buffalo_soldier
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- Location
- cumbria
Calf trade is weak as well I'm finding.
A smarter chap than me would fill one shed with calves, one shed with straw and one shed with barley.
Then this time next year....???
Flat oats
- Thread starter tinto
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Calf trade is weak as well I'm finding.
A smarter chap than me would fill one shed with calves, one shed with straw and one shed with barley.
Then this time next year....???
I thats it
Member
Then this time next year....... Anything could have happened? I don't gamble but then I do farm, is there any difference?
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Blues are back towards £100 wouldn't need to much of a gamble if you have the other 2 elements to hand
- Location
- somerset
having seen the price of dairyx beef stirks, we were sorely tempted, they are pretty well past the danger period, and with barley/fodder/straw prices where they are, looked a good punt, luckily and unluckly we have just had our first tb reactor, so lucky we didn't buy any, but unlucky to go down.
Mind you, I bought a fair few in pig gilts at taunton mkt, one day, the real proper ones, £60 each, 3 months later, sold gilts with litters for between.... £60 and £70 . so that hunch was wrong !!!!!!
- Location
- East meath/dublin
No real difference, but the bookies shop is warmer and theres free coffee!!!
- Location
- somerset
neighbour just rung up, some land sold for mega money, chap wants £200+ acre for rent, with the beef price where it is, and the prospects not looking good, and the sheep job up in the air, we were wondering who could afford that sort of rent, it is good ground. Then, he started on calf price, and how they were still making the money, as he rears all his, he was out of touch, surprised when I said the top price calves were 3/4 reared, usually on a cow, and sold at '40' days, I reckon the normal calves are £75 ish a head back. we were offered land at that price to rent, thought about it, and decided we would be better easing back,
mind you, for a landlord £200 + sfp, good money, if you can get it.
mind you, for a landlord £200 + sfp, good money, if you can get it.
I thats it
Member
Someone's in cloud cuckoo land
Tarw Coch
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- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Another point to consider regarding whole crop oats, how ripe are the grains? As they are finer than wheat I don’t think the corn crackers in the chopper will touch them if too hard, at least that’s what local contractor told me.
If they have sprouted, cracking grains is not a worry.
Morgatroid
New Member
Hope I'm not missing something, but if a combine with lifters can't pick it up, how is a chopper going to manage?
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- harvesting