mixed farm
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I agree with most of this, except cut numbers back to around 80! Milking over 100 and keep all calves to stores here so as to make land purchase repayments. Would love to be debt free and milk 80 and sell calves. I'm in derogation in Ireland and I think if that's phased out it would actually be a major positive for the dairy industry. All just running to stand still.We have done much the same.
How many are you milking now?
We calved nearly 600 this year and I've already culled nearly 40 fresh cows (Inc 8 more today) to get back to 555. If TB allows I will be selling most of my IC heifers this year to cut back to 500 for next year because I've come to the conclusions there's no easy way to milk a big number of cows and there is definitely more to life than cows so I'm going to milk slightly fewer going forward.