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Jdunn55

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Just cut the cake out for this heifer as she's going dry Friday, top yielder out of my friesian heifers at 6000l and also my highest classified at bfv86, in-calf to contender conventional, hopefully an exciting lactation next year! 😀
 

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som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
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somerset
Thankyou, I'm always worried I just come across as though I'm moaning 😂 I do like what I'm doing, honest...

Regarding the accountant that's a good idea, thankyou, I have absolutely no idea about tax so definitely need to speak to someone who does! Probably need to find an accountant first 😳🙈
might look as if you are, but really you are just being open and frank, which means you get a lot of practical answers, from people that actually know the answers. And built up a lot of goodwill, with a lot of farmers, that want to see you get on.
Hoping for a happy and prosperous new year, for us all.
next job for you, find a partner, to keep your bed warm !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
Premier, not the best constituents though, but I'm not sure how accurate they are, she's been 5% fat for the past 6 months and fat % for the whole lactation is still less than 4% 🤷‍♂️
agree with you, NMR testing does throw up some peculiar constituent readings, one hopes they are more accurate with payment testing. Normal lactation probably average out near enough, but, one does wonder who monitors the payment tests. We had a query, a/b failure, but the second sample, had gone 'off', so they couldn't test it, very convenient indeed, esp as the a/b wasn't one we used.
 

som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
3 words:
Kill. Me. Now. 😡
The only good thing about sheep is that they remind me why I like cows
our tack sheep arrived yesterday, first thought this morning, are the buggers still where they are meant to be, luckily yes. They have oceans of grass, but trust them ? never.
no idea what the going rate sheep/week is, 30p? pretty irrelevant really, so much grass about, proportion needs coming off.
used to keep 500, now they are a necessary evil.
 

upnortheast

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Northumberland
our tack sheep arrived yesterday, first thought this morning, are the buggers still where they are meant to be, luckily yes. They have oceans of grass, but trust them ? never.
no idea what the going rate sheep/week is, 30p? pretty irrelevant really, so much grass about, proportion needs coming off.
used to keep 500, now they are a necessary evil.
Ours went home last week, been here since Oct, Don`t like the grass eaten hard in Jan / Feb.

Neighbours fat lambs. Last winter charged him 65 p / week.
He has spent so much time telling me what a good trade they are, they will be 70 + this time :D
 

som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
grass needs either cutting or chomped off, silage this time of year = green slimy shite, so wooly maggots, 4 weeks max, and will still leave plenty for early bite/cut. After being so short for 3 years, l suppose it's a good problem, but in the more exposed fields, seen cold march winds burn it right off, hence the sheep on them.
 

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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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