Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

Still out on grass....4kg of 15% nut costing 307 per tonne. Be in Monday night or Sunday. Milking 19 litres @ 3.94 pr and 4.6 bf. Fresh calved cows milking very well. . Fresh cows on more meal

Started buffering with bales today. I had good grass but I guess the power is gone out of it. Hopefully they'll come back up a bit on the milk but it is nearly November after all.

Ration prices up 40%. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

If ration does actually go up by 40% (so thats say 300e to 420), if you feed a 5.5kl cow a ton a year, that 120e in extra ration cost works out at 2c/l. Which is roughly 6% of the milk price, so your still better of. If there wasn't any other input increases I'd actually be happy with them sums lol.

Bale shear 👌

Fair waste in some of them too, I reckon a wagon with a long narrow pit would be a better job then those smelly wraps

They only sink if you bale them wet, I bought myself a tedder this year and mowed most myself (the contractor with just a conditioner mower and baled a day or so later defo doesn't cut it anymore), no pancakes this year thankfully.

got to bale them dry, did all our own this year with all the knives in the baler and grass well wilted. You would nearly eat them yourself.

Bales are a necessary evil, but I still curse em every year. Big sheargrab and the pit much better. Weather shite with the last week, they were flying up till wed on just grass and 5kg, between 1.65 and 1.7 kg solids. In again till 2moro, will finish off what I can this week by day and leave whats left to the calves, not ideal but easiest way of managing things. If nov comes dry can use batches I dry off for the odd paddock that needs cleaning but unlikely to happen. Going drying off by mid Dec this year if I can work it, have a few weeks break. Have done all bar about 8 or 9 milkings since Feb 20, milked thru last Xmas as well.

George is gone vegan. ..

https://www.doubledown.news/watch/2021/november/1/why-i-became-vegan-george-monbiot

Your getting awful bother with that tank

Had a wedding in the uk 2weekends ago, and down in Galway then thur to Sun, awful timing with the bloody weather on the farm, but between the 3 milkers I got they stepped in no problems and kept maize infront of the cows etc also. Will defo aim to keep them all on for the spring. All students so likes of 2 or 3 milkings a week each suits them fine. I certainly won't ever go back to no labour in the future ever again.

Herd reduction is happening already within nitrates with the bands and in beef with schemes fixing numbers. Tell Germany to shut the coal plants and car factories and see how they'll get. Germany which is the 6th largest producer of milk in the world, which has regions of the country that produce more than we do...

Have a look at the the largest methane emitters. Russia, china and india, Usa in fourth.

The biggest three aren't going to do anything. Fossil fuels represent a minimum of 35% of methane source but could be much more as we are most likely underestimating them by a lot.

Most likely we'll be buying russian gas and supporting methane emissions while hammering the local businesses on both fronts of directly limiting their business while also undermining them with imports.

Didn't hear any mention of nox at all. Over 200 times as bad as co2 and potentially much easier to reduce in ag without putting the same limits on production. Big business would lose out then, go figure...

well when Bill gates gives a speech at it, it just stinks to high heavens.