taint in 60 years of milk production in our family.
Have fed kale, turnips, flatpols, mangels etc along with bales of silage.
Feeding brassiacs too close to milking or too high a percentage in diet can cause issues.
Wet mushy not wilted silage has been the issue locally.

 

[celtis man]

Celtis man,

Wow, what an education for this farm ignorant townie. Very often, when travelling home from Manchester Airport, I used to travel behind a Rigby's milk tanker and often wondered about the contents that had been collected from North Western farms.

May I ask how many gallons were rejected and at what cost to you the farmer? Oh, and what happens to the milk once rejected?

its all done in litres now and

Never had an issue with taint in 60 years of milk production in our family.
Have fed kale, turnips, flatpols, mangels etc along with bales of silage.
Feeding brassiacs too close to milking or too high a percentage in diet can cause issues.
Wet mushy not wilted silage has been the issue locally.

I have never had a taint issue like this before and always used kale or fodder beet as a feed for milking cows during the winter .
we had 1715 litres on that load not sure of the cost yet , I have been told by the rep that there are not financial cost to pay but who knows .

 

[Courier]

no its someone in the lad at Trevarion Dairy that's finding fault ,and now they have complained to head office about it . I am keeping them in for now to see if we can improve it

Maybe the person with the "nose" is coming down with covid and that is affecting their olfactory senses.

Having said that restricting to one feed per day of a brassica is probably a good idea....

 

[Christoph1945]

its all done in litres now and

I have never had a taint issue like this before and always used kale or fodder beet as a feed for milking cows during the winter .
we had 1715 litres on that load not sure of the cost yet , I have been told by the rep that there are not financial cost to pay but who knows .

Oops, silly 'old' me; I still don't automatically think in metric values! I also hadn't thought of the possibility of you being slapped with a charge for having the milk rejected and was thinking more of the loss of profit for your self as a dairy farmer.

(PROFIT? Ok, I know that you farmers are being screwed by the supermarkets and dairies, to drive down product prices and keep the share holders happy.

I once worked for a company that produced fine oils for use in perfumes and aromatics; which included both natural and synthetic materials. Sometimes weeks, if not months, of work hung upon a yay, or a nay, from the man with the 'nose'. Most of us, on the factory floor. developed heightened olfactory senses but none were as keen as the final aroma test man.

I sincerely hope that you get it all sorted PDQ but still can't help wondering what happens to all that milk. Of course, it's not just the milk is it? It's all the blood sweat and tears that have gone into producing it 'and' trying to get a decent price for it!

All the best to you and your family at this very testing of times.

Chris

 

[betweenthelines]

We used to feed turnips/kale in the yard straight before afternoon milking. Never had a rejection.

 

[celtis man]

We used to feed turnips/kale in the yard straight before afternoon milking. Never had a rejection.

we think it could be caused by redshank in silage or another weed , its a long story with a moral of spray your weeds in your reseeds

 

[Beef farmer]

we think it could be caused by redshank in silage or another weed , its a long story with a moral of spray your weeds in your reseeds

Interesting. Hope these herbal leys don't result in lots of smelly milk

 

[celtis man]

Interesting. Hope these herbal leys don't result in lots of smelly milk

could be a usp