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MILKING PARLOUR or ROBOT?? TAKING OVER THE FARM AT 18 AND WHAT I HAVE LEARNED?
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- Опубликовано: 14 авг 2024
- In todays video we have a look around my milking set up, I explain in the video why I chose to install a milking parlour over robots! Also I talk about taking over the farm at 18 and the challenges and lessons I learned from it!
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Fair play to you keep up the good work
Great video 👍
Great video, can you do a full farm tour video please
Planning on something like that in the next few weeks 👍🏻👍🏻
I am impressed with your attitude and drive, I agree with almost everything that you said, I started young too again due to circumstances but I am probably older than your father now. I agree about robots, we also spent a lot of time looking seriously at them as an option but decided to go with a new 16 unit instead basically for the exact same reasons as you ( cost, flexibility and just having the job done and over with twice a day) . I know nothing about poultry but I do agree that it’s important to not have all your eggs ( pun intended) in the one basket. Over a lifetime of farming I have made many mistakes and have plenty of regrets but I have never regretted buying any of the land that I have bought, if you get an opportunity to buy land take it would be my advice to any young farmer out there because if you own land you will get twice as much production out of it than any rented ground and I have rented and still do a lot of land.
I agree 100% your own land will always be more productive than rented land ( you are better looking at it than looking for it ) I think there is a place for both systems eg if you have business outside of farming maybe a robot is a better way to go because of the flexibility but I am convinced that if your home full time milking parlour is the best way to go!
Diversifying into hens is the best investment I have made to date, completely changed my business, has took out alot of risk out of investing for continued growth
Very good setup and layout. Big commitment and investment but well worth it especially the land purchase. Did you price other brands of parlours and if so, was there much difference?
Thank you 👍🏻 yeah we priced deleval aswell they were slightly more expensive but a very good parlour aswell I thought Dairymaster was a better fit for me.
Great video
Who do u supply your milk to
We supply our milk to dale farm 🥛
I put in a robot last year after thirty years milking in a parlour and I couldn’t recommend it highly enough milking in a parlour fourteen times a week is pure hardship and misery especially if the weather is bad like at the moment ya have no live at all milking in a parlour
Tell me this, what brand of robot, purchase price, electric cost for the year, maintenance cost for the year and other costs that robot has? I have asked a number of robot men and none of them can tell me so hopefully you are the first.
Let’s just say if ya gave me a million euro or pound I wouldn’t go back some thinks are more important than money life is too short to spend it down in a pit under cows when you don’t have to.i have a de Laval robot and getting the second put in in January first one costs 150 thousand second one cost 100 thousand they run off solar panels on the shed and service kit package is 5 thousand a year which is similar to the cost of a 20 unit parlour there’s nothing to hide it’s all good mate I can tell by your message your stressed out milking in a parlour and you have my sincere sympathy as I done it for thirty years especially in this weather
@@eamonnoneill1340 Not stressed at all. We need 4 robots and I can never get the figures to compare. We have a 20pt and it’s a lot less than £5k a year in maintenance. Only figure I got was from a man with 2 Lely’s and his electric bill was £11k a quarter and that was from his wife. Biggest issue with robots I have is the changing every 10yrs at most with some changing after 6yrs.
The big think i took from that message is WE which means you must have more that just yourself working on the farm but if you were on your own doing everything you wouldn’t be long about getting robots then it’s all just about labour and labour cost at least a robot is reliable as in will work seven days a week 24 hours a day were as people don’t want to work seven days a week anymore so then your fucked when they want a day off every week
@@mikeysky8917good straight questions there. I've a 24 unit parlour in 10 years and I'd say including liners every year and a service every few years it hasn't cost much more than 5k in total. The service charge for robots I've been reliably told also goes up as the robot ages. Hard to get straight answers alright. Yes probably a better way of life but a big cost is there that doesn't get told.
Go robots if you get them right the quality of life is second to none
They are definitely going to be the future 👍🏻