- Location
- North Yorkshire
Plenty of Facebook ads with prices dropped from the 30’s down to mid 20’s. There’s still demand but there’s still an awful lot of beet around
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- Thread starter TFF
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Who'd want to live in the hills 1st week of May with no jacket on? We'd be in big trouble if we clipped that early. No clipping here till mid July and sometimes think thats too early
paid £45 a ton last week , and very poor they are! the bloke said thered been out the ground a fortnight
, i dont think so! been selling our's all winter at 40 and have to buy them in
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
You’ve sold yours for £40 and bought it back in for £45?paid £45 a ton last week , and very poor they are! the bloke said thered been out the ground a fortnight
Either you’re barmy or you don’t want to pay tax…
livestock 1
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£45 lead in? Sharp ad £10 for haulage
livestock 1
Member
There’s some on farm for £20 on fb but it will be frosted
£30/£35 for the better stuff plus haulage
£30/£35 for the better stuff plus haulage
You say that but strangely it's not the case, you often get a ewe that for some reason or other sheds her fleece early & still thrives, many farmers winter shear on housing & still turn them out early, ewes suffer far more with an incomplete fleece early on in the winter & that's when they seem to lose condition, darn sight warmer in May than November.
livestock 1
Member
If you shear a hill ewe too early it will take the milk off her earlier still will kill her get with it
livestock 1
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I had a ride through some further up it’s green but got nowt on it really the water table is still right at the top too wet too cold it’s not had a chance really this time
I had some for £31 delivered and it was good beet.
Being doing it for 25 years & never had a problem yet, I guess it's what works for you but our Scotch thrive rear lambs & never need bag food, all lambs sold fat through Exeter market without dry food. Suggest maybe try a few & see the results.
Skintagain
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- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
How high up are you?
Farms around 650 ft, sheep on moor around 1,400 ft, obviously we are in the South West so milder than the likes of Scotland but people tend to do what they have always done. By the time ours go back onto the moor at the end of Nov after tupping they have a full fleece & in our case winter very well on the moors whatever the weather.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
The weather forcast for bad weather has been worse than predicted and any good forecast ots not been as good ..
casper74
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- Location
- North Yorkshire
Some fodder beet around here has been sold for £12-17, seems very little demand and a lot about now. I know 1 farm who sold best part of 150 tonne for £12 tonne
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Where is that ?
bobajob
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- Location
- Sw Scotland
Meant to be 20 degrees here by next Friday
- Location
- Northumberland
Is that with "warm" rain instead of cold rain ?Meant to be 20 degrees here by next Friday