Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

i think we seem to get a serious long winter every 5 r 6 yrs but this one took the biscuit. I would hope its not the norm. we have that el nino phenomenon at the moment which has affected weather for months but I think is to ease off . fingers crossed

Was a lad found in a phone box and raised in an orphanage and he survived.

Then he murdered the priests who abused him.

*ah we've all heard the story…

From the stolen church collection box. 😂

Well things change, but land prices, and inputs are too dear, at the moment plus the labor shortage. But if work permits were relaxed and land prices went down if a lot of the older folks give in there might be a change.

To be honest I would not like to see any of my children tied to the milking parlour. A one man band is a tough way of dairy farming. So either way I don't worry about it

With all the talk of people getting out this spring there was little to no difference in the volume of land entering the market either for sale or rent from what I have heard and seen. Add to that land has not got any cheaper. I can’t see land getting any cheaper in the next few years and all the talk is that land will become available but I just don’t see it happening anyone I know of that got out this spring held onto the land and went into rearing cattle and maximizing payments.

It's been a late spring but nothing exceptional in my book. This is tough enoigcountry and we haven't had a whole bad 12 months around here in over a decade and if it straightens out soon it could be a grand year yet. In fact for the last 5 years we were blaming climate change we were so overdue a bad one based on the previous 30 years. The first half of last year filled barns with good fodder so no real grievance with 2023 here either.

It's a higher stakes game now though.

I wouldn't be bothered with the 9 months silage either, it's a big investment in infrastructure and stock There's always a load of silage or other feed to be gotten at cheaper than it costs to make it the odd time things would be running tight.

There'll be too many chiefs looking to set land and not enough Indians to lease land.

Everyone wants the easy life now.

On the dairy farmers moving in country that won't happen. This is Ireland not the US. There's no big spreads that if they were going to convert to dairy that haven't done it by now. Anyone now has no intention of milking cows and they'll stay at what they are at. No offence @Siamsa Sessions you are a fluke atm.

If you have a big spread on good land and shiny metal disease you'll continue at that. Autonomous tractors may help the labour issue.

It's only in some parts of the country some think of dairy in others theres never a thought given to it.

poor conception to 1 st serve was probably down to nutrition this time last year - weather was **** grass was **** and no sun

This year will be no different

we only serve once a day no bother

Oh and my ci is standing at 377days and we carry over loads of cows which if we didn’t would reduce that figure to 350 days and make a mockery of the spring system model as we don’t use high fertility bulls

The beef sub index is annoying me lately getting 1200-1400 euro for underfleshed cows straight out of the parlour, on -15 beef value cows

I just ignore the whole fookin thing bar health ….my carbon index is shite mantinance figure shite beef index shite ….yet I’m currently on 2.58 kgms and my calving interval is 368 days ….

Mine have been stuck too but starting to get better now. I only started calving in February. Finishing the 1st rotation today so hopefully they will push on from here. At 26 litres and protein is slowly coming up

Have milking daughters of one of the top proven sires in the world for methane efficancy, using the elevate test, of course their rubbished on carbon index here, theirs actually a internationally regconised test to individually test cows through their milk now and the icbf are still using a dodgey computer to generate their own carbon scores

With the temperature heading into summer i think it’s a bad idea having it sit there that long.