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We always had 20t as soon as the new season crop started. Then another 20t January ish. In those big paper sacks and always shreds. Grandad fed all those old broker hill ewes right through from tupping to lambing on nothing else. Finishing hoggs just got beet pulp, drop the paper sacks in the hay racks and cut a few holes in the sack. I can remember it being £60/t when I were a little nipper. And it had way more feed value to it then.
I was thinking about this because we seemed to use a lot of it then and stock did better on it. I can remember they started doing something different in the process which meant it had less left in it.
The price altered too they got wise and Trident started storing it instead of just getting shot of it they trickled it out over the year.
 
Location
Cleveland
I was thinking about this because we seemed to use a lot of it then and stock did better on it. I can remember they started doing something different in the process which meant it had less left in it.
The price altered too they got wise and Trident started storing it instead of just getting shot of it they trickled it out over the year.
SBP can’t be beaten for stock, used to get 10t at a time blown in….just too expensive now
 

Jimdog1

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
Father always ordered 2 artic loads of sugar beet nuts in November ready for the winter. It came in 50 kilo paper bags not stacked on pallets just on the wagon floor. When they changed to plastic he wasn’t happy because he couldn’t balance 2 on his shoulder easily and if he just carried one it was another trip back to the Landrover. Both loads carried off the back of the wagon into the shed
Always the shreds here. Big rectangular slabs in paper bags.
 

Jimdog1

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
We used to get 2 x 10 ton in paper bags but ours were in 40kg,all to handball off. Bit of an art form balancing them on your shoulder into the meal house. The first loads out in the Autumn were often still warm from the factory
Yep, not heavy so much as awkward. Getting them into the alvan blanch mixer was an art in itself.
 

Top Tip.

Member
Location
highland
We used to get 2 x 10 ton in paper bags but ours were in 40kg,all to handball off. Bit of an art form balancing them on your shoulder into the meal house. The first loads out in the Autumn were often still warm from the factory
They used to come up on the train,hand balled out of the railway wagons onto the lorry and then handballed off the lorry into the shed. Kept you fit!!
 
6 bags in the old Vicon varispreader. :) Then you could get an extension so that it would hold a 500kg big bag when they first came out.
My mum used to do all spreading at home. Land drive spreader. 10 tonne brought up for her when she had run out of the last 10 tonne sat on an old wagon bale trailer. She said she had a 6 pack at 18
 

Anymulewilldo

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
I've just had a couple of ton of lamb creep in for the cade lambs. Apparently having it in small bags now adds £60/t!
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Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer from July will give the sector a clear path forward and boost farm business resilience.

From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and The Rt Hon Sir Mark Spencer MP Published21 May 2024

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Full details of the expanded and improved Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer available to farmers from July have been published by the...
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