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    Lamb butchery costs

    Finding a huge variance in prices for butchering and packaging up joints for lambs locally. Varying from £23 to 40 a head. (some prices plastic bagged, some vacuum packed but not all the most expensive ones are vac packed) This is for 6 lambs in one consignment so worth doing, not just one...
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    Photos from our small exposed place complete with hardy livestock :-)

    We used to have a couple of Shetland cattle, this is the heifer The sheep haymaking with the John Deere 2030 1976 :-) Hope you like...even tho it's not 'proper' stuff really. But low input means the low outputs are less critical.
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    Forestry commission Scotland farms

    FCS scotland recently got in trouble for buying up some perfectly good farms and planning to plant trees all over them. As a result of the outcry they changed tack and made them into starter farms. Just heard that a chap I know and like has won one of these farm tenancies, 10 years, 150...
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    Suitable commercial ram for random hill types

    I have a small flock of unreg Shetlands which Ive been running for about 4-5 years and while I have access to a registered Shetland ram for replacements, I would like to use something more commercial for the experienced Mums. There are also a few Herdwick ewes. (I know but I like them! Again...
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    Getting old agricultural vehicles/machinery deregistered re VOSA/road use

    We have several things that are registered with VOSA - they came like that, but we don't take them off the farm and the insurance will only cover them if they aren't road registered. There's an old JD tractor, a very slow quad, a JCB and a Landy converted to take an IBC on the back. Does...
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