With the sun shining, milking cows are out grazing day and night. Over last weekend, they were held in off-grass due to the wet weather and milked off the topless cubicles with meal and silage. Today there are 230 cows calved, 60% of total due, so, effectively, this is the result for the first three weeks of breeding. In total, there are 368 due to calve.
Up to 21 February there were 26,973 litres collected. Remember, the first milk collection was 600 litres on 4 February and the last collection was about 5,500 litres on 21 February (yesterday). Last year there was close on 50,000 litres supplied in February and it looks like it will probably be close to that figure again this year.
The last test results were 5.25% fat and 3.74% protein (19 Feb). Protein has come down since the start of February from 4.26% to 3.74%. The more grass that can be consumed, the better for this figure. Establishing milk yield per cow at this time of the year is difficult given fresh calvers entering every day, milk to calves etc. Lactose was 4.88% with somatic cell count (SCC) 208,000 cells/ml.
There was no milk sold in December so the only money received in the January statement was a cheque for €1,991 as a ‘seasonality’ bonus payment. The Glanbia seasonality scheme applies to the calendar year and is available to suppliers where June supply is less than 15.5% and February and November supply are greater than 3%. In 2017, Greenfield had 3.1% for February, 15% for June and 4.5% for November.
Urea is due to be spread again this week at 31 units per acre.
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Calving steps up a gear on Greenfield Kilkenny
With the sun shining, milking cows are out grazing day and night. Over last weekend, they were held in off-grass due to the wet weather and milked off the topless cubicles with meal and silage. Today there are 230 cows calved, 60% of total due, so, effectively, this is the result for the first three weeks of breeding. In total, there are 368 due to calve.
Up to 21 February there were 26,973 litres collected. Remember, the first milk collection was 600 litres on 4 February and the last collection was about 5,500 litres on 21 February (yesterday). Last year there was close on 50,000 litres supplied in February and it looks like it will probably be close to that figure again this year.
The last test results were 5.25% fat and 3.74% protein (19 Feb). Protein has come down since the start of February from 4.26% to 3.74%. The more grass that can be consumed, the better for this figure. Establishing milk yield per cow at this time of the year is difficult given fresh calvers entering every day, milk to calves etc. Lactose was 4.88% with somatic cell count (SCC) 208,000 cells/ml.
There was no milk sold in December so the only money received in the January statement was a cheque for €1,991 as a ‘seasonality’ bonus payment. The Glanbia seasonality scheme applies to the calendar year and is available to suppliers where June supply is less than 15.5% and February and November supply are greater than 3%. In 2017, Greenfield had 3.1% for February, 15% for June and 4.5% for November.
Urea is due to be spread again this week at 31 units per acre.
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Calving steps up a gear on Greenfield Kilkenny
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