Milk Price III

The Dairygold Board has agreed a Weather / Fodder Relief payment of 2.0cpl incl. VAT for March milk and kept March Quoted Milk Price at 40.0cpl.

Plus the March Early Calving Bonus of 1.0cpl excl VAT

Great stuff yet again I'm delighted for you ( was genuinely the first post and am now too theres enough people who ddislike us as a group). We got very little sun an a nice drop of rain here today . Cows a week out grazing 4 hours max a day can't travel 2/3 of my ground with fertiliser. I'm not too bad I've feeding and bedding and sheds and above all a bit of help .who I would have been really lost without this year. As long as we are healthy we will be OK 👍. are you out full-time yourself now or how are ye fixed

https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2024-01/eu-raw-milk-prices_en.pdf

we seem to be 2c off the average price paid to an eu supplier for march….if you take off "weather support" which eu coops didn't pay its as much as 5c…..are our coops really selling 10% cheaper than the eu competition??

Had a American cousins home lately and they joked I must be a millionaire at the price of kerry gold butter in America. I wish. We are the last to be paid.

The good news

Drinagh: The milk price for the month of March has increased by 0.5 cent per litre to 41.25 CPL including SCC bonus & VAT. A weather milk price support payment of 5.0 CPL plus VAT is also paid on all March milk.

And a 15 euro/ton rebate on feed runs up to April

Fair play to the management and board of drinagh.

Bad news. My electricity bill came this morning 1100 euro. Ff,fg government hates small business

iI think alot of inefficiency in coops atm. every coop board should be driving management to cut costs and sacred cows given reduction in milk processed yr on yr. dg board is just not interested in the hard grind or doing something to put money in farmers pockets. hiding Inefficient practices behind assembly costs of 9.1 cent per litre which is an increase of 50 percent in a few yrs. if about of milk processed falls then costs need to be cut as well. I think our management has become lethargic also. probably needs new blood now just like board

i think rearing your black calves to yr old and getting 900 to 1000 plus is also a good system rather than overloading milking platform as they call it now and zero grazing grass into them.

This system was always the most profitable until teagasc and the ifj told all the farmers that they should stop doing this and instead breed jex cows let the calves die get next to nothing for cull cows get a pat in the back for getting a high.price per litre but the cows produce low number of litres and put all your eggs in 1 basket and be totally reliant on approx 6 milk cheques and your winter will only be a few weeks long now hopefully some lads will see the light and ignore the so called advisors that are drawing big fat salaries get rid of all jex cows and buy in British fr cows and have proper yearlings to sell

I would say it does beat 42 or very close to it.especially as some will go earlier than March. I sold in January Feb. outside blocks make it attractive. might be different if all land in one block.