This Farming Life

TheRanger

Member
Location
SW Scotland
We can bury sheep here. Dont know how far south you need to go before it changes Cattle have to be collected.
You can bury sheep in the following areas according to a quick google search:

“most of the Scottish islands
(including the Orkney mainland and Arran), the Kintyre peninsular, the
eastern parishes of Caithness and Sutherland, Easter Ross, as well as
the Black Isle”

Learn something every day
 

glasshouse

Member
Location
lothians
I was trying to think, was it harvest 17 (when presumably the straw being used in the series was baled), that parts of Scotland and Fife in particular had really crappy harvest weather, and all the rest of the Country was finished?
Good straw was as scarce as hens teeth last winter.
Straw price at harvest was crap, and so was the weather, so it all got chopped
 

FIL46

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Aberdeenshire
The Shetland lasses are doing a grand job, hard going on the island, I think they have our old class combine saw it in the background we shipped it there over 15 years ago,
Raymond could have his own daytime show he is right laugh,

When lambing outside why would you put sheep in such a large field, I would fence it off into small paddocks make catching that sheep a lot easier,

Roll on later in the year for the next episodes
 

Dave6170

Member
The Shetland lasses are doing a grand job, hard going on the island, I think they have our old class combine saw it in the background we shipped it there over 15 years ago,
Raymond could have his own daytime show he is right laugh,

When lambing outside why would you put sheep in such a large field, I would fence it off into small paddocks make catching that sheep a lot easier,

Roll on later in the year for the next episodes
He cant shut 500 or 600 ewes or whatever hes got in a small field. Could be a right mess in the morning especially if the weather is bad.
 

kill

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
South West
The Shetland lasses are doing a grand job, hard going on the island, I think they have our old class combine saw it in the background we shipped it there over 15 years ago,
Raymond could have his own daytime show he is right laugh,

When lambing outside why would you put sheep in such a large field, I would fence it off into small paddocks make catching that sheep a lot easier,

Roll on later in the year for the next episodes
Probably ort to consider buying a post driver. I was guessing that the snow knocks his fences flat,?
 
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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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