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and the band played "believe it if you like"
HA HA, store lambs will be cheaper next week I reckon given the drop in liveweight/ deadweight prices.
and the band played "believe it if you like"
Do you ever buy any cattle? You never seem to have a tb license. @Henarar oftens comments on your impeccably clean buyers card, I imagined he was joking, but I don't think he is.No TB licence but would have been very easy to fill an artic today with cattle that were decent sorts but a low average price across the board.
Even the auctioneer made the comment : Just what has happened to trade in the last two weeks?!
For example two 550/600 kilo named Hereford heifers FA and 28/29 months that need about 2 months feeding to fhinsh them only made £780!
Do you ever buy any cattle? You never seem to have a tb license. @Henarar oftens comments on your impeccably clean buyers card, I imagined he was joking, but I don't think he is.
Turn your buildings into an afu, how/why anyone finishing cattle in large numbers like yourself in the south west doesn't have an afu is beyond me. No tb testing. BlissYep I do but TB is a nightmare, I have had more problems getting licence's in the last year than in total for the previous 6 years when under TB2, ironically when I was losing 10/15 cattle every test it was a lot easier to get licences than now when im plagued with IRs from tracer tests!
Turn your buildings into an afu, how/why anyone finishing cattle in large numbers like yourself in the south west doesn't have an afu is beyond me. No tb testing. Bliss
Grazers need to test, but housed don't.Looked into it but its unworkable as we want to graze sheep around the suckler herd and cant get a grazing AFU now anyway!
Grazing AFU's defo TB test around here at least once a year!
TB compo going to be slashed by 50% for bought in cattle very soon ( likely to be next year )
that's what I thoughtGrazers need to test, but housed don't.
Grazers need to test, but housed don't.
What problems? Lack of support?Yea and we graze livestock.
Grazing AFU's in cull areas are going two years after the cull starts! ( thou new culls are now starting to run into serious problems with at least 2 now not starting this year as planned )
What problems? Lack of support?
You don't need a grazing AFU to graze suckler cows outside. They just need to never come in contact with cattle inside the AFU or graze a field joining the AFU yard unless there is a 3 metre gap.Looked into it but its unworkable as we want to graze sheep around the suckler herd and cant get a grazing AFU now anyway!
Grazing AFU's defo TB test around here at least once a year!
TB compo going to be slashed by 50% for bought in cattle very soon ( likely to be next year )
You don't need a grazing AFU to graze suckler cows outside. They just need to never come in contact with cattle inside the AFU or graze a field joining the AFU yard unless there is a 3 metre gap.
Heifers finish faster than steers, and if selling live will make more than a steerIs your land in one block, I know stating the obvious which wont be the case but a separate holding no for Afu not workable? Funny trade with my stores at thame yesterday, always scribble down the night before how I value each beast/ pen, probably the most accurate ive ever been across 32 cattle, I was 2.60 out on the average. But fully admit up to 120 out on correct valuation on odd beast, opened up with 5 single steers, 4 very smart, thought I was going to have a disaster of a day as way under what I thought they would make, the plainest made 30 more than one of the better ones, similar weight, but r grade not e, be a harder feeder, then heifers odd bunch and odd plainer few, then my smart heifers @ 14/ 15 months, topped at 1190, and stayed up around that mark, appreciate a premium on heifers, but is it 10ppk? Not going to cover the difference between price of steers.
Heifers finish faster than steers, and if selling live will make more than a steer
Quicker turnover thoughBut conversion is not as good as bullocks and they don't grade as well.
But conversion is not as good as bullocks and they don't grade as well.
turnover isn't always leftover thoughQuicker turnover though
Ref the grading, that will depend on how well they are breed, a U grade heifer will kill out a lot better than a R/0 grade heifer and most dairy steers are R or below.