Ah now Mucky, your bordering on being paranoid, no one is forcing anyone to buy dairy calves .
Surely anyone buying any type of stock can do their own sums.
Ah now Mucky, your bordering on being paranoid, no one is forcing anyone to buy dairy calves .
Surely anyone buying any type of stock can do their own sums.
In the booklet, it goes through the 14 teagasc green acre farms for 2018. Average Net Margin on the 14 of them was -€38 per per hectare with an average farm size of 53 hectares.
So one with the other, the average on farm losses was just over €2k. Highest loss was €1500 per hectare and the most profitable farm made €421 per hectare.
So instead of being called "sustainable grass based production", this project should be called the "unsustainable model" and the current slogan of "advancing knowledge for an evolving industry" should really be simplified to "what not to do"
For example, slurry is only worth a euro more when applied with a trailing shoe, why are we investing so much money in gear then!!
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From our own minimal experience, the low emission spreading has great benefits for how we farm.
First of all, I definitely think that we get better grass growth from it - but we don't have it long enough to put a value on it.
Secondly, for farmers like us, that graze rotationally, and 99% of the dairy farmers in the country, who do the same, band spreading keeps paddocks in rotation. If you spread with a splash plate, it's 6 weeks before you let cattle back on it and then, they will only half eat it and you will be left with a dirty sole. A lot of farmers end up trying to get a lot of their slurry onto ground before cattle get out, or after cattle go into the so they don't lose valuable ground for long periods of time. Band spread it and you never have to take the paddock out of the rotation.. Cattle will go back and graze between the lines a week or 10 days after you spread it. We are finding now that putting on slurry little and often as cattle graze paddocks is far better than trying to get it all out heavy in 1 go. The saving in fertilizer really adds up. Worm activity is also preserved by band spreading.
backing up cattle already :sneaky:, sideways at best or backwards seems to be the talk.
told today that they are saying they are booked out for 2 weeks :rolleyes2:, i will see how booked out my local boyos are when i have a load go elsewhere next week. they are going gun ho for cattle in the marts, easy see what they are up tooThat's a far cry from the pent up demand for finished or near finished cattle in the mart especially cows.
yip, pulled towards the end of last weekCows prices seem to be back was hoping to get €3.20 flat but we will see on monday
Would you not sell through the ring so?told today that they are saying they are booked out for 2 weeks :rolleyes2:, i will see how booked out my local boyos are when i have a load go elsewhere next week. they are going gun ho for cattle in the marts, easy see what they are up too
Would you not sell through the ring so?
i cant as locked with TB and stupid feedlot statusWould you not sell through the ring so?
Just their way of getting some of the €100 million..Ozzy had his finger on the pulse....
https://www.independent.ie/business...factories-turn-screw-on-farmers-38153284.html
unfortunately, are many factories claiming to be full for next week.Ozzy had his finger on the pulse....
https://www.independent.ie/business...factories-turn-screw-on-farmers-38153284.html
They all have the same story around here,.plenty of cattle.unfortunately, are many factories claiming to be full for next week.
In the booklet, it goes through the 14 teagasc green acre farms for 2018. Average Net Margin on the 14 of them was -€38 per per hectare with an average farm size of 53 hectares.
So one with the other, the average on farm losses was just over €2k. Highest loss was €1500 per hectare and the most profitable farm made €421 per hectare.
So instead of being called "sustainable grass based production", this project should be called the "unsustainable model" and the current slogan of "advancing knowledge for an evolving industry" should really be simplified to "what not to do"
I've the read the booklet today and a lot of it had me :scratchhead::scratchhead:
For example, slurry is only worth a euro more when applied with a trailing shoe, why are we investing so much money in gear then!!
All the costs mention fertilizer but it's all based on CAN and urea, no mention of P's and K's.
The carcass weights, are they buying the buttiest animals possible to get such low weights. Even the better quality calves are only killed at 330kgs which to me sounds quite light.
I was also very surprised to see horns have four times the weight of docility in the new beef index.
Can't see there being any move on prices. I was trying to get a few booked in for slaughter this week. I have spoken to the 2 closest factories this morning. The soonest I can get them in is a week from friday.