Thats Asda milk price
07 June 2006, 11:14 PM
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One for the dairy farmers.....
How come the yield per cow has gone up twofold in 60 years? In the 1940's, cows were producing an average of 3,000 litres of milk per cow per year. By 1983/84, average milk yields had increased to 4,940 litres, and by 1995, over 6,300 litres per cow per year were being achieved. That's 40 pints of milk per cow per day FFS!
A cow's milk production is caused by the birth of her calf. To maximise production, the modern dairy cow is made pregnant again whilst lactating. She will bear a calf each year until worn out and sent for slaughter. Most dairy cows are inseminated artificially. She will have her first calf when 2 years old. She will continue to be milked for 10 months - but will be made pregnant again in the third month. Only during the final few weeks of this pregnancy will she be dried out and her overworked udder given a rest. The amount of milk produced by the cow in peak lactation is more than 10 times the amount that the calf would naturally drink.
Then there's the culling of the male calves born....cannot be used for veal no more, and obviously useless for milk, so are culled at days old.....shot, etc. Nice.
Nae the most clean farming practices around.
How come the yield per cow has gone up twofold in 60 years? In the 1940's, cows were producing an average of 3,000 litres of milk per cow per year. By 1983/84, average milk yields had increased to 4,940 litres, and by 1995, over 6,300 litres per cow per year were being achieved. That's 40 pints of milk per cow per day FFS!
A cow's milk production is caused by the birth of her calf. To maximise production, the modern dairy cow is made pregnant again whilst lactating. She will bear a calf each year until worn out and sent for slaughter. Most dairy cows are inseminated artificially. She will have her first calf when 2 years old. She will continue to be milked for 10 months - but will be made pregnant again in the third month. Only during the final few weeks of this pregnancy will she be dried out and her overworked udder given a rest. The amount of milk produced by the cow in peak lactation is more than 10 times the amount that the calf would naturally drink.
Then there's the culling of the male calves born....cannot be used for veal no more, and obviously useless for milk, so are culled at days old.....shot, etc. Nice.
Nae the most clean farming practices around.
08 June 2006, 06:54 AM
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Originally Posted by imlach
One for the dairy farmers.....
How come the yield per cow has gone up twofold in 60 years? In the 1940's, cows were producing an average of 3,000 litres of milk per cow per year. By 1983/84, average milk yields had increased to 4,940 litres, and by 1995, over 6,300 litres per cow per year were being achieved. That's 40 pints of milk per cow per day FFS!
A cow's milk production is caused by the birth of her calf. To maximise production, the modern dairy cow is made pregnant again whilst lactating. She will bear a calf each year until worn out and sent for slaughter. Most dairy cows are inseminated artificially. She will have her first calf when 2 years old. She will continue to be milked for 10 months - but will be made pregnant again in the third month. Only during the final few weeks of this pregnancy will she be dried out and her overworked udder given a rest. The amount of milk produced by the cow in peak lactation is more than 10 times the amount that the calf would naturally drink.
Then there's the culling of the male calves born....cannot be used for veal no more, and obviously useless for milk, so are culled at days old.....shot, etc. Nice.
Nae the most clean farming practices around.
How come the yield per cow has gone up twofold in 60 years? In the 1940's, cows were producing an average of 3,000 litres of milk per cow per year. By 1983/84, average milk yields had increased to 4,940 litres, and by 1995, over 6,300 litres per cow per year were being achieved. That's 40 pints of milk per cow per day FFS!
A cow's milk production is caused by the birth of her calf. To maximise production, the modern dairy cow is made pregnant again whilst lactating. She will bear a calf each year until worn out and sent for slaughter. Most dairy cows are inseminated artificially. She will have her first calf when 2 years old. She will continue to be milked for 10 months - but will be made pregnant again in the third month. Only during the final few weeks of this pregnancy will she be dried out and her overworked udder given a rest. The amount of milk produced by the cow in peak lactation is more than 10 times the amount that the calf would naturally drink.
Then there's the culling of the male calves born....cannot be used for veal no more, and obviously useless for milk, so are culled at days old.....shot, etc. Nice.
Nae the most clean farming practices around.
We don`t use artifical insemination,we have a bull with the cows all the time.
A cow NATURALLY comes into heat roughly 2-3 months after giving birth and NATURALLY slows down milk production after 10 months .
A cow NATURALLY will a calf once a year.
You cannot affect what comes naturally.
We have never shot a calf at birth by the way...
09 June 2006, 02:42 PM
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Originally Posted by farmer boy
Today,Asda has removed beef imported from Brazil from its shelves.....
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