You make a good point, but so does Guth. There is a chunk of them that even the best husbandry will make nothing of. They still need to live & thrive to make veal. If it wasn't for the cull, dairy men would be in a worse predicament and would have to consider less extreme breeding.
Agree with the above point, but whilst I used to be traditional british friesan and I think successfully chose the route of cheap cost of production pence per litre some had different systems and were bordering on being forced to push for every litre with shockingly low milk price at times, not always but often breeding lines of extreme yields were not by desire more a hopeful desperate solution to keep eads above water. As an industry the faults as in cows in all year round, too much AB use etc are thrown at us by media and therefore is seen and believed by general public, we, myself included, are useless, we take it, I don't recall a decent article for years outside farming publications, which is obviously pointless, stating pork and chicken is high on ab use as a way off stocking heavier, as only solution as imports are largely battery hens/eggs, pork from crates, tell it legally, but pushing the boundries as is done against us. As @gone up the hill loves to state with beef prices, fabbl doesn't give you a premium, you just get hit and price reduction when you aren't. Get a thing going on here for everyone not to renew next membership, but will anyone honestly reply to me saying im wrong that a few would start it, and if momentum gathered the dw buyers would pay a 25ppk premium on beef or lamb and one person would jump ship thinking I cant miss that, then we all follow like sheep and then suddenly when numbers are back up that 25ppk mysteriously disappears
£6looks to be heading in the right direction.....
One wonders how far it will go......
Bloody typical when I’ve none left
Do you not think that a lot of ewes have been cashed over the last few years good prices and so there arnt massive numbers to come. Not looked into it but that’s just my thoughts, prices are well down though
Fallen from what? You can’t fall far from fanny Adams
