Archive Article: 1997/08/19

19 August 1997

Conference pointers

&#8226 Be profit orientated, not production orientated – yield a cow cannot dominate your thinking.

&#8226 Farmer with lowest cost of production and investment per unit of output is the one who will be in business 20 years hence.

&#8226 Limit to getting high production off grass is not the cow or the land, it is the farm management and quality of grass.

&#8226 Two great myths in British dairying are that autumn grass is worth nothing and that increasing milk production will spread fixed costs. As litres grow, fixed costs also grow.

&#8226 Role of farmer discussion groups is vital to share and learn from the ideas and experiences of like minded farmers.

&#8226 No place for sheep in winter on well run dairy farm.

&#8226 Block rather than strip grazing increases grass production by 27%