Strategic Farm launch in Wiltshire

[Sandpit Farm]

AHDB strategic farm launch in Wiltshire 5th December.

Anyone going? I got my letter through last week I think... looks interesting. Would be good to meet some of you if you go.

 

[lazy farmer]

Is that the Ayr farm?

 

[Sandpit Farm]

Is that the Ayr farm?

Yes that’s right. Housed cows. Looks like they do a good job. Got to be worth a look.

I read that as ‘Ayr’ rather than All Year Round initially.

 

[lazy farmer]

Apologises for my poor English.

 

[Sandpit Farm]

Apologises for my poor English.

It’s not that. On booking they asked if it was the Scotland meeting... it threw me and you did too. I think there is one in Scotland the same week.

 

[Bipper]

Do AHDB know where Scotland is?

 

[Horn&corn]

We’re going and it’s a very good farm. Be interesting to see how the financials stack up against us that graze 8 months.

 

[Sandpit Farm]

Had a quick look on the web... this is it:
http://dairy.ahdb.org.uk/events/dec...c-dairy-farm-launch-–-wiltshire/#.W_fQNOS7LIU

And this is the Scotland one (and why I got confused)
http://dairy.ahdb.org.uk/events/dec...ng-the-high-yielding-dairy-cow’/#.W_fQr-S7LIU

 

[Horn&corn]

Anyone attend? Good of joe to bare all on the figures! Think I’d split highs and lows personally as the drop in milk might be worth it. What’s others thoughts?

 

[Sandpit Farm]

Anyone attend? Good of joe to bare all on the figures! Think I’d split highs and lows personally as the drop in milk might be worth it. What’s others thoughts?

Yeah that was interesting. But I liked the simplicity of feeding one diet and wonder if the added costs are worth it in terms of fertility and avoiding transitions between groups.

 

[Horn&corn]

One diet might be simple but I would have thought it would be 2 or 3 loads a day in the mixer as it was relatively small therefore why not have a high and low mix. Even send the lows out 6 months. Pretty high costs didn’t leave much of a margin!

 

[Beef farmer]

How deep do these events dig in to Costs?

 

[Princess Pooper]

Do AHDB know where Scotland is?

there's been dairy monitor farms in Scotland a lot longer than in England.

 

[Sandpit Farm]

How deep do these events dig in to Costs?

It’s an overview. They go through some key KPIs and explain a bit about it but apparently they will have Focus meetings on a particular area of the business.

I thought it was pretty deep, they didn’t hold anything back.