Druidic Dabblings and General Twaddle !!

[V8Druid]

There is a cattle hoof-trimming company who also do concrete-grooving (to stop cows slipping over) based near us. They’ve got some work on a dairy farm in Saudi Arabia that apparently milks over 100000 cows!!!!!

may be short on coo numbers - they farm 1000 acres and have a fully automated, robotic milking parlour - mile down the road
The 'supertanker' hasn't re-appeared and was making some pretty similar sounds to when it went AWOL last week - maybe the fix wasn't 'a fix' after all still bloody stinks here though

 

[Monkeybusiness]

may be short on coo numbers - they farm 1000 acres and have a fully automated, robotic milking parlour - mile down the road
The 'supertanker' hasn't re-appeared and was making some pretty similar sounds to when it went AWOL last week - maybe the fix wasn't 'a fix' after all still bloody stinks here though

1000 cows sounds about right tbh (that’s a big dairy herd in the uk) - we have a similar setup locally and an even bigger one down the road (but they farm thousands of acres!).

 

[Lancs Lad]

1000 cows sounds about right tbh (that’s a big dairy herd in the uk) - we have a similar setup locally and an even bigger one down the road (but they farm thousands of acres!).

Only way to make it pay now
I did the maths years ago on "our" lanes farm. Couldn't get it to stack up. Without SFP etc.
Bonkers situation everyone needs milk

 

[pettsy]

Bonkers situation everyone needs milk

Until they don’t. Seen a few vids of farmers pouring it away because of no demand Buying price dropped below cost price too!

 

[sfrs4]

It's not there is no demand, yes its less than it was, it's because supermarkets will just buy the cheapest s**t they can, the British dairy industry was something to behold, and the milk was premium quality, because we had stringent rules on animal husbandry and expected milk quality, but supermarkets came along and with everything they sell, started dictating how much they were going to pay for it, and if they couldn't get it for X price they just went to the French/German W@#kers and bought their low grade full of bacteria s**t for half the price. Then the government put the final nail in the coffin when they abolished the MMB. Ask me how I know..... I should be a third gen dairy farmer, but somehow a 180acre ring fence dairy farm in prime dairy land couldn't make it pay, neither could any of the others, I could name 20 dairy farms in north Nottinghamshire that are no longer there, one of them was the largest heard in Nottinghamshire at the time, all within 10 years 1998-2008

 

[V8Druid]

can't see the Valdez seeing the day out ... there's a bearing in there somewhere making a hell of a noise .. and I'm listening to it half a mile away

 

[Lancs Lad]

can't see the Valdez seeing the day out ... there's a bearing in there somewhere making a hell of a noise .. and I'm listening to it half a mile away

You'll be complaining it smells next