Milk Price III

it always lads that have never even tried some of the things you’ve mentioned there that give out about them.
as an aside Who ever said anything about letting calves die?!

For 10 years now we’ve had zero beef stock, would have had a jex herd up till 10 years ago, gone all high ebi fr now but still a big focus on bf and pr % and maintaining a light framed cow

In the last 10 years we’ve gone from strength to strength as we increased cow numbers and went contract rearing. I’m not going to list my achievements here because it’ll only be taken as a vanity post but we’re doing just fine with 90% of our income coming from milk

Don’t talk about something unless you have a clue about it

A 6 week winter is something that was talked about 20 years ago when we had lower stocking rates, quota was around and we had a more predictable weather pattern. That’s all gone now, I’ve never heard anyone talk about a 6 week winter in the last good number of years. Most ppl I know would have at least 4 months of feed in the yard, lads got caught out this year because they were feeding from mid September which was a good month earlier and then the spring was shite on top of it

our yearling hex and aax heifers sold from 850 to 1200 , bullocks 820 to 1070 , we bought freshly calved heifers 1550 to 1770 we sell approx 500kgs ms to the co-op after rearing the calves on new milk. cows get about 1 ton of low cost meal per annum, weanlings get a kg/day during the grazing season, cull cows averaged 1250 after about 6 weeks feeding , as well we sell approx 350 lambs to the factory /marts

our system is profitable for our farm , but a lot of the dairy willy waver brigade most likely laugh at us

Markets are after taking a really positive turn the last week, traders banking on a spring flush of milk are short now and realising milk supplies arent going to rebound, 43-44 cent is looking likely for the late summer/autumn…

Playing the doom and gloom card isnt going to do alot for lads confidence going forward

MY AI man has alot of customers not breeding this year. They had no successors and were on the fence for a while but last year and now this year has made up their mind.

Arrabawn base up 1 cent to 40.15 ….support payment of 3 cent remains and new sustainability payment of 0.5 cent also leaving 43.65 cent base including above ….pretty surprised but happy full support maintained but would of been happier with 2 cent to base and cut cent off support

think milk price has more to go in a positive way over next few months

https://www.farmersjournal.ie/dairy/news/dairygold-cuts-staff-working-hours-due-to-milk-supply-drop-818849

Anytime a co-op predicts a bounce back in milk supplies the reverse happens, the effects of the 220kgs for farmers in derogation by year end youd imagen will lead to autumn/winter volumes collasping with cows been culled earlier….

A 10% drop in milk supply for dairygold at year end would probably leave the co-op loss making for 2024, its squeky bum time for alot of co-op heads

I think there is an interesting proposal going around at present. Limit the amount of tax free leasing any farmer can avail of. It would dampen rental prices

How are you getting on with the milk lorry driver now