Recent content by deeplume

Thank you for the thoughts, all. Going to figure it out with him this week, but I think he agrees it's fair that I pay the rent and then we pay for the household stuff (incl. utilities) out of our joint account. We've been doing it that way for the last 7 years in our old house, so probably...

How does everyone split their household bills? I have recently taken on a farm tenancy and my partner (who doesn't work on the farm) and I are wondering about the fairest way to split household costs. No kids (at the moment). We currently earn about the same, but they are likely to earn more...

AAX on the pp, all named AA sires

Anyone able to give me a steer on liveweight prices for stores? 🙏 Angus x SD, located in South West, av steer weight about 500kg, heifers about 475kg.

It'd be shared with some of my stuff, so I've got building and my contents covered. But would assume they have their own insurance for their own product..

Does anyone know the going rate for straw storage? Got some spare bays in the barn and wondering what I should charge per square metre per week / month? Got a local contractor keen to store some excess straw there till spring. Open-sided barn with good drainage around it to protect from water...

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Does anyone know if it's possible to make changes to a Stewardship application after the deadline? I submitted a Mid Tier this year and would like to apply to do additional options. Anyone got any experience of this? Thank you in advance for any thoughts 😊

AB1 certainly looks a lot nicer in the photos, but we won't be rotating with anything else during the Stewardship so thought AB8 might make more sense. That, and I imagine it's more appropriate for grazing (albeit in the limited window, but I'll have lots of GS4 on other areas). Was also...

Looking at using AB8 for some fairly big chunks of field on my next Stewardship. Do you cut or graze yours? Does anyone make hay from it? I've got cows to graze it with, so thinking that might be the easier / cheaper option but be good to have baling as a back up plan. Fairly happy that the cows...