Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

I like those scraper robots

Bloody nora.... give me strength 🤦‍♂️

be the same as a parlour, just change the liners and rubber pipes. Rest of it will last years hopefully

yeah can happen alright. same with a relief milker not showing up or a part on the machine giving up. if farmers checks are done it doesnt give me much hassle touch wood. i can talk the chief thru it here over the phone. someone told me before they never went too far away incase something happened, this lad had sucklers. sure if you lived like that youd never see outside the gate.

No, keep it clean. Keep an eye on the ropes. There's a couple of calibrations to do once a week maybe. Keep cows tails clipped. Like anything if you look after it it's most of the battle.

Wise words, left my last job as I had started to care for the place like it was my own and couldn't take the place being treated like a sh1thole by everyone else.

Matt Cooper was teasing the wee john gibbons a bit the other day. What a twat he is. Talk about nonsense. He has alot of sympathy for the hard pressed tillage farmer vs the bad bad dairy farmers. Especially the dairy farmers in the South East poisoning the rivers with nitrogen... he never mentions Cork it seems. that's where the majority of the cows are and it has the cleanest rivers.…

He has has big problem with teagasc too so they must be doing some right.

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Having your own gear means you can do what you want when you want.

We have most gear needed here ourselves. One of the side headaches though is having the space to store it over the winter. If you buy new and want to keep it a long time, you can't be leaving it out in the rain all winter.

Last year or the year before there was an interview with an award winning regenerative farmer on south east radio. Don't know who were giving the awards or how they entered. The farmer explained his own situation of being a tillage farmer on 60 acres and how his uncle left him the farm. He was planting cover crops and min tilling. That qualifies you as regenerative. He explained how he was in favour of worms and beetles. He explained how he kills the beetles with the harrow and sprays. (He didn't say that bit). Then he said there's too many cows in the country and how if there was more tillage the country would be better. (These brainwashed are placed in different parts now). When asked what his day job was. He replied he worked for Herdwatch.

A kick in the hole is what some people want.

There used to be a report of the Seine river in France of when the current generation of farmers left livestock and pasture due to workload and converted to tillage and tractors and sprays. The nitrates in the waterways went up. The report was taken down most likely from Irish "environmentalists" (livestock vegan cult members). Whatever it was it's gone offline in public. The report recommended grassing the fields again and bringing back livestock. If you want to test nitrates in soil you till soil, expose it to the air, move it around and then add water and test the water. If you want to keep nitrates in soil, you don't apply tillage and you keep plant cover on soil. The whole carbon element is being neglected too. A whole book was written on the subject "Dirt to Soil". What finished the Romans has many similarities to today's farmers and fools like Gibbons mindset.

Wise words, im a qs so as you can imagine i have a lot of tough conversations regularily. only thing id say is always keep the morals.

I was just thinking during milking that no fence tech would be a great help with robots. It could make them more popular. Should be easy enough to integrate seeing as the cows already have the collars and all.

I heard that too. Condescending eejit she was. Going on about going back to plant their own vegetables. I'd be nearly hoping the other man would have invited her to come and work on a small-scale market garden operation (if any are left) for a month and be paid what the farmer is making.

Labour is a big reason why most smaller scale lads gave up. It was go big or go home. If you went big you could invest in the expensive labour saving machinery. Advocating a nonsense scenario that all farmers can go back to growing a few veg (ignoring that some might not have any suitable land for it) is about as far as you can get away from reality.

Where did you see that?

Will be looking for a few autumn calvers. Out of my price range I'd imagine! Probably fulled housed with those litres. Fr breeders will be a few them most will head north.

A bit of weight in them.

Spread them out on the slats and let the rain do the hard work of cleaning them

That's a good deal and the man was probably glad to get them out of the way too. No need for sawdust now. A very slight dusting of lime once a day I'd say.

I'd leave the rain soften the dirt but definitely wash them and disinfectant them.

I've a rock solid 20kg bag of urea lying around that cannot be broken. Is there any sense in throwing it into the dairy washings tank where the water or agitator might split it and lead to better value in the washings?

Your right in not buying worse than you have. There is an element of luck with any purchase. The 10k cows wouldn't even get off the trailer in my yard. I wouldn't be fit for them! B

You should have called for the tea