Bossfarmer
Member
- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
are you saying that theirs enough in the dairy job to pay for the infrastructure AND extra staff AND leave a margin over and above arable cropping?I know things are different over in the UK but if i had one of your big farms instesd of my patchwork quilt spread over 3 parishes i would grass half of it down and throw up a 30 point parlour and start milking 300 + jersey crosscows on the grass system. It puts arable cropping in the halfpenny place . Mega money to be made when milk price is good. Arable farming is a disease most of us are beyond help . Modern grass based dairy farming is a highly profitable business
Many young bucks over here after taking over the farm are going out of cropping and into dairying . One of them said the are following the money and who can blame them ?? But someday the churn will flow over and then the shite will hit the fan but meanwhile .........