costings

Any one now where I can get to Know the cost of producing milk- say on a 100 cow dairy herd. The farmers seem to be having a raw deal at the moment, and it would be interesting to Know the cost of producing a Pint or Litre of milk
John

What an interesting question, John!  I'm a city girl myself, but surely someone must know.  Are you in the UK or here in North America?  Or perhaps in Australia?  Good luck with your research.

Hi John,

Not knowing which country you are from, may I suggest you Google your question.  Try typing in 'cost of producing milk'.  There are a number of sites which may be able to help you.

John,
Here is a site from Canada but I don't know how much help it will be to you, since our cost of living here in Canada is about half of what it is in the UK.  Anyway, Margaret's suggestion of googling information should help, but here is the Canadian Milk Producers' website.  http://www.cdc.ca/CDC/index_en.asp?caId=124&pgId=253

Hello to Helen & Margaret
Thank you both for your reply. I live in the North Riding of Yorkshire, UK Spent half of my life up to now working for dairy farmers, now retired, but still very interested in farming, hence that is why I found Lamb Watch, it is good that we have people who will create such a wonderful Web-Site as this.
Margaret. Good idea to look in Google. I thought that their may be some professional on this site who was perhaps in the ministry of agriculture, any way will let you Know how I get on.
If you are interested Daniel has kindly allowed me to put my very amateur Web-Site on the friends Page
Bye for now John

https://statistics.defra.gov.uk/esg/evaluation/milkq/chapter6.pdf
Margaret hi
Following your advise I found  the above Web-Site excellent.
Thanks John

Hi, JOhn,
Glad to see your pic, and to know where you are -  in God's own country up there in N. Yorks.  Good luck with your inquiries.

Just been reading your webpage John - it is so interesting. What wonderful memories of olden days. So glad you have made yourself known to us Lambwatchers.

John, thanks for posting your website. I have added a few comments to a few of the stories, especially the one about driving cattle up a highway here in Ontario.  Good on you for sharing so much history and all the reminiscences - they are wonderful.

Hi Helen
Not been able to find your comments on my blog Helen, perhaps you can enlighten me on the cattle drive in Ontario, that would sure have been an adventure, and where as we were on foot I should think the cattle drives in Canada would be on a larger scale and on horse back
Bye
John

Hi Helen
I have been searching my Web-Site for your comments and for some reason they have arrived but refuse to open, I am disappointed as I am sure I would really have enjoyed reading your comments, would it be asking too much for you to copy the comments into my email address at                      john.stott10@ntlworld.com
thanks
John

I have manged to find your comments Helen
Thanks John

Hi, John, 
          Did I post them incorrectly, or in the wrong spot?  Anyway, I really enjoyed your lovely site and the wonderful stories.  My ancestors who came from Scotland and Switzerland were all farmers, and some of their descendants still live on the same farm given to a great-great-grandfather as a military land grant after he fought here in the 1812 war.  So I think I have a bit of a longing for rural life, even though I am a city-dweller.  And I love Yorkshire, so was very happy to read your recollections of what it was like before too much modernisation took over.
         Thanks again for putting up your site and sharing your memories.  They are really enjoyable.

John, I forgot to say that the farmer I knew who took his cattle up the highway did it on foot.  It was perhaps only a four or five-mile walk.  Out in western Canada, in places like Alberta where there are vast, open spaces, driving cattle would be done on horseback, but here in rural Ontario until recently it would have been done on foot.  Our farms  here are fairly close together, and interspersed with small villages, much as they would have been in England, from where most of our early settlers originated.  I don't know how we move cattle around now, if we do at all, in the part of Canada in which I live.

Helen interesting information about your great great grandfather, you must have farming in your blood, hence your interest in Lamb watch. I feel that we are lucky to have people who are committed to a Web-site such as Lamb watch 

Helen interesting information about your great great grandfather, you must have farming in your blood, hence your interest in Lamb watch. I feel that we are lucky to have people who are committed to a Web-site such as Lamb watch 

Oh, I agree that LambWatch is a wonderful site.  Many people, even many who don't chat, enjoy watching rural life in Yorkshire.  The young man Dan, who designed it, has moved south but keeps an eye on it from afar, and his mother, Lynda, whom you will see from time to time filling the bird feeders, keeps the site up and running from home.  So welcome to the LambWatch community!