Land Renting, Leasing or Contract Rearing

Are you a dairy farmer based in Laois, Kildare or Offaly and looking to expand cow numbers? Are you looking for a way to offset the reduced acreage for derogation so that you can maintain or increase cow numbers? Have you increased your milking parlour size in recent years and now you find that with new banding regulations, you can’t get to the number of cows you intended to? Have you been looking into Partnerships or Share Milking as a way to improve labour efficiency, increase your dairy herd and maximum your income but can't find anyone interested? Have you been investing in improved cow genetics but now find that with banding, you can’t get the full potential out of your cows without reducing the size of your herd? Have you optimised your grazing platform to it’s highest level with rotational grazing, reseeded pastures and making the maximum use of clover which leaves you in a very competitive position to expand your herd but you're landlocked and are unable to do so? Are you looking at techniques such as zero grazing in order to expand your herd but you haven’t got enough land to do it? Are you looking to expand your herd but you are finding that slurry storage space is holding you back? Are you worried that agri environmental schemes and fertiliser restrictions could threaten your current herd size or limit future expansion and are you looking for ways to mitigate that threat through innovative partnerships? Have you been looking at strategies such as Fodder or Feed Crop Partnerships, partnering with other farmers to grow silage, hay, or other feed crops but are unable to find anyone interested? There might be another way that involves a cross between leasing & contract rearing that might be of interest. If you are a dairy farmer with 150 cows or more and considering leasing or looking for someone to carry out contract rearing in the Laois, Offaly, Kildare area, please contact me through the messaging centre & I'll send you more info.