Greenfield start up dairy farm on 78.2 in 2011. Farm converted from beef. 15 year lease. Grass based system. Grow a lot of grass, eat a lot of grass per hect.
232cow unit in Bandon Co.Cork
Joined May 2013
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Hearing how we are hitting our financial targets at today's financial workshop here. Great milk price year.
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Great discussion with Deise1250 group here yesterday. Put us thinking about having formal weight targets with our contract rearer.
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Teagasc/ Carbery seminar. Lessons "grow more grass, eat more grass". Done overextend yourself. Markets- volitility & more volitility.
Using these few days of dry weather to get lime out. Giving grass no excuse not to grow 14 t/dm in 2014. Can't let the Longford lads beat us
@SwantonGraham I got pulled up by the PC brigade lately for calling them topless. I was told that was page 3 stuff. So I have gone roofless!
Hope this is up to (or should that be down to!) standard for grazing off last round while the boss is away. 3.7cm
Silage finally in, 5 kg a day 3 kg soya hulls, grass to milker still Dec. Grazing out well, .9kg solids a day. 1000kg ha on 450kg cake!
Can someone tell me why Aer Lingus and IDB have not joined up thinking to have an Irish cheese on their in flight snacks rather than Dutch
What an organisation, to produce a stadium like this, to nurture a game like this, to produce warriors like these!
Nervous before scanning! 9.6% not in calf after bare 12 weeks breeding. 6.8% of breeding heifers NIC. Not too bad and 248 girls to calve '14
Who would have thought, above target on aut grass budget, cutting paddocks to get back on target!! Growth 68 demand 48, 2.94c/ha, all grass.
Last of the second cut in, can't beat good gear! Winter feed budget sorted for a 4 month winter now.
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Rain has turned growth around from 17 two weeks ago to 54 last week. 28u N per acre still going on. 4.13 kg MS/ha off grass. 2.93cows/ha.
