When people say capital employed what do they mean?Is it everything including land and houses?
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When people say capital employed what do they mean?Is it everything including land and houses?
Durry cows
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- Derbyshire
Cows 'n grass
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- Modbury, South Devon
How'd you get on with your 4000+ cover from last week?
Mine are going into about 3500 at night at the moment.
Penmoel
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@Durry cows , would they be any of Grahams breeding?
Pft, call that a straight fence....
There pulling them down really well, taking 4 feeds to cover a paddock, which isn't great on gateways in a wet time.
dinderleat
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- Wells
Do you split paddocks or just let them have the whole paddock for say 2-4 feeds?
Cows 'n grass
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- Modbury, South Devon
How many days of sunshine and east wind before you start worrying about drought?
All the capitol that is tied up in running the business - land, cows, machinery. Houses are a grey area to me as we don't have any apart from the one I live in.
Next Friday. But there is rain mid week.
12 hour breaks. No way could get them to chew it down to 1400 without. The beauty of a 12 hour is the cows know, and literally run trough the parlour to get back out.
We will be fine till may, but the surface will bake in a few days like today.
Durry cows
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- Derbyshire
No all ours got no shorthorns tbh only ayrshires in that pic, grahams do a better job of grazing too
Cows 'n grass
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- Modbury, South Devon
The early start wasn't much fun but i don't think morning's come much nicer than this.
buffalo_soldier
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- cumbria
Done it, i got them out in March.
Think it might be a personal best.
Think it might be a personal best
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Bossfarmer
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- between Perth and Inverness
after some investigation it would seem the massive 1000 cow dairy units are not all as they seem, a large one in the south west of Scotland which I was previously very impressed with in the speed and scale at which it went from 650 cows to 2000 is now said to have outside investors putting millions into the business, things didn't quite add up previously milk was good but not that good surely, this has cleared up the issue
early riser
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- Up North
Love your part of the world, stayed at a place last year nr Monyash, is that anywhere near you?
Iron150
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- Conwy, north wales
Surely outside investers are only going to invest in good profitable companys?
Bossfarmer
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- between Perth and Inverness
Yes when times are good but if you end up on 12p they'll take a chunk of your farm
I suppose if you double in size then lose say 25% you are still ahead of where you started?
Investor money is no different from investing your own money or borrowing, there needs to be a return. If anything it shows confidence in the business of outsiders are willing to invest. Or they are giving someone an opportunity to build up their capital within the business?
Without knowing details you can't make a judgement.
Investor money is no different from investing your own money or borrowing, there needs to be a return. If anything it shows confidence in the business of outsiders are willing to invest. Or they are giving someone an opportunity to build up their capital within the business?
Without knowing details you can't make a judgement.