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    I’m confused?

    Ukraine are defending themselves Russia made unprovoked attack, breaking internatinal law.
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    Dilemma with free ranging ducks.

    Drakes are real sex pests too, you need at least three ducks to every drake.
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    Our Saturday lad in the 70's, got his HGV & went to work for local feedmill. He took 10 ton of beet pulp to a farm & they had him carry it up a ladder in 50 kg bags & put it on top of a half stack of hay.
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    No I remember Grandad on his 50 th Wedding aniversery telling me stories about the past, 1979 I think. We used to get fertiliser with aldrin in at the time, super swede stopped wireworm & most soil pests.
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    Grandad left school in 1916 & was 12, mostly looking after the animals & grooming horses, polishing the draught horse tack. In the late 1920's newly married & just took on the tenancy of a 65 acre farm but very short of money. A new road was been built & they wanted Men with a heavy horse & a...
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    Keep or cull

    Can you put a calf on her? We once had a Simmental heifer found it with a flat calf most of the bones crushed, she did the same with the 2nd calf the following year.
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    We had to re drill the turnips 3 times because of flea beetle. You young uns would not be able to lift 16 stone sacks & I wonder why we did. Sheep were really difficult without antibiotics or wormers, we used to fold the suffolk crosses with woodern hurdles.
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    Liquid back to granular fertiliser?

    What happed to those super fertilizer spreaders with booms. Air powered I think.
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    Michael Gove and the Conservatives did this.

    Problem is if Two years down the line Angela Raynor is PM :cry:
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    How to keep 1500 ewes

    I thought they got double the price in Canada? Also outdoor sheep not easy due to wolves, coyota & bears?
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    Ewe Hoggs not in lamb

    Lucky beggar. You can now sell them at a good price Or keep them for shearling with improved immunity to local bugs.
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    Michael Gove and the Conservatives did this.

    Other than that are you happy?
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    Michael Gove and the Conservatives did this.

    Leaders partner is a vegan
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    Wheat prices jump

    Yes you are correct, in 20 years time perhaps.
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