Recent content by Bruce Almighty

Sorry it was a joke with Magnus

One of my farmer friends in South Australia rung me yesterday, he said how expensive meat has become out there. Trade deals don't worry me when there's a growing world market for meat and demand exceeds supply. Veganism never was a threat and definitely isn't now, such is the demand for meat.

lagoon is lower

We are about to let a unit where the tenant wants a toilet etc. The most reasonable one I can find is this one at £1500...

Do you claim the vat back ?

you should be able to do it in stages, we did

We are looking for a contractor to fit a slurry channel, robot sumps, cubicles etc in Warwickshire. There is a 2' fall across 39m of buildings span so it's beyond us, will we need weirs etc ? Recommendations please TIA

We had to do the same. If you want the grant you have to jump through the hoops.

We got our 28 day planning permission Laid the concrete & claimed for it. The RPA asked for proof of planning etc so I emailed the link & they paid up. £400 in agent’s & planning fees was worth spending for £10,000 worth of concrete IMO

Evening all We are planning to switch from loose housing / FYM to cubicles & slurry. Slurry will be separated and the store will be covered, Rainwater in the store will be minimal. Milk yield is 9000-1000 l/cow What is a likely analysis of the slurry and what would be a typical application...

A change in policy which should increase profitability. Increase the cows, reduce cereals/ replace with forage. Drop beef and sell calves. A planned change to robotic milking will increase yield, more yield/ cow will reduce carbon footprint. A switch from loose housing to covered slurry store...

We have both Solar and a biomass boiler. We are about to increase our herd size by 75% I have helped climate change by not flying anywhere on holiday since 2019

High interest rates in the 80s will haunt me ‘til the day I die, it nearly broke Dad Once bitten twice shy.

I looked up FYM values and came up with the figures 8/2/10 so by my reckoning 10 t/ac FYM gives you (Per acre) 80 units N 20 units P 100 units K

IIRC in the words of the late Ian Potter at the time “The badger lovers have the blood of this farmer on their hands”