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<blockquote data-quote="Cowabunga" data-source="post: 9175199" data-attributes="member: 718"><p>That is a very low stocking rate by today’s standards and an even lower output of milk per hectare. 9350litres/hc 3740 litres/acre.</p><p></p><p>That compares to my moderate output of 13500litres/hc 5500/acre plus 35 livestock units of replacements on the same allocated area plus 300 tack sheep over winter. I’m very average these days. I have to double my slurry storage plus export 900 tons of slurry to some other land or buy more land or cut down my stock and output by nearly half. None of which is either viable or something I would do at my stage in life anyway. However if I were thus inclined, and plenty of younger farmers are, by far the best strategy would be to buy more land, forget the tack sheep, ideally with slurry storage already provided. This would avoid finding third party land for exporting a million litres of slurry. I think this would be the solution for very many current fairly intensive committed dairy farmers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cowabunga, post: 9175199, member: 718"] That is a very low stocking rate by today’s standards and an even lower output of milk per hectare. 9350litres/hc 3740 litres/acre. That compares to my moderate output of 13500litres/hc 5500/acre plus 35 livestock units of replacements on the same allocated area plus 300 tack sheep over winter. I’m very average these days. I have to double my slurry storage plus export 900 tons of slurry to some other land or buy more land or cut down my stock and output by nearly half. None of which is either viable or something I would do at my stage in life anyway. However if I were thus inclined, and plenty of younger farmers are, by far the best strategy would be to buy more land, forget the tack sheep, ideally with slurry storage already provided. This would avoid finding third party land for exporting a million litres of slurry. I think this would be the solution for very many current fairly intensive committed dairy farmers. [/QUOTE]
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